Anyone else tired of stupid game titles?

[brunoafh]

Woah, Barry does have a game? Gonna have to look into that for sure. Is the gameplay like the PS1 games or what?

Exploration/puzzle wise, is it like old school RE?

[harper]

Jurassic Park was pretty bad.
There was simply "Jurassic Park" for the nes then again for snes, two totally different versions. Oh wait there was one for the genesis too, again totally different but even more so.
Then there's the Lost World which could be referring to either the awesome arcade game or the not so awesome Saturn game. And for the Playstation?
And Jurassic Park III (which there were about 4 of).
There are others I have failed to mention.

[ExedExes]

There's no "Contra II", and Contra 4 ain't really Contra 4, but whatevs.

Konami has been one of the worst offenders.

Contra
Super Contra (Contra "2")
Contra 3 The Alien Wars
Contra 4 (DS)

You're forgetting a couple.

Contra Force (which came out after Contra III, no, not "Contra 3" but "Contra III"), Contra: Hard Corps, Contra: Legacy of War, The Contra Adventure, Contra: Shattered Soldier, Neo Contra, then Contra 4.

AW HELL NAW *throws them all up in the air* My point has been sufficiently made!

[Key-Glyph]

This is a pretty amusing thread.

I was always annoyed by the title Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 for the Game Boy. In my opinion it should have just been Wario Land, end of story, or had the title/subtitle flipped to be Super Mario Bros. 3: Wario Land. It makes more sense to me that way, and considering that its predecessor was Super Mario Land. 2: 6 Golden Coins, it would have retained a little bit of consistency.

I also have a habit of referring to any Bomberman game as Wario Blast because of the GB title.

How about the Monkey Island series? Certainly not too confusing in comparison to the other examples you've already gone over, but guilty all the same.

The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
The Curse of Monkey Island
Escape from Monkey Island
Tales of Monkey Island
World of Monkey Island

Not to mention the most confusing part of all, one of the Wonder Boy games is called Adventure Island in Japan!

I have a Japanese game for my Game Boy that I think is called Adventure Island but I am still not 100% sure about it. The game art doesn't match anything I can find on the internet.

[Inazuma]

http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Ad ... Island.htm
It's this one.

[Key-Glyph]

http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Ad ... Island.htm
It's this one.

If that's the artwork, then the game I have isn't an Adventure Island title at all. You speak/read Japanese right? Care to assess a screenshot of my cart for me when I can get one uploaded? I'd really appreciate it.

[Inazuma]

http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Ad ... Island.htm
It's this one.

If that's the artwork, then the game I have isn't an Adventure Island title at all. You speak/read Japanese right? Care to assess a screenshot of my cart for me when I can get one uploaded? I'd really appreciate it.

Sure

[BoneSnapDeez]

http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Ad ... Island.htm
It's this one.

That's actually a Wonder Boy game that was called Dragon's Curse in the US.

What makes it even more confusing is that the more well-known Adventure Island (the NES game) is based directly off of the original Wonder Boy. It shares the same gameplay and levels, but the sprites were changed.

So there's two completely different games both called Adventure Island which are both related to Wonder Boy, one of which literally is a Wonder Boy game (PCE) and one which is a sprite changer (NES).

Hardcore Gaming 101 explains it all better than I can:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wonder ... derboy.htm

[DinnerX]

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

[Inazuma]

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

Oh, good one. That whole series of games had confusing titles. What were they thinking?