• Bad Game Translation Hall of Fame

  Let's take a look at the best of the worst English game translations of all time!

• Tricky Translations #1: Maou & Daimaou

  These two simple words are tricky to translate. Here's why, and how they've been translated since the 1980s!

• How Nintendo Recently Changed Zelda 1 Even More

  Nintendo has been quietly altering The Legend of Zelda for 30 years. Here's a look at the latest changes.

• How They Translated Bubsy into Japanese

  How were all those English cat puns, jokes, and movie references handled in the Japanese translation?

• How the “Metal Gear” Name Is Explained in Japanese

  A scene in Metal Gear Solid 3 explains the meaning of the iconic name, but does it make more sense in Japanese?

• How to Pronounce Ryu’s Name

  How do you pronounce Ryu's name? The question has baffled gamers around the world for decades.

• Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment

  I Google-Translated an entire video game one day. The results were so surprising that I even wrote a book about it!

• Is This Pokémon Couple as Suggestive in Japanese?

  This lovey-dovey couple has an "interesting" Pokémon combination. Was it the same way in Japanese?

• The Bananas in Final Fantasy Legend II Are Actually Drugs

  This is a classic example of the type of content changes that Nintendo forced back in the 1990s.

• What Do Japanese Fans Think of the CD-i Zelda Games?

  These two Zelda games were never released in Japan. So do Japanese fans consider them holy grails?

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