Games you've bought solely for the title

[Astrosmash]

After looking through the Classic Discussions I didn't see this question being asked before, so here it is:

What games have you purchased simply because they had a title you couldn't pass up (whether you knew anything about the game itself beforehand or not)?

A few of mine:
Urban Yeti! (GBA)
Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (NES)
Mr. Chin's Gourmet Paradise (Game Boy)
Squeeze Box (2600)

[darkhades]

Shove It! (Genesis)

[theChad]

Name This Game (2600)
Pole Positn (2600)
Bad Dudes (NES)
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (GG)

[Astrosmash]

Shove It!

Ah, should've thought of that one. Way catchier name than Boxxle.

[Therealqtip]

E.T. for atari

[Malon_Forever]

Banjo Kazooie (N64)
Iggy's Reckin' Balls (N64)
Shaq Fu (Gen).... yes, I bought this game... 49 cents
Silicon Valley (N64)


Beside Shaq Fu, I'm pretty happy with the purchases.

[Mattiekrome]

Hmmm...

Kung Fu Heroes
Bad Street Brawler
Captain Skyhawk

All for the NES, back when all it took was a quick glance at the back of the box to see if it looked cool.

[RagedGamer]

Battletoads & Double Dragon - Genesis. And yes, it is as good as the name.

[dao2]

Project IGI: Im Going In

[robotriot]

Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess.

[Ryaan1234]

Iggy's Reckin' Balls (N64)


I remember renting this game just for the box art.
http://i18.ebayimg.com/01/c/05/90/61/8f_8.JPG
Wowza. I remember this game was pretty good, too. I'll have to get a copy sometime.

Games I bought just for the title:

Tagin' Dragon (NES) (also bought cause of the wacky blue cartridge.)
Phantom Crash (XBOX) (a pretty nice mech game, good value for $2.99)
Tall: Infinity (PS1) (this game started my Agetec addiction. Anyone else fascinated with these kind of PS1 games?)
Hatris (Gameboy)
Robopon (Gameboy)
Toki Tori (Gameboy)
Glover (N64)

[darkhades]

Ah, should've thought of that one. Way catchier name than Boxxle.

lol....I think I'll edit my post and put (Genesis) beside it. Just in case someone hasen't heard of the game, and may think I am trying to insult you.

[Kitsune Sniper]

SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1. Yeah, I regret buying that one. :P

[Astrosmash]

lol....I think I'll edit my post and put (Genesis) beside it. Just in case someone hasen't heard of the game, and may think I am trying to insult you.

Ha... I wonder what it says about me that I *did* know you meant the Genesis game without you specifying it?

[MasterJSP]

General Chaos for the Genesis and Valkyrie Profile 2:Silmeria for PS2.

[Steve W]

Sticky Balls for the Gizmondo is one that pops into mind. Another one I always wanted based on it's name (but I was too young to get it) was the Infocom game Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I don't think it even came out on the TI-99/4A, which is another reason I didn't get it.

The Chaos Engine on the Amiga was another one I wanted, but couldn't find a copy here in the US. Great name, great one-level demo.

[FrakAttack]

No One Can Stop Mr. Domino. Turns out, he's really easy to stop.

[Garry Silljo]

SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1. Yeah, I regret buying that one. :P

Are you kidding? I play the hell out of this.

[j_factor]

Incredible Crisis

[dao2]

Are you kidding? I play the hell out of this.

i think hes being sarcastic ;p

[Spartacus]

I wouldn't say I bought these solely for the title. I would say that the title caught my attention before I bought them.


NES:
S.C.A.T.
Wurms: Journey to the Center of the Earth

SNES:
Cyborg 009
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
Gunman's Proof
Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

N64
Sin & Punishment

Genesis:
Body Count
Undead Line

Sega CD:
Cadillacs and Dinasaurs
Time Gal

Saturn:
Death Crimson
Death Mask
Death Throttle
Deep Fear
Hakaider Mechanical Violator
Horde, The
Incredible Toons Nazomakaimura
Lunacy
Necronomicon Digital Pinball
Planet Joker
Prisoner of Ice
SCUD: The Disposable Assassin
Skeleton Warriors
Steamgear Mash
Three Dirty Dwarves
Trash It

Dreamcast:
Bomber hehhe!
Illbleed
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Kiss Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child
L.O.L. Lack of Love
Ooga Booga
Typing of the Dead

