Annoying Video Game Terms or Pet Peeves

[Sniderman]

Since when is "lich," as in Wrath of the Lich King, pronounced "litch?" It's "like."

Probably due to the fact that:

1. The word is not found in the usual dictionaries, so the D&D youths who first encountered the word just assumed it was pronounced the way it was spelled.
2. An evil legendary sorcerer's name sounds like it SHOULD rhyme with "witch" - another evil legendary sorcerer.
3. It's pronounced "like?" Wow, nothing likable about those guys. The word as pronounced "litch" sounds like "itch," "witch," "bitch," and other unsavory terms.

So it stands to reason that only those with an Irish language background may assume the correct pronounciation. Me? I'll stick with the wrong way of saying it.

Besides, they're my favorite undead critter and I'm not about to call them something different. ;)

[motley6]

I have grown to dislike acronyms across the board, at least in conversation. I cringe if I hear "FPS" out loud.

[Ze_ro]

I've never liked "GCN". What's wrong with "GC"?
I've always hated this too. I think Nintendo (and maybe the rest of the industry) tried to push the "GCN" abbreviation because most systems were using three-letter acronyms at the time. But what the hell sense is there in having the N at the end? No one calls it 'GameCube Nintendo". If anything, NGC would make a bit more sense, but it would still be stupid.

I never really cared much about people saying things like "Nintendo tapes" or "casettes" or anything... it usually just served as a way to tell when people were stupid and didn't know what they were talking about.

--Zero

[Kiddo]

Throwing in some two cents in this.

I'll start from the position of my research on the Satellaview, as typical of me.
First off, any reference to "Bandai" outside of SD Gundam G-Next peeves me because it's factually incorrect (And to hell with IGN).

Also, referring to the games as "BS Games", particularly when the context isn't understood at first - "What "bullshit games" are you - oh I see, the Satellaview broadcast downloads! Perhaps I'd have a been a bit quicker if I didn't hear the term 'BS' used out of this context nearly all the time."

There's a few other peeves on Satellaview terms as well, but that's partly because of the lack of proper documentation, and so I can understand those more easily (particularly with the confusion over "BS F-Zero" games and whatnot. I'm finding something newer and weirder about the BS F-Zero series every day...)

Being told to "Go find a Goodset" when I asked for Satellaview music - the most annoying thing ever. First off, the Goodsets aren't even close to having all the Satellaview ROMs yet. Second off, A large chunk of the ROMs do not have the music data because it was streamed from the Satellite radio and would not be archived in a ROM dump. Third, Goodsets have inconsistant organization of the Satellaview ROMs. And last but not least, I've dug through them all and I also have some ROMs that aren't even in them yet.

In fact, now that I've brought that up, the term "goodset" has connotations anymore that are peeve-inducing. Especially the false implication that they have every ROM ever made.

Also, when looking for game soundtracks, it's a pain when a set of music is just labeled a "Soundtrack", especially if it's patently false as in some cases where it's a gamerip and NOT a soundtrack release. OSV (when refering to a gamerip), OST (When refering to a soundtrack CD/Cassette/whatever release), AST (an arrange soundtrack release) and other terms are generally a lot more helpful.

[RASK1904]

I realy hate just the proper names of all games and game systems. It is a headache to figure out if there is a space between Splatter and House(there isnt). Know why. Not me. I know its a propper name but come on. With the games it realy is out of controle. Gameboy. One word. Why, I dont know? OK you got Batman. You got Spider-Man and you got Mega Man. What the hell? You can realy get f'd in the A puttin stuff on Ebay.

I bought a cellphone(is that one word) and the guy said it had 3 jiggabites. I meen come on he sells phones for a living. Me and my girlfriend still make fun of him. We did correct him so he doesn't look stupid for the rest of his life.

I was at the beach this summer and a guy came into Starbucks asking them for some free weefee. I laughed.

shmup is fine
I hate fanboy
shooter sucks

Thanx RASK1904:rockets:

[PresidentLeever]

Got Game / Not Game

[Draven]

Controllers being referred to as "paddles". It didn't really bother me when my parents would ask to see my paddle when I was playing SMB3. I just found it amusing. We had an Atari before we got the NES, so I could understand where they were coming from. But when my uncle STILL refers to controllers as paddles these days it kinda gets under my skin.

