Nintendo
A Japanese multinational company that develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.
Proper noun
- A Japanese multinational company that develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 任(にん)天(てん)堂(どう) (Nintendō).
Derived
GCN N64 NDS NES NGC Nintendinitis Nintendium Nintendocore Nintendo generation Nintendo grifter Nintendo hard Nintendo thumb Nintendrone Ninty NoA NS NSO SNES
Noun
- A Nintendo Entertainment System, or other video game system made by Nintendo.
- Wanna play on my Nintendo after school?
- There is nothing wrong with the accoutrements of personal affluence, but if the numbers of personal stereos, Nintendos, mobile phones and cars grow […]. - 1995, David Gladstone, editor, British Social Welfare: Past,...
- These professionals are the sort whose children play with Nintendos and own bikes - 2005, Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt, page 280:
- Any video game console, especially by those not familiar with video games.
- Any popular product or activity.
- He was far more interested in bullfighting, which was the Nintendo of the day, only considerably more dangerous - 2007, Anthony Ham, Alison Bing, Morocco, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 34: