Many older video games have limits to how many letters can be provided in text entries. This can lead to a character's name shortened to fit into the allotted space. Sometimes an entirely new name is made for the character, other times letters are dropped from the name to make it fit. This can be quite prevalent in games translated from Japanese--after all, in the Japanese alphabet, a single character can represent an entire syllable which would need two or three letters in the Latin alphabet.