[Drifter 2000]

Next-Gen when referring to the current generation of systems.

Industry buzzwords like: immersion, innovation, casual, hardcore.

Ninja Gayden. No one pronounces 'sai' as 'say,' do they?

[Zap!]

Super "Mayrio" Brothers- Another one of my pet peeve terms is when people mispronouce this series. It is supposed to be Mar-(rhymes with bar)-io

I will always say Maa-ree-oh. It's just the way I talk. I also sleep on a "pillah", and close the "windah" when it's cold. And "laaava" comes from volcanos.

[Zap!]

How about NEC as "neck"? Ha ha.

I hate that too, but I will always call a NES "Ness", rather than spell out the letters.

[backguard]

I'm not particularly fond of "rare". It has become so overused that it is almost meaningless. SMB/Duck Hunt is not rare. :)

[backguard]

Also - I love it when people call it "Pokeemon" instead of "Pokehmon".

"Pokeeman" is a good one too.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Me: "I have every NES game ever released"
Every douche I tell: "Ah! Sick! Have you ever played Super Mario Bros.?"

[Matt-El]

For New gaming MMORPG. HATE it.


BTW, IT'S MMORPGIN' TIME!


DRAGONZORD!!!

[Astrosmash]

Ninja Gayden. No one pronounces 'sai' as 'say,' do they?

"Ninja Gai-den! HAI!"

[DeputyMoniker]

I was just thinking about "GCN" the other day. I hate it. I don't care why people call it that...I'm sure someone has made up some perfectly wonderful reason for it. "That was the name they used when...blah blah blah." or "In an alphabetical list..."

Whatever...it's stupid.

[Damaramu]

Haha; does anyone here remember the vid with Itagaki concerning the pronunciation of Ninja Gaiden, and other things. As seen HERE (http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/186671/multiplayer-ninja-gaiden.jhtml).

[Gentlegamer]

Me: "I have every NES game ever released"
Every douche I tell: "Ah! Sick! Have you ever played Super Mario Bros.?"Heh. Super Mario Bros. is among the games that are the sine non qua for calling oneself a video gamer.

[Tempest]

Probably due to the fact that:

1. The word is not found in the usual dictionaries, so the D&D youths who first encountered the word just assumed it was pronounced the way it was spelled.
2. An evil legendary sorcerer's name sounds like it SHOULD rhyme with "witch" - another evil legendary sorcerer.
3. It's pronounced "like?" Wow, nothing likable about those guys. The word as pronounced "litch" sounds like "itch," "witch," "bitch," and other unsavory terms.

So it stands to reason that only those with an Irish language background may assume the correct pronounciation. Me? I'll stick with the wrong way of saying it.

Besides, they're my favorite undead critter and I'm not about to call them something different. ;)

I've always said Litch. I never noticed that it didn't have a T in it. Hmm...

Tempest

[Gameguy]

I realy hate just the proper names of all games and game systems. It is a headache to figure out if there is a space between Splatter and House(there isnt). Know why. Not me. I know its a propper name but come on.
In the credits of Splatterhouse, the game is called "SPLATTER HOUSE". I think it's a mistake, but it gets people doing the same thing.

Skip to 0:15 to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvdVOMAVhqs

It's also in Splatterhouse 2, skip to 2:48 to see the screen shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PWohetRQg

It's even in the third game, skip to 3:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7SsvenBCpo


Controllers being referred to as "paddles". It didn't really bother me when my parents would ask to see my paddle when I was playing SMB3. I just found it amusing. We had an Atari before we got the NES, so I could understand where they were coming from. But when my uncle STILL refers to controllers as paddles these days it kinda gets under my skin.

I see people on the local craigslist calling controllers "remotes". That really bugs me, especially when they act like they really know everything about consoles.

What also annoys me is when games have a lousy ending. I played 80 levels in Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle(Game Boy) to see "Congraturations, you are good player!". Crazy Castle 2 was much better, it even had a final boss unlike the first game.

[sebastiankirchoff]

PSX- I personally don't understand why people call the PS1 a PSX. Really, wouldn't a PSX be a PlayStation 10? I don't get it.

Gamestation- When I first heard this term, I was like "Really, did Nintendo and Sony combine the Gamecube and Playstation to make a Gamestation?". Really, its just another term for game console, but it somehow irritates the hell out of me.

