Famicom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

    "School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms."

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nintendo

Example

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"The original Super Famicom versions of Dragon Quest V and VI went unreleased outside Japan."

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 (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

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