A Person Rephrases One Noun Yet Makes Several
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| AGES (4) | A Game (Ensemble Series) |
Jeff Anonymous, in reference to the "Age of Empires" series by Ensemble Studios, published by Microsoft (but available for Mac) and also as a response to the thread in the Acronyms forums which produced AGES. |
| CHEATS | Craves Having Easy Answers To Succeed |
Scott Higton... my kids buy PC games and after 10 minutes of play want me to download whatever cheats there are for it. Thought this an appropriate acronym for what they are doing... or anyone that butts up against a situation that requires some effort. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| DISC (2) | Does It Still Compile? |
Sean Lamb (DISC really means Digital Interactive Systems Corp., a company marketing a new computer-in-a-box gaming console) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| GAMER | Gathers Around Machines - Evading Reality |
Tony McCoy O'Gameboy |
| GRAAL | Game Really Addicts, Albeit Latency |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the game found at http://graalonline.com |
| MIDWAY | Microsoft Is Developing Widgets Attracting Youth |
Sean Lamb (Midway was Microsoft's code name for the Xbox) Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| MMORPG | Morons Mindlessly Overdoing Redundantly Programmed Game |
Sporkmaster (MMORPG usually stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| MYST | Might You Struggle Through? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NETHACK | Neat, Everything's Text! Heroic "At" Creams Kobolds. |
Sporkmaster |
| PACMAN | Positively A Classic Macversion Available Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| POINT OF VIEW | Personal Opinion Is Not The Only Form... Vectors In Electronic Worlds. |
Angela Brett (many 3D computer games allow changing your point of view.) |
| POKE BALL | Point Of Knockout Evaded By A Little Luck |
Angela Brett (to capture a wild pokemon in a poke ball, you must weaken it but not enough to make it faint.) |
| POKEMON (2) | Pricey, Omnipresent Kiddies Entertainment, Marketing Of Nintendo |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| POKEMON (3) | Parents Of Kiddies Express Misery Over Nintendo |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| POKEMON (4) | Plenty Of Kiddies Expend Money, Often, Needlessly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| POKEMON (5) | Picks On Kids, Eventually Makes One Numb/Nervous |
Jan Morgan |
| POKEMON (6) | Picks On Kids, Eventually Makes One Nostalgic |
Jan Morgan -- Memories of our own childhood? |
| POKEMON (7) | Pastime Of Kids, Emerges Matches Of Nonsense |
Jan Morgan |
| POKEMON (8) | Pray Our Kids Expect More Of Nintendo/Networks! |
original, inspired by existing Pokemon apronyms |
| POKEMONS | Perhaps Our Kids Expend Money On Needless Sh*t |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| POKENYMS | Pokemon Original Kreations. Even Nicer, You Might Say. |
Jeff Anonymous, because some Pokemon acronyms might be more interesting than actual Pokemon. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| SEGA | System Emulating Gaming Arcade |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| THE SIMS (3) | Try Having Every Sim In Motion Simultaneously! |
In The Sims, time passes only for one household at a time |
| THE SIMS (2) | Ten Houses? Extremely Small If Many Sims! |
SeaHen |
| YAHOO | Yak At Hearts Opponents Online |
Angela Brett (Hearts is one of the games available at http://games.yahoo.com, you can converse or 'yak' with other players while playing.) Computers:Internet |