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[vdub_bobby]

"Fishies"

Has a nice ring, doesn't it! No? Okay - well I guess I didn't think so either - you got a better one?

Here's the deal: I need a name for my forthcoming 2600 homebrew game, and I want you to come up with it. Yes, this is the Name That Game Contest!

Here's how it works: post your brilliant suggestion(s) for the name for the game in this thread and, if I pick yours, you win my enduring gratitude. Not enough motivation? Well, how about this:

AtariAge has graciously offered to give a free copy of the upcoming game, with manual, to the winner! How cool is that! Pretty cool, unless you hate the game or something, you jerk. :P
Plus, you will get credit in the manual and the name you so ingeniously thought up will of course appear on the cartridge and manual and probably appear on the title screen in the game if I can swing it.

All this could be yours! All you gotta do is come up with something good and post it here.

Fine Print: In the case of duplicates, the first to post the winning title will be the winner. I will probably not choose a name that obviously references a movie/book/other video game. Who knows, though? It doesn't hurt to submit names like that, one might strike my fancy. I am going to say that my family members are not eligible to win. Sorry Tommy. Sorry Joe.

Please keep other, unrelated discussion of the game in it's thread in the Homebrews forum.

Thanks!

-bob

[Lost Monkey]

Call me Fishmeal

Fish Eating Fish

Survival of the Fishest

Survival of the Fishes

[vdub_bobby]

These names were previously submitted in the game's thread in the homebrews forum so, in order to give those guys credit for coming up with these first, here they are:

Gateway:
Swimmin' with the Fishes

Rob Mitchell:
Fish Tank
Fish Tank Plus (Sears Version!)
Swim for your life!
Survival of the Fishes
Nibbles the Fish!
Swimming Survival
Fishy Soup
Eat or be Eaten!
Aquatic Food Chain
Aquarium Challenge
Oceanic Food Chain
Oceanic Challenge
Under the Sea
Fishy Food
Fishes for Brains
Herring Helper
Fish Bone Soup
Fish Fry
Fried Fish
Fish Gulp!
Bikini Bottom Feast!
Fish Feast!

Thomas Jentzsch:
Fish! Fish! Fish!
Too much fish
The winner eats them all
Eat or die
Gorge!
Big is beautiful
Fishing for life
A fish's life
Fish Mac

Nathan Strum:
Finding Nemo (copyright infringement version)
Eating Nemo (just asking for trouble version)
Fishing Derby II: Fishies' Revenge (Activision cease and desist version)
Ichthyology Gran Prix
Texas Goldfish Massacre
Fish 'n' Chips - hold the Chips
Lockjaw II (which would be immediately withdrawn, and renamed "Shark Attack II")
Even Funkier Fish
Under-Sea Battle
Die, Fish, Die!
Omega 3 (bonus points if you figure this one out)
Turbo (nothing to do with fish, but it would sell to collectors)
Swordquest: Fishworld
Dolphin-Safe Tuna
Cannibal Fish
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
Codbat
Target Fin
Herring Cannonball
Stellar Trout
Sturgeon's Apprentice
Guppy 500
Puffer Position
Troutlaw
Salmon Bomber
Kung Fugu Master
Snapper Command
Tomcatfish: The F-14 Fish Simulator

retrocon:
Feeding Frenzy
Fishtank Antics
What's Eating Nemo?
Fish Food

Emehr:
Fishtastic
Fishtactic

~llama:
Scarfing Nemo

I think that's it. -bob

[Thomas Jentzsch]

- Supersize me!
- Fish dish
- I, Fish
- World according to fish
- A fish called Fish
- Draft of fish
- Survival of the fishiest
- Fish! Fish! Fish! (aka Too much fish )
- The winner eats them all
- Eat or die
- Gorge!
- Big is beautiful
- Fishing for life
- A fish's life
- Fish Mac
- ...

[vdub_bobby]

Oh, sheesh! I forgot something rather important:

This contest will close at approximately this time in one week. That is, no further submissions will be considered after 1:00 pm Pacific Time (i.e., in Seattle) Wednesday, March 2 2005.

[Lost Monkey]

So.. strike 2 of my entries... Rob Mitchell had "Survival of the Fishes" first... I'll retract "fishest" as well...

How 'bout:

Gulpin Guppies


instead...

[neotokeo2001]

A lot of my first thoughts have already been posted. Sorry if I repeat any.

