Trope Namers/Video Games
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
- 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