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* In the ''FIFA'' football/soccer games, you get to name your avatar in manager mode. You can also create a player which along with the FIFA 2009 addition of Be a Pro seasons gives you the chance to have the footballing career you never had.

** The ''[[NCAA Football]]'' and ''[[Madden NFL]]'' series have something similar as well with Road to Glory and Superstar modes, respectively, where you control a single player, often named after yourself, and guide him through his college and pro careers, respectively.

* An obscure RPG known as ''Ancient Evil'' uses this for purposes of scariness. One room contains seven [[Creepy Cool Crosses|crosses]], from which hang six decapitated corpses, with the heads piled in a corner. By each cross is a sign naming its occupant (e.g. Gutripper The Warrior.) The final, unoccupied cross bears the name you chose at the start of the game. (This is the game's ''only'' usage of [[Hello, Insert Name Here]] ~~-- it~~ seems to be banking on the probability that you named your character after yourself.)

* An obscure RPG known as ''Ancient Evil'' uses this for purposes of scariness. One room contains seven [[Creepy Cool Crosses|crosses]], from which hang six decapitated corpses, with the heads piled in a corner. By each cross is a sign naming its occupant (e.g. Gutripper The Warrior.) The final, unoccupied cross bears the name you chose at the start of the game. (This is the game's ''only'' usage of [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]—it seems to be banking on the probability that you named your character after yourself.)

* While ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games are normally just straight examples of [[Hello, Insert Name Here]], ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' also has an element of this. As part of a [[Justified Tutorial]] about the touchscreen, you're asked to sign for a parcel. Much later on, this signature reappears unexpectedly.

* The rail shooter ''Zombie Raid'' asks you to input a three-letter name before starting the game, but the protagonist is a detective called Edward Windsor. About a quarter of the way through the first level, Edward finds a grave with the name you put in and blows it up, remarking, "No no, I can't be dead!"

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* Emogame, a free indie flash game, addresses the player as a loser who has been baited to the center of all emo music to replay a scene from ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]'' and is insulted in the ending to "GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING YOU FAG!"

* [[Digital: A Love Story]] will ask you for your real name and to choose an internet (well, FIDOnet) nickname. You will be addressed by your nickname for most of the game, but when {{spoiler|Emilia is copied over to your computer, she}} will address you by your real name.

* The Japanese simulation game ''Wonder Project J'' asks your name and entreats you to teach an android boy the fundamentals of life and humanity. Makes for a pretty nasty [[Player Punch]] if you don't do a good job: the young android will shout -- ''using your name'' ~~-- that~~ he hates you.

* The Japanese simulation game ''Wonder Project J'' asks your name and entreats you to teach an android boy the fundamentals of life and humanity. Makes for a pretty nasty [[Player Punch]] if you don't do a good job: the young android will shout -- ''using your name''—that he hates you.

* [[NHL Hockey]]: Not only in the "Be A Pro" modes, but within exhibition games (starting with ''NHL '12''), where a player will be given a highlight package of their best goals or hits.