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[klaus]

Dip switches.

Argh, finding out about them killed my faith in the world way more than realizing Santa is not real - if you can't even rely on Arcade games being fair and are depending on their operator's good will, nothing is guaranteed :S

 

[javac]

Blast Processing. Shits radical yo!

 

[Roto13]

Cheat codes are now called micro transactions and we pay money for them.

What is this mythical game I keep hearing about where you can buy invincibility and infinite ammo and stuff?

 

[gblues]

"isometric"

"scroller"

"icon driven"

showing me age now....

Oh God, you reminded me of the Great UI Wars of the mid-90's.. parser vs icon-driven.

Spoiler

icon driven FTW.. fuck "guess the verb" puzzles

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Balance

Difficulty

Character building

Choice...oh, you didn't mean jargon whose real, proper meaning is extinct. I appologize.

Complexity

Emergent Gameplay

That name was actually coined recently to define what was largely taken for granted in days of yore.

 

[angular graphics]

Demo.. most definitely, demo.

 

[klaus]

Master and Slave IDE is probably an extinct term as well.

Ha, setting (bridging?) jumpers is the only respectable way of changing bits!

 

[manzoman96]

Computer games

Link cable

cd-roms

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

Joystick

17, and all my friends think it's weird I still call the controllers joysticks sometimes

Well, because it is weird. Don't take it as an offense though. You're 17yo you say? I was using a Joypad before you were born! You referring to Joypads as Joystick is kind of an anachronism.

Oh, since it felt weird to me to write "Joypad". I believe, "controller" is the preferable term now, isn't it?

 

[VLiberty]

Memory Card.

*looks at his Vita*

*sighs*

60 FPS. i kid.

Spoiler

sort of

*sighs again*

 

[The Cartographer]

Referring to the Dreamcast and PS2 as the "128-bit era".

Remember when people actually did that?

I still do.

 

[PlumCantaloupe]

"Original"

Spoiler

haha I kid ... mostly

 

[klaus]

Well, because it is weird. Don't take it as an offense though. You're 17yo you say? I was using a Joypad before you were born! You referring to Joypads as Joystick is kind of an anachronism.

Oh, since it felt weird to me to write "Joypad". I believe, "controller" is the preferable term now, isn't it?

Now hold on for a second, there is and has been a clear distinction between joystick and joypad for ages now - joysticks have sticks and joypads have - you wouldn't guess it - directional pads. I've been using joysticks and joypads as well way before he / she has been born

vs.

 

[Rest]

"Attract Mode." I don't much care bout the phrase, but I miss the actual material it referred to.

 

[Poofynamanama]

In gay jargon a twink is a relatively young, "hairless" and thin dude.

The term for mmo is all but dead because the best gear is character bound or there's a level limit on what you can wear. I haven't really seen an example of character "twinking" since Lineage 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIoinCRQVA

 

[manzoman96]

Well, because it is weird. Don't take it as an offense though. You're 17yo you say? I was using a Joypad before you were born! You referring to Joypads as Joystick is kind of an anachronism.

Oh, since it felt weird to me to write "Joypad". I believe, "controller" is the preferable term now, isn't it?

Even "controller" is starting to be forgotten by kids. Because of the wii, little kids refer to controllers as "remotes" now.

Spoiler

Just like older people used to. I guess it has come full circle.

 

[Princess Viola]

Joystick

17, and all my friends think it's weird I still call the controllers joysticks sometimes

I call them gamepads often. Or just pad.

 

[klaus]

I call them gamepads often. Or just pad.

That's OK for everything that doesn't have sticks (like arcade sticks or a flight sim joystick) - joystick (at least to my knowledge) clearly points to devices with a protruding stick, while pads are more "flat". Both words have been used for a long time now, it seems the more neutral "controller" is being used more often nowadays..

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

Now hold on for a second, there is and has been a clear distinction between joystick and joypad for ages now - joysticks have sticks and joypads have - you wouldn't guess it - directional pads. I've been using joysticks way before he / she has been born

That's my point! His exposure to actual Joysticks should have been very limited, compared to us 70s/80s folks. Lots of my friends used to call the NES pads "Joysticks", simply out of habit. The difference between these two input devices was very obvious but the term just fossilised in our vocabulary.

 

[klaus]

That's my point! His exposure to actual Joysticks should have been very limited, compared to us 70s/80s folks. Lots of my friends used to call the NES pads "Joysticks", simply out of habit. The difference between these two input devices was very obvious but the term just fossilised in our vocabulary.

Ah I see ^^ Well on Amiga / PC there have been quite a few games using joysticks (analog or digital), so I thought the word joystick was still common at least until the late 90s, when consoles had long since changed to joypads..

 

[GoaThief]

Proper map names and variations based around gametype, dm1 dm2 dm3, etc.

Disk instead of disc.

