Trope Namers/Video Games
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Naturally, tropes aren't just limited to television and literature. You'll encounter some ideas that started from video games. That's right...trope naming has gone digital (or analog, if you prefer).
Lists
Games
- Angband
- Random Number God (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.angband)
- Castlevania
- Chaos Architecture
- Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Metroid)
- Command and Conquer: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
- Earthworm Jim
- Level Ate (second game)
- Planet Heck (first game)
- Final Fantasy I
- Black Magician Girl (cross-reference to Yu-Gi-Oh!!)
- Peninsula of Power Leveling
- The Red Mage
- Welcome to Corneria (named for a town, though it's actually a line from 8-Bit Theater)
- Final Fantasy VI
- Floating Continent
- Laughing Mad (Reference to Kefka's Theme, "Dancing Mad")
- Magitek
- Final Fantasy VII
- Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
- The Lifestream
- Limit Break
- One-Winged Angel (named for Sephiroth's Final Boss song in VII)
- Wutai
- Fire Emblem Akaneia
- Marth Debuted in Smash Bros (cross-reference to Super Smash Bros.)
- Freedom Force
- Right Makes Might (one of Minuteman's catch phrases)
- Genji
- Attack Its Weak Point
- For Massive Damage
- Giant Enemy Crab
- Real Time Weapon Change (all from the same E3 conference presentation-turned-Internet meme)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Hot Coffee Minigame (after the infamous Dummied Out section)
- Half-Life
- Black Mesa Commute
- How Do I Shot Web? (from the Natural Selection mod)
- Lighthouse Point
- No OSHA Compliance (an achievement in Half-Life 2)
- Right Man in the Wrong Place
- Stand Back Hello (former name of Simultaneous Warning and Action)
- Kingdom Hearts
- Another Side, Another Story
- The Heartless
- Resignations Not Accepted (Days)
- The War Sequence (second game)
- The Legend of Zelda (1986)
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- 8.8 (stemmed from an infamous GameSpot review on the game)
- Hijacked by Ganon (fandom term)
- Madden NFL
- I Know Madden Kombat (partial; other half comes from Mortal Kombat)
- Madden Curse
- Metroid
- Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Castlevania)
- Samus Is a Girl
- Sequence Breaking
- Myst
- Beautiful Void (Douglas Adams' description of the game)
- Nethack
- The Dev Team Thinks of Everything (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- Yet Another Stupid Death (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- Pokémon Red and Blue
- Ditto Fighter
- Escape Rope
- Gotta Catch Em All
- Horn Attack
- Magikarp Power
- The Missingno
- Rare Candy
- Razor Wind
- Single Palette Town (a pun on the home city from the first-generation games)
- Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- Brick Break
- Bullet Seed
- Improbable Species Compatibility (fandom term, coined by GameFAQs)
- Pro Wrestling
- Punch-Out!!
- Hero Stole My Bike (while named for a meme, said meme came from this game's Training Montage)
- Vodka Drunkenski
- Rayman
- Band Land (from the first game)
- Raymanian Limbs
- Rock Band
- Big Rock Ending
- Bladder of Steel (achievement from the second game)
- Street Fighter
- Cherry Tapping
- Hurricane Kick
- Kamehame Hadoken (cross-reference to Dragonball Z)
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen (Dudley's entrance quote from Street Fighter III)
- Ryu and Ken
- Shoryuken
- Shotoclone
- Super Mario Bros. (1985)
- Super Smash Bros.
- Edible Ammunition
- Guest Fighter
- Marth Debuted in Smash Bros (cross-reference to Fire Emblem Akaneia)
- Multi Mook Melee
- Multi Mook Brawl (alternate name to above)
- Tony Hawks Pro Skater
- Skate Heaven Is a Place on Earth (cross-reference to the Belinda Carlisle song "Heaven is a Place on Earth")
- Zero Wing
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- For Great Justice
- Intentional Engrish for Funny (all but this one are from the same meme/opening scene)
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
- War Was Beginning
- You Have No Chance to Survive