I also hate it when people will say they got an old Nintendo and it ends up being an Atari or Sega. Or when they say they got a PlayStation and it is actually a Wii or Xbox.

[Zap!]

What also annoys me is when games have a lousy ending. I played 80 levels in Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle(Game Boy) to see "Congraturations, you are good player!".

Better than Karnov's ending! :)

[CelticJobber]

I really, really hate it when people call shoot-em-ups "shmups". Its one of the most annoying words I've ever heard in my entire life.

[Zap!]

Here's what ALWAYS bothered me. When people say the Neo-Geo was a failure, and didn't remotely come close in sales to the Genesis or SNES. Well guess what, buddy boy? It was never intended to! The Neo-Geo is like a Ferrari F50, and the Genisis and SNES like a Maximas and Hondas. Those cars will crush The Ferrari in sales, and that's just fine! The Ferrari isn't directly competing with those cars, and selling just a few hundred or thousand cars a year is still a huge profit.

And by the way, it lasted for about 15 years, so naaaaaa!

[Tempest]

Here's what ALWAYS bothered me. When people say the Neo-Geo was a failure, and didn't remotely come close in sales to the Genesis or SNES. Well guess what, buddy boy? It was never intended to! The Neo-Geo is like a Ferrari F50, and the Genisis and SNES like a Maximas and Hondas. Those cars will crush The Ferrari in sales, and that's just fine! The Ferrari isn't directly competing with those cars, and selling just a few hundred or thousand cars a year is still a huge profit.

And by the way, it lasted for about 15 years, so naaaaaa!

The Neo Geo was always a fanboy niche console and it suceeded very well in that regard. Any console that can have 500+ people shell out $300 for a game two or three times a year has got to have a serious following.

Tempest

[Drifter 2000]

Just to continue my complaint about buzzwords. I was listening to two people discuss Contra 4 today and they were complaining that the game wasn't immersing enough because there was a gap between the screens.

"There's no gap when you look up in real life!"

Totally serious they both were too. I didn't have the heart to tell them that I never usually run into many two headed aliens with guns for arms when I walk down the street. Contra's "immersion" is pretty well shot the moment you look at the back of the box.

[backguard]

"Do you have a Nintendo Gamestation?"

[williewonka2k1]

I think it's pretty fucking lame/annoying that screwattack calls their lame ass fanboys "g1's"

Seriously, so goddamn annoying

[DeputyMoniker]

Fanboy is thrown around too much. You can't just like things or prefer one thing over the other without having someone give you the third degree on your fucking opinion. It's like being called a racist if you don't like Queen Latifa. I just don't like her dumpy ass. I don't like Drew Barrymore's dumpy ass either...am I a race trader now? Fanboy has become a passive aggressive synonym for "I disagree."

[spoon]

As with GCN, AGB? I always thought it was Game Boy Advance. My friend and I would always laugh at the shipping boxes when we would stock the games at work. I really think Nintendo just wanted to be hip and different or some shit.

I remember the PSX posters and always thought it stupid on Sony's part to put out a console called the PSX. Maybe one could have a lower case x and the other a capital?

[j_factor]

PSX- I personally don't understand why people call the PS1 a PSX. Really, wouldn't a PSX be a PlayStation 10? I don't get it.

It's been called that since the beginning. We had no idea that Sony's next system would be called Playstation 2; we had no concept of numbering game systems.

Also, I think there used to be a Playstation magazine called PSX.

[Zap!]

It's been called that since the beginning. We had no idea that Sony's next system would be called Playstation 2; we had no concept of numbering game systems.

Also, I think there used to be a Playstation magazine called PSX.

It's a 90's thing. We were obsessed with "X". Mega Man X, X-Files, Generation X, etc.

[thom_m]

Game Tapes-I hate this. EGM seems tto like pushing this one. They were called cartridges last I knew.

Using the portuguese word "fita", which is the same as "tape", to refer to a game cartdrige ("cartucho", in portuguese) is very common here in Brazil too. Back in the 2600 days, I asked my dad for "Atari tapes".

Why do people (worldwide, it seems) think cartridges are similar to tapes, I'll never know. But it was - and still is - the most common term for them in my homestate.

