Nintendo

From Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂株式会社), the Japanese video game manufacturer, from Japanese 任天堂 (Nintendō, “Luck of Heaven”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪnˈtɛndəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɪnˈtɛndoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndəʊ

Nintendo

1. (video games, trademark) Nintendo (Japanese company)

Nintendo (plural Nintendos)

1. (video games) A Nintendo Entertainment System, or other video game system made by Nintendo.

   Wanna play on my Nintendo after school?

   • 1995, David Gladstone, editor, British Social Welfare: Past, Present, and Future, page 274:

     There is nothing wrong with the accoutrements of personal affluence, but if the numbers of personal stereos, Nintendos, mobile phones and cars grow […].

   • 2005, Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt, page 280:

     These professionals are the sort whose children play with Nintendos and own bikes

   • 2005, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad, page 128:

     Franz: “How do elves make Nintendos?” Dad: “You ask all the hard questions, don't you? I really don't know.”

   • 2007, Ilene Schneider, Chanukah Guilt, page 106:

     The only message at home was from my nephew, letting me know my mother was back home, safe and sound, except for a sore "Nintendo thumb".

2. (video games, by extension) Any video game console, especially by those not familiar with video games.
3. (broadly) Any popular product or activity.
   • 2007, Anthony Ham, Alison Bing, Morocco, Lonely Planet,, →ISBN, page 34:

     He was far more interested in bullfighting, which was the Nintendo of the day, only considerably more dangerous

• Famicom (chiefly Japan)
• NES