This morning, our friend and colleague Alisha is off gifting the world with the very latest DS Fanboy: a new consumer with nearly endless need for training, and for whom every control scheme is novel. In other words, a baby infant. We'd like to extend premature (as of writing time) congratulations!The impending baby got us thinking about video games, as we desperately try to make things do. Specifically, game-related baby names. Everyone reading this blog is a huge nerd, and nerds do things like naming things after game characters. What's your hard drive's volume label? What's your cat's name?
We wonder if there's anyone out there bold enough, or disinterested enough in the kid's well-being, to have given their offspring a game character name, or to plan to do so in the future. Any baby Luigis out there? Otacon? Marth? Diddy? Agent Chieftain? Lolo? Phoenix? How about a Samus? Zangief? Vic Viper? Pyramid Head? Gas-O? Corn? Waiter Skeleton? Heat Man? Two-P?
Somebody please name a kid Zangief.
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2-08-2008 @ 1:16PM
Opus said...
I wouldn't do that to a kid, but my dog is named Samus.
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2-08-2008 @ 1:26PM
Henley said...
well i dont have any kids but i would name them after myself.. in a jobs case it would be DJ, yeah thats awesome... i have a dog wouldnt name it after a game character but i did call him esky.
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2-08-2008 @ 1:55PM
samorama said...
My pug is named Zelda. It suits her.
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2-08-2008 @ 2:09PM
devitek said...
Ok, here goes. My wife's cat was named Lulu (FFX). My 2nd daughter's middle name is Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion). My 3rd daughter is named Evelyn Violet, but I just call her Vivi (FF9). I've got a computer named Paramina (FFXII), Kakariko (Zelda), Apshai (do your own homework there), Rabanastre (FFXII), and Luca (FFX). I've also got a wireless network named Bevelle (FFX). I'm sure there's more, but that's all that comes to mind.
Am I obsessed?
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2-08-2008 @ 2:56PM
MonoDiabloLoco said...
I would never do that to a child. Normal-ish names MAYBE. Like the one above named Sid. That's OK. But Squall? Really? Enroll your child into self defence early.
You may as well name them PleaseIwanttohavementalissuesandbebeatupalot Smith.
I am not against unusual names. Some are pretty neat, but to choose a video game hero over a real life hero is pretty F-ed up.
Teacher: So, Martin, who were you named after?
Martin: Martin Luther King Jr.
Teacher: A wonderful person to live up to!
Teacher: How about you, Squall?
Squall: A video game character...
Teacher: So you parent's hated you before you were born?
Squall: *sob*
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2-08-2008 @ 2:58PM
Kiley said...
Many congratulations Alisha! Don't keep us in suspense, is it a girl or a boy :)
Erm, I'm not that big enough a game nerd to name people/things after game characters. Although I am a big enough comic nerd to do so (my car's named Gar after Beast Boy, cos it's green). However I'm waiting for the day I adopt a kitty and name it Shingo, so I can wrap a little white headband around its head and take pictures of it with a notepad. But I doubt anyone would get that KOF reference :(
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2-08-2008 @ 3:32PM
igorponweed said...
Shiguru! And Opus, did you work at Shakesphere theatre company?
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2-08-2008 @ 6:09PM
Eleniel said...
Congrats Alisha!!
Not game-related, but still nerdy, my cat is named Trip, after the Enterprise's chief engineer. His middle name is Greebo, though.
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2-08-2008 @ 6:12PM
tonedef said...
I have an acquaintance who named his cat "PlayStation 2." That cat's about 6 now.
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2-08-2008 @ 6:40PM
Donald said...
One of my cats is named after a FF6 protagonist (Shadow).
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2-08-2008 @ 9:55PM
RootiePatootie said...
Mucho congrats Alisha! Hope you and the baby fair well and no problems.
No kiddies of our own and there won't be but I'd never name my child anything oddball or a name that would be readily recognizable from a game, book or tv show/movie. Pets, that's different. Our first two cats, one who is gone now :( were named after characters from a set of German children stories (Max und Moritz). Our others were named what we felt fit them. Max and Moritz, funny enough, quite resembled their book characters in their behavior! My characters in games, especially in MMOs, usually come from books I've read and not necessarily of the same genre as the games. I don't read much fantasy yet my EQ2 chars, obviously fantasy, have names that come from non-fantasy books I've enjoyed, sci-fi mostly but one is from a sort of sci-fi/fantasy/romance kind of novels (Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series).
I know someone though who named their boy after a character from a movie, I think (maybe it was tv) and the poor kid's name is Bo Stringfield or Stringman can't remember which but I thought it was really awful of the parents to do that. Kids can be very mean..and although my first name was not and is not common at least it couldn't be picked on. My parents told us they tried hard to pick unique but easy going names. Thank god!
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2-08-2008 @ 9:58PM
RootiePatootie said...
Well, the boy's last name was left off because I put it in brackets..and it wasn't his real last name...I just put LASTNAME in brackets. So the boy's name is Bo String...whatever.... LASTNAME *and* his Dad often called him in front of his friends even, the full shot. Of course, his Dad was/is a bit wacked IMO.
2-09-2008 @ 10:51AM
Lord Bo said...
There's a guy who always seems to be at a Gamestop near my house. I started talking with him one day. He has twin daughters who are named Halo and Cortana. He also has newborn son named Riddick. Seriously. He introduced me to his daughters right before he left.
The girl working behind the counter just sighed and said, "He comes in here all the time..." Her voice seemed very sad.
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2-09-2008 @ 7:17PM
BlackDS said...
Congratulations Alisha for getting a baby and NOT "Babyz". :)
Hopefully, they gave you tons of narcotics and you were spared most of the pain of child birth.
Peace.
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