Annoying Video Game Terms or Pet Peeves

[Rickstilwell1]

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

Technically, if you had a Starpath Supercharger for your Atari 2600, they were indeed game tapes. The very first console RPG, Dragonstomper was on cassette tape. A version of Frogger was on cassette tape. There were various others as well, including a Breakout style game called "Fireball".

EGM should do some research and see that there is such thing as a game tape. They are just very old or were made for computer systems like the TRS-80 which had a tape drive as well.

But if the people are referring to cartridge games as tapes, that's where a line should be drawn.

[Rob2600]

if the people are referring to cartridge games as tapes, that's where a line should be drawn.

Maybe it was just a northeastern NJ thing, but throughout the 1980s, everyone I knew (adults and children) said "Atari tapes" and "Nintendo tapes."

I think my friends and I started calling them cartridges in the very late 1980s or very early 1990s.

[koshichka]

The only one coming to mind at the minute is on a certain other gaming board I won't name, they're a liiiiittle too quick to label everything "casual"....but anonymity brings out the worst in everyone.

[motley6]

bumpalicious

[bigbacon]

I hate acronyms in general. So like GOTY, I always just say or type it out though obviously some are ok like NES/SNES/SMS because that was there normal name for ages. No one ever said nintendo entertainment system except in commercials.

things like the "shmup" or whatever. Sucks because most of the time, I have no idea what they mean.

[BricatSegaFan]

I hate the word "Genny" idk why but ewww. Its a Genesis man....sheesh

[GNJMSTR]

-Got a few under 21 friends that like to refer to the Nintendo 64 as just a Nintendo, as if there was never any before it. Constantly thinking they're talking about the NES (which would be great).
-Best Seller rereleases. Like PlayStation's Greatest Hits. Why is it green!!?
-The PSX thing (for a PlayStation) is a bit annoying, because I want a PSX... I still use the PSX code tho, knowing I hate it.
-Game paddles are lame... That might come from Pong tho. Pong Paddles.
-NES as a word instead of letters.

But the thing that drives me the craziest is when I find a game I want to buy from a used game store and the guy says "oh, its missing the manual"... and I still buy it. Why even have it displayed in a case!?

on anouther note i own chinchillas, my girlfriend calls then "chinnies" and i call them "chillas" and she hates when i call them that...so i make a point to refer to them that way every chance i get

My chinnies love to chill. Guess my chinnies are chillas as well.

[Zap!]

-NES as a word instead of letters.

I know the vast majority say out the letters, but I have been saying NES (rhyming with mess) since the system was new. Why do most people say N-E-S? My logic is that if it's an abbreviated word that you can pronounce, say it. No one calls NASA N-A-S-A, just like no one says out the letters for I-H-O-P or M-I-L-F. So why don't they say NES? Don't get me wrong, if it's unpronounceable like PhD, OMG or SMS, by all means spell it out. But NES isn't like that.

[Alexander]

Games that take a lot of work and frustration to finish only to get a crumby ending with apparently not too much effort or thought put into it by the programmers.