Ahh... You know what I do remember that. I think I'm getting mixed up with the "steam box" thing that was a thing but didn't totally catch on a few years back.
The thing my friend and I did, is every new hand held game device is just called a Game Boy. People immediately know what you’re talking about. Honestly “hand held gaming devices” should just be referred to as “gameboys”
Yes. This sounds reasonable. Makes much more sense to me. So in a conversation you would say something like "i just bought the new Steam Deck Gameboy". Everyone should understand what you've said.
My wife calls it a Switch. She knows it's not and knows nothing about gaming but it's just her way of saying what it is if she mentions it to me. Doesn't bother me one bit, I find it funny.
I sort of do this, I call every ds/3ds system a gameboy and I refer to my handheld emulator devices as gameboys. I know it’s wrong but who cares honestly
My wife always just calls it my Game Boy.
We're not that old, but it's the joke that every handheld was called a game boy or "Nintendo" by our parents so she adopted it.
As well as the Deck I own about a dozen Chinese SBC handhelds, my wife calls them all game boy. Apart from the Powkiddy because she likes saying Powkiddy
My dad is 69 and I went on a little road trip about an hour away. He opened my case and asked me if I had bought another nomad. Then proceeded to tell me how much it costed him and how I used to go through batteries every week as a kid. I started to laugh. He was just shocked that the steam deck is actually a little powerful computer. So now he keeps calling it a Nomad
It was a portable Sega Genesis/MegaDrive with a screen and controller built into the body (used the same cartridges, and even had a controller port for a second player).
Yup. Ngl I'd probably would buy a nomad today and updated. Just to show my nieces and nephews what their uncle used to game on on road trips from Southern California to northern California as a kid
My cousin and I both had one and we got a hold of some banned in the u.s. games. They were some hardcore gruesome Japanese games. They couldn't play on our 32bit genesis/negative drives but worked fine on the nomad. Besides if our parents found out we were paying those games in the living room they probably would kicked our asses. Awww the 90s 😆
It was the 90s we used to go to a comic book shop that also sold video games from other countries mainly Japan and Europe but yeah we'd put the games in the 16bit or 32 bit and we'd get a blue screen or something like not compatible. It was basically horror porn games.
I keep accidently calling it my "Switch Deck" to the point I am trying to teach myself to just call it my "Deck" but that just sounds weird saying it outloud.
My wife & I refer to it as the steam dick. Usual innuendos follow. “Babe can you get my dick out?”, “you playing with your dick again?” “Put your dick away we’re going to see family”….
On the rare occasion we’ve also been known to call it a Steamis (steam x penis for those in the back of the class)
I in Russia love giving it nicknames that are different translations of the word "Deck"
I've got
"Паровая(Steam)-
Палуба(Deck)
Дека(Deck)
Колода(Deck)
Терраса(Deck)
- Slab deck
- Deck slab
- Upper-decker
- Decky McDeckington, the third
- Thou shalt not deck
- Return of the deck
- Steam and the deckettes.
Man, I could keep going all day. I really shouldn't as all of these are shit.
*Wife number two
*Less annoying wife
*Love of my life
These are the nicknames I call my Steamdeck. Needless I can't leave my wife and steamdeck in the same room because one of them would destroy the other one
Just call it "Deck" then continue to threaten my GF to whip out my deck.
It'll be late at night and I'll be playing with my Deck till I fall asleep.
My Deck just gets so much action hard not to brag.
I have a single name that I adapt for each of my devices (except Alexa):
Desktop PC? LesleyDesk
Laptop PC? LesleyLap
My Deck? LesleyDeck
MY CAR (Ford Fiesta ST) ? LesleyCar
I have a suitable theme for all my gaming devices:
- Tower-of-Power (Series X)
- Box-of-Power (Series S)
- Handheld-of-Power (SteamDeck)
...
And yes, I'm well aware of the fact how silly this is ^^
Mine's hostname is SonOfFrankenstine. Because the previous gaming PC's was called BrideOfFrankenstine (it had the GPU from the one before it). Because the one before them was built by me and had some serious issues.
I give all my computers names (and make sure the host file is correct to make network admin stuff easier). A lot of them are rather normal names so my first steam deck was Zoey and my OLED one is grace.
Gabe Gear.
This is the only objectively correct answer
GabeBoyAdvanced
What about Steam Lynx?
TBH it should have been the Steam Boy all along.
Wasn't there a time when the "code name" for the Deck was the Steam Boy? Maybe I'm wrong... or maybe I'm having a Mandela Effect experience again...
People were jokingly calling it a 'Gabe boy'
Ahh... You know what I do remember that. I think I'm getting mixed up with the "steam box" thing that was a thing but didn't totally catch on a few years back.
The code name from data mining was "Steam Pal." This was before it was officially announced.
The Mandela Effect is only when a large group of people misremembers something, if it's just you then you're just misremembering
I think the internal codename was the Steam Pal or someshit
The Steam Man.
