Good game puns

In honor of my literally this minute getting the joke of Mario RPG’s Knife Guy and Grate Guy, what in-game wordplay still makes you chuckle (possibly in spite of yourself)?

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well I just sat and thought about it and am now in the club of getting knife guy and crate guy

pencil eraser from earthbound

isabelle, sow joans stalk market from animal crossing. also every single fish pun

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Not really a pun, but given any opportunity, I always call Shia LaBeouf “Shinra Bidoof”

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I love that the designer for Tails was so insistent that his name should be Miles Prower, he was so proud of his great pun, that the higher-ups at SEGA were like “siiiiighh fine let’s compromise”. whatever they offered him to make his best-known name “Tails” instead of “Miles”, it was too little.

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the recent Dragon Quest localizations are full of good puns but the all time champs of those puns are the tank titles in Rocket Slime

https://www.woodus.com/den/games/slimedq2/tanks_titles.php

the first time i saw CHRONO TWIGGER i laughed for like a week

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Life is Strange had an occasional gem in the faux NorCal hipster writing.

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Oh wow, those are really good.

is amazing

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The towerfights in that game basically own

I always though the title of Lumino City was cute

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oh shit how could I forget

PC-Genjin is the greatest videogame pun name of all time

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