Naturally, tropes aren't just limited to television and literature. You'll encounter some ideas that started from video games. That's right...trope naming has gone digital (or analog, if you prefer).
Lists
Games
- Angband
- Random Number God (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.angband)
- Castlevania
- Chaos Architecture
- Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Metroid)
Crash Bandicoot
Dark Souls
- Dissidia Final Fantasy
- Power of the Void (cross-reference to Final Fantasy V)
- Trap Master
- Dragon Quest
- But Thou Must!
- Cute Slime Mook
- Legacy Boss Battle (Dragon Quest IX)
- Metal Slime
- Earthworm Jim
- Level Ate (Earthworm Jim 2)
- Planet Heck
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy
- Black Mage
- Black Magician Girl (cross-reference to Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Peninsula of Power Leveling
- The Red Mage
- Welcome to Corneria (named for a town, though it's actually a line from 8-Bit Theater)
- White Mage
- White Magician Girl (cross-reference to Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Black Mage
- Final Fantasy III
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy V
- Power of the Void (cross-reference to Dissidia Final Fantasy)
- Spell Blade
- Final Fantasy VI
- Laughing Mad (Reference to Kefka's Theme, "Dancing Mad")
- Magitek
- Sprint Shoes
- Final Fantasy VII
- Aerith and Bob
- The Lifestream
- Limit Break
- One-Winged Angel (named for Sephiroth's Final Boss song in VII)
- Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
- Wutai
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy XI
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Fire Emblem
- Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros." (cross-reference to Super Smash Bros.)
- Secret Shop
- Freedom Force
- Right Makes Might (one of Minuteman's catch phrases)
- Genji
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Giant Enemy Crab
- Real-Time Weapon Change
- This Index Hits for Massive Damage (all from the same E3 conference presentation-turned-Internet meme)
- Grand Theft Auto
- Hot Coffee Minigame (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, after the infamous Dummied Out section)
- Vengeance Feels Empty (Grand Theft Auto IV)
- Vice City (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
- Half-Life
- How Do I Shot Web? (either from the Natural Selection mod or the Something Awful forums)
- Lighthouse Point
- No OSHA Compliance (an achievement in Half-Life 2)
- Right Man in the Wrong Place
- Kirby
- Ability Mixing (Kirby's Adventure, but proper use of the trope started with Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards)
- American Kirby Is Hardcore
- Fountain of Memes (Kirby's Adventure, via pun on Fountain of Dreams)
- The Legend of Zelda
- Americans Hate Tingle
- Dark World (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
- Death Mountain
- Heart Container
- Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword (Named after Medigoron's Giant's Knife in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
- Hijacked by Ganon (fandom term)
- I Fight for the Strongest Side! (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
- The Lost Woods
- Spin Attack (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
- Sunken City (The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons)
- Urban Legend of Zelda
- Madden NFL
- I Know Madden Kombat (partial; other half comes from Mortal Kombat)
- MARDEK
- Actually Four Mooks (Originally titled "Actually Four Blokes")
- Metroid
- Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Castlevania)
- Noob Bridge (fandom term)
- Samus Is a Girl
- Sequence Breaking
- Myst
- Beautiful Void (Douglas Adams' description of the game)
- Zip Mode (a movement feature in the game)
- NetHack
- Yet Another Stupid Death (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- Neverwinter Nights
- Magic Missile Storm, in conjunction with the spell magic missile from D&D
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
- Pinball
- Pinball Tropes (Trope Namer for essentially everything in this index)
- Pokémon (examples originating from the anime should go in the Anime & Manga page)
- Brick Break (Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire)
- Bug Buzz (Pokémon Diamond and Pearl)
- Bullet Seed (Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire)
- Ditto Fighter
- Elite Four
- Escape Rope
- Gotta Catch Them All
- Horn Attack
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action (fandom term, coined by GameFAQs)
- Magikarp Power
- Mon (came up with this specific diminutive for "monster" even if it didn't invent the genre proper, with Digimon and Monster Rancher helping cement the term).
