Famicom

English

Etymology

From Japanese ファミコン (Famicon), a shortening of ファミリーコンピューター (famirī konpyūtā), itself from English family computer.

Noun

Famicom (plural Famicoms)

1. A Nintendo Entertainment System (mostly in 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 […]

Derived terms

• Famiclone