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8432263 No.8432263 [Reply] [Original]

>nobody ever called the Gamecube "GCN"
think again, chud

>> No.8432265
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8432265

>On outlet owned by Nintendo uses terminology demanded by Nintendo.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!?!?

>> No.8432323

Tons of magazines back in the day called it that. I always thought it should be NGC.

>> No.8432327

>>8432263
>Blowin on dat endo
>Gamecube Nintendo (GCN)

what did Slim Thug mean by this?

>> No.8432356

Why was GCN and not NGC?

>> No.8432367

>>8432356
Nintendo picked the official acronym, and when with GCN for whatever reason. it does roll off the tongue better.

>> No.8432369

>>8432356
National Geographic Channel was established at the same time and there was some trademark conflict over NGC.

>> No.8432380

>>8432356
ngc was used for neo geo color

>> No.8432389

>>8432380
It's Neo Geo Pocket Color = NGPC.

>> No.8432392

I've always said they called it that back then but it was always objectively retarded.

>> No.8432402

It was the official terminology but few people ever used it outside of official channels, only a few try hards

>> No.8432406

Ah yes the ESN, SESN, 64N, GCN, DSN, some of my favorite consoles

>> No.8432623

>>8432406
Game Cube NOW

>> No.8432624

>>8432389
Nobody used 4 letters for initials. It had to be 3

>> No.8432641

>>8432356
Because it’s officially the GameCube Nintendo Cube.

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8432645

>>8432624
>Nobody used 4 letters for initials
>SNES

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8432682

>>8432624
Remember when people were using PSX2 to refer to PlayStation's successor?

>> No.8432713

>>8432624
That was the official acronym though retard

>> No.8432717

>>8432263
it was used in abbreviations when identifying systems

>> No.8432825

>>8432624
>i am a retarded zoomer
I'm sorry things turned out this way for you.

>> No.8433065

>>8432624
The only thing that must be 3 is your age

>> No.8433067

>>8432327
that was TI

>> No.8433101
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8433101

>>8432682
I 'member.

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>>8433101
>'GRAN TURISMO 2000' will give die-hard fans a chance to jump behind the wheel of over 500 vehicles, each with unique attributes such as speed, handling & more.
Well, that did not happen.

>> No.8433180

>>8432624
is that game good? wtf is a baten kaitos?

>> No.8433208

>>8432682
Where did psx come from? I always called it playstation, after 2, everyone around me just called it ps1, also the smaller psOne model reinforced "ps1 " further, so why psx? I missed the memo

>> No.8433323

>>8433208
PS-X was briefly used as an alternative name in America before launch because proto-SCEA thought that PlayStation sounded dumb. Magazines which widely reported about supposed Sony's console got info on PS-X and liked that name so much that they kept using PSX as an acronym long after it was discarded internally. When PS2 became a thing and Sony had redesigned PlayStation as PSone, PS1 emerged as a de facto official name and almost completely erased PSX from mainstream media. 21 century people now look weird at old people referring to their console as PSX.
Some early games also used letter X to denote PlayStation version like with Tetris X, S and 64.

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>>8433323

>> No.8433335

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZAYzLjQAd4&t=36s

>> No.8433338

>>8433323
>>8433325
Very informative, thank you so much, anon

>> No.8433351

>>8433325
I don't know which is more disappointing: That there's no Tetris E, or that Sonic got N, G, and R but no I or E.

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>>8432624
Everyone said NGPC, fag.
t.boomer who lived that era and had two NGPCs.

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>>8432380
As opposed to the black and white Neo Geo?

>> No.8433395

>>8432263
>Nintendo calls it the GCN since forever, back to /pol/ tranny poster

>> No.8433401

>>8432645
>SEGA

>> No.8433404

>>8433351
Can't believe they dropped a hard r, you'd think Sonic A would have been safer

>> No.8433474

>>8432406
NUS > *

>> No.8433510

>>8432263
Who are you quoting? GCN is the official abbreviation, and yeah everyone thought it was weird. In fact, that weird abbreviation was one of the motivating factors for the name “Wii,” which obviously requires no abbreviation.

>> No.8433523

>>8433510
Probably me. I remember OP called me a chud in another thread where I complained about it, and I'm the only autist who's ever made more than one post about how stupid the acronym is, I think. Could just be some latent schizophrenia though.

I remember everybody thought it was stupid back in the Nintendo forum I used to browse in 2003-ish, everybody just said GC back then. We all knew the reasoning behind putting N at the end but we still mocked it.

>> No.8433631

>>8432380
Like Nintendo was afraid to get sued by SNK.

SNK was bankrupt around this time.

>> No.8434257

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/13/the-name-game

>Approved: NINTENDO GAMECUBE, Nintendo GameCube, and GCN.

> Not Approved: Nintendo GAMECUBE, GAME CUBE, Cube, GC, N-Cube, N3, etc.

