Did anyone else know an utter maniac who called bosses captains
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The last captain.
The true final captain.
The secret captain.
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The mid-captain.
The second phase of the captain.
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One I always heard growing up is “clocked.” Haven’t heard it in years.
“Dude, you won’t believe how fast I clocked RE2 last night.”
“Ugh, I finally clocked Yoshi’s Island, thank god.”
Related: called extra lives “extra men.” That one stuck out to me even when I was, like, six. Weird.
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I can only condone this if it’s mans and not men
“I lost like, fifty mans”
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god
I bet you call health “blood” too
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my gf still says ‘win’ as in 'I can win Sonic 2 any time". it’s adorable.
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really grinds my gears when someone calls their character a “toon”
Not sure why
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“oh, i remember this board”
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I’m blocking notifications from this thread because reading it is going to make my health boil
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fyi I remember I called them “hips and mips” when I first played FF7.
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Board sucks
Level is optimal, stage is tolerable
I call them pinballs tables and it feaks everyone out
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When I was young, “extra mans” was the preferred term of a family who lived across the street. Their NES was connected to an alarm clock television with a screen that was only a few inches across.
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Cause it’s MMO shit
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i grew up with “board” for levels, “men” for lives, “tapes” for cartridges
i always liked the british (?) phrase “solved” a game but hated them calling fighting games “beat 'em ups”
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Yes this is it, thank you!!
A friend of mine called gamepad/controllers “paddles” and it drove me insane.
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Growing up in Swedish we used the word “varva” which directly translates into “lap”, as in when you lap around a slower driver in a car race for example, for finishing a game.
It probably made more sense back in the day when beating games would typically just cause them to loop back to the beginning or send you back to the title screen where your only option was to play again.
Probably why I haven’t heard it much in some time and mostly just seems to have been replaced by some variant of “beat”.
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disney-licensed mega drive games would refer to lives ingame as “tries”, and i think the manuals would say something weird like “chances to complete the game”
i assume this was some kind of disney licensing condition where characters weren’t allowed to die
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