regional game slang

[MrSparkle]

Alright so I've noticed people in the south in the us tend to call carts tapes (ie nes tapes). what other regional game slang can you think of?

[dlopez9069]

Actually im from the south and I've never heard tapes. But I have noticed the south uses broad genres for example we don't use FPS of TPS just shooter.

[GnawRadar]

I'm not sure if this is regional but I've heard regular genesis and NES controllers been called paddles or remotes before.

[EX-Soldier]

Alright so I've noticed people in the south in the us tend to call carts tapes (ie nes tapes). what other regional game slang can you think of?

i dont know if that whole "tape" thing was exclusive to the south or if it even originated there at all, growing up we called all 8 bit & 16 bit era games "tapes" in nyc and jersey area, possibly connecticut as well but dont quote me on that

[CelticJobber]

I live in the south, but I've only heard a few old people refer to videogames as "Nintendo tapes".

[DefaultGen]

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[EX-Soldier]

They're incorrect. Gradius is a shooter.

then you sir would be wrong, technically its a shoot-em-up or shmup =(

[Icarus Moonsight]

No, shooter being used as a term to refer to FPS games is just recent common use. It is still, technically, incorrect. Fuck common use.

DefaultGen is also half wrong... Gradius is an awesome shooter.

[NayusDante]

I always resented use of the term "beat the game" to describe finishing or completing a game, something I heard commonly growing up in Florida. As the NES Games Without Ending thread shows, there is no way to "beat" the game, and "beating" a game just sounds wrong anyway.

[Damaramu]

No, shooter being used as a term to refer to FPS games is just recent common use. It is still, technically, incorrect. Fuck common use.

So true. I HATE "shmup" and refuse to use it.

[TonyTheTiger]

I'm finding it less used now, but it used to be pretty common to call levels "boards."

[segagamer]

I also agree with others that I HATE the term "shmup" and refuse to use it. I will always use the term "shooter" for horizontal, vertical, or 3rd person scrolling shooters. FPS is not "shooter," and I don't like them at all.

[jb143]

I'm finding it less used now, but it used to be pretty common to call levels "boards."

My wife calls them boards. I'd never heard it before then so I figured it was just her

[pookninja]

all fps and shoot-em-ups were always just called shooters in my neck of the woods.(doom is a shooter,gradius is a shooter)until the last few years.now doom is called fps and gradius is still called a shooter.i still refer to all fps and shoot-em-ups as shooters.im getting older and hate change.

[EX-Soldier]

I'm finding it less used now, but it used to be pretty common to call levels "boards."

damn u just took me back, completely 4got about that

[robotriot]

In German, we use the English term Jump 'n' Run for platform games. I was very surprised to learn that this wasn't the normal term for that genre in English back when I first read of "platform games". Also, we called all fighting games Beat 'em Ups, and I am not aware of any distinctive term for versus fighting games (Street Fighter) and actual beat 'em ups (Streets of Rage). From what I can remember, "shmups" have always been called Shoot 'em Ups as well since the 1980s, while the term (Ego-)shooter refers to FPS games.

[MrRoboto19XX]

I'm finding it less used now, but it used to be pretty common to call levels "boards."

I recall more than a few people calling them "Screens" as well.

[MrSparkle]

my uncle used to call levels boards. he also used to refer to ANY type of warp as a warp pipe (hailing back to super mario bros 1). though i doubt these are really regional terms as he lives in essentially the same region as myself, hes just a bit eccentric. (before the internet this guy was my answer to getting stuck in video games, just call him up and if he isnt familiar with the game he could at least reason out what to do next over the phone)

[jb143]

I'm not sure how regional it is but a lot of people will call extra lives extra guys or extra men.

The hard part about comming up with lists of regional sayings is that it's hard to recognise your way as not being the "different" way. I always called the game system a "system" so I just assume everyone else did as well, so when I hear it called a deck it sounds silly...even though that's what the manual called it.

[TonyTheTiger]

my uncle used to call levels boards. he also used to refer to ANY type of warp as a warp pipe (hailing back to super mario bros 1).

I think that's pretty common for certain high profile games to have their terminology trump the generic term. Kind of like how certain brand names become the norm. Band-Aid instead of bandage, Crisco instead of shortening, Ipod instead of MP3 player, etc. In fighting games, people often refer to perfects as flawless victories or flawlesses. Any death move becomes "fatality." Quarter-circle forward motions are referred to as "Hadouken-moves."