Worst video game mispronunciations/bungles you've ever heard

[ccovell]

WAIT! My mom used to say "Intendo" too!

I'm sure a lot of folks said "intendo".... or was it just a "mom" thing?

Forgive me, but I can't place the last reference to "Sting - y"

I think it just comes from the ambiguity of the first commonly-heard phrase that parents heard back then: "Mom, I want a Nintendo."

Parents hear that spoken and since it's a totally new word to them, they don't know if it's written "an intendo" or "a nintendo."

As for Sting-y, Um...  http://audioatrocities.com/games/lastalert/index.html

[esteban]

WAIT! My mom used to say "Intendo" too!

I'm sure a lot of folks said "intendo".... or was it just a "mom" thing?

Forgive me, but I can't place the last reference to "Sting - y"

I think it just comes from the ambiguity of the first commonly-heard phrase that parents heard back then: "Mom, I want a Nintendo."

Parents hear that spoken and since it's a totally new word to them, they don't know if it's written "an intendo" or "a nintendo."

As for Sting-y, Um...  http://audioatrocities.com/games/lastalert/index.html

Wow, I never realized that. You learn something new every day.

In my defense, I gave up trying to understand that line over 20 years ago.

[ClodBusted]

My mom still says Nitenndo.

And I called Megaman"s nemesis Dr "Willy" for about 20 years.

[SamIAm]

Soukyuugurentai

I actually really like that this game avoids using imported words as often as possible, but isn't traditional-Japanese or anything. It seems confident.

[mackdanger]

My friend came back from the mall one day and started telling me about this cool game he played at the arcade called Alerted Beast.

[SamIAm]

"I'm pretty sure it's Mega Man Ten."

[ccovell]

Soukyuugurentai

I actually really like that this game avoids using imported words as often as possible, but isn't traditional-Japanese or anything. It seems confident.

That reminded me of the humour I got out of listening to Yakumo's Retro Core videos several years back...  He always called the game Layer Section "Layer Selection".  I had hoped it was just a one-off flub, or that he would realize the error of his ways, but no, it was a consistent mispronunciation every time without fail.  :-|

[esteban]

"I'm pretty sure it's Mega Man Ten."

I always thought it was pronounced "Mega Manx" (you know, like a powerful cat).







OK, I am just being silly. No sentient mineral/vegetable would have thought that.

[bartre]

My Brother still likes to call Guile "Gully!", because he heard someone say that bitd. "Raiyu" will always feel much more comfortable to me than hearing "Ryu". Same with "Blank-Ah" vs "Blawnkaw".

I always said blahn-kaaaaaaaa.
course, that's because there's a lot of mexicans in my neck of the woods.

I work with a Blanca, and every time i see her, I make street fighter jokes.
-she has yet to realize what i'm doing
-it has been 3 years

[esteban]

My Brother still likes to call Guile "Gully!", because he heard someone say that bitd. "Raiyu" will always feel much more comfortable to me than hearing "Ryu". Same with "Blank-Ah" vs "Blawnkaw".

I always said blahn-kaaaaaaaa.
course, that's because there's a lot of mexicans in my neck of the woods.

I work with a Blanca, and every time i see her, I make street fighter jokes.
-she has yet to realize what i'm doing
-it has been 3 years

I've always used the Spanish pronunciation, too.

[VenomMacbeth]

Isn't Blanka from Brazil, anyway?  That would make the Latin pronunciation correct, I believe.

[SamIAm]

I always thought it was pronounced "Mega Manx" (you know, like a powerful cat).

I think I'm going to send those images to my Mom. She remembers my Mega Man X days quite well, and now she's kind of an old cat lady, so...

[esteban]

I always thought it was pronounced "Mega Manx" (you know, like a powerful cat).

I think I'm going to send those images to my Mom. She remembers my Mega Man X days quite well, and now she's kind of an old cat lady, so...

Hahahahahshashs. Your mom might start training the cats to battle Dr. Wily.

[NecroPhile]

Y's

Eeesoo!

[CrackTiger]

Isn't Blanka from Brazil, anyway?  That would make the Latin pronunciation correct, I believe.

For me it's equal parts how kids first pronounced the names and how bad some of the early announcers sounded. I hated it when I first heard "Blunka Win!". "Barlog" also sounded bad and the "[Name] Win!" instead of "Wins!" just made it all the more uncomfortable.

Zangief will always be "Zang-geef" to me.


When I first started playing Kabukiden around 1993, I read Okuni and Zeami's name by how it looked it to memorize the symbols. So for a while their menu names were Baj and LuBaj. After hearing their names, I thought that they were Okini and Zeemi.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Isn't Blanka from Brazil, anyway?  That would make the Latin pronunciation correct, I believe.

His real name's Jimmy.

It's pronounced blah nn kah.

It's ブランカ in Japanese.  That's bu ra nn kah


anyway, I don't think he's actually FROM Brazil.   He just was involved in a plane crash that left his ass stranded there, or something.

Or he is some Jungle gooner that ate plants and fucked an eel and has super powers or something.

[Psycho Punch]

In Brazil we speak Blanka, Honda, Chun-Li, Ken and Ryu correctly by default (similar japanese pronunciation), but everything else on street fighter II is mispronounced, character names, announcer speech, move names, etc. which is a product of kids + crappy cabinet speakers + not knowing english. For example,

Guile = Gully
M. Bison = Mister Beezom
Tiger Uppercut = Tiger Robocop
Sonic Boom = Alec Foo
Tatsumakiszxvczxvzcaku = ah tek tek toogi (???) (and several variations -- I can't blame anyone, I still can't hear Tetsumaki Senpuu Kyaku after all these years, how the hell Ryu say it so fast?)

these and other bizarre intepretations are classics for anyone who played in one of the inumerous botecos (always with an arcade cab or two in the 90's) and game centers across the country. Of course now that basic english is somewhat commonplace no one hears SF2 like that anymore. 



Misc stuff:
(Super)NES = NESSSS/SNESSS (hi arkhan)
Genesis = Mega Drive (aka Merda Drive, lit. Shit Drive -- kinda appropriate name for the video palette)

[Psycho Punch]

"gay boneeer, aaahhhhhh"
my friend about Daytona USA title theme.

[esteban]

TIGER ROBOCOP.

This is a concept that needs to be expanded upon!

[CrackTiger]

"gay boneeer, aaahhhhhh"
my friend about Daytona USA title theme.

You're thinking of Sega Rally's Game Over theme.

[Psycho Punch]

"gay boneeer, aaahhhhhh"
my friend about Daytona USA title theme.

You're thinking of Sega Rally's Game Over theme.

Yeah that's also similar hahah, but the let's go away theme is more similar, with the "ahhh" coming from the last portion of the music.
A message to fellow PCE homebrewers: please try to replicate Sega Rally's awesome GAME OVER YEAH theme in your future works if possible, thanks in advance.

[shawnji]

I was replaying Mario 64 the other day and I cannot stop hearing:

"So long, gay Bowser!"

What the hell is he actually saying there?

[Arkhan Asylum]

"gay boneeer, aaahhhhhh"
my friend about Daytona USA title theme.

Don't worry.  That's what we all heard at the arcade too.

GAYYY BONNERRRRR

LETS BLOW A GAY