Most westerners call the Famicom and Super Famicom the NES and SNESMost Americans call the Mega Drive the GenesisSo why do Americans call the TurboGrafx-16 the PC Engine?
Dumb question you already know the answer to.
It was called Nintendo and Super Nintendo back in the day, NES and SNES are contemporary names
>>12633541Had a friend who called his NES Advantage the NES and called the NES the Nintendo
>>12633520It's because weebs have to be different. At the very least they could also call the NES and SNES by their Japanese names since they actually sound cool.
>>12633520You already know the answer, even though the TurboGrafx got an official release outside Japan, most non-Japanese players weren't familiar with the system at all. People mostly learned about it during the early days of emulation, when players referred to it by its original name.Anyway, is it "N-ES" and "S-N-ES", or "Nezz" and Snezz" like the "Loch Ness" pronunciation? Is this a regional thing (North America or Europe / Oceania) thing?
>>12633654It's pronounced NEZZZzzzzzz.....
Because the TurboGrafx-16 is embarrassing and stigmatized and the PC Engine is cool and foreign.
>>12633654Also the PC Engine was available on the import marked in Europe and was decently popular under that name there.
>>12633520it flopped so there aren't many people nostalgic about it, the people who discuss it nowadays discovered the console as adults and went straight to the superior japanese library
I call it that because I was born in the late 80s and had never seen one in person until I imported one in the early 2000s.
>>12633520The only TurboGrafix-16 I've ever heard an american talk about is a cancelled kanye west album
>>12633520The PC Engine was aesthetic and beautiful. Meanwhile look at this ugly piece of shit. What the fuck were they thinking when they made this garbage.
>>12634794This. The PC Engine was a masterclass in Japanese industrial design and had the stronger library to boot. Why would anyone acknowledge the disaster that was the TG-16?
>>12634794>>12634921They all look like shit except for the pc fx.
>>12633520>so why do underage thirdies shit up the 4chin with imaginary shit?
>>12634794Probably thought the PC Engine looked too kiddy or gay, same reason they changed the SNES
>>12633520I'm an American and I call it "The Turbografx" because that's what it is
>>12633520weebery + nearly every noteworthy game on the system being japan only
>>12633520I'm a european but I call it PC engine because it sounds cooler and rolls off the tongue, it's also the term most people (the 4 humans aware of this thing's existence) call it.
>>12634794Are you blind?
>>12637154that doesn't sound cooler. it sounds fucking dumb. it's not a pc.
>>12638160>>12637154Actually the real name is just The Engine. Like The Sega System.
>>12638160It’s an allusion to NEC’s different lines of PC-## computers.
>>12638341and it's fucking stupid.
