noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/nɪnˈtɛndəʊˌkɔː(ɹ)/
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General-American:/nɪnˈtɛndoʊˌkɔɹ/
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noun
Meaning 1
An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Nintendo (“Japanese multinational video game company”) + -core (suffix denoting a music genre, especially one influenced by hardcore music), with reference to the simplistic sound effects of early video game consoles. The word was coined by the American musician Nathan Winneke, the frontman of the metalcore band Horse the Band, as a joke; the band posted the word on the Internet and also printed it on a label on the compact disc of their first demo I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed (2001).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Czech:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Dutch:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Finnish:
nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
French:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
French:
nintendo rock
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
French:
video rock
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
German:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Italian:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Japanese:
ニンテンドーコア
(nintendōkoa)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Korean:
닌텐도코어
(nintendoko'eo)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Macedonian:
нинтендокор
(nintendokor)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Norwegian Bokmål:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Portuguese:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Russian:
Нинтендокор
(Nintendokor)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Russian:
Нинтендо-рок
(Nintendo-rok)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Russian:
нёрдкор
(njórdkor)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Russian:
видео-рок
(video-rok)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Slovak:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Spanish:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Swedish:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Turkish:
Nintendocore
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
Ukrainian:
Нінтендокор
(Nintendokor)
— aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music
