Famicom

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famikonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family +‎ computer.

Noun

Famicom (plural Famicoms)

  1. A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).
    • 1988, Shoji Shiba, Yuusuke Moryiama, Shigeki Yamasaki, Masanobu Abe, S. Nakae, M. Hasimoto, K. Tuno, Y. Fukuda, M. Taki, ““Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School or Home?””, in Blagovest Sendov, Ivan Stanchev, editors, Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 57:
      School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms.
    • 2022, Alyse Knorr, GoldenEye 007:
      After a trip to Tokyo at the end of 1983, a business partner of the Stampers had sent them a Nintendo Famicom

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