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Re:Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after bu... by kotaKat on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:17PM (#44598330)
"Big N" is an older term from Nintendo. Think the giant rotating "N" from the Nintendo 64 logo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-h4oLctQc
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Re:Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after bu... by opello on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:58AM (#44601355)
I was trying to recall just how early "Big N" was a nickname for Nintendo, thinking it must have predated the Nintendo 64, but it took a bit of digging to find anything concrete:

https://archive.org/details/run-magazine-87/page/n17/mode/1u...

My naive first thought was "Captain N: The Game Master" but that wasn't quite "Big N." But it was fun to visit a bunch of old Nintendo-related articles.

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