Today marks the release of “Touch the dead” for the Nintendo DS. I don’t know, it must be me but I find the name hilarious. The game looks like it’ll be pretty fair, but honestly I can’t get past the name. This got me thinking about game names, sure “Touch the dead” is a pretty bad name, but how bad can they get? Well here’s a few names from the past that have stuck out for me.

• Bouncy Balls – C64 – 1996

  Save the World of bouncy! This was one of the last few games released on the Commodore C64 and was completely unknown by everyone

• Grabbed by the Ghoulies – Xbox – 2003

  I’m sure this name doesn’t mean much to Americans, but with Rare being a UK based company I’m surprised they didn’t change this name

• Sticky Balls – Gizmondo – 2005

  Ah the Gizmondo, we barely knew ye. To say I’ve played this would mean admitting to owning a Gizmondo, which I have sworn to never do.

• Nuts and Milk – MSX – 1984

  A very generic Hudson soft game, that has been released several times for the Japanese market.

• Wild Woody – Sega CD/Mega CD – 1995

  Dusty, a pencil brought to life with magic powers with the mission of saving the universe

So there we have five games to prove that names can be worse than “Touch the dead”. I’m sure there are many more that I am missing and Seaman 2 is just around the corner