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The Top 7... Mispronounced game names

The most horribly mangled titles in videogame history

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US

Magic of Scheherazade

Correct pronunciation: "Sha-hair-uh-zod"
Incorrect pronunciations: Where to even begin?

Wow. Compared to this gem, the titles on the rest of the list practically roll off your tongue. Is it German? Spanish? Arabic? Klingon? A badly translated combination of all four?

In reality, Scheherazade was the name of the princess and narrator in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, from which this 1989 NES game is clearly trying to steal some allure and mysticism. A plan which kinda backfires when the customer can't even read the word on the front of the box. Seriously, take a look - they had to reprint it in bold red lettering just to make it legible.

Besides, no videogame princess should sound like a type of sausage.

Above: We reckon the font and letters guy got fired


 
43 Comments
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reerGssoR  - 1 year 3 months ago 
haha Pokuhmoon
nice
Black_X_1111  - 1 year 3 months ago 
Its po-po-lo-croi
the s is silent, thats all
wertyboy  - 1 year 3 months ago 
hey, dont forget about ninja gaiden, im sick of people calling it gayden, its guyden dammit!
sektor187  - 1 year 3 months ago 
pokey-man
HypherionWing  - 1 year 3 months ago 
PuhkuhMayne
theworldonfire  - 1 year 2 months ago 
ninja gaiden!
Trapped_In_Hiskool  - 1 year 1 month ago 
My mom is constantly calling them pokemans. ITS NOT ENGLISH MOM!
thephntm  - 1 year 1 month ago 
TY the Tasmanian Tiger. People say, "Ooh, it's capitalized! So it's pronounced 'Tee-Why'"!
Gatastrophe  - 1 year 9 days ago 
My uncle called popolocrois "poop lacrosse"
afrosamurai3838  - 1 year 8 days ago 
i just ejactulated
TrippyMan  - 11 months 27 days ago 
Schereherazade... there's an NPC called that in a desert area of this one MMO and I always thought it was "Sch-er-ehe-raz-aid"
pyro9393  - 11 months 26 days ago 
god damn japanese and there complicated language
foarthelulz  - 11 months 26 days ago 
u guys forgot mario and how some ppl pronounce it w/ a short a
riodoku79  - 11 months 25 days ago 
umm..foarthelulz...it IS pronounced with a short a...
ultimate_asswoopin  - 11 months 22 days ago 
how about shaw-ha-razaw-dee
KaylaKaze  - 11 months 18 days ago 
I'm pretty sure it was pronounced "fax zanna dew" on Captain N and the Game Masters, which I'm pretty sure was officially licensed by Nintendo.
AA95mp  - 11 months 16 hours ago 
xanadu was also a song done by the elo
AA95mp  - 11 months 16 hours ago 
DAY OF SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
deathrebellion  - 10 months 18 days ago 
Ys????
if they wanted to pronounce it Ease couldn't they just right that....... man i think mispronouncing is becoming a style all by itself..
Well who cares as long as we get something more to laugh at :-)))
deathrebellion  - 10 months 18 days ago 
i willingly wrote 'write' as 'right'
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