What silly names have you heard people call VG's and accs.?

[kentuckyfried]

Heh, the topic of Handheld Vs. Console poll got me thinking about this, here's my contribution:

Game controller, pad or joystick being called a:

"paddle" or "remote"

Sometimes it makes me laugh inside a bit, or it might me cringe slightly, depending on my mood.
But gawd I hate it when someone at a flea market call a controller a "remote".

So what crazy names have you heard in your travels for video games and they're accessories?

[jajaja]

Some years ago i was waiting for my mom to pick me up. I was playing snake on my old Nokia 3310 and a guy walks by and into an elevator. 10 min later he came back and i was still sitting and playing Snake. He says: Are you still sitting on your ass playing Nintendo LOL He said it in a humoristic way tho hehe.

[Dangerboy]

Controllers:
- Paddles
- Handles
- joypads
- sticks

Games (all CD based)
- tapes
- movies
- carts

[kentuckyfried]

I've heard that one, regardless of type of game/system, people calling a games "Nintendo Tapes" ;)

[CosmicMonkey]

Well, my Mum still refers to them as 'toys'. Apparently I need to stop playing with my toys and get a life. What Mum doesn't relise is that I do have a very active social life, and gaming is my hobby. Oh, and I should stop watching daft Japanese cartoons too, apparently.

At times I think she'd rather I was a beer-swilling, football watching, cultureless chav (in a fake Burberry cap). Although this in her eyes is a 'normal bloke'.

But then, my Mum is a raging alcoholic with no life, who sits at home all day watching daytime telly. Hmmmm.....

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well, my Mum still refers to them as 'toys'. Apparently I need to stop playing with my toys and get a life. What Mum doesn't relise is that I do have a very active social life, and gaming is my hobby. Oh, and I should stop watching daft Japanese cartoons too, apparently.

At times I think she'd rather I was a beer-swilling, football watching, cultureless chav (in a fake Burberry cap). Although this in her eyes is a 'normal bloke'.

But then, my Mum is a raging alcoholic with no life, who sits at home all day watching daytime telly. Hmmmm.....

Judging from your message, I can say with certainty you're British! LOL

Most people 'round these parts call any game cart a "Nintendo". They don't know about game CD/DVDs. :P

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Kind of similar, but when I was younger I always read 'Famicom' as 'Fiacom' for quite some time. One day I just stopped and was like 'Waaaait....'

[Alex Kidd]

What used to bug me was people who pronounced Atari AH-TARE-EE.

As well, in college I lived with these 2 girls who were infatuated with mario styled platformers, but they'd refer to the game screen and each level as 'pages'. IE "Whoo, on to the next page" or "Man this page is the hardest" or if they fell in a hole and died "Dammit, I fell off the page again".
I asked them, why do you call them that? worlds, stages, levels, even waves if your old school enough. They just answered that that's what they've always called them.

Alex Kidd

I can only think of one game that refered to each scene as a page and that was Arabian... which they had never heard of...

[Vectorman0]

Well, my sister and mother both call any system I have a "station." I guess it comes from the Playstation.

[kentuckyfried]

Heh, some great replies already :)

I had a friend who used to call coins in SMB "pennies" :)

"I just need a couple more pennies for a free man" :)

[heyricochet]

I had a funny moment while I was in gamestop the other day and this one person was asking about joysticks for the xbox. He was obviously looking for just controllers, but the clerk took it as he was looking for arcade sticks. They went back and forth, both being very confused for a minute and then finally the clerk figured out he was referencing controllers as joysticks.

[tom]

In the early days here in Germany they called 'cartridges' ....'cassettes', well, even nowadays those stupidos at N-Zone magazine still call GB carts 'cassettes'.

[Slate]

Well once i said to someone that i see atari stuff a lot (or was that not so often) And then she said "A-Tour-ee?"

Also It's dumb that people around here call genesis systems "Segas" But then again about 5 weeks ago at a yard sale someone called A Genesis (Model 1) A master system.. I didn't go telling him it was a genesis, though..

[CreamSoda]

I think the worst for me, is when I was little my Grandma always called my GameBoy a PlayBoy...

The funny thing is, she still calls it by that name. You can't help but laugh when your in a crowded resturant(sp), with your family. And your Grandma asks if you brought your PlayBoy with you. LOL

[Aswald]

Aside from calling cartridges "tapes," not much, really.

[evil_genius]

some people call the system itself a game

[Speedy_NES]

Some sellers on the German eBay call joysticks and controllers "game consoles."

[alec006]

My mom always calls every single video game system no matter what it is and how many times i tell her either a nintendo or a playstation. :roll:

[chaoticjelly]

Once a guy in Cash Converters told my mate he believed that the cartridge port in a Saturn let you play Megadrive games.

I had great glee in setting that one straight..

[ROBOTNIK666]

I used to pronounce Coleco "coh luh coh".

Also, my dad consistenly calls my PS2 a "game station", and my Genesis a "Game Genie"

[kentuckyfried]

I used to pronounce Coleco "coh luh coh".

Coe-lucko.

that's Awesome :)

[CosmicMonkey]

I think the worst for me, is when I was little my Grandma always called my GameBoy a PlayBoy...

The funny thing is, she still calls it by that name. You can't help but laugh when your in a crowded resturant(sp), with your family. And your Grandma asks if you brought your PlayBoy with you. LOL

Your Gran deserves a prize for that one. Classic.

[tholly]

i have heard a lot of people calling NES games casettes

i have heard remotes and paddles for controllers

i have heard nintendo or playstation for any general system / game, even if its not a nintendo or sony product

one thing i hate is when people call a level in a game a board....like i just beat the first board on this game......

