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mycarsucks
10-31-2004, 10:37 PM
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
soniko_karuto
10-31-2004, 10:51 PM
the nes of course!
Videogamerdaryll
10-31-2004, 10:53 PM
the nes of course!
Ditto..........
suppafly
10-31-2004, 10:55 PM
the PSX
charitycasegreg
10-31-2004, 10:58 PM
the PSX
LOL Id also say nintendo and the nintendo controller, no offence to them but even those homeless kids from india could reconize them if they saw it.
MegaDrive20XX
10-31-2004, 11:03 PM
Nintendo Entertainment System <--- Now you're playing with power..
Lost Monkey
10-31-2004, 11:04 PM
The Gameboy.
I don't know how many people in Asia would know what the hell an NES was if they saw one...
mycarsucks
10-31-2004, 11:04 PM
aaaaaaaaaa
The Manimal
10-31-2004, 11:11 PM
woodgrain VCS
original style NES
original style PSX
portables?
original light gray Game Boy (it made it to sitcoms like 'Home Improvement' albeit with the wrong audio in the scene LOL )
Flack
10-31-2004, 11:18 PM
I'd say an Atari joystick.
For arcade, I'd just say the outline of an arcade cabinet with no game in it at all.
tholly
10-31-2004, 11:33 PM
NES - home console
Game Boy - portable
Ed Oscuro
10-31-2004, 11:47 PM
I think most everybody knows what an N64 looks like. Ditto for PlayStation (is that a 3DO? come on...)
Talking my generation-type people though.
bargora
10-31-2004, 11:52 PM
(2) Atari joystick. NES? Come on. Surely you jest.
(1) If not the silhouette of an arcade cabinet, then a lollipop style joystick, as seen in a Pac-Man cab.
Mebbe I takes back what I said about the Okies.
I'd say an Atari joystick.
Seriously, the joystick in general, and the Atari one in specific, symbolically embodies all of gaming.
NESaholic
11-01-2004, 05:09 AM
console: Nes
joystick: Nes joypad
game: Nes game Smb 1
kai123
11-01-2004, 07:01 AM
If we are talking about worldwide then it has to be the Gameboy series. Considering that the hardware is identical no matter where it has been released. Besides who wouldn't see an arcade machine and not know what it was? Same goes for a joystick.
I'm going to say the pre-9001 Playstation PSX.
IMO the PSX was the system that got the biggest number of "Joe Averages" to sit up and try video games. It used discs....how cool was that? The NES? That was what got the fledgling console gamers started...but not the true masses. If you're going to choose a Nintendo system...then IMO it would be the SNES, not the NES.
Funny thing is......when people used to come in and buy items for Christmas, non-gamers always used to say "he's got one of them Nintendos and we'd like to buy him something".....no matter whether the person owned a Sega, Sony or Nintendo system. It was called a Nintendo.
FantasiaWHT
11-01-2004, 07:43 AM
Funny thing is......when people used to come in and buy items for Christmas, non-gamers always used to say "he's got one of them Nintendos and we'd like to buy him something".....no matter whether the person owned a Sega, Sony or Nintendo system. It was called a Nintendo.
My parents were victims of that syndrome... except my first system was an SMS so they called everything a "Sega"
omnedon
11-01-2004, 08:54 AM
I like to think my avatar says it all with one look. LOL
Company wide, I'd say the Atari 2600 joystick. The NES looked totally different in Japoan and Asia, so an NES likelymeans nothing to them.
Break it down to say NA and Europe, and it's likely the NES.
Iron Draggon
11-01-2004, 09:23 AM
It all depends on what generation you're from.
70's - original VCS
80's - original NES
90's - original PSX
I predict that for the 00's it will be the XBOX.
NintendoMan
11-01-2004, 05:14 PM
the nes of course!
Ditto..........
YEP, the NES!!
izret101
11-01-2004, 05:26 PM
Alll of the current systems make it on tons of major tv shos,movies and the such.
I would think most recognisable would be
Joystick
N64 controller
Playstation controllers
as for systems i would have to say NES. I know people who have never played videogames in their life and could care less about them but know what a "Nintendo" looks like.
Ask them what the real name of the system is the acronym for its name or the company that made it though and they have no clue. LOL
Duncan
11-01-2004, 06:30 PM
Ask someone on the street what name comes to mind when you say "video games" and they'll inevitably say either "Nintendo" or "PlayStation".
Think about references to video games that you find in non-VG-related books or magazines. Stuff like "those kids and their PlayStation games" or "wasting time playing Nintendo". It doesn't matter so much what the dominant system actually is, but those two brands are the ones that have made the most impact on the world at large in the last 20 years.
To the oldsters out there, yes, I'd argue that "Atari" used to be the dominant word in this same respect. But it's been a really long time since Atari did anything of real consequence in the video game field, which means that nowadays the word "Atari" is used in reference generally to gaming history or as a bridge to one of the more modern systems (such as "from Atari to Xbox" or something similar).
As an overall console representing all of video gaming, though, I'd lean toward one of the many Game Boy variants. You see GBs or GB-like machines in ads everywhere -- car ads (kids playing it in the back seat), battery ads (touting their long-lasting power for gaming), and in many TV sitcoms (with the aforementioned incorrect "bleep-bloop" sounds).
For a standard controller, you most often see the now-familiar PS Dual Shock (in gray or black, doesn't matter) when a "video game" must be represented.