With Project Café looming, what is your favorite Nintendo codename?

Share your perspective. Keep it thoughtful, welcoming and on topic.

1. Revolution was the coolest… I don't understand the logic behind 'Cafe' at all, and while I've seen references to Nitro and Dolphin, neither really struck me as good codenames (although the latter did inspire Isle Delfino from Super Mario Sunshine).

2. I always thought Revolution was a pretty cool codename. They even had a cool logo incorporating Gamecube and regular DVD disks. When they first announced the real name of the Wii, I'd wished they had kept the codename. Now, though, I understand the marketing strategy behind it.

3. I like Cafe, simply because it's so out-of-left-field…and I like eating at cafes.

   I'm one of the few who didn't like Revolution. It just didn't sound very "Nintendo." Of course, when I heard it had changed to Wii, I thought they'd lost their minds… until they started the "Wii would like to play" campaign. Then I thought they were geniuses. Still do.

4. All about ultra 64 when 3d was just beginning. Ultra 64 gives me goosebumps and a one way ticket to the 90's.

5. Dolphin sounded sleek. Had my vote.

6. Same as above; