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"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

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.

It's funny to me because I've never heard anyone refer to Nintendo as "Big N" there's a handful of other things referred to as Big N, Nintendo is not one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N

"Nickname for Nintendo"

I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly

I replied in another thread [1] but this was the earliest thing I could find in online resources, but maybe your recollection would lead to something earlier:

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

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44601355

American racists don't get to claim exclusive rights to the letter N.