PS1:
Acid
Afraid Gear
Attack of the Saucerman
Battle Bugs
Devilman
Dr. Slump
Gunner's Heaven
Hard Boiled
Hell Night
Hot Blooded Family aka Nekketsu Oyako
Infestation
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
Love & Destroy
Love Love Truck
Lucifer Ring
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force
Necronomicon: The Dawning Of Darkness
Paranoiascape Screaming Mad George's
Psychometrer Eiji
Sexy Parodius
Shadow Gunner: The Robot Wars
Shake Kids
Silent Bomber
Skullmonkey's
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters
Space Hulk: Vengence of the Blood Angels
Spider: The Video Game
Tiny Bullets
Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio
UFO: A Day in the Life
Vermin Kids
Virus: It is Aware
Wai Wai Kart -('cause I didn't know it was Extreme Go-Kart Racing)
The Witch of Salzburg

PS2:
7-Sins
Akira Psycho Ball
Buile Baku - (I thought this was about Japanese bulimia & bukkake - I was wrong!)
Butt-Ugly Martians: Zoom or Doom
BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles
Ben Hur: Blood of Braves
Berserk Millennium Falcon
Blood Will Tell
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Combat Queen
Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Crazy Chicken X
Death by Degree's
Demolition Girl
Dog of Bay
Earache Extreme Metal Racing
Extermination
Finny the Fish
Frank Herbert's: Dune
Gekisha Boy 2
Gregory Horror Show
Gunslinger Girl(s)
Heavy Metal Thunder
Hungry Ghosts
Jackass: The Game
Michigan Report From Hell - (because I lived in Michigan for a spell. I left a loooong time ago. I guess everybody's left by now.)
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 64: The Splatter Action
SIMPLE 2000 Series Vol. 95 THE Zombie VS Kyuukyuusha -(Ambulance)
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 110: The Escape from Los Angeles
Super Galdelic Hour
They Came From the Skies
World War Zero

Xbox:
Armed & Dangerous
Arx Fatalis
Battlestar Galactica
Constantine
Crusty Demons
Curse: Eye of Iris
Exa Skeleton
Galaxy Angel
Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Magi Death Fight!
Manhunt
Metal Wolf Chaos
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
Painkiller: Hell Wars
Razes Hell
Stubbs the Zombie
Xyanide

[emceelokey]

Luckily I was too young to have my own money back then and these were only rentals.

- Ballz (SNES) and I remember the magazine ads said something about "so you think you got Ballz?" or somethng like that.

- Power Instinct (snes) Killer Instinc was out in the arcades and it's still my favorite fighting game. This was a fighting game that had the word instinct in it so i gave it a try. Game sucked.

[Ed Oscuro]

Squeeze Box (2600)
The Who had a non-pinball game?

Oh, guess not... :(

I have been considering getting a game called Den-no Senshi REJECTION for FM Towns for some time. It's billed as an action adventure and has a silhouetted assassin-looking girl on the cover. Dunno what sort of game it is really, but it sounds funny.

Let's also add The Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Half-Life, Castlevania, Contra, Gradius, and anything with Toaplan in the name to my list.


Sticky Balls for the Gizmondo is one that pops into mind. Another one I always wanted based on it's name (but I was too young to get it) was the Infocom game Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I don't think it even came out on the TI-99/4A, which is another reason I didn't get it.
Yeah, that's one of those games I think you need a disk drive for. Can't imagine all that text would fit on a disk.

Nobody's mentioned Custer's Revenge yet, I see.

[MrSparkle]

sega cd - cadillacs and dinosaurs

[venturousviking]

Yie Ar Kung Fu for the Commodore 64....

[16-bit]

Ninjabread Man.

(no intention on playing it either)

[Julio III]

Ninjabread Man.

(no intention on playing it either)

I was really really tempted to buy this too! Then i read a review...

[nildem]

Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt! (Genesis)
Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs (NES)
Wargasm (PC)
Wild Woody (Sega CD)

[k8track]

I'll go with Ninja Golf (Atari 7800). Who wouldn't have snapped that one up at the time?

As for buying a game based solely on the box art, I'll say Pooyan, Picnic, and Crypts of Chaos for the 2600.

[Graham Mitchell]

Though I didn't discover them until just a few years ago, there are some Amiga games with fantastic names that I would have bought solely for that reason years go, if I'd had an Amiga. One of them is Chaos Engine. With a name like that I expected some creepy sci-fi adventure game. The end result is a Guerrilla War-type thing which wasn't that great.

Another one was (I think) called Corpse. I had no clue what to expect with Corpse, but it was kind of like Equinox with a Heimdall-esque graphic style.

[Graham Mitchell]

Double post...

[Xian042]

Good Topic!

Mine:

Urban Yeti! - how could you NOT buy this?

Mystic Defender - in our Dungeons & Dragons games we were playing Mystics. I bought it becuase I thought it would be like the Mystics in the game. Not quite. I hated the game at first but got used to it and ended up loving it.

Michael Jacksons Moonwalker- shut up! I was young

Zombies at my Neighbors- oh yea!

