/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1207813]

Did anyone have their own names for things in games that they didn't know the real name of, or didn't have one?

To my sister and me, these guys were Gimme-Somes. They lunged toward Mario because they wanted some of his food or candy or something dumb like that, and whenever they did we'd say "Gimme some!"

[Anonymous No.1207824]

>>1207813
every enemy was badguy

i think i called boos spooks though for whatever reason

[Anonymous No.1207825]

I called these guys "stupid asshole motherfucking birds"

[Anonymous No.1207830]

I don't recall ever NOT knowing the names of enemies in Mario. Weird thought.

[Anonymous No.1207838]

I called Pokèmon "Nintendos"

[Anonymous No.1207863]

I called the shrapnel guys in Smash TV Generals.

[Anonymous No.1207919]

Not a character but I (and my whole family) used to call Adventure Island/Wonder boy "Islander"

I have no idea what the fuck that was about. A few weeks ago I was on Mercado Libre (kinda like eBay) and I discovered a bunch of "islander" famicom games.

was it called Islander somewhere else and some people just magically picked the name up?. I can't solve this mystery

[Anonymous No.1207925]

>>1207830
You probably had the manual. Most enemies were detailed in that, and I always poured over those things when bringing a new game home.

[Anonymous No.1207932]

>>1207838
How or why? That's one of the few games where every single thing you come across has a clear text label at all times.

[Anonymous No.1207946]

>>1207932
I thought Pikachu's name was Pokèmon. I also thought he was strongest.

[Anonymous No.1207948]

>>1207813
I call it 'big dog' because of the chains and sharp teeth. The barking sound in SM64 only solidified the name.

[Anonymous No.1207952]

>>1207948
Not to mention it was basically considered a dog in Link's Awakening.

[Anonymous No.1207954]

I used to think Metroid was the name of Zebes. Probably because of Captain N or something.

[Anonymous No.1207962]

>>1207952
Fun fact: chain chomps were actually designed as a Zelda enemy first. But Mario got around to using them before they did.

[Anonymous No.1207968]

>>1207964
They might have bought it second-hand and not had the manual.

[Anonymous No.1207964]

How did you not know that they were called chain chomps?

[Anonymous No.1207965]

>>1207954
I used to call Captain N "The Video Queer"

[Anonymous No.1207967]

>>1207948
>>1207952
Chain chomps were supposedly inspired by a dog that tried to bite Miyamoto but the chain stopped him, so it makes sense.

[Anonymous No.1208040]

>>1207813
brother and i would make up the shitties names for enemies and everything when we were kids. i still remember the nicknames we gave to bomberman enemies:
>balloon
>ice cream
>mr. barrel
>pinkie
>lion
>water
>face
>coin

all in the diminitive though but that doesn't really work well in english.

god i hated pinkie so much

[Anonymous No.1208078]

The goonies in yoshi's story shall be forever known to me as the "Ham On" birds

[Anonymous No.1208083]

>>1208040
oh yeah i called goombas "tiny huges" for years because of that level in sm64

[Anonymous No.1208095]

>>1207825
Ahh, Torii! Mo.....

[Anonymous No.1208097]

Jumping Humpers

[Anonymous No.1208116]

My mom used to call the flying masks from Mario 2 "Mumus". Must be a Filipino thing.

[Anonymous No.1208134]

The Cock Suckler

[Anonymous No.1208160]

As a kid, every single monster was either
monster, that guy, thing, doohicky, hoozamawhatzit, or baddie.

Baddie was my favourite. taketssr aa


I never really found a need to name every enemy since i could just point to one of the only three things on the screen and say "that"

[Anonymous No.1208164]

>>1207965
You weren't the only one, I'm sure.

[Anonymous No.1208181]

called main character, Ovaries and the bird Uterus.

[Anonymous No.1208182]

This isn't exactly what you're asking, but I'll mention it anyway.

In Super Mario Bros. 3, whenever the big fish (Boss Bass) would eat me, I would say I got "lunched." The idea was that it ate me for lunch.

I was like five years old, give me a break.

[Anonymous No.1208195]

>>1208182
I don't think it's wrong.

[Anonymous No.1208197]

>>1208182

What's wrong with that? That's exactly what happened. He eats you because you're tasty...

[Anonymous No.1208203]

>>1208040
>pinkie
>water
>face
>coin
me too anon

[Anonymous No.1208206]

>>1208182
Allstars had nice backgrounds.

[Anonymous No.1208245]

I didn't really have names. My friend however, called chain chomps "bob-omb doggies".

[Anonymous No.1208248]

>>1208206

Yeah, it's a beautifully done remake IMHO.

[Anonymous No.1208264]

My brother and I used to call Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot the Boogalibah because that's what he said when you freed him.

We didn't know the mask's name until Crash 3, I think.

[Anonymous No.1208276]

>>1208264
That's cute.

