Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nintendo Hard

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 07:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

"Nintendo Hard is an adjectival phrase used among older video game players when refering to games that are extremely challenging to play, or even unbalanced against the player." I removed a speedy tag from this article because it doesn't meet the criteria, but I agree that this neologism was probably made up on the spot. Rl 06:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete A dicdef we shouldn't transwiki.--DNicholls 07:01, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or -- redirect to Battletoads... but then again Mario was hard for me :( gren 07:18, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete The system works! Snargle 07:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This is an actual expression commonly used in the referenced gaming community. The original author was not very concise and used poor style, as well as jargon that could be perceived as nonsense by a reader who is not familiar with the subject. I cleaned the article up a bit so it is easier to understand.

References:

"This game is hard. Like, old-school Nintendo hard (appropriately enough). Like, sub-second-timing- with-a-four-pixel- margin-of-error- and-dying-restarts-the-entire-section hard." (http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/media/games)

"Actually, Zelda II is just plain hard. Not 'challenging'. Not 'difficult'. It's, as we say, 'NINTENDO HARD'.(http://gabtable.stalo.com/viewtopic.php?p=8123&sid=0f430ef53115e8a939ad5c9bb0a750de)

Freerick 10:02, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It apparently (as shown above) has been used in a couple reviews, but that doesn't make it significant enough. A Google search will get you about 1,700 hits, but none of the first few have anything to do with difficulty level. (They're all about a Nintendo Hard Case, "the economic downturn will hit Nintendo hard," etc. Really the reviews are just saying that a game in question is hard for Nintendo's levels. Like Rl says, it was probably made up on the spot. -newkai | talk | contribs 13:09, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete because it's a dicdef, but transwiki because I'll believe it's legitimate jargon. Sirmob 13:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm an avid gamer (almost exclusively Nintendo consoles), and I've never heard or come across this phrase without deliberately searching for it. I don't think it's established enough for an article, although I know what the author means. --Pagrashtak 15:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm a fairly avid gamer myself, and I've never heard this. It's a dicdef and caveman-cruft anyhow. Nintento hard. Article delete. Fernando Rizo T/C 17:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, never heard of this. K1Bond007 22:23, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete one level harder than Nintendo Hard, no transwiki since the consensus is this isn't widely used even among the console's users. Barno 00:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn phrase. JamesBurns 09:05, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, though I imagined "nintendo hard" is what gamers get when playing Nintendo. -R. fiend 15:56, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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