Sea of Life
Go Fish!
Fish Tale
Life Cycle
Small Fry
Big Tuna
Shark Run
Fish Run
Canabalistic Fish
Fish Fight

[neotokeo2001]

Food Chain
Always a Bigger Fish

[Nathan Strum]

Here are a few more:

- Ghoti ("gh" from "laugh", "o" from "women", "ti" from "action"... put it together and it spells "fish")
- F***! (That would be "Fish" of course. )
- 13
- Fiz-nish
- It's Offishial!
- Fishaster
- Feed or Float
- Jump the Shark
- Feed 'em and Eat 'em
- China Findrome
- Quest for Fintana Roo

I'll quit while I'm behind.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Lost Monkey said:

So.. strike 2 of my entries... Rob Mitchell had "Survival of the Fishes" first... I'll retract "fishest" as well...

Same here.

[Lost Monkey]

Aqua-Holiday Turned Aqua-Holocaust (too unpleasant? )

[Lost Monkey]

Incident at the Aquarium

[Rocko]

Piranha Panic
Fish!: The Final Frontier
Barracuda Blitzkrieg!
The Tail of Two Guppies

[Lost Monkey]

Grow Fish

(okay I'm done for a while...)

[128bytes]

Here are my incredibly fantastic submissions :

[size=18]Grow Fish! A take on the card game Go Fish!, and it nicely summarizes the game in two words. The exclamation point at the end is a nice little homage to Shark! Shark!

[size=18]Gulp! In the grand tradition of one word Atari games with exclamation points at the end of them (like Kaboom! or Oink!).

[size=18]Eat 'Em to Beat 'Em Hey, it's true -- that's what you've gotta do! NE146 would be a guaranteed customer!

[size=18]Ocean Motion A very classy title that is also catchy.

I hope you like them, vdub_bobby.

BTW, I also like Lost Monkey's [size=18]Survival of the Fishest (a slight improvement in my opinion over Rob Mitchell's "Survival of the Fishes" and Thomas Jentzsch's "Survival of the Fishiest" because it sounds more like "survival of the fittest")

[128bytes]

Wow, Lost Monkey -- great minds think alike! You posted that right as I was posting it too.

I hereby give credit to Grow Fish! over to Lost Monkey.

[jeepnut24]

Fishy Business
Open Water
Fish vs. Fish
Fishmaster
Pool Shark
Battle at the bottom of the sea
Fin Attack
Finius Maximus
Toxic Tuna
Baraccuda Battle
Baked Baraccuda
Whales and Guppies

[Lost Monkey]

128bytes said:

Wow, Lost Monkey -- great minds think alike!  You posted that right as I was posting it too.

I hereby give credit to Grow Fish! over to Lost Monkey.

Thanks.. I realize you probably would've gotten it in before me if you hadn't been commenting on the "Fishes, Fishest, Fishiest" suggestion...

[128bytes]

Lost Monkey said:

128bytes said:

Wow, Lost Monkey -- great minds think alike!  You posted that right as I was posting it too.

I hereby give credit to Grow Fish! over to Lost Monkey.

Thanks.. I realize you probably would've gotten it in before me if you hadn't been commenting on the "Fishes, Fishest, Fishiest" suggestion...

Yeah, I was prettying my post up instead of being "e-fish-ent" (it's ok to groan)

[Lost Monkey]

128bytes said:

Yeah, I was prettying my post up instead of being "e-fish-ent" (it's ok to groan)

Are you going to use that?

E-fish-ent

[neotokeo2001]

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[Nathan Strum]

How about...

- Eat 'em or Feed 'em (yet another variation on that title)
- Tails From the Deep
- 20,000 Fish Under the Sea
- Somethin' Fishy's Goin' On
- Name This Game, Too!
- Bubbly: The Cute Li'l Fish with the Big Eating Disorder
- S.C.A.R.F. 'E.M. (Sea Creature Attacks Random Fish, Eating Many)
- Seafood Diet (I see food and I eat it )
- All You Can Eat
- 13 Piece Fish Special
- Try The Fish, It's Delish!
- Pass the Tartar Sauce
(okay... now I'm really getting hungry for Fish 'n' Chips)
- School Cafeteria
- School Lunch
- Death in the Shallows
- Eel Be Home for Christmas
- It Must be Jellyfish 'Cause Jamfish Don't Shake Like That

[Nathan Strum]

I really like "Go Fish!" - short, simple, descriptive, and it already has instant name recognition. That would have my vote.

If I had a vote.

[vdub_bobby]

Nathan Strum said:

I really like "Go Fish!" - short, simple, descriptive, and it already has instant name recognition. That would have my vote.

If I had a vote. :roll:

Pshaw! YOU don't have a vote! :D

It is nice...but so are many of the others posted so far. I'll withhold judgement for now.

Nice cart art too, neotokeo; a label contest is also forthcoming - but gotta have a name first!

[neotokeo2001]

vdub_bobby said:

Nice cart art too, neotokeo; a label contest is also forthcoming - but gotta have a name first!

I won't be entering into any label contest. There are too many real artist around these days. I just wanted to see what it would look like.