Famicom
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from family + computer.
Noun
[edit]Famicom (plural Famicoms)
- 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 […]