Stop calling your NES a Nintendo.
Shut up, Nigger
>>12090934There's no such thing as a Nintendo, but there is such thing as a Sega Master System.
>>12090934even back then Nigtendo were pissy about copyright. what a bunch of cunts
>>12090934>You see, "Nintendo" is an adjectivewhat did they mean by this?
>>12090934Where was this originally printed?
>>12091069It's a non ESL thing, you wouldn't understand.
It's so fucking weird reading old stuff when people would still say they "xeroxed" something instead of photocopied.>[Deleted]
>>12090934>>12091069Back in the day people, espescially parents, would call any videogame system “a nintendo” even if it was an atari or whatever. That’s what the ad is talking about.You guys must be too young to remember.
>my name is nintendo entertainment system family computer 8-bit home video game console>now you can call me nintendo entertainment system>or you can call me nes>or you can call me nintendo nes>or you can call me nintendo nes control deck>or you can call me famicom>or you can call me nintendo famicom>or you can call me nintendo family computer>or you can call me family computer video game console>but ya doesn't have to call me nintendo
>>12091349I think it was part of the documentation they’d send to retailers. Here’s an entire video showing what retailers in 1994 would get. https://youtu.be/gHFCsWL8ekE?si=SaJ6uWH-HxPJyiqf
>>12091008They tried very, very hard to get game rentals shut down in the late 80s-early 90s too. Then a couple years later they were deepthroating the politicians going after violent vidya by playing up their family friendly image and pointing fingers at Sega and other companies, hoping it would hurt them. They've always been an abhorrent company.
>>12091446Nobody will get that reference boomer.
>>12091550It’s Groucho Marx, idiot.
>>12091430every game is zelda according to my mom.
>>12090934It was never called the Nintendo Entertainment System, it was the Nintendo System.
>>12091550>t. hasn't seen king of the hill
>>12091650no it's the nintendo entertainment system, your parents help you hook it up. legend of zelda sold separately
>>12091550He was referenced in a recent-ish episode of Futurama.>>12091569o u
>>12091650You cheeky cunt
True. We all called it the Nintendo Master System back then anyway.
>>12090934Nintendo Eats Shit
it's called a regular nintendo
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>>12090934It's a Family Computer, not a fucking Famicom, you dumb ass Japs.
>>12091008MR NINTENDO GET DOWN!
>>12091430>You kids must be too young to remember when I beat Polybius on my atari 1300 in 10kBC and was awarded to NWC cart and the "mostest coolest dude who totally has pubes" award.
>>12090934Ness
>>12091569i thought it was scat man
>>12091430You must be too young, because parents called everything an "Atari", it was kids that used "Nintendo" interchangeably, referring to either an NES, a SNES, an N64, and even later, the Gamecube. It's all just Nintendo.I've never heard an adult refer to gaming systems as "a Nintendo".
>>12092107Haha metoo.
>>12091613>Playing Final FantasyThis looks just like Zelda!>Playing Age of EmpiresThis looks just like Zelda!>Playing QuakeZelda!>Get Riven: Sequel to Myst for ChristmasI thought this game looked kind of like Zelda which I know you like>In college>Make a video game for a school project>It's literally just a mod for Half-Life with its own series of maps, custom weapons, and new enemiesWow anon, now you're making your own Zeldas!
>>12090934it's a cereal wow
Make me.
>>12092117NTA, but I was born in 1989 and my parents and their families never had Atari. The NES was the first video game console they ever had and everyone called it a Nintendo, even my aunts, uncles, and grandparents. Everyone in my family continued to use "Nintendo" as a stand-in for any console game for decades after. It ended up resulting in some weird-sounding exchanges when we owned both a PlayStation and an Xbox, like:>I'm going to go play Nintendo.>Which one? >The Xbox.Or:>Anon is playing Nintendo on the PlayStation.
>>12090934
>>12091371it’s not that weirdit’s not any weirder than saying “put a Band-Aid” on it
And then they went and called their future consoles Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64.
>>12092878But people still do that instead of it spontaneously falling out of the lexicon.
>>12092893Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemNintendo 64 Entertainment SystemNintendo Cube Entertainment SystemNintendo Wii Entertainment System
>>12090934It was called the Nintendo because in 1985 it was the only "Nintendo" people knew of.
