{"id":1438300,"date":"2025-12-25T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zGbbjgnPfnyeYLdbNjHGuP"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:45:14","slug":"i-plugged-12-game-names-into-google-translate-and-kept-hitting-go-how-many-can-you-guess-the-original-title-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-plugged-12-game-names-into-google-translate-and-kept-hitting-go-how-many-can-you-guess-the-original-title-of\/","title":{"rendered":"I plugged 12 game names into Google Translate and kept hitting go\u2014how many can you guess the original title of?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes<\/a>, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I think one of my favourite things\u2014just, generally\u2014are the old Soviet film posters for Star Wars<\/a>. There’s something fascinating about taking an artefact you’re intensely familiar with and filtering it through the lens of a different culture, philosophy, and language.<\/p>\n

The same, I must presume, applies to videogame names. Or at least, that’s the gossamer-thin justification I concocted to take 12 game names, filter them through 25 layers of Google Translate, and turn the results into a quiz.<\/p>\n

I’ve taken the (English) names of 12 reasonably well-known videogames and plugged them into machine translation. Then I did it again. Then again. And again. And again. From English, through Yiddish, Punjabi, Mandarin, Yoruba\u2026 on and on it went, until the final translation\u2014back into English\u2014returned something that really bears very little resemblance to the game’s original name at all. Your task, should you choose to, uh, scroll down some more, is to figure out what the original game in question was.<\/p>\n

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