Dolphin Lord Please Explain THIS....

In the "Crazy Auction" Thread you have this in your sig...

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If you use the term "AES" instead of "home system", you're tacitly supporting NGF.
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Why do you say this? The box on my Neo:Geo system clearly says Advanced Entertainment System... and since originally joining here in the forums in May of 2002 everyone always referred to it in short as "AES". Nor have I ever bought nor supported NGF, thus how does me using "AES" as a term make me an NGF supporter/symphatizer? I'm a little confused on this? Could you explain?

Thanks.

[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: MegaDrive 20XX ]</p>

he prolly put it in there to be sarcastic.

Oh jeez, not this again... I really need to update my signature. I'm working on a Neo Weblog which shall soon replace my craptacular/never updated buy/sell/trade page.

But anyway, I'll back to your question. Prior to NGF championing the "AES" acronym in either late 1999 or early 2000, (my memory has grown fuzzy) nobody in the on-line scene used that term to refer to the home cartridge system.

Arguably, Dion himself coined the term, and he rather forcibly thrust it upon the scene in one of the condescending messages he regularly posted to my now defunct Neo-Geo forum. To this day, people argue over the validity of using either "AES" (advanced entertainment system) or "NGH" (neo geo home) as an abbreviation for the home cart system. Decent rationalizations can be made in favor of either term, and it's clear that they're both here to stay; neither term will edge out the other this late in the so-called game. A number of heated threads have played out regarding this issue. Provided the search feature actually worked, you'd be able to look over some of the burnt out husks of these firey threads...

Personally, I prefer the NGH abbreviation, as it's free of NGF's foul taint, and seems more logical than "AES." My Atari Jaguar's box exclaims that it's an "Interactive Multimedia System", and yet nobody (to my knowledge) ever refers to said system as the "IMS." I don't begrudge anyone who still clings to "AES", but regardless of whatever anyone may claim, I still view it as a nonsensical and "freaked" term.

[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: DolphinLord ]</p>

Interesting indeed... I didn't know all of that. I always figured that was just what it was called. So Dion pushed it eh? Well Dion ain't getting my vote!

Guess I'll have to get used to NGH over AES that I've been abbreviating my home console as for the past year.

Thanks for the elaboration though. <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />

I think the real problem with the term is that no one used it before Dion. Some people say they did, but you know, some people are full of shit.

Back in the day, people called them "home carts."

Not sure why we need to use an acronym for everything. I mean, MVS cabinets had "MVS" displayed on the side and front mini marquees sometimes. But unless you really look for it, how the hell are you going to just spot the term "AES" on a home cart system? That's right. You can't. It just says Advanced Entertainment System. Of course, so does the Neo CD...

So like, whatever. Dion gave us a term that was both euphonic and catchy. Use it at your own discretion.