I love how video game titles had the name of the console in the title

[destinyduelist]

GB (like Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel)

Oh wow I've played this game like 4 times now and never noticed that, that's pretty cool lol

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I never noticed Ghost Babel...

Advance wars is a negative example; why wasnt it called DS Wars??

It went famicom wars, game boy wars, game boy wars turbo, advance wars....and then advance wars again what the heck

I think they kept the name Advance Wars for branding since it was the name of the reboot (Nell being implied to be Lady Luck from the original series) but since the Nintendo Wars franchise is more known in the west under the title Advance Wars (I think in Japan it's called Game Boy Wars Advance, implying it's a sequel to the GameBoy Wars sub-series) like how Resident Evil is still called as such despite the name Biohazard being no longer under copyright.

Only Starfox, Dragon Quest and maybe Contra got their name back in all regions (US and PAL) in the more modern entries. RIP Starwing/Lylat Wars, Dragon Warrior and Probotector.

Oh wow I've played this game like 4 times now and never noticed that, that's pretty cool lol

I should do that entry someday.

 

[NatalieZaki]

we live in a timeline with Doom 64 for PS4 and i think that makes this the best timeline

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

we live in a timeline with Doom 64 for PS4 and i think that makes this the best timeline

Replace PS4 with PC and I absolutely agree with you.


Without being a pro-PC I think that Doom is at home on it so having one entry not officially available in there was sad.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Either with Super for the Super NES, 64 for Nintendo 64 but also when they tried to make the name GB (like Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel) or DS (Advance Wars Dual Strikes). It kinda stopped around the 7th Generation.

Do you have clever examples for these?

This only applied to mostly Nintendo consoles sadly.
Like Famicom Detective Club
Super Aleste
Kirby 64 (forgot about this for a sec)
Sonic Advance
lesser known one but Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (since the COMPs are literally just DS)
Wii Sports
1-2 Switch
(probably some games with "Color" in it's name)

There are a fringe other examples though

Saturn Bomberman
Persona 3 Portable
Rockman WS (Wonderswan)
Game Gear Aleste

Of course there's others besides those examples but I chose to do one per console to show how rare it is. There's no "X game PS2" or "X game Dreamcast".

Usually there's stuff like Ridge Racer Vita, Mega Man I-V GB, or Castlevania 64, but it's worth mentioning these are fan names. Those games are just named Ridge Racer, Mega Man I-V, and Castlevania otherwise

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Saturn Bomberman

Funnily it was called Bomberman SS (as in Sega Saturn) before they quickly changed it in the west.

Kirby 64 (forgot about this for a sec)

I dislike that actually there weren't 64 Crystal Shards in the game... It could've been funny.

Super Aleste

Wasn't it called Space Megaforce?

lesser known one but Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (since the COMPs are literally just DS)

Good catch there!

I wish Vita games had a name starting by V.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Wasn't it called Space Megaforce?

In the West yeah. I still don't understand why, given MUSHA kept it's name on the Genesis

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Also they did it twice with SMT, I just remembered that Strange Journey Redux is named Deep Strange Journey in Japan

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Advance wars is a negative example; why wasnt it called DS Wars??

To be fair, the DS entries were direct continuations to Advance Wars, not to mention that Japan actually didn't get the games until the DS so it'd be weird for Dual Strike to go by a new moniker (though for Days of Ruin specifically, you're cooking, they absolutely should've called it DS Wars)

Also gotta mention the GameCube exclusive spinoff and its sequel which for some reason isn't GameCube Wars (it's Battalion Wars)

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I find it interesting how the "Super" and "64" labels were so ubiquitous that they were often retroactively added to games that never had them, such as Superman (64).

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Project Snowblind for PlayStation.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I liked the name ZombiU, such a shame they didn't find a way to make it unique when ported to other consoles, they should have gone with ZombiUK or something more unique than just Zombi.

Wasn't Advanced Wars called Famicon Wars before going to the GBA?

Oh yeah, wasn't MGS Portable Ops called like that, cause it was on the PSP?

 

[Aeriththeflowergirl]

Super Nintendo
Super Bomberman
Super Castlevania IV
Super Gameboy
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
Super Mario All Stars
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Super Mario RPG
Super Metroid
Super Punch Out
Super Smash TV
Super Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi
Super Valis IV

Nintendo 64
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Kart 64
Donkey Kong 64
Pilotwings 64
Duke Nukem 64


Gameboy Advance
Advanced Wars
Duke Nukem Advance
Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure
Final Fantasy IV, V, VI Advance
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Metal Slug Advance
Super Mario 1-4 Advance

 

[beefbowl]

Although Saturn games were fond of calling games "Virtua" something (especially with Virtua Fighter).

"Virtua" is not a console signifier title, it's the name of the 3D games Sega produced. Virtua Fighter, Virtua Tennis, Virtua Racing etc, they all belong to the same series.

 

[Sumea]

Replace PS4 with PC and I absolutely agree with you.


Without being a pro-PC I think that Doom is at home on it so having one entry not officially available in there was sad.

While I agree with home at PC, I also think doom is one game that plays especially nicely on dual analog controllers - I am far more comfortable playing Doom 1, 2, 64 on My PS4 than many other games, especially after they add option for gyro too, though, I can live without it. Just elimination of Y axis from the equation makes controller play quality huge. I do not like most shooters on controller unless they also have some good options for gyro at least as supplementary thing, or the controls, curves and such are/can be tweaked into really nice spot, but doom/2 whenever I tried it on a basic dual stick is nice. Analog movement has been there even on PC and just works wonderfully for doom, and analog left and right just work nice as well. - I do not claim it plays better than PC, but Doom is kinda unique in my books for how surprisingly well it plays on modern consoles, heck, since xbox 360.

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"Virtua" is not a console signifier title, it's the name of the 3D games Sega produced. Virtua Fighter, Virtua Tennis, Virtua Racing etc, they all belong to the same series.

Yeah, virtua games popped up already on Mega Drive with Virtua Racing. It was sega marketing (genius?) of just making leap to 3D gaming sound magnificent by softly claiming it is almost virtual in nature to have these new types of games in full immersive 3D.

 

[J.F.C]

Devil Survivor's initials is DS and the comps you use in game are obviously modeled after a Nintendo DS.

 

[bigthecat_]

I think this is almost exclusively a Nintendo thing.
Honestly... I don't hate it.

Haven't went far on this post so I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but a lot of PSP games had Portable on the title. Phantasy Star Portable, Taiko no Tatsujin Portable, Boku no Natsuyasumi Portable, etc.