/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4962349
>t. underage
Nintendo Entertainment System. NES was so common that I actually knew people who didn't even know the real name.

>>4962349
You mean Dendy?

Nine Tendo in mom speak

>>4962390
>call him underage
>explain his exact point/joke back to him

>>4962478
If people knew the word Nintendo, they'd figure out what NES meant.

Nes was just called a Nintendo here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujo5_TjGImU

>>4962349
Just as an aside here, the heart of anyone who downs that many energy drinks should have exploded by like the 4th can.

ACTUAL NAMES FOR SYSTEMS THAT PEOPLE SAID IN THE REAL WORLD
Nintendo (Later called Regular Nintendo)
Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis (sometimes just called 'Sega')
Playstation (Later called PS1)

>>4962575
oh god, the "PSX" brigade is about to come out in full force. it always baffles me because I knew a bunch of kids with PS1s and read that PSM magazine, yet don't have a single memory of anyone ever saying PSX. was it a european thing? literally every official sony marketing material read "playstation," it appears there was a minority of journalists that thought PSX sounded cooler than playstation and so ran with it.

>>4962575
Retard, they're all called Nintendo

>>4962608

>>4962349
This is what it was called when I grew up, by me, and every kid in the neighbourhood for a 50km radius.

>NES
Nintendo
>SNES
Super Nintendo
>PS1
Playstation
>Sega **anything**
Segastation
>Desktop
PC
>Laptop
Portable PC
>PS2
Playstation Two
>Xbox
Sexbox (real mature I know)
>GameBoy Color
Gameboy
>GameBoy Advanced
New Gameboy
>PCs that didnt use Windows 95 or greater but kicked you to dos or 3.1
Computer
>TI-85 Texas Calculator
Calculator
>Walkman
Walkman
>Minidisc
Minidisc
>Floppydisk
hard disk (like hard drive)
>Any small USB player with audiojack you could dump music in
MP3 player
>IPod
Ipod
>Cellphone
phone
>Housephone
phone

cant think of anything more

>>4962607
>saying
That's the thing, no one said it our of loud in my country either but it was definitely a thing in magazines and early internet. Writing PSX felt as natural as writing N64 or SNES.

Who the fuck say acronyms out loud like an autist anyway?

>>4962620
>T1-85
>Not 82 or 83
Found the youngfag

>>4962634
you mean regularly spoken acronyms like PC, or BO, or phD ?

>>4962636
shit you're right, it was 83. I also did get an 85 later though when I went i got to senior year

>>4962608
This. All games on the TV are called Nintendo.

>>4962575
>Nintendo (Later called Regular Nintendo)
This is the truth, and is pretty much how you can tell whether or not someone is underage. The naming convention of "regular Nintendo" was never really documented, but was WIDELY used among kids simply because it retroactively made sense. (If this new one is "Super", the old one must just be "Regular"), much how like once a system is called "2", its predecessor gets stuck with the suffix of "1".

>>4962663
That only happens when the third one comes out. The first one is just named whatever, and the second one is named ___ 2.

>>4962668
People were saying "PS1" from the moment PS2 came out. Even Sony branded the slim version of the PS1 "PSone."

>>4962680
not my people, we called it playstation
sometimes the old playstation, but not playstation one.

>>4962663
We never called it the "regular Nintendo" over in Europe, we never use the word "regular" for the size of something over here. The only time we say "regular" is for doing something often. We say "medium", "regular" is frequency. For the NES we said "original Nintendo" or NES.

>>4962752
Well it isn't as much as "super" being about the size as it was the "power" since the SNES has a smalled profile than the NES it technically couldn't have been about the size. The new nintendo system was "super" powered compared to the "regular" power of the NES.

>>4962775
ffs who cares... size or common, whatever I was thinking about how Americans use the word regular in food, it's used a LOT while in europe we only use it for frequency. Now maybe someone could find some American company using the word "regular" in Europe, I don't know, it's a really American word and very rare we use it for anything other than frequency, you would sound odd saying it.

>>4962784
What country?

>>4962791
Ireland, what happens here also applies to the UK in something like this.

>>4962636
The TI-85 was discontinued before the TI-83.

>>4962663
>>4962575
>Regular Nintendo
This is absolutely the case and I've lost track of how many flea market boomers I've had the following exchange with

>Can I see those/Do you have any NES games?
>What?
>(sigh) Regular Nintendo, can I see the Regular Nintendo games?

>>4962607
It never was a european thing. Everybody said either Play or later PS1. Fucking PSX revisionists are just faggots that appeared a few years ago.

>>4962827
I confirm this except that for some inexplicable monumental retardation I did see it in the odd publication at the time being called "PSX". I specifically remember my friend and I dumbfounded at why it was being called that.

>>4962607
>>4962827
This debate is over and your position has been amply and objectively discredited. I don't even feel compelled to argue it any more.

Somebody want to post that exhaustive image showing literally hundreds of examples for these idiots?

>>4962827
>Everybody said either Play
Who and where?

>>4962861
The gayest parts of Europe

>>4962845
They did it because all the other consoles at the time had 3-letter abbreviations and it made them look more uniform in print. SAT, N64, GBC, PSX, and so on.