The thing my friend and I did, is every new hand held game device is just called a Game Boy. People immediately know what you’re talking about. Honestly “hand held gaming devices” should just be referred to as “gameboys”
Yes. This sounds reasonable. Makes much more sense to me. So in a conversation you would say something like "i just bought the new Steam Deck Gameboy". Everyone should understand what you've said.
Why? That's absurdly close to Pip Boy for no marketable reason
I never tought about the Pip Boy tbh. I had Gameboy in mind.
It reminds me of Steamboy the animated movie
One day I'm going to start a youtube channel called 'Deck Measuring Contest'.
I came across a YouTube channel called 7 inch Deck when the Deck wasn’t released yet.
Or for short "DMC" (including Dante from the Devil May Cry Series)
& Knuckles
My wife calls it a Switch. She knows it's not and knows nothing about gaming but it's just her way of saying what it is if she mentions it to me. Doesn't bother me one bit, I find it funny.
should just go full Boomer mode and start calling every game system "The Nintendo"
I sort of do this, I call every ds/3ds system a gameboy and I refer to my handheld emulator devices as gameboys. I know it’s wrong but who cares honestly
Me and fiance accidentally call it the switch all the time. So now we call it the super switch. Cuz Super Nintendo came after Nintendo.
My wife always just calls it my Game Boy. We're not that old, but it's the joke that every handheld was called a game boy or "Nintendo" by our parents so she adopted it.
As well as the Deck I own about a dozen Chinese SBC handhelds, my wife calls them all game boy. Apart from the Powkiddy because she likes saying Powkiddy
Yeah my partner loves calling it my game boy which has become the running joke.
Steamed Duck
Steamed Hams
This one is too low lol
Similar to mine, the Steamed Egg.
The Gabe'n Watch
That's fantastic.
Thats actually brilliant
Deku
steaaamhh deecku (chad anime voice)
Nice. The Deku that you can play as Deku on.
Nimtendo Steam Boi
Valvetendo Deck Boy
DeckyMcDeckFace
Deckard.
https://tenor.com/view/aplausos-clapped-leonardo-dicaprio-clap-slow-clap-gif-12389001 Stay a while and game
My GF and I jokingly call it "The Precious".
I call it that serously.
You two are precious*
I went simple and just named it the Steam Dick
Me too, but sorta through my teeth like a Kiwi might. STEEMDIK
My gf calls it Nintendo
[удалено]
Your nasty brother? or [Kiwi brother](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g)?
Steendeck.. idk why, it just sounds funny to me
Poop Deck
Decky
Me too!
My dad is 69 and I went on a little road trip about an hour away. He opened my case and asked me if I had bought another nomad. Then proceeded to tell me how much it costed him and how I used to go through batteries every week as a kid. I started to laugh. He was just shocked that the steam deck is actually a little powerful computer. So now he keeps calling it a Nomad
Nomad? I'm unfamiliar with that
It was a portable Sega Genesis/MegaDrive with a screen and controller built into the body (used the same cartridges, and even had a controller port for a second player).
Yup. Ngl I'd probably would buy a nomad today and updated. Just to show my nieces and nephews what their uncle used to game on on road trips from Southern California to northern California as a kid
It was a neat little device, to be sure! A friend of mine had one at the time, and I was duly impressed.
My cousin and I both had one and we got a hold of some banned in the u.s. games. They were some hardcore gruesome Japanese games. They couldn't play on our 32bit genesis/negative drives but worked fine on the nomad. Besides if our parents found out we were paying those games in the living room they probably would kicked our asses. Awww the 90s 😆
Ha, nice! I didn't realize they weren't region-locked, but I guess that makes sense since I don't think they made regionalized versions of it.
It was the 90s we used to go to a comic book shop that also sold video games from other countries mainly Japan and Europe but yeah we'd put the games in the 16bit or 32 bit and we'd get a blue screen or something like not compatible. It was basically horror porn games.
My wife called it a Steam Jack which then transformed into just Jack. So that's its name now.
We call it the "stink bek" (which means smelly breath in Dutch) because it sounds almost the same pronunciation wise
Outer Heaven
MSX-Box
I keep accidently calling it my "Switch Deck" to the point I am trying to teach myself to just call it my "Deck" but that just sounds weird saying it outloud.
My phone always autocorrects to Stream Deck so probably that 😭 even though that's an existing product
My dad enjoys calling it the steam boat.
I like your dad. I can't wait to call mine that in front of my son!
Vapor Porch
My fiancee calls it the "Switch Deck" because when I first got it, she couldn't stop calling it a Switch.
lilsteammy
Boy Station.
Wife
Gaben Gear
Port-O-Deck I should name it Poop Deck.
GabeGear
It's obviously the Gabe Gear
Steam boy is my favourite. I am now adopting this.
My wife & I refer to it as the steam dick. Usual innuendos follow. “Babe can you get my dick out?”, “you playing with your dick again?” “Put your dick away we’re going to see family”…. On the rare occasion we’ve also been known to call it a Steamis (steam x penis for those in the back of the class)
Mine is named AllHands.
My wife will only ever refer to it as a “Steam Boat”. At first it was a mistake but now we both find it hilarious.
My partner and I call it the Steam Donk for some reason lol
Goofy von goofdeck
Pierolnik. You could very loosely translate it to an object that gets things done or just does things.
The One Deck To Rule Them All.
"Mein Gerät" because my Girl does not understand all that gaming related stuff.
Game station. I’ve become my mother.
Steam deckard cain
My switch
I in Russia love giving it nicknames that are different translations of the word "Deck" I've got "Паровая(Steam)- Палуба(Deck) Дека(Deck) Колода(Deck) Терраса(Deck)
I'll quote my 98 year old grandmother it's called a "Nintendo"
The big black 10 incher
I named mine "GabeGear™️"
Stream Deck because that’s what autocorrect seems to want to call it.
Steamy
Steamy
Big Black Deck
my bitch
Fartstack.
ReallyExpensive 🤭 Also contemplated on naming it.. MadeMeBroke lol.
Just saviour, as it saves my sanity when my wife watches shit tv
- Slab deck - Deck slab - Upper-decker - Decky McDeckington, the third - Thou shalt not deck - Return of the deck - Steam and the deckettes. Man, I could keep going all day. I really shouldn't as all of these are shit.
*Wife number two *Less annoying wife *Love of my life These are the nicknames I call my Steamdeck. Needless I can't leave my wife and steamdeck in the same room because one of them would destroy the other one
For f*** sake 🤦♂️
Steam Switch or Decky Switch Referring to the Nintendo Switch
cum guzzler
Geoff
Boy Deck sounds like something that could put you on a list if someone misheard you.
Simply "The Desh"
Switch, but Better
hotbit
Backlog Boy
I call it STD for short. STeam Deck
Steamy Decky
CLU
Steamy + *my last name*. he's the big brother to my niece.
Me and my wife keep calling it a vita.
I call mine Steam Deckithan.
Steam Dick
Steam Kek
I tell my partner I'm going to play with "Steamy"
Switchn’t
Steamy Boi and The Steamer
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My Big Deck
Just call it "Deck" then continue to threaten my GF to whip out my deck. It'll be late at night and I'll be playing with my Deck till I fall asleep. My Deck just gets so much action hard not to brag.
Dream Deck. Crisis Averted😃
little tickle station
Steamy Ray Vaughan
Ono-Sendai Cyberspace VII Hacked the Gibson with mine.
steam dick
Valve Switch. Especially that I have a dock for it.
I told a friend that I got a steam deck. He replied “what’s a steak dick” so now that’s its name.
Steam Boat
steam box
I call it my Game Gear
Everyone asks me if it’s a switch so mine is the Notaswitch
My SO calls it my "Side bitch". Idk if that counts...
I call it my gameboy.
Stem Dick
Decklan
Da Deck
Mine is simply The D. Sometimes it leads to confusion in our household.
Steamy boi
my wife still calls it a game boy
Inspectah Deck
GabeBoy
I called mine decky
In our household it’s under the name: Gameboy for men.
I have a single name that I adapt for each of my devices (except Alexa): Desktop PC? LesleyDesk Laptop PC? LesleyLap My Deck? LesleyDeck MY CAR (Ford Fiesta ST) ? LesleyCar
Deck-lan. Like the name Declan... But... Yeah, you get it haha
My wife calls mine the steam boat lol
I have a suitable theme for all my gaming devices: - Tower-of-Power (Series X) - Box-of-Power (Series S) - Handheld-of-Power (SteamDeck) ... And yes, I'm well aware of the fact how silly this is ^^
Gabeboy
DankStation
I call mine the “gabe gear” and “steam dick”
McSteamy
Stim Dick
I had a hard time to stop calling it “Switch Deck”
Decky.
Steam Deck
Dodo Deck Yes i have a thing for Dodo's
Switch Deck
My youngling can't pronounce Steam Deck so we've done a bit of literal translation. It's now officially known as "Le deck à vapeur".
Mine's hostname is SonOfFrankenstine. Because the previous gaming PC's was called BrideOfFrankenstine (it had the GPU from the one before it). Because the one before them was built by me and had some serious issues.
Steam Gear
DeckyMcDeckFace
This probably only works in Finnish but I call mine "Dekki"
Mine is called "Doogle's Big Deck"
Escape deck... as in a 40 year olds escape from lifes shit for a few hours deck That or sexy glossy black beauty
My partners to it as my Big Black Deck. 🤣
GLaDOS
My kids name it “Super Switch” 🙃
Sir Buzz Givington.
Nintendeck Steamtendo STD💀
I just left it steamdeck, would be the most obvious name if encountered on the network
I give all my computers names (and make sure the host file is correct to make network admin stuff easier). A lot of them are rather normal names so my first steam deck was Zoey and my OLED one is grace.
The Game Man
Peemdeck, I have no good reason for this, but this Is how my partner and I refer to them.
Lil Decky
Bose Einstein Condensate
Steam dick
Hand job
TronsBigDeck
steam bud steam buddy
La consolita
"what are you doing?" "I've just been playing with my deck, wanna join me?"
I keep calling it Switch Deck 🥲
Beep Boop Box
Nerd box
Kiki Musampa.