[j_factor]

Some games actually were on tape.

[Real Savage Like]

Some games actually were on tape.

Yeah, all of the Starpath games for the Atari 2600 were on cassette.

[DeputyMoniker]

Using the portuguese word "fita", which is the same as "tape", to refer to a game cartdrige ("cartucho", in portuguese) is very common here in Brazil too. Back in the 2600 days, I asked my dad for "Atari tapes".

Why do people (worldwide, it seems) think cartridges are similar to tapes, I'll never know. But it was - and still is - the most common term for them in my homestate.

My wife calls CD's "tapes."
I guess it's no different than me calling a Dr. Pepper a Coke.

[j_factor]

I have yet to encounter such a thing, but if anyone were to call a CD a tape, or a Dr. Pepper a Coke, I would be extremely annoyed.

[CelticJobber]

I have yet to encounter such a thing, but if anyone were to call a CD a tape, or a Dr. Pepper a Coke, I would be extremely annoyed.

I've never heard anyone call a CD a "tape", but "coke" is used as a generic term for soda in many parts of the US (especially the South).

[DeputyMoniker]

I have yet to encounter such a thing, but if anyone were to call a CD a tape, or a Dr. Pepper a Coke, I would be extremely annoyed.

"No, man. No. Shit no, man. I imagine you'd get your ass kicked for sayin' somethin' like that to me."

[Porksta]

I hate people that say "pop." It is soda dammit!

[j_factor]

I've never heard anyone call a CD a "tape", but "coke" is used as a generic term for soda in many parts of the US (especially the South).

I'm aware of that, and screw everyone who talks that way. :p

[Gameguy]

I remember seeing some Super Famicom games and they said "cassette" on the back, that probably has something to do with games still being called tapes.

I don't have any Super Famicom games now, but can anyone check to confirm this? Are all of them labeled "cassette"?

[Zap!]

I've never heard anyone call a CD a "tape", but "coke" is used as a generic term for soda in many parts of the US (especially the South).

I've heard it used for another cola like a Pepsi, but never a completely different kind of soda like Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc.

[Zap!]

I hate people that say "pop." It is soda dammit!

That's a Southern thing. I never remember hearing it in person in NYC in all my 36 years.

[Zap!]

I remember seeing some Super Famicom games and they said "cassette" on the back, that probably has something to do with games still being called tapes.

I don't have any Super Famicom games now, but can anyone check to confirm this? Are all of them labeled "cassette"?

Cartridges have been called tapes long before the SF was released.

[Daria]

I've never heard anyone call a CD a "tape", but "coke" is used as a generic term for soda in many parts of the US (especially the South).

When I was a kid, I remember going out to dinner with my family. Asking what kind of coke they have. And a very confused waitress replying "diet, cherry, and regular."

I wanted Dr. Pepper.

But then I was raised southern.

[SegaAges]

I hate people that say "pop." It is soda dammit!

Hmm, I smell a food de jour topic being posted soon by porksta.

What I get annoyed at is when people ask stupid questions about video games or computers.

I actually used to get in trouble back when I was doing tech support phone calls for Earthlink because the people I dealt with seriously had mental problems. All the horror stories you have been told are all true.

"Thank you for calling earthlink, can I help you."
"I can't check my e-mail."
"Maam, is your computer turned on."
"No, I just bought it, it is still in the box."

I am not kidding, that happened to me more than once.

Call it me owing 40k in student loans to be knowledgable about computers, but I get frusterated when I am asked a stupid computer questions because I have this wierd notion that if you are not willing to learn how to use something, don't use it.

I stopped fixing people's computers, but now tell them what to do in order to fix it. if they do it, it works, if not, then no computer for them.

Another pet peeve are younger people that seem to have never had any piece of technology around them as if they lived in the back woods of <add your own state with back woods> and now they can't figure out the most simple fucking thing with technology when there is a step by step instruction manual right there beside them so they call the computer guy assuming that I own the new 25,000 iPod and I am an expert with it. I open up their instruction book and show them what to do.

Call it egocentric from going to school, but I am in debt for that shit and pushed myself to learn it, and then there are people that refuse to fucking learn. A perfect example is another earthlink story that I have gotten multiple times:

"Thank you for calling Earthlink. How can I help you?"
"My internet doesn't work. Fix it."
"Maam, what is wrong with it?"
"I don't know. Send somebody out to fix it."
"Maam, we will go through some troubleshooting steps to help you fix this."
"No, just send somebody out to fix it."

