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Posted on 12-02-09 02:49:57 AM Link | Quote
Do you give any things/characters/items in games unusual/unofficial names?

I usually got NES and SNES games used without their manuals, so I often didn't know the official names for enemies and items and such. I would refer to a checkpoint in SMW as a "Halfway H", because it was around halfway through the level and looks like the letter H

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Posted on 12-02-09 05:39:49 AM Link | Quote
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Death Waffles in SMB3.

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Posted on 12-02-09 01:25:38 PM Link | Quote
Chargin' Chuck and all its variants = Football Charlie.

I blame watching too much raocow.

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Posted on 12-02-09 02:39:29 PM Link | Quote
The Gels, those little blobs in Zelda 1, I would think of as animated chocolate chips or Hershey's Kisses

This is more vocabulary confusion as I was a little kid, but I would refer to the vines in SMB1 as "caves" for some reason.

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Posted on 12-02-09 04:41:06 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FirePhoenix
Chargin' Chuck and all its variants = Football Charlie.

I blame watching too much raocow.


spgdhgdhgdh

My mother and I used to joke about the castles in SMB1 actually being bathrooms.

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Posted on 12-02-09 04:43:26 PM Link | Quote
Froot-Loops of Death in Tourian.

I have more but I can't think of any right now. :x

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Posted on 12-02-09 04:55:57 PM Link | Quote
Used to call Goombas something like Crappy Mushrooms
Also, the Koopas were called Stupid Turtles, and Bowser was Boozer.
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Posted on 12-02-09 05:17:15 PM Link | Quote
Back when I was about 3, I called the little jumping birds in SMB2 "Peckers" since my dad had called them that at one point. It made sense in my mind :| My dad told me to not call them that after he heard.

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Posted on 12-02-09 05:29:02 PM (last edited by fabio at 12-02-09 02:29 PM) Link | Quote
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Posted on 12-02-09 07:21:22 PM Link | Quote
I called checkpoints in Sonic "diddly bulbs" or "tweedly bulbs".
DIDDLY

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Posted on 12-02-09 07:23:26 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
Death Waffles in SMB3.
Yes.


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Posted on 12-02-09 08:20:54 PM Link | Quote
SHINKANSEEEEEEEEN!!

We gave... interesting names to the members of Meta Knight's gang. And with interesting I mean . But we didn't know what their names were, so those stuck.

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Posted on 12-02-09 08:58:52 PM Link | Quote
I used to refer to enemies in some games using generic names, like "bees" for buzzbombers in Sonic games, or "turtles" for koopas in Mario games, etc.

Also, I find terms like "atomic waffles" and "death waffles" quite hilarious when referring to Roto-Discs in SMB3

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Posted on 12-02-09 09:43:22 PM Link | Quote
SHINKANSEEEEEEEEN!!

For some reason I knew many of the names of the enemies when I played the games... I think I never even gave any nickname to a Mario enemy.

Many of the nicknames were given to things I knew their official names too. Like, Bronto Burts were Annoying Flies, Scarfies Stupid Pig-Dogs, etc.

The ones I didn't know their names I just reffered by things like their ability or characteristics. Like "fire dude" or "spiky dude". The only exception was the hi-jump enemy that I said it was a chicken. It makes more sense than a flying tooth or whatever is it supposed to be.

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Posted on 12-02-09 11:30:27 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, I call those Atomic Waffles, Nuclear Waffles, and Radioactive Waffles, depending on my mood at the moment.
Anyway, I usually call enemies by their names or very generic terms such as "guys" or "things", but I occasionally make up names for them. I'll list the ones I remember:
Mario Series: Luigi - Banana Peel Luigi (Usually followed by "strikes again" or "ruins everything")
Half-Life: The Houndeye and the Bullsquid - Lil' Doggy and Big Doggy respectively
Left 4 Dead: The Tank - Heavy
Quake: The Shambler and the Vore - Naked Mole Rat (of Doom) and The Spider Queen respectively
Kirby Series: Squishy - Ikachan
Anything fast brandishing a shotgun or anything fast that can jump weirdly - Scoot
Anything particularly powerful - Rebel without an "h" (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

More Naming Fun:
For some reason, I refer to the helper's name in Kirby Super Star when talking about a few specific powers. (I call Ice "Chilly" and Yo-yo "Gim", but I won't call Hammer "Bonkers")
The entirety of Star Fox (SNES) is known affectionately as "Polygon Hell" around these parts.
The act of being a "Scoot" is known as "Scooting" as well.
Melons are "the enemy", especially if they're watermelons.
I pronounce Keese (from Zelda) as "Key See", even though I'm pretty sure it's wrong.
Back in the days when I used to lose my temper playing games, I would occasionally call pretty much anything a "bastardfish", even a menu screen.

So, yeah, that's everything off the top of my head.
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Posted on 12-02-09 11:39:06 PM Link | Quote
For some reason, I called goombas on SM64 woodchucks, and I called the beavers on DK64 groundhogs. Please do not ask me why.

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Posted on 12-02-09 11:56:07 PM Link | Quote
I don't know... When I first started playing the SMB games, I didn't know what the various enemies were called, so I didn't give them any names... well, except for when acquires the Super Leaf (Raccoon Mario) and the Cape Feather (Cape Mario or Super Mario.)

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Posted on 12-03-09 05:01:58 AM Link | Quote
A friend and I (jokingly) named invincibility in the Mario Kart series "the doodly-doodly power," after the sound invincible opponents in Super Mario Kart make as they drive by.

*doodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodly...*

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Posted on 12-03-09 09:26:04 AM Link | Quote
My cousin and I used to call Klash from Donkey Kong Country "Rolling Rod". I still don't know why. I also used to call Toad "Marvin" (or "Marvin the Mushroom")
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