XPost: alt.tv.nickelodeon, rec.games.video.classic, rec.games.video.nintendo
XPost: rec.games.video.atari
From: weaponx013@yahoo.com
jt august wrote:
> In article <9Iu4i.6957$xV.6936@trnddc05>,
> Scott H wrote:
>
>>> You have much to learn, young grasshopper. There was a time when VCRs
>>> came with remote controls and these controls had long wires connecting
>>> them to the VCR. The point was you didn't have to get up off the
>>> couch to fastforward and rewind, so it was a remote. Still, *I*
>>> wouldn't call a video game controller a remote in most cases.
>>>
>> That is news to me. It also somewhat invalidates my point. I was
>> mostly being intolerant in the first place. People are used to calling
>> things they hold in their hands that control something on the TV a
>> "remote," which is short for remote control.
>
> I'm not sure which part youa re saying is news to you. But if it is the
> remote to a vcr being wired. I can tell you from having sold vcrs back
> in 1982 at Video Concepts that it was a **BIG** deal when remotes went
> wireless. VCRs back then were selling $800-$1000 with wired remotes,
> and the first wireless were then running $1100-$1500. By Christmas that
> year, wireless was down to under $900.
Yeah, I thought you only had one point in that paragraph that dealt with
mine. I don't remember when we got our first VCR, but I think it was
closer to '87.
> As to the vernacular of calling a joystick a remote, this was done by
> the same "out of the loop" parents and old fogies that called game
> cartridges "tapes."
I remember parents primarily calling games "Nintendo" also. My
parents always pronounced SEGA "Sego" for some reason, and I've heard a
number of people over the years say it the same way. This could be made
into an example of how little research parents do before buying a game
console for their children.
--
Scott
http://www.gamepilgrimage.com
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