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

[fpbrush]

I lived in the south when I was younger and never used the word 'pop'. I live in the north-east now and say 'soda'. And only use the word 'coke' when talking about Coca-Cola. When I went to college in the midwest however, nearly everyone from the region (Ohio) said 'pop'. I remember thinking it was really funny..they did not.

So much for trying to stay on-topic... :)

[refan]

A few friends in the midwest didn't know that a paddle was a controller.

I thought that was weird.

[Giskard]

"Old school" is starting to stick in my craw a little bit, particularly when I hear people clamoring to apply it to systems which frankly haven't yet earned such a distinction, e.g - "Old school X-Box games". I suppose that might - might - seem like a valid sentiment if, back in 2001, you were in 7th grade and your parents put one of these brand new machines under the Christmas tree. And now you're in college, pining for your roots. Sorry, junior. Come back in 10 to 15 years when the public utterance of the name of your console d'amour is the kind of thing that causes 14-year-olds to vacantly stare and say, "Uh...X-what?" Then you'll really understand "old school" and we'll have something to talk about.

Until then, I'm from the Atari 2600 generation, so get off my lawn.

Old-school drives me absolutely crazy. Probably because I used to work at a game store and would hear it used about 100 times a day in this context: "No way! They got that old school Nintendo! Remember (insert name of game that everyone remembers)?!" And then they wouldn't buy anything.

I once heard a kid say "They got that old school Nintendo!"but he pointed at a weird area of the store. When I looked to see what he was talking about I saw that he was pointing at a Nintendo 64. I died a little inside that day.

[Steven]

Fanboy is thrown around too much. You can't just like things or prefer one thing over the other without having someone give you the third degree on your fucking opinion. It's like being called a racist if you don't like Queen Latifa. I just don't like her dumpy ass. I don't like Drew Barrymore's dumpy ass either...am I a race trader now? Fanboy has become a passive aggressive synonym for "I disagree."


True that. And speaking of words that have been overused, what about "obscure" ?

Just 5, 6 years ago, you didn't see the word much (or at least I didn't in my gaming travels). Nowadays everyone and their brothers think they're an expert on obscure games, with youtube channels to prove it. It's been used so much (and in some cases poorly chosen) that I sort of cringe now whenever I see the word being thrown around like free condiments.

[PentiumMMX]

I might as well add these while I'm at it:

- Using Atari \ Nintendo \ PlayStation as a generic term for all video games
(This always annoys me when somebody says that)

- Hearing people use chat lingo in real life
(This I find more amusing than annoying. It's always funny when you head someone talking about "pawning" some "nubs" in whatever first-person shooter they play online. I even once heard someone's grandma using chat lingo, like in that cell phone ad)

- People who think all that matters about a game is graphics
(This I frequently hear from people around my age. They see me playing something like Zelda: Link's Awakening, and they start making fun of the game because "It's graphics suck". Yes, a 10+ year old game is going to be graphically inferior to a new game, but that doesn't prevent the game from still being fun)

- People assuming because I'm a teen \ young adult, all I give a damn about is 360
(It annoys me when I go to a garage sale and ask if they have any video games, only to have the people running the sale tell me "All we have is stuff for [Random non-current system that I happen to own], and you wouldn't be interested, because said system is old")

[TurboGenesis]

- People who think all that matters about a game is graphics
(This I frequently hear from people around my age. They see me playing something like Zelda: Link's Awakening, and they start making fun of the game because "It's graphics suck". Yes, a 10+ year old game is going to be graphically inferior to a new game, but that doesn't prevent the game from still being fun)


I hate this till the end of time… from people on the sports forums I frequent, to my co-workers, to my own friends, I cannot stand that everyone assume that if a game have awesome graphics that it is automatically good. I have been heckle and tease because I enjoy playing old fashioned games… I have had friends of friends come over and they see me playing Nintendo and they begin to laugh and snicker, and carry on about how such games are old and the graphics are sux… :roll:

I am always a crusader for the gameplay over graphics for everlasting time… fight on brother.

