Favorite Video Game Names

[Original_Name]

Just like a great name for a book, band, or film, a great video game title can be so striking that it becomes a part of the experience itself even before you even switch on the console or drop a quarter into the coin slot. The other day I discovered an incredible game called "Elemental Gearbolt", a tremendous game with an awesome name -- looking into the developer's other games, I discovered that another one of their releases had an equally cool title, and I just had to check it out.

It got me thinking -- certain game titles, particularly those in which the developers cobbled together foreign terms based on their shapes and impact above their contextual usage, have an incredibly cool aesthetic to them. As a person who is also drawn to bands with names like Melt-Banana and Jellyroll Rockheads, my personal favorites are those that have a sugar-high pop energy, razorblade punk edge, and an utterly foreign, cut-up interpretation of the target language. Obtuse code-names, sideways phrases pulled from the depths of REM sleep, alien anatomy, alternate-universe pop star names, conscienceless villains from guro-comics or the Necronomicon, crass anarchy, cyberpunk anachronisms, and so on.

Here are a few of my favorites -- I stopped myself short so that I wouldn't take all of the best ones.

-Jet Set Radio Future
-Elemental Gearbolt
-Splatterhouse
-Radiant Silvergun
-Xenogears
-Thunder Force
-Panzer Dragoon Orta
-The House of the Dead
-PaRappa the Rapper
-Air Zonk
-Wachenröder
-Terranigma
-Lack of Love
-Rent-a-Hero
-ToeJam & Earl
-Gunparade March
-Zone of the Enders

What are your favorites?

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If this has been discussed before, I apologize -- I tried looking for it, but the use of "title" to denote a game itself (e.g. "Best Virtual Boy Titles") and "name" as in the act of listing them in general (e.g. "Name Your Favorite X68000 Games") made it difficult to do an effective search.

[Gamerforlife]

MDK
Lollipop Chainsaw

[muhanad]

Nice topic!

-Red Dead Redemption
-The World Ends With You
-Final Fantasy
-Bubble Bobble
-Seaman
-LittleBigPlanet

[BoneSnapDeez]

Neat thread. Reminds me of a best band name thread I was reading a few weeks back.

Some of my fave video game names:

- Towering Inferno
- Countermeasure
- Disposable Hero
- Netherworld
- Stormlord
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
- Diablo
- The Temple of Elemental Evil
- The Bard's Tale
- Torchlight
- Ninja Gaiden
- Phantasy Star
- Deathsmiles
- Tales of Phantasia
- Chrono Trigger
- Radiant Historia
- Revelations: The Demon Slayer
- Mother
- Romancia
- Shadowgate
- ActRaiser
- Skyblazer
- Eye of the Beholder
- Parasite Eve
- Odin Sphere

[pierrot]

-Wachenröder

Yes!


Also:

Truxton
Breath of Fire
Alone in the Dark
Axelay
Zaxxon
Cosmic Smash
Panzer Bandit
Rakugaki Showtime
Fire Mustang
Shatterhand
GunGrave
Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke
Onore no Shinzuru Michi o Yuke
Gunbird
AIrGrave
Guilty Gear
Heart of Darkness
Project Justice
Eternal Arcadia (Skies of Arcadia)
Meteos
Lumines
Gyakuten Saiban
Ookami
Garou ...
Hishouzame
Hellfire
Herzog Zwei
Tsumi to Batsu (Sin and Punishment)
Raiden Project
Zanac x Zanac
Akira - Psycho Ball
Blood Will Tell
Fatal Frame
Dynamite Deka
Quo Vadis
Gunblade NY
Xyanide
Kunoichi
Little Inferno
Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo: Nakagawa Land Dai Race! no Maki

[CFFJR]

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles
Journey To Silius
Demon's Crest
The Guardian Legend
Steel Empire

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I'm particularly fond of Lightening Force.

Some of my other favorite game names include Deus Ex, Half-Life, Assassin's Creed, and of course, Ballz 3D.

[cha cha]

Only the manliest of names penetrate my lexicon of cool gaming nameology, and a champion has risen through the ranks over the years:

Twinkle Star Sprites

I do take time to remember those who had laid down their lives so that TSS may live on in infamy, they are:

Shaq Fu
Panorama Cotton
Dynamite Dekka
Brutal: Paws of Fury
Tounge of the Fatman
Seaman
Bikini Karate Babes
Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother
Cacoma Knight in Bizylan
Booby Kids
Roscoe McQueen: Firefighter Extreme

and the worst mail-it-in, fanboy engrish whoring RPG name ever:

Infinite Undiscovery

From that title, knowing nothing else about the game, am I to assume that the main character endlessly forgets everything he discovers in life and degenerates into late stage Alzheimers early in his teen life?

[Original_Name]

Ballz 3D.

Getting this response is at least 98% why I asked this question in the first place. Congratulations Ryan, you've won the thread!!

[hashiriya1]

I have always thought the coolest sounding game names are Radiant Silvergun and Judgment Silversword.