- My Name Is ??? (Pokémon Gold and Silver)
- Phonýmon
- Rare Candy
- Razor Wind
- Single-Palette Town (a pun on the home city from the first-generation games)
- A Wild Rapper Appears! (based on "A Wild X Appears/Appeared!", Pokèmon's trademark Random Encounter line)
- Portal
- The Cake Is a Lie
- Companion Cube
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
- Thinking Up Portals (a play on the tagline, "thinking with portals")
- Pro Wrestling
- A Winner Is You
- A Troper Is You (on virtue of everything in this index being named after the above line)
- A Winner Is You
- Punch-Out!!
- Hero Stole My Bike (while named for a meme, said meme came from this game's Training Montage)
- Vodka Drunkenski
- Resident Evil
- Master of Unlocking
- President Evil (cross-reference with a parody featured in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
- Survival Horror
- Rhythm Heaven
- Megamix Game (Rhythm Heaven Megamix)
- Rock Band
- Big Rock Ending
- Bladder of Steel (achievement from the second game)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Bad Future (Sonic the Hedgehog CD)
- Casino Park (Sonic Heroes)
- Eternal Engine (Sonic Adventure 2)
- Green Hill Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Mascot with Attitude
- Palmtree Panic (Sonic the Hedgehog CD)
- Studiopolis (Sonic Mania)
- Ultimate Lifeform (Sonic Adventure 2)
- Spyro the Dragon
- Wing Shield (Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, but has greater uses in Spyro: A Hero's Tail)
- Star Fox
- Do a Barrel Roll (Star Fox 64. Provided by Peppy Hare)
- Go for the Eye (Star Fox 64. Again provided by Peppy Hare)
- Street Fighter
- Cherry Tapping (fandom term)
- Hurricane Kick
- Kamehame Hadoken (cross-reference to Dragon Ball)
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen (Dudley's entrance quote from Street Fighter III)
- Shoryuken
- Shotoclone (fandom term)
- Super Mario Bros. (includes Wario and Yoshi's Island sub-series)
- 1-Up
- Big Boo's Haunt (Super Mario 64)
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch (Super Paper Mario, inspired by a certain in-game linenote )
- Faceship (Super Mario Galaxy 2)
- Go-Karting with Bowser (Mario Kart)
- The Goomba
- Ground Pound (Yoshi's Island)
- He Knows About Timed Hits (Super Mario RPG)
- Invisible Block (Paper Marionote )
- Item Get! (Super Mario Sunshine)
- Lethal Lava Land (Super Mario 64)
- Macro Zone (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)
- Magic Mushroom (Super Mario Bros. manual)
- Minus World
- One-Mario Limit
- Pinball Zone (Wario Land 4)
- Pipe Maze (Super Mario Bros. 3)
- Poison Mushroom (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)
- Shifting Sand Land (Super Mario 64}
- Space Zone (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)
- Sphere Factor (Mario Party 7)
- The Spiny
- Time Keeps On Ticking (Yoshi's Island DS)
- Toy Time (Super Mario Galaxy)
- Warp Whistle (Super Mario Bros. 3)
- Warp Zone
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing (Mario Party, from a popular series of videos featuring Luigi)
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
- Super Robot Wars
- How Unscientific!
- Original Generation
- Real Robot Genre
- Super Robot Genre (technically, as Mazinger Z merely defined the archetype)
- Team Fortress 2
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
- Shoot the Medic First (cross-reference with Penny Arcade)
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Skate Heaven Is a Place on Earth (cross-reference to the Belinda Carlisle song "Heaven is a Place on Earth")
- Zero Wing
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- For Great Justice
- Intentional Engrish for Funny (all but this one are from the same meme/opening scene)
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
- War Was Beginning
- You Have No Chance to Survive
- Zork
- The Taming of the Grue (Cross reference with The Taming of the Shrew)
