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Game names corrected by spell check

What's a BioShock? By Castlevania, did you mean Televangelist? Cringe as spell check mauls your favorite games

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US

You know that red line that pops up in Word, Firefox or any other program with a spell check? It's helpful, don't get us wrong, but they really should spend some time working on spell check's virtual intuition. When we typed "Firefox," just now while writing this article, the red line asked if we meant "firebox." Um no, we didn't. And that's what happens countless times every second across the world when people type in video game names - weird ass suggestions that are so off the mark they become entertaining in their own right.

Collected here are our favorite moments of spell check gone mad. It all started when somehow we managed to make Firefox's speller suggest "Televangelist" in place in "Castlevania."

Doesn't sound quite as fun, does it, hunting down religious figures and putting a stake through their heart? Simon, your family's beef is with Dracula, not the poor old pope. Once we saw this, we just had to type in random names and see what happened.

BioShock: Yes, these are the actual suggestions. Not Bio Shock, but hockeys and Shockley. Mr. Shockley was a physicist, for those who care. He's credited with inventing the transistor, even.




Tekken: This list gets better and better. Trekkers is already great photoshop fodder, but check the last one - Heineken! You hear that Namco? We smell product placement. Lei Wulong has to drink something...

 


Abadox: This long-forgotten NES shooter used to be one of the goriest games on the market. Now its bloody sprites are simply adorable. Not sure the tropical Barbados island would like the comparison though.


 
19 Comments
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ClusterShart  - 10 months 4 days ago 
lulz
TENAXIS (PSN)  - 10 months 4 days ago 
hahaahha

should firefox and microsoft update their spellings then??
CandiedJester  - 9 months 22 days ago 
Lol!
I never knew abusing spellcheck could be so entertaining!
XD

Phlebitis sounds horrible.
But I would love to play a game
called "SEXY"

Who wouldn't?
Yellowhat17  - 9 months 6 days ago 
That was hilarious, but some of the last ones should have had pictures.
Tentacles  - 7 months 29 days ago 
Phlebitis? Nice.

I'll have to wiki that one.
MyGameName  - 7 months 11 days ago 
LittleBigPlanet: No spelling suggestions. (???)

Wii: ii, wiki, iii, lii, vii

I just typed these in for fun.
Hurricrane  - 6 months 28 days ago 
ROFL, Tekken = Heineken!!!!
Cwf2008  - 6 months 28 days ago 
wtf? Tekken actually was counted as correctly spelled on Microsoft Word 2007...hmm
CoD_22  - 6 months 25 days ago 
I tried wii and it said: wiki, way, wig, win, wit. No spelling suggestions for culdcept or castlevania.
oreopizza47  - 6 months 3 days ago 
lol

i vote for pokemon names messed up by spellcheck. wonder what would happen to pikachu or charmander...
Xplosive59  - 5 months 26 days ago 
this is the only article that has actually make me friggin laugh my friggin head off
especially at Pikmin=Minibikes

pokemon names next please
Derds  - 5 months 22 days ago 
The Spellchecker is a ruthless creature, and butchers all in it's path.

But srsly guys, Minibikes = WIN

Also, Tamarind's pharmacy sounds like a kids game XD
Derds  - 5 months 22 days ago 
O ya Pokemon:

Pikachu = Peachy
Charmander = Charminger
Bulbasaur = Blabs
Blastoise = Blastoffs
Squirtle = Squirted
Geodude = Goaded
Jigglypuff = Jiggly puff
Ptearodactyl = Pterodactyl's
Riachu = Roach
Wartortle = Wattled
Manaphy = Manage
Uxie = Pixie
Cacnea = Acne
Cacturn = Cajun
Tentacool = Pentacle
Gyratina = Gyrating
cultofbananas  - 5 months 17 days ago 
hahahahaha!!
nice..
vakama719  - 5 months 6 days ago 
funny as stuff
mate)what you doing man?
you)im playing minibikes.NOOO DON'T GRAB THE RADAR!!
mate)what???
and
acne i chose you
Garchomp617  - 4 months 6 days ago 
Any takers for Pokemon names mangled by spell check? Yes please! (Make sure you add what Garchomp turned into.)
doomdude  - 3 months 22 days ago 
dude this is the funniest article i've ever read DUDE THIS IS SOME FUNNY SHT!!!
bmonsterboy  - 3 months 10 days ago 
ROFLMAO those names....
Oh by the way
Garchomp = Carhop
Rayquaza = Aqua
Seviper = Sexier
Kytl  - 2 months 14 days ago 
putting Darkrai in the list is a bit...random,but awesome all the same
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