Shell (as in Amiga/DOS shell)

Phrases for different types of death, eg;

[player] rode GoaThief's rocket

[player] was boiled

Or my personal favourite of all time for a shotty frag

[player] accepted GoaThief's load

Also miss the days when different nerd or game culture insults were used instead of the highly distasteful and unoriginal "fag" (and it's ilk) that seems to be prevalent these days.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

passwords
copybox
demoscene intro's/trainers

funny how some have made a return like voxels and rocket jumping

 

[klaus]

funny how some have made a return like voxels and rocket jumping

And some have even got new names: chiptunes, pixelart, retrogaming *yuck*

 

[ItIsOkBro]

"game over"

 

[stef t97]

"Low"

I guess it got replaced by noob though. Or maybe it was only a PC thing to begin with.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

• Owned
• Wasted
• Pwned
• Any form of leet speak, I.E. pwn3d
• Lamers
• Blast Processing
• Bits
• Cartridge is on its way out
• Memory card is also on its way out
• Newb

 

[DJMicLuv]

The ubiquitous RS-232 Interface lead...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDlj0jBtYmQ

 

[klaus]

"game over"

"Get Ready, Player One"

• Newb

Haven't spotted the original term yet, which would be Newbie.

 

[blurrygil]

"Bits" (In the context of referring to Console power)

Memory Card.

"FMV" to refer to any prerendered cutscenes.

Shareware.

Energy when referring to health.

Good ones.

I remember some people calling bosses "masters".

You sir, are on fire in my mind!

I flipped Super Mario without even using any warp zones.

Ahhhhh, the term of flipping a game. Another good one!

Gibs (used a lot back in the days of Doom and Quake)

This was my first thought.

I will never understand how people called levels in a game "boards".

This is common in classic gaming, especially arcade gaming. And more so in reference to the Golden Era of arcade games. I play competitively and I almost never refer to them as levels; it's almost always boards.

A "2 Player game"

Now we call it co-op or versus.

The "main game"

Now we call it the campaign, with the recognition that multiplayer is as important or moreso depending on title.

This is true. Well put.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Expansion Pack

 

[NekoFever]

People, at least locally, would often call a PSX or maybe even a PS2 a ’Sony'.

PSX is kind of a term that's fallen out of favour. It used to be the main abbreviation for the original PlayStation, but now more people seem to stick with PS1.

 

[enzo_gt]

local multiplayer

 

[romulus91]

i "clocked" that game already

 

[Laieon]

"Systems" when referring to consoles. Console wasn't really a popular word in North America until the 2000s.

And once upon a time, jRPG was just "RPG".

I don't know, I still hear "system" a lot more than I do console.

 

[ReBurn]

I remember when people called cartridges 'tapes' in the 2600 days.

 

[klaus]

I remember when people called cartridges 'tapes' in the 2600 days.

Wasn't there also the term "module" for cartridges? Tha'ts at least what we called them in German..

 

[Ruruja]

i "clocked" that game already

Argh, thought I'd be the only one to say this! *soclose*

That and "comped".

 

[ReBurn]

Wasn't there also the term "module" for cartridges? Tha'ts at least what we called them in German..

I remember Colecovision had a module that let you play Atari 2600 games.

 

[botty]

Turn Based.

 

[Vitet]

config.sys

autoexec.bat

Every PC gamer in the 80s and 80s knew those two files. Today I think it's pretty amazing that my really young self knew how to handle the editing of those files in order to free memory.

Stuff of nightmares right here:

 

[Halph n Halph]

Coin-op conversion.
Program
Machine code
Infinite lives
Poke
Colour clash
Rom

 

[MaLDo]

After pong/football machine, videogames became "digital" instead of "analogic".

Volume control in amstrad external tape to increase the succesful loading rate.

"Loading sound"

VHS "demos".

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

Wasn't there also the term "module" for cartridges? Tha'ts at least what we called them in German..

I don't think "module" is used for or even related to cartridges in english speaking regions. But yeah, the german term for a ROM cartridge is "Modul". Any non-english GAF here where cartridge had an own term? Cartucho?

 

[Parakeetman]

autoexe.bat
config.sys
dos/v

 

[seg7]

classic

 

[Ivan 3414]

Cel-shaded

Used to describe every "cartoony" game.

 

[revolverjgw]

Back home we used to say a game was "rescued" when it was finished. It could be about kart racing and you still said the game was "rescued", based on Mario of course.

Also, hit points were always refered as "blood", even if you were destroying a tank in Contra or whatever, enemies had "blood", you had "blood", you were "lowering their blood down".

This might not have applied to everyone though but in my family and group of friends it was like that.

Oh also using "Atari" as a name for any console.

Spoiler

Yes I'm old.

Blood? Probably the only jargon in here that I've never heard before. Weirdo.

 

[injurai]

I try as hard as I can to keep scrub alive.

config.sys

autoexec.bat

Every PC gamer in the 80s and 80s knew those two files. Today I think it's pretty amazing that my really young self knew how to handle the editing of those files in order to free memory.

What this is still a frequent thing for me, and I'm definitely an oughts gamer. Though it's often the .ini files these days.

 

[eKongDiddy]

Well, because it is weird. Don't take it as an offense though. You're 17yo you say? I was using a Joypad before you were born! You referring to Joypads as Joystick is kind of an anachronism.

Oh, since it felt weird to me to write "Joypad". I believe, "controller" is the preferable term now, isn't it?

Now hold on for a second, there is and has been a clear distinction between joystick and joypad for ages now - joysticks have sticks and joypads have - you wouldn't guess it - directional pads. I've been using joysticks and joypads as well way before he / she has been born

I guess it's just because that's what my family called everything when I was younger. I used to play and get these kind of games when I was younger:

When I started getting into consoles, I guess the name just stood with me.

 

[santi_yo]

"Look, a new trailer for The Last Guardian"