Cool name for a portable: The Pretendo

turbolover · Post by **turbolover** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:32 pm

what do you think? I was going to call my portable that but I fried my NOAC and I need cash so I am selling my other stuff to cut my losses and move on with something else.

madhat · Post by **madhat** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:42 pm

I've taken it!!! Well, not for a portable per-se, but I make games with Game Maker (www.gamemaker.nl) and I call my game production company Pretendo Games. I don't have a website yet...

I think it is an awesome name, in fact I considered using it. It isn't really a "Pretend Nintendo", tho, so I never did. I've decided on the name "Game Man" as it will be held in a classic Game "Boy" case.

Did you hear the name on "Doug"? That's where my inspiration came from.

turbolover · Post by **turbolover** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:53 pm

Every great idea I have someone else has thought of. dammit!

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:39 pm

actually that was thought of long ago on Doug, you know Doug, that cartoon on Nick. Doug won a Super Pretendo on one episode.

Steve-o · Post by **Steve-o** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:47 am

Isn't that the one where he was the 1,000,000th customer or something?

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:07 am

err kevin hortons portendo people called it the pretendo (check his site)

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:50 am

Steve-o wrote:Isn't that the one where he was the 1,000,000th customer or something?

yeah that's the one, he was the 1,000,000th customer to the electronics store and he got totally absessed with the game system, and he didn't do a school paper because he was playing videogames

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:04 am

Dueling analogues uses the pretendo and super pretendo in "Games I'm glad were never made" series of comics.

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:44 am

How about Nofriendo?

-Super

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:10 am

Dangit, now I have to think of a cooler name.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:45 pm

The pretendo is also a NES emulator IIRC

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:57 pm

Since it has been used more than once, no matter who came up with it first, it has been plagurized once. >_> Do it anyways.

daleighan · Post by **daleighan** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:54 am

I used lameboy as the name for my snesp because it is so big

Geebs61 · Post by **Geebs61** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:58 pm

These are all nicknames that were given to the nintendo way back when it was first introduced. I remember hearing my older sister call it a Nofriendo way before we even had the internet in my house. We are talking before 1994 or 1995 here. I highly doubt anyone here has thought of some nickname that someone, somewhere has not already thought of.