Nintendo Japan (co ltd, kk, whatever) wanted to call it just GameCube but NOA insisted on including the name Nintendo. They couldn't use NGC due to trademarks so to include the N they forced GCN from the beginning

>> No.8434291

>>8434257
We could have had a world where the N Cube existed ;_; just think of the memes we missed

>> No.8434620

>>8432624
They hated him because he told the truth

>> No.8434626

>>8433325
Based Saturn dabbing on the cringe communist minimalism

>> No.8434628

>>8434257
I'll be calling it the N-Cube from now on here.

>> No.8434689

>>8432263
Yeah, it was official but nobody actually used that acronym unless they were forced to, like in a gaming magazine like nintendo power.
If anyone wanted to abbreviate they just said GC, not GCN. Just like how nobody says NDS instead of DS.

And on a tangential point, nobody ever said " super N.E.S.". It was pronounced super nintendo irl. Then SNES became common after the fact with the rise of internet forums and shit. At least in burgerland

>> No.8434713

>>8434689
In Australia, SNES (pronounced 'Snez') was always the most common.

>> No.8434716

>>8432263
>>8432265
>>8432323
>that spaniarde guy who bought 35 baten kaitos copies
>absolute madman and reseller scum

>> No.8434725

>>8434716
Absolutamente hombre loco putting hardwarecucks on dilation watch

>> No.8434743

>>8434713
Yeah, I know bongs and other palfags said snes (or snezz) back in the day but over here everyone said super nintendo in common parlance

>> No.8434774

>>8434689
>>8434713
Normal people say Nintendo and Super Nintendo.

>> No.8434790

>>8434743
They still wrote SNES or Super NES because it was faster than writing Super Nintendo, though though did say the latter

>> No.8434849

>>8434774
Someone saying just "Nintendo" to refer to a Nintendo console always gave me the impression that they were retarded and had no idea what they were actually talking about. It's like someone nowadays calling an iPhone an "Apple".

>> No.8434875

>>8434849
I agree with this

>> No.8435069

>>8434713
formerly chukz

>> No.8435209

>>8432323
>>8432263
it would probably be confused with the neo geo pocket color. NGC was also trademarked by the National Geographic Channel.

>> No.8435281

>>8434774
exactly. Insisting on "super nintendo entertainment system" is clunky as shit, whether or not abbreviated. It's like saying "sony trinitron cathode ray tube television" instead of just calling it a trinitron.

>>8434849
It's a nintendo. Always has been.

>> No.8435287

>>8432263
Austraaaaaalia-kun

>> No.8435290

>>8432263
I really dont' give a shit nintentard

>> No.8435296

>>8433101
woah didnt knew EA made final fantasy

>> No.8435297

>>8433386
You zoomers will never understand. Black and white Neo Geo was all we had, and happy we were. Now you play with all your fancy colors, as if you were in a circus. Well, let me tell ya: I ain't no clown!

>> No.8435304

>>8434790
I know, that's why I said SNES became more common with the rise of message boards. Not like anyone was commonly writing about super nintendos whatsoever to each other until internet usage became more common. Talking about in speech, IRL

>> No.8435326

>>8433180
it’s good if you like RPGs
look it up, see if it appeals to you

>> No.8435359

>>8434689
Everyone one every forum said GCN, not GC.

>> No.8435384

>>8433323
It was used by the japanese as well.
If you look at a PS1 BIOS file then you'll see references to PSX

>> No.8435395

“Gamecube” has only two syllables and is faster to say than GCN. Does it even NEED an acronym?

>> No.8435415

>>8435395
In text form? Yes? Duh?

Literally the only console people say the abbreviation out loud is the Playstation line.

>> No.8435428

>>8435359
no one said that shit dude

>> No.8435434

>>8435428
Yes they did. Every single one. Here's a random one:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-many-games-are-you-currently-actively-playing.29641/#post-812335

>> No.8435436

>>8435434
that guy is a faggot though

>> No.8435441

>>8435436
Said the guy trying to claim his circle of friends who said GC were representative of how anyone talked back then.

>> No.8435453

Translated pieces sometimes refer to the GCN as the GC, but actual English sources (and yes, random people on websites just making forum posts or chat room messages are counted as sources) always said GCN, no ifs, ands, or buts.

>> No.8435732

>>8434257
Didn't Japan want to call it Star Cube?

>> No.8436131

>>8432263
>>8432323
This was all known at the time, Nintendo didn't hide that the trademark was the issue.

>> No.8436141

>>8434849
At that point in time it made sense to just say Nintendo instead of Nintendo Entertainment System because it was the only Nintendo hardware that existed. Not sure what's so hard to understand about that

>> No.8436249

>>8434849
So you weren't around when Nintendo only made the Nintendo, okay.

>> No.8436418

>>8436249
It was always referred to as the NES here. Only ameritards called it "the Nintendo"

>> No.8436739

>>8433208
It stands for PlayStationboX which is what your mum called any console after 1994 (before that they were all Nintendos)