[Anonymous No.1208282]

My dad and I called the bulls in Battle of Olympus "muscle dogs"

[Anonymous No.1208283]

>>1207813
Enemies were the bad guys.
Bottomless pit (like on Sonic and such) were called "falldowns" as it seem odd to us that there is a point where you just die in midair. We just assume that was the point of no return.
Spikes (once again Sonic) we called nails. They look like three white nails and not so much like spikes to us.

I think we call the special zone on S3&K "ball zones" or something like that. We were very stupid but at least we understood what the other meant.

[Anonymous No.1208306]

>>1208264
I always thought he said "Warming Up!" for some retarded reason and his name eventually became Warminup to my brother, cousins and I.
We also called the Wumpa Fruit apples.

[Anonymous No.1208313]

Goonie-bird

[Anonymous No.1208315]

I thought that the people in Street Fighter yelled "AROOJIT!"

[Anonymous No.1208320]

Flapjacks, pancakes, or something.

[Anonymous No.1208325]

>>1208282
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1208326]

>>1207919
Didn't they call him Capulina in mexico?

I think I read something about it on an old CLub Nintendo magazine.

[Anonymous No.1208328]

I had a name for every Mega Man 2 color for each of his different weapons when i was a child
>Metal Blade
Honey Man
>Air Shooter
Pepsi Man (it looked like those cans, sans logo)
>Bubble Lead
Sidewalk Man
>Quick Boomerang
Cotton Candy Man
>Crash Bomber
Orange Soda Man
>Time Stopper
Grape Popsicle Man (remember those old mickey mouse popsicles they made back then? id always go for the purple ones)
>Atomic Fire
Tic Tacs Man (Cherry Passion flavor, i didnt know the name of that flavor back then, but id always ask my mom to buy the "red/yellow tic tacs"
>Leaf Shield
7Up/Sprite Man

[Anonymous No.1208329]

My brother called the cloud item in SMB3 the "tooth", because that's what he thought it was.

[Anonymous No.1208338]

I'm surprised no one has said they thought Link was Zelda.

[Anonymous No.1208349]

I called koopas "tartarugas" (turtles) and goombas "corujas" (owls) in SMB.

[Anonymous No.1208350]

>>1208338
I always called him Link.
Because my first exposure to every Nintendo character that wasn't Mario, DK or Pokemon was Smash Bros. Most of my SNES games were by Capcom and Konami and I mostly played the PS1 during the 5th generation.

[Anonymous No.1208373]

>>1208338
I knew he was called Link, but I though him being called Zelda was a joke in the game. Like; he was suppose to be saving her, because people wouldn't stop calling him Zelda.

[Anonymous No.1208381]

>>1208328
You've gone through a ton of junk food, haven't you?

[Anonymous No.1208397]

>>1208338
His name will always be THIEF to me.

[Anonymous No.1208409]

I called Silver Sonic robo Sonic, but that's not really far from the truth.

[Anonymous No.1208436]

Googoos

[Anonymous No.1208471]

>>1208329
I did exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.1208476]

>>1207813
the chomps, i called him with my bro, "dog bomb" because he looked like a bob-omb but with fangs, of course i didnt know the name of bob-ombs, i called them...just bombs

[Anonymous No.1208529]

When I was little I called Super Mario 64 "Mario Castle"
Because
well
Thats what It is

[Anonymous No.1208543]

We called all the bosses "main guards" which was appropriate, but we called the slimes in Zelda 2 "bush-woollies." that's less appropriate

[Anonymous No.1208549]

Mario mushrooms have always been, and will always be, "Biggies" to me. Even the 1-up is a Biggie.

[Anonymous No.1208638]

Playing SMB3 with my dad, he thought the coins were footballs.

[Anonymous No.1208646]

>>1208529
That's a better name than it actually had.

[Anonymous No.1208650]

>>1207813
>To my sister and me, these guys were Gimme-Somes

Are you Ulillillia?

I could've sworn he and his sister gave them that exact same name

[Anonymous No.1208680]

Pic title related

[Anonymous No.1208769]

>>1208650
I'm honestly surprised knowledge of me extends to 4chan

[Anonymous No.1208794]

>>1208769
lel, you're actually uliillillia? how's your platformer going?

[Anonymous No.1208801]

>>1208794
The gamemaker engine is kind of limiting. I've introduced an advanced 3D algorithm with 128 levels of parallel scrolling. It gives an intense perception of depth that helps to better place players in my mind game.

[Anonymous No.1208814]

I used to call these guys "Nigels". No idea why.

[Anonymous No.1208824]

>>1208801
Will there be mud?

[Anonymous No.1208830]

>>1208824
Some levels will feature mud. But unlike most games it won't be an obstacle. Resting in mud will charge your ability to accelerate to super-super human speeds.

[Anonymous No.1208845]

At some point my little cousin called goombas "chicken nuggets".

Bullet Bills were just "Bullets".

Lakitu was "That Cloud Guy".

Toads were "Mushroom dudes"

Bloopers were "Squids".

