JP game dorks are currently buzzing about this article on Famicom-era terminology that was picked up by Yahoo and other outlets—specifically, they're buzzing because this article presents a bunch of terms that they claim have faded away but were once common parts of the FC-era gaming lexicon... but nobody's ever heard of any of them: https://encount.press/archives/469766/ 🇯🇵
As it turns out, they were right to have not heard of any of them: the author swiped all this terminology from an ancient list of terms invented and submitted by individuals that were specifically only used by that person and/or their immediate peer group, and then tried to present them as part of a wider vocabulary common to all Famicom Kids: http://famicom.suppa.jp/yogo.html 🇯🇵
Someone out there will probably get a kick out of seeing their hyper-local kid-speak enshrined as part of gaming culture, but everyone else is wondering how this ever got published.