>>12091996mi negro
>>12091681>your parents help you hook it upIt felt like such a massive achievement when I was finally able to hook my Nintendo up for the first time
>>12092873giv madcatz milf gf
>>12091996la de ese
>>12092968pressing the power button on the first couple times was an achievement for me. then after maybe a year, i figured the red and yellow jacks went there and there, and the tv ports are here...and bam, i could take my nes anywhere on trips in hotels, other kids' houses if they didn't own games, etc. very memorable times. go on a trip to my cunt grandma's house? your tv is now my game, bitch, whether you like it or not!
>>12093016>your tv is now my game, bitch, whether you like it or not!I'm just imagining your grandma curled up crying and protesting in a dark corner while you play Nintendo with a sadistic grin.
>>12092968>hooking up to the living room TV without permissiongood times
my consoles are The Nintendo and The Sega System
>>12090934The context for this is that in the land of the free, if a product name becomes a common word the company risks losing all the rights to that product's name and everybody would be free to use it, unless said company proves that it fought to retain its rights. They don't care that soccer moms call everything a Nintendo, on the contrary that's free advertising, this ad isn't for them, it's for the courts.Such is the law in the land of the free.
>You see, "Nintendo" is an adjective, not a noun.>signed, Nintendo
>>12090934>Yeah nerds, it's called a Nintendon't! Woo! Sega forever! To the extreme!
>>12091996>no 'la famili'
>>12091509I guess that makes sense in that they didn't want retailers referring to Genesis ot other consoles as Nintedos. Thought this message was for boomer grandparents. If that was the case then Ninte do could fuck right off
>>12091371I've never heard that one before but the reasoning why it would have suddenly fallen out of favor where something like Band-Aid wouldn't is simply that it's not a mass market product like Coke. It was a very niche product that was used in specific sectors by the time it became mass market any branding that would have applied to it is gone.
>>12095274lollmao even
>>12091069It's a copyright thing. Asprin is a brand name but it's also the generic term for any pain killer so any company can make their own pain killer product and call it Asprin.The NES or just "Nintendo" by the mid to late 80's was quickly becoming the default term for all video games, Nintendo feared this, they didn't want Atari and others releasing their own Atari Nintendos and has things like >>12090934 and the Nintendo Seal of Quality to reinforce the branding.
>>12092117Shut the fuck up
>>12090973fpbp>>12091446actually, nevermindbest post right here
>>12092117Shut up bitch.
>>12090934Nintendo of America has always been gay as fuck.
>Nothing can be a Nintendo because that's our registered trademark>Mario thanks you>Mario is also a registered trademark>There's no such thing as a Mario
>>12095782>You see, "Mario" is an adjective.
>>12092714I hear stories like this, and I assume they're being sarcastic. I refuse to believe people are actually this stupid.
>>12095304>>12095414>nintendies getting uppity at their retro-revisionism of pretending everyone called everything a nintendoI heard "Sega" more than "Nintendo" as the catch-all.
>>12096404Your anecdotal memory proves your experience and nothing else
>>12093001le no
>>12094613Nintendo of America
>>12091430they had all those words to say that and they didnt. all they had to do was say NINTENDO IS A BRAND, OUR BRAND. NOT LIKE THE OTHER COMPANIES MAKING GAMES AS WELL. THANK YOU. them saying its a fucking adjective when its a brand name is stupid.
>>12090934>1990Some boomer nerd really sperged out over that one.
>>12096402The only stupid one is you for sticking your head in the sand like that over something so simple.
>>12091446Lovely
>>12092103He's right. And it made you mad enough to literally prove it.Why are underage people like you insecure at being caught out? Why do you feel fear knowing that you'll never be able to enjoy anything made before you were born the way we did in our own time?
>>12096742It IS an adjective in the phrase "Nintendo Entertainment System." The noun is "Entertainment System" and the adjective "Nintendo" specifies the type of entertainment system you're referring to. Calling the Nintendo Entertainment System just "a Nintendo" would be like calling a red apple just "a red."
>>12096404the only catch-all is your mom when she gets raped by a pack of nogs every night