It Came From the Desert! - it came from somewhere...

Goonies II - still a favorite!

Top Gun - I got the carrier landings down to a science

[skaar]

Ninjabread Man.

(no intention on playing it either)

It took until page 2 for that one to come up.

Me too! I did play it though.

[Vroomfunkel]

No One Can Stop Mr. Domino. Turns out, he's really easy to stop.

Yeah, I came in to post this. Shoulda known someone would have already have got there.

Mister Mosquito also bought for same reason.

Fortunately, they were both kick-ass games :)

Games that I was strongly influenced by the title when I bought were: Panzer Dragoon Saga, Alien Soldier, Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkatron

[Vroomfunkel]

Though I didn't discover them until just a few years ago, there are some Amiga games with fantastic names that I would have bought solely for that reason years go, if I'd had an Amiga. One of them is Chaos Engine. With a name like that I expected some creepy sci-fi adventure game. The end result is a Guerrilla War-type thing which wasn't that great.

I loved Chaos Engine. It was released on Megadrive too (I believe that the Genesis version was re-titled "Soldiers of Fortune", but is the same game)

[fortunez]

For some reason anything with x in it fascinates me.
Astyanax
Faxanadu
Xenophobe

[Astrosmash]

For some reason anything with x in it fascinates me.
Astyanax
Faxanadu
Xenophobe

Xexyz, perhaps? :)

[PentiumMMX]

Mischief Makers

[icbrkr]

Toilet Kids for the PCE. I mean, come on!

[XYXZYZ]

This thread is already on page 2 and no one has mentioned Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom, until now.

[fortunez]

Xexyz, perhaps? :)

I was so close to buying that game, but I had returned something and it was a dollar too much :(.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Journey Escape, of which I was only entertained by the opening/title screen.

And I definitely plan on buying Communist Mutants from Outer Space.

[AB Positive]

- Power Instinct (snes) Killer Instinc was out in the arcades and it's still my favorite fighting game. This was a fighting game that had the word instinct in it so i gave it a try. Game sucked.

</fightergeek>

Yes, the first couple Power Instincts were terrible. 3rd was ok, the last one was when the series reeeeally hit their stride. PI4 had Billy and Jimmy from Double Dragon, and some of the crazier fighters out there (the octogenarians were great. Let me bring my hands off my stroller to CAST FIREBALLS).

End boss was a 13 year old princess with a magic box that would kick your ass.

Yeah - it's Matrimelee for the Neo Geo - Power Instinct 4. So remember kids - some series need time to develop into the beautiful flower of... uh... weirdness. I so lost track of where I was going here...

</fightergeek>


But power instinct 1 on the snes? Awful. I'm so sorry for you.

[ssjlance]

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - 2600
Panic Restaurant - NES
Zoop! - Genesis
Sneak King - XBox

[old_skoolin_jim]

Darn! I just missed "Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes"!
I will admit, not only did I buy it for the title, but the box art is probably the most awesome I've seen. I didn't know it existed until a few months ago when I happened to find it at a store. I dug my atari out of the closet, hooked it up, and man... it was the most generic atari game ever.

I still love the box art, though.
http://www.atariage.com/box_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=406&ItemTypeID=BOX

Also, I did rent Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom based on the name alone, and found it to be so much fun I ended up buying it from the video store when they finally sold it a couple years later. Made it to the last level, but I never did beat it, though. :(

Hmm... maybe I have a subtle fixation with tomato-based games? Nah.

[moocolon]

Sticky Balls and Woody Pop.

[Astrosmash]

A few more of mine:

Kickle Cubicle (NES)
DecapAttack (Genesis)
Who Shot Johnny Rock? (Sega CD)

Also, though there's no connection to the later Nintendo series past the title, Star Fox (2600) is a good conversation starter - "hey, want to play Star Fox on Atari?"

[ScourDX]

- Requiem of Hell (N-Gage)
- Fatman (Megadrive)
- know as Slaughtersport in N. America
- Zoocube (GCN)
- Odama (GCN)
- P.N.03 (GCN)

[jjgames]

I remember buying "A Boy and His Blob" when I was a kid because of the name alone. I probably thought to myself "I'm a boy. Wouldn't it be cool to own a blob?" And bought it. It was actually pretty fun too.

[guitargary75]

E.T.
and Porky's. Both sucked!!!

[Coldguy]

Good Topic!

It Came From the Desert! - it came from somewhere...

Which version? The Amiga is an awesome game, the Genesis turned it into a retarded contra, and the TG-16 version is downright....weird.

[swlovinist]

Elf Bowling for the DS-it sucked but the name was just so funny

[thetoxicone]

Tanks but no tanks

[Coldguy]

Elf Bowling for the DS-it sucked but the name was just so funny

I guess no one told you that you can play it for free online....

