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Video games
have never been the most
plentiful
supply of intelligent
writing
,
marketing
or much else actually and as such several highly interesting misnamings have occured and have afflicted some of the
greatest
video games of all time. Here's an
incomplete
(and
unordered
) list:
Mario Bros.
: Named after the
game developers
land lord (or some such
analog
), these Nintendo designers decided to cast a game starring two young
Italian plumbers
,
Mario Mario and Luigi Mario
. No, thank you
Japan
!
Brothers
, I believe, was too weak a
relationship
to explain the remarkable similarities between the two. I believe that the Japanese have been ahead of us in cloning technology for years and that 'Mario' was simply a unit of
heftiness
in their army of monkey wrench carrying killing machcines.
Finaly Fantasy
: There's a good reason for this one and you can find it over at the
Final Fantasy
node, an interesting tale of
hope
and
bankruptcy
but regardless of the origin, the gaming public is now burdened by the fact that the 'Final' Fantasy series is goint to have atleast twelve
installations
spanning five video game systems. The irony is so thick I'm currently
flavoring
my
coffee
with it (tastes like
hazlenut
).
the
Ultima
Series
: The misnaming behind this series is apparent if you observe the
Latin root
of the word ultima, meaning last or
superlative
(better than others in its set), and contrast that with that fact that these games have gotten steadily worse with every new release. I'd say the
lynch pin
was
Ultima 7 Part I
cause, honestly, Part II was stretching it. For the eigth Ultima game they decided to truck out a whole new set of features which eveyone
just plain hate
d. The ridiculously buggy and, for its time, overly system performance heavy
Ultima IX
failed to sell well, despite being fully patched and some have even claimed enjoyable after a few more months of post-release development. Finally,
Ultima Online
which promised to bring the Ultima games to a new dimension finally lived up to its Latin roots by killing the series and forcing
Lord British
to leave
Origin Systems
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Nintendo logic
Ultima Online
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