Archive for July, 2007
What’s in a Name?
July 17th, 2007If you’ve played any amount of video games in your lifetime, you probably know first-hand that some of them have some pretty weird titles, especially the old ones. Which got me to thinking: “I wonder if there’s any pattern to it?” That is, are there any interesting patterns in old video game names?
I collected data for six (mostly older) systems. They are:
- Gameboy and Gameboy Color (GB)
- Gameboy Advance (GBA)
- Genesis
- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
- Turbo Graphix 16 (TG16)
This is what I found:
System
Title Count
Words (avg)
Words (median)
Words (max)
Std Dev
GBA
404
3.69
3
11
1.64
SNES
733
3.24
3
9
1.70
GB
846
3.21
3
10
1.63
Genesis
437
3.19
3
9
1.69
NES
733
2.81
2
9
1.58
TG16
97
2.40
2
8
1.36
Total …