[Poofta!]

Two Crude Dudes (genesis)

awesome game, btw.

[swlovinist]

I guess no one told you that you can play it for free online....

I knew that it was a free online game, but it is one of those games that people come into your game room and say "what the hell is that?"

[Galvatron]

General Chaos
Battlestar Galactica
ET
Rampage
Space Invaders


and still today
bought Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire for PSP (not classic but the trend stays alive today of buying a game just for the title!!)

[PixelSmasher]

Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em for the 2600.

I was so excited by the concept of a game about cannibalism. And I was so wrong.

Well...

I guess it is cannibalism in some small way. But still.

[shivers]

anything with dungeons and dragons logo on it (basicly the TSR games) just cause i loved D&D as a kid but had no friends to play with... umm well at least no friends who wanted to play D&D...

ok so i had no friends.

[rbudrick]

I remember renting this game just for the box art.
http://i18.ebayimg.com/01/c/05/90/61/8f_8.JPG
Wowza. I remember this game was pretty good, too. I'll have to get a copy sometime.

Games I bought just for the title:

Tagin' Dragon (NES) (also bought cause of the wacky blue cartridge.)
Phantom Crash (XBOX) (a pretty nice mech game, good value for $2.99)
Tall: Infinity (PS1) (this game started my Agetec addiction. Anyone else fascinated with these kind of PS1 games?)
Hatris (Gameboy)
Robopon (Gameboy)
Toki Tori (Gameboy)
Glover (N64)

Whoa, hol on...you found Tagin Dragon in the wild? New? Used?

-ROb

[namzep]

Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Great title. Crappy game.

[Cav]

Superman for NES.

Here's the sad part....I liked it. Once I embraced its surrealness, that is.

[Sniderman]

"Boogerman"


C'mon, that's an AWESOME title.

[Astrosmash]

Resurrecting my own old thread, just because I have a few more of my own:

-Dracula: Crazy Vampire (Game Boy Color)
-Johnny Bazookatone (PlayStation)

Not one I got recently, but the full title of one particular NES game always puzzled me a bit.

Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man

I mean, is the subtitle really necessary in this case?

[bangtango]

I've done this A LOT, with mixed results.


Atari 2600:
-Fast Food


Atari 7800:
-Food Fight
-Xevious (never played it in the arcade, played it first on 7800)


NES:
-Kung Fu
-Maniac Mansion
-River City Ransom (bought this one on the original release date)


MASTER SYSTEM:
-Vigilante


GAMEBOY:
-Dexterity


Super NES:
-Power Moves
-Race Drivin'
-King of the Monsters (had never played it in the arcade)


Genesis:
-Cybercop


Playstation:
-Evil Zone
-Eternal Eyes
-All 4 of the "Spec Ops" games (see why I said "mixed?")


Playstation 2:
-Mojo


Gamecube:
-Blowout


Xbox:
-Rogue Ops

[Gunface]

Irritating Stick for PS1. I couldn't resist and I actually bought 3 copies; 2 for friends.

And what a surprise...it's garbage.

Still, I hold it close to my heart.

[Kitsune Sniper]

SNK Arcade Classics.

Worst $15 I ever spent. -_-

[JT80]

This is the only one I can think of right now.

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum

[CDiablo]

I never have, but came extremely close with "Hail to the Chimp" for the 360, but I read the reviews and decided not.

[kupomogli]

For some reason anything with x in it fascinates me.
Astyanax
Faxanadu
Xenophobe

Two of the best NES games right there. Astyanax is better than it's arcade counterpart in my opinion.

-

As for me. Anything with Castlevania in the title, however the series has been getting pretty bad as of late.

[jdc]

Believe it or not, that was my initial reason for buying Tomba!.....and not only for the game title, but also for the developers name, Whoopee Camp. The whole package including cover art, seemed......good. And what do ya know...it was!! LOL

[Gunface]

I almost bought the PC game "You Are Empty" for this reason. Apparently it's terrible...but that's a serious name.

[slapdash]

Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ

[Astrocade]

The best game I ever bought based on title alone was Splatterhouse.

Games I bought because of the title and license that stunk: Dirty Harry, Blues Brothers, Nightmare on Elm Street, Ghostbusters, the first Evil Dead game, and The Thing.

Crappy games I bought on the title alone: Drakken, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Red Dead Revolver, and pretty much anything with the name Devil, Demon, Hell, etc. Except for Devil Crash/Crush, which was a pleasant surprise.

[PutUrQuarterUp]

hmm.. two games I bought used recently come to mind..

Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama (Genesis)

and

Hunt The Wumpus (TI99/4A)