• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    816 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      215 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        215 days 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.

      • tiredofsametab
        link
        fedilink
        115 days 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’,

    • AItoothbrush
      link
      fedilink
      English
      116 days 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)

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      115 days ago

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