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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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* [[Colossal Cave Adventure]] |
* [[Colossal Cave Adventure]]—originally just called "Adventure"; called what it is now so as not to be confused with other games, inc. the Atari 2600 classic. |
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* The first ''[[Battletoads]]'' game for the [[Game Boy]] was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled ''Battletoads in Ragnarok's World''. |
* The first ''[[Battletoads]]'' game for the [[Game Boy]] was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled ''Battletoads in Ragnarok's World''. |
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* Subverted by ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Tiberian Dawn'', which was officialy known as such, but was almost always referred to as "Command and Conquer" until the release of Tiberian Sun. Played straight whenever you refer to the N64 version as TD, though, as it was always just called "Command and Conquer". |
* Subverted by ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Tiberian Dawn'', which was officialy known as such, but was almost always referred to as "Command and Conquer" until the release of Tiberian Sun. Played straight whenever you refer to the N64 version as TD, though, as it was always just called "Command and Conquer". |
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* PlayStation One (also known as PS1 or the [[Updated Rerelease]] PSOne) |
* PlayStation One (also known as PS1 or the [[Updated Rerelease]] PSOne) |
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** An inversion: the original PlayStation was once commonly referred by the gaming media as the PSX, a holdover from its development days back when it was called the "PlayStation X". Sony later used the PSX name for a DVD-R recorder that played [[Play Station 1]] and [[PlayStation 2]] games, much to the confusion of people who still used the PSX abbreviation when referring to the original PlayStation. |
** An inversion: the original PlayStation was once commonly referred by the gaming media as the PSX, a holdover from its development days back when it was called the "PlayStation X". Sony later used the PSX name for a DVD-R recorder that played [[Play Station 1]] and [[PlayStation 2]] games, much to the confusion of people who still used the PSX abbreviation when referring to the original PlayStation. |
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* The first two [[Super Bowl |
* The first two [[Super Bowl]]s were known at the time as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. The catchier name came about when one of the team owners saw his child playing with a rubber toy called a [[Line-of-Sight Name|Super Ball]]. |
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* Acoustic guitar (only called such after the electric kind was invented) |
* Acoustic guitar (only called such after the electric kind was invented) |
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* Corded phone and landline |
* Corded phone and landline |
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