I think really the only enemies i knew in Super Mario Bros. were koopas, piranha plants, hammer bros., and bowser. Everything else was "fish" or "helmet" or "spike guys" (spinies) or whatever. Wasn't until later I got a "beastiary" for Super Mario World and most of the old enemies present had names for me to see. Oh and the Super Mario Bros. Super Show helped with names a little too.

[Anonymous No.1208858]

>>1208436
I knew they were called Flurries, but I used to make them out of Play-Doh, so to me instead of snowballs they just look like blobs of Play-Doh.

[Anonymous No.1208863]

>>1208397
>there are people who payed for items in Link's Awakening
Stealing items was so awesome.

[Anonymous No.1208867]

>>1208680
Well that's just an indisputable fact that they are flying burritos.

[Anonymous No.1208878]

>>1207813
Chompy Chomps

[Anonymous No.1208893]

>>1208867

[Anonymous No.1208894]

>>1208769
If you're really ullillillia, then yes. Many people here have basically worshipped you for years since you put out the Bubsy 3D video.

I love you.

[Anonymous No.1208896]

my brothers and i used to call this guy "haynes, cause it fits"
because when he'd knock you down, you could see a little strip of white around his waist, like underwear
and this was before the marketing ad was "wait'll we get our haynes on you", long before

[Anonymous No.1208920]

>>1208097
>Jumping Humpers
>Not Jumper Humper
C'mon man, rhyming is power.

[Anonymous No.1208929]

he shall forever be known as "The Fat Nigger" .

[Anonymous No.1208932]

>>1208893
$1000 dollar feel
supposed to felt the other day

[Anonymous No.1208954]

>>1208896
We called that guy Banana Man
obvious reasons

[Gor No.1208980]

>>1207863
Dude, yes!!!

I wish there'd be a new SmashTV

[Anonymous No.1208984]

>>1208182
I call him Blooper Brown.

I know he's not a Blooper or Brown, it just came to me.

[Anonymous No.1208990]

Dr roBUTTnick. His ass filled up the floating chair. Not the most original I know but we had quite a sensible chuckle over it

[Anonymous No.1208987]

>>1208436
Marshmallows

[Anonymous No.1208991]

>>1208264
I thought it was poo-poppy-gon

[Anonymous No.1209002]

My older brother called him Adobo. Not sure if it was a legit misread or an intended pun, but he somehow still reminded me of the dish my yaya used to make so i went with it. Years later I laughed even harder when i discovered his real name

[Anonymous No.1209006]

I had a friend who used to call bulbasaur ballbuster.

[Anonymous No.1209014]

>>1209006
Don't act like you don't like the bulbasaur. (Bulbasaur!)

[Anonymous No.1209035]

>>1208990
My mom says that when I first got the game, I called him Dr Robanick.

[Anonymous No.1209040]

>>1208863
I'd pay for the shovel if I was going for a 0 deaths run. That bow is getting stolen though.

[Anonymous No.1209056]

>>1209040
I pay for the bow and then quickly save and quit.

[Anonymous No.1209061]

>>1209006
I used to think Bulbasaur was Larvitar, but I spelled it "Marbitar"

[Anonymous No.1209072]

Chocosaurs
KOOPAWIZARD
Koopa Football Players

[Anonymous No.1209153]

>>1209002
I use adobo sauce in my tomato sauce and sometimes when I look at the jar of adobo sauce I think of that guy. I mean how can you not?

[Anonymous No.1209154]

>>1207813
Dogs
>>1208182
THE Fish
>>1208313
The Dinosaur
>>1208814
Spikey Guys

[NESfag No.1209172]

>>1208896
we'd call him Schwarzenegger because that's who he looks like

[Anonymous No.1209175]

>>1209072
You know, it's easy to forget Super Mario World is "dinosaur land" because so few enemies actually stuck with that theme. It mostly comes down to it being "Yoshi land," not to be confused with SMW2.

[Anonymous No.1209179]

>>1208650
>>1208769
>>1208794
>>1208801
I really want to believe that ulillillia walks amongst us.

[Anonymous No.1209187]

>>1209175
>Dinosaur land
>barely any dinosaurs
>Bowser rides a flying clown face cup thing
>only clown like thing in the game

I know it was the next big Mario, but there are times when I feel World was just them taking whatever concepts they wrote up and going "yeah, that's great, print it" without refining anything.

[Anonymous No.1209195]

>>1208814
Maybe because the only way you can kill them is Smashing them into each other

[Anonymous No.1209224]

>>1208182
The boss bass and Big Bertha were always the same enemy to me. There was chase mode and underwater mode.

Goombas in SMW were "those little tomato fucks" because they werent goombas like in any other mario game, and looked more like a goddamn tomato.

[Terracotta !!8Aj6U6mwcLY No.1209251]

I don't know why, but my grandma always called Goombas Leons. She still does to this day. I never questioned it as a kid, but now it hurts my brain trying to figure out why.

[Anonymous No.1209256]

>>1208264
My brother and I did the same thing except we called him hoobligah. I saw him playing crash 2 last week and we still called him a hoobligah.

[Anonymous No.1209262]

>>1209256
He was just Ooga Booga to me