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== Real Life ==
* PlayStation One (also known as PS1 or the [[Updated Rerelease]] PSOne)
** 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 [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] games, much to the confusion of people who still used the PSX abbreviation when referring to the original PlayStation.
* The first two [[Super Bowl|Super Bowls]] 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]].
* Acoustic guitar (only called such after the electric kind was invented)
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