SpaceBooger wrote:My wife likes to point out when I die by saying "You died!" or something along those lines.
Sunday I was playing Rayman Origins and was trying to get a lum that required precise platforming and every time I would miss and fall to my death she would say "You missed it!"
I do love the woman, but like the title says "non-gamers say the darndest things."
Mine says: "Turn that off, you obviously suck, we should watch Castle instead."
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Stark wrote:Yeah I don't get this. Where does "Board" come from? I'm 33 and I wouldn't call it anything but level or stage.
It's the term used for arcade games back in the day. If you read about Donkey Kong or Pac Man you will see each stage called "a board" and lives called "men" or "ships".
Levels are a more modern term, probably from the NES days. Other than Gauntlet, which has a thematic reason for it, I don't think any 80s arcade game had levels.
Am I the only one who laughed at this?
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Stark wrote:Yeah I don't get this. Where does "Board" come from? I'm 33 and I wouldn't call it anything but level or stage.
It's the term used for arcade games back in the day. If you read about Donkey Kong or Pac Man you will see each stage called "a board" and lives called "men" or "ships".
Levels are a more modern term, probably from the NES days. Other than Gauntlet, which has a thematic reason for it, I don't think any 80s arcade game had levels.
Am I the only one who laughed at this?
I checked his profile to see if he's 40 or something, but no, he's 21.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
gtmtnbiker wrote:One word I wasn't used to was "Boss". This seems to get started with the NES.
I can't think of a lot of games that had bosses before the NES era. The few that come to mind are Phoenix and Gorf but I always called those mothership.
Ivo wrote:
From board games like Monopoly, I guess.
Ivo.
Old school arcade games like donkey kong used to call the levels boards
Didn't know that, thanks.
Presumably it does trace back to board games? Unless they stored each different level in a separate electronics board in the hardware, that is how I would make sense of calling a level / stage in arcade games a "board". That or the designs of the levels were drawn up in paper / cardboard before being implemented in the game and the name stuck from there?
I remember saying "boards". I think it had to do with each level being a single screen. For example, Pacman and Donkey Kong had boards. Phoenix, Bubbles, etc… boards.