>>4962827
>play
This was a thing in Spain but so was PSX. See >>4962634

>>4962923
It goes further than that. During Sony's development, the console was referred to as the PS-X probably in anticipation of any possble legal challenges from Nintendo, "Play Station" having already been announced as the name for the Sony developed SNES-CD. Then, even upon approaching release SoA was resistant to the word "play" which tested unfavorably with their target demo while the letter X meanwhile was absolutely exploding with the X Games, Generation X, Marvel comics five dozen different "X" titles etc. There's an article that was published in Edge magazine that talks about all this stuff. I'd post it but it's on my home tablet.

>>4962607
I've never once in my life heard "PSX" outside of this board, much less irl. I'm convinced that the whole thing is Mandela effect.

>>4963002
No one ever said it aloud, but it was certainly used as a label in magazine and website listings of games.

>>4963012
And online discussions.

>>4962349
What the fuck is Nintendo?

>>4962637
Some acronyms are spoken aloud, others aren't. People said "N-E-S" and "Nes" but I never heard anyone say "SNES" despite the fact that's what everyone used in writing.

It's almost like most abbreviations that are convenient in writing are more awkward when spoke aloud, but some are just more convenient all the time. Imagine that.

>>4962349
My nintendo even even does 16 bits.

>>4962608
nintendos

>>4963002
It was something I remember seeing on a lot of gaming websites and magazines. Just doing a quick search for "IGN PSX 1999" or "Electronic Gaming Monthly PSX" returned a lot of articles with them using the term. I remember the usage picked up a lot more with the PSone came out, and people wanted to differentiate the original Playstation from the new model.

>>4962349
Why does the boomer guy look like a 90 years old turtle?

>>4963145
I don't know, but he always seems happy and usually reflects on the more positive things in life. I wish more anons were boomers.

>>4962349
For some reason, for several years my entire family thought NES was called "Super Nintendo". Mind you, this was in late 90s, so all other kids had Playstation or PCs (I didn't even know that Nintendo 64 was a thing) so noone really bothered to correct me or anything. I wasn't until my late teens when I got into emulation I realized what I playing not only wasn't "Super Nintendo", but also was actually a famiclone (Dendy Jr).

Mind you, this was freshly post-socialist Poland, so market was absolutely flooded with all manner of hardware from behind the iron curtain that was previously unavailible, so it was a bit of chaos all around.

>>4963102
I don't know what bits are, but that sounds pretty rad.

>>4963012
Wasn't there an entire fucking magazine called "PSX Extreme"?

>>4962620
Floppy disk=hard disk
This
I knew a kid who called floppy disks hard disks
One day he was trying to format a floppy disk and formatted the hard disk of my family s computer

>>4962349
also, what is a psx?

>>4963204
When I was younger our first computer messed up really bad and we called the local village computer repair guy. We had Windows 98 so it was bound to happen sooner or later. He looked at it for a while ended up taking the computer (the tower and some cables) and had it for like over a week or something. When we got it back with his price for "fixing" it the only thing he had done is reformat the whole disk and reinstalled windows. Computing in the 90s/early 00s...

>>4962923
If only there were three letters/numbers that would appropriately describe the Playstation 1 right?

>>4963283
H4X

>>4963246
Just a /vr/ meme.

>>4963190
Yes, and they still exist at psxextreme.com

lmao at these kids who don't get it.

Parents used to call everything Nintendo. My Xbox was a Nintendo.

>>4962607
American here. Plenty of my magazines called it PSX.

obligatory

>PSX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSDqSjTO9fs&feature=youtu.be&t=979

>>4963609
I beat you to it so I get all the upvotes and you get downvotes ;)
>>4963605

>Hotly shit it's the NES-001! I saw this shit for thousands on ebay!

>>4962607
>>4962575
>>4962827
>>4962845

>>4963605
>>4963609
Buzz off, I'm gonna go play Nintendo. Whatcha gonna do about it?

>>4963746
Underage b&s BTFO

Do some of you really not get this?

Did Russians use the term PSX? Slavs seem like they would be the ones that would get upset about the term.

>>4962571
He's spent 35 years playing Nintendo and building an incredible caffeine tolerance.

>>4962349
ITT:/v/ retard LARPERS

>>4962571
They're accumulated over multiple days. People are slobs like that.

>>4962607

It was how it was abbreviated before saying "PS1" made sense, because a Playstation 2 had yet to be a thing.

>>4962575
Real answers for non-niggers:
>Famicon
>Suufami
>Piisu obu shitto
>Praystation

>>4962663
I always said "original nintendo"

>that 40yo boomer who still refers to all vidya as Atari

>>4962349

>NES : What the gamers called it

>The Nintendo : What the local/school bully called it when he wanted to insult you.

>>4964942
Only underaged called it NES

>>4964942
See
>>4964968

>>4962349
Unironically. It was a bad AVGN joke, but I remember going through the same shit when the SNES came out:
>"Don't you already have a nintendo, son? Why do you need another one?"
>"No, it's a new one, dad - the SUPER Nintendo!"

>>4962620
>mfw every person I grew up with called
>computer case
processor
>computer display
computer
>modem
MOM TELL HIM I NEED TO MAKE A CALL

>>4965090
kek. Where I grew up, it was:
>Entire desktop setup - tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, peripherals
Computer
>Tower/Case
Hard Drive
>Modem
The Internet

>>4962613
this

>>4962349
>that 31 year old boomer who still owns all of his old games and consoles from the 90s

>>4964896
"Regular Nintendo" is also acceptable.

>>4963083
"What do you mean, Battletoads 2 is not a real game?"

>The Sega

>Nintendo tapes