• accideath@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I know too many people for whom „a Nintendo“ means a Nintendo DS. Perhaps a generational thing.

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      2 months ago

      It absolutely is.

      As a kid, everyone’s parents (boomers) called NES cartridges “tapes”. Considering their generation had a lot of experience with 8-track, cassette, and VHS/Betamax, it kind of makes sense. I guess every generation has this.

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        2 months ago

        Yea, for my dad, everything you use a controller with is a PlayStation and every handheld is a gameboy. Funnily enough, he never had either one and I also didn’t have a PlayStation until I have moved out. The only noteable difference for him is the Sega Master System, because he did have that as a child.

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        2 months ago

        everyone’s parents (boomers) called NES cartridges “tapes”.

        My parents were very much boomers and I’ve never heard this. It was ‘games’ or ‘cartridges’,

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      2 months ago

      Same for me and most people i know a nintendo is a ds(and the ds and 3ds are kinda the same for most of them)

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      2 months ago

      There are undoubtedly people out there who still use “Nintendo” to describe literally any videogame system ever made.