[Slate]

I didn't want to mention this, but..

There is a video on Youtube.com where two lego guys are talking...

"Hey, whatcha doin'?"

"I'm playing my.. PSP" (not P.S.P, said like "PSSSP!"

"You mean P.S.P, right?"

"No, my.. PSSSP"

[PentiumMMX]

some people call the system itself a game

Yeah...I'be had that, also seen:

PlayStation Game Disc: Called "PlayStation Game Pak"
(Saw that in a Wal0-Mart ad years ago!)

Controller: Called "Paddle", "Remote", "Joypad", etc.

Game System\Console (Any): Called "PlayStation" or "Nintendo" weather it is or not
(Like the "Nintendo PlayStation" someone sold on eBay a few years back, and a "Sony Xbox" I saw on ShopGoodwill.com a few months ago)

Sega Genesis: Called "Sega"
(Everywhere I go, almost everyone calles it "Sega", and when I say "Genesis", they wonder "What the hell is a Genesis?", so there are times I have to call it "Sega")

Though I'm not sure if this counts, but I've seen people that don't know crap about the system they like or even as much as the titles of the games they like (EXAMPLE 1):

Kid: Do you have a N64

PentiumMMX: Yeah

Kid: ...You ever play that game where you drive a car, and then this huge ant starts attacking the cty, and your car has guns and you get to kill it?

(I'm thinking "What's the title?")

PentiumMMX: No...Have you ever played "Diddy Kong Racing"?

Kid: Never heard of it...How about that game where you kill dinosaurs?

PentiumMMX: No...Ever play "Super Mario 64"?

Kid: ...You mean that old NES game?

(I'm thinking "It's for N64!" LOL )

Also, at Wal-Mart, I've heard parents going to Wal-Mart trying to find a game for their kid, who didn't give them the correct title (EXAMPLE 2):

Kid's Mom: Do you have "Super Hyper Ultra Mega Extreme" in stock?

(Wal-Mart Guy looks around what's on the shelf and searches what's hidden behind games that are "Popular" (Like "Super Princess Peach" behind a copy of "Tamagotchi DS" or whatever it was called))

Wal-Mart Guy: No...

...Anyway, that's all I've heard

[B - Mark]

I heard people call VGs and acessories in Brazil, my country:

Catridge - Tape

Joystick - Controller

Light Gun - Pistol

Peripherical - Acessorie

NES Clones / Famiclones - Generic Nintendo

[Jumpman Jr.]

Just the generalization that every console made by any company is called a 'Nintendo'

[evildead2099]

I think the worst for me, is when I was little my Grandma always called my GameBoy a PlayBoy...

The funny thing is, she still calls it by that name. You can't help but laugh when your in a crowded resturant(sp), with your family. And your Grandma asks if you brought your PlayBoy with you. LOL

LOL

Back when I was a kiddie, and I used to watch my step-brother play Zelda II, I used to refer to the game's palaces (as viewed from the overhead map) as Greeces (The word Greece, pluralized) since they resemble Greek citadels.

[dreamcaster]

Anytime I hear an American say "Say-ga" instead of "Se-ga", I cringe. :P

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Good lord. I hear this kind of thing everyday, but I'm polite, and don't correct people (I know what they're talking about, why embarrass them?)

My fave of all time happened to be this one though: A young boy and his mom come in to shop. They look around for a bit at Gamecube games, and the son picks one up and says "I want this one!" The mom takes it from him, and loudly starts asking: "Are you sure you want Monkey Balls? Do you know you'll like Monkey balls? Are you sure you'll play with Monkey Balls? You really want Monkey Balls? Okay, I'll buy you Monkey Balls."
I had to suppress a laugh while selling it to her.

Other quick ones I've been asked for:
"Male Tycoon" "or Mail Tycoon"? Either way...
"Mary Kate and Ashley Roller Coaster Tycoon" I couldn't convince this old lady that they were two separate games. She just kept looking at her note saying, "well, that's what I've got written down, so that must be it"
"Kalamari Dama..something"
"that game that was banned"
"do you have any games for regular nintendo"

somebody yesterday asked me if he could get a mod chip for his 360 that would allow him to play xbox games.

man: "can you play Ds games on...
me: "no"
man: "you can't play them on anything other than a ds"
me: "no"
man: "wouldn't a game boy player work?"
me: "no"
man: why not?
me: because your TV does not have two screens or a touch screen.
man: oh. (walks around for a while)
man: well, have you tried it?
me: what?! How do you expect me to try it, the cartridges wouldn't even fit in!
man: oh, that's too bad. I really wanted to play that new Mario 64 game. It looks really good. (yes, he was talking about the N64 port)

[X SMF X]

A friend of mine asked me one day if I collected or played At-eer-e games and systems. I finally figured out he meant Atari. He is very French and that is how he has pronounced it for years and years, I was the first to correct him.

I also commonly hear games referred to as vids. That one bothers me.

[Push Upstairs]

My fave of all time happened to be this one though: A young boy and his mom come in to shop. They look around for a bit at Gamecube games, and the son picks one up and says "I want this one!" The mom takes it from him, and loudly starts asking: "Are you sure you want Monkey Balls? Do you know you'll like Monkey balls? Are you sure you'll play with Monkey Balls? You really want Monkey Balls? Okay, I'll buy you Monkey Balls."
I had to suppress a laugh while selling it to her.

"Are you sure you'll play with Monkey Balls?"

Unreal and priceless. You are a stronger person than I because i would have to leave and laugh for, like, a hundred years after hearing all that yelled out. LOL LOL