Same name, completely different game

Fight Night | PS3, 360 | 2009

The new Fight Night: Realistically rendered real-life boxers trying to inflict serious phys🧸ical harm on their opponent by repeatedly striking them about the head and body with their fists.

Fight Night | Atari 7800, C64, PC | 1986

The old Fight Night: Typica🎉lly clichéd ca♋rtoon boxers trying to inflict serious physical harm on their opponent by repeatedly striking them about the head and body with their fists.

Mafia | PC | 2002

The new Mafia: A lowly Joe Schmoe down-and-out nobody squirt-stain discovers a proficiency for thuggery and subsequently finds himself propel♏led upwards in the dangerous world of organised crime. The action takes place against the backdrop of a huge, open-world Chicago-inspired city.

Mafia | C64 | 1986

The old Mafia: Is pre▨dictably pretty much the same in principle as the new Mafia. Graphically, though, it looks like a drying puddle of Saturdඣay morning pavement sick.

Overlord | PC, 360 | 2007

The new Overlord: Giveജs you an army of mul✱ti-coloured, post-feeding-after-midnight gremlins to take control of as you stomp about the land not laughing at ESRB-rated 'crude humour' and trying your best to be a right proper evil no-good bastard.

Overlord | PC | 1990

The old Overlord: Some strategy game about space and colonies and star systems. Looks a bit boring. But we've never played it. So in all honesty that observation is based purely on the strength of us looking at a couple of screenshots. Which is a bit unfair. Although we are pretty sure it haꦉs nothing to do with evil gremlins.

Portal | PC | 2007

The new Portal: Brain-shaggin▨g manipulation🎐 of three-dimensional space. For cake.

Portal | C64, PC | 1986

The old Portal: Described as a 'com✅puter novel'. Sounds rubbish. If we were interested in reading in 1986 we would have bought some books. Not a bloody Commodore 64. We'll take brain-shagging any day of the week thanks all the same though.

Prototype | PC, PS3, 360 | 2009

The new Prototype: Man in hood goes on rampage in Manhattan. Has to fight monsters and the military and a virus. Sounds pretty tough, but he has all this black goo stuff which lets him turn his arms into giant spikes and other things suitable for slicing enemꦰies in half.

Proto Type | PC | 1989

The old Proto Type: For learning how to touch type.

October 9, 2009


We reveal games' secret meanings




Cringe as spell check mauls your favorite games




All longer than Super Street Fighter💃 II Turbo HD Remix

I don't have the energy to really hate anything properly. Most things I think are OK or inoffensively average. I do love quite a lot of stuff as well, though.