I don't play my games on pause. If I wanted something to look good, I'd go watch a movie or stare at art…
(quote from me)

[TurboGenesis]

"Thank you for calling Earthlink. How can I help you?"
"My internet doesn't work. Fix it."
"Maam, what is wrong with it?"
"I don't know. Send somebody out to fix it."
"Maam, we will go through some troubleshooting steps to help you fix this."
"No, just send somebody out to fix it."

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

My response to this,

"well, if you do not want to go through some simple quick steps, it will take four to five days til we can get someone out there."

Many American people lack patience, and will overcome laziness in an effort to save time. We have saying in the manufacturing business, put the laziest people on the hardest jobs, they will find the most efficient method of running that job while maintaining their prefered level of laziness.

[jdc]

It used to make me cringe when people referred to any videogame controller as a "paddle". "Hi, our grandson needs a new paddle for his Xbox. Got any?"

[AB Positive]

I'm guilty of some, and not of others... for instance:

I've said "Snes" sometimes... sometimes "Super N-E-S" but never "Nes". Always "N-E-S"

When I worked at Gamestop another asst. manager and I would make fun of the younger set as they left the shop....

"Man, I pownsed you like I was your mama!"

purely in a satirical way though. ;)

[Atarileaf]

It's always bugged me when adults call every game system a Nintendo...but thats big for me in other areas as well since I also hate when everyone call every Mp3 player an Ipod and every brand of tissue a kleenex as well.

Or calling photocopying "Xeroxing"

[Zap!]

- Hearing people use chat lingo in real life
(This I find more amusing than annoying. It's always funny when you head someone talking about "pawning" some "nubs" in whatever first-person shooter they play online. I even once heard someone's grandma using chat lingo, like in that cell phone ad)

Heh, I used to say "143" all the time to my girl in the late 90's/very early 2000's. For those who are too young to know, 143 is beeper lingo for I love You. :)

[Zap!]

I'm guilty of some, and not of others... for instance:

I've said "Snes" sometimes... sometimes "Super N-E-S" but never "Nes". Always "N-E-S"

When I worked at Gamestop another asst. manager and I would make fun of the younger set as they left the shop....

"Man, I pownsed you like I was your mama!"

purely in a satirical way though. ;)

What's wrong with saying Ness or Sness? In my view, if an abbreviation is a sayable word, then say it. If not (like SMS), the say out the letters.

[neuropolitique]

More quick ones

Gameboy as Gimboy


or when people spell Game Boy as Gameboy.

[SegaAges]

My response to this,

"well, if you do not want to go through some simple quick steps, it will take four to five days til we can get someone out there."

Many American people lack patience, and will overcome laziness in an effort to save time. We have saying in the manufacturing business, put the laziest people on the hardest jobs, they will find the most efficient method of running that job while maintaining their prefered level of laziness.

The thing is, we never sent people out unless you had a satellite connection (which cost, I think, 500 a month or something).

I would tell them that we could not send anybody out, and that they would need to pay attention to me.

I have dealt with way too many of those people, which is the reason why I get annoyed and the "egocentric" stereotype most computer guys get when somebody has a computer issue. Hahaha, I went to college for being a computer programmer, not a computer technician. I use google to solve all those problems, which is something anybody can do.

[darkslime]

- People assuming because I'm a teen \ young adult, all I give a damn about is 360
(It annoys me when I go to a garage sale and ask if they have any video games, only to have the people running the sale tell me "All we have is stuff for [Random non-current system that I happen to own], and you wouldn't be interested, because said system is old") I hate that too.
People think it's weird that I'm 14 and buying SNES or NES games whenever I go to garage sales and stuff.

[Xian042]

calling a Sega Genesis simply a Sega. As in, "Oh man, I had a Sega when I was a kid." This bugs me slightly more than the Nintendo usage.

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

[Xian042]

It used to make me cringe when people referred to any videogame controller as a "paddle". "Hi, our grandson needs a new paddle for his Xbox. Got any?"

I'm guilty of this one

[Daria]

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

I had a friend growing up with a Master System. I thought it was a weird looking Genesis. :P

[Nirvana]

I honestly can't stand the term "noobs." Or even newbie. Just horrible.

I also hate people who only argue for good graphics.

[SegaAges]

I run into a lot of people that say they had the original Sega when they were little. So I ask to clarify if they mean the Master System or the Genesis, and they say. The FIRST one!

I say, "ok the first one meaning the Sega MASTER SYSTEM, or the Sega GENESIS?"

"Well, my brother had Hang-On and Shinobi for it, so whichever that one was"

"Ok, did it have three buttons or two buttons on the controller?"

"I dont remember, all I know is it was the first Sega. It had a red light on it, the top was round."

"Oh ok, that was the Sega Genesis."

"yeah, like I said, the first one."

MURDER MURDER MURDER!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed. Like how people call every f'ing sega system a Sega.

"Hey, do you have that game for your Sega?"

NO!

I HAVE IT FOR MY GENESIS!

[BydoEmpire]

"I'm a fan of shooters."
"Really? That's awesome, I love them too. What's your favorite?"
"I play a lot of Counter Strike and Halo."
"Oh. I thought you meant like Galaga or Gradius." (Cue mumbling under breath)

Calling an FPS a "shooter" is understandable and acceptable, but it just irks me for some reason. Maybe its because every 2nd game nowadays is an FPS? A shooter is a scrolling shoot 'em up.Hah, yeah, that's a good one. Gamestop.com has a genre category for "shooters" that includes basically FPSs and light gun games.

[Steve W]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

"PSX". That was a temporary code name for the Playstation while it was in development, and people still refer to it that way, even though it was never officially used for that machine. Sony even put out a machine later called a PSX, and still people refer to the original Playstation as 'PSX'. So why doesn't anyone refer to the Nintendo Wii as the 'Revolution'?

[acem77]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

"PSX". That was a temporary code name for the Playstation while it was in development, and people still refer to it that way, even though it was never officially used for that machine. Sony even put out a machine later called a PSX, and still people refer to the original Playstation as 'PSX'. So why doesn't anyone refer to the Nintendo Wii as the 'Revolution'?

I have no problem with the above.
At least the above had some roots.
Most tools in the scene are named after the dev names.
vick is odd but id live with it.
It only gets bad when every thing is the same or butchered like my mom every thing was a nintaro Ggrrr. It's a terrible mix of 2 systems said wrong referring to anything but the right system.

I call systems by all their names ness, n.e.s, Nintendo, the 1st Nintendo, original Nintendo, 8bit Nintendo (most don’t think game boy) That depends on who i am talking to.
Not everyone is that big into videogames like most people here.
In the world of Google and forums you have to know how to search, each will have a different turn out.

Having NES, SNES, PSX will always have better results
Search Nintendo, or play station now.....
What a pain you will get mix results from each generation.

[Zap!]

I hate people who refer to the N.E.S. as the 'ness' or S.N.E.S. as the 'sness'. Every time I hear people say that, I ask them what that word stands for, and they're always too stupid to realize it means "Nintendo Entertainment System". They really think the machine was names "Ness". Which is an even worse name than "Wii".

I don't refer to the Atari VCS as 'Atari vicks', so don't refer to the Nintendo Entertainment System as a 'ness'. It makes you sound young and ignorant.

Major difference. VCS, like SMS and SNK, can't be pronounced. NES certiainly can. There is no need to ever say all the letters if it can be pronounced as a word, it defeats the purpose of shortening it to begin with. What about NASA or NASDAQ? How about when you go to eat at IHOP? You don't say each letter, so you shouldn't when you play your ness.

[Nebagram]

fwiw I always pronounce 'NES' as nezz and 'SNES' as snezz.

But the whole 'I dunno it's just a Sega' thing seriously irritates me, especially as a man who spent 2 years of his childhood loving a Master System and the subsequent 4 years loving a Mega Drive- and still loving them both well into adulthood.

[theking21083]

The things that I hate the most is when people refer to classic games as "old school". That is the most ignorant word in my opinion. When I start talking about my games and some smart ass says "man those are old school" I just want to shake my head and walk away. The other thing that irritates me is when people consider PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox as classic consoles.

[TheGam3r]

-When people say the PS1 Has Bad Graphics
-People who throw out thier systems cause the claim "its not working"

[MissingNo_1231]

a real annoying thing for me is when people pronounce it Maryo instead of Mario.

I also hate when people complain about old games having bad graphics.

I'll take 8-bit addictive gameplay over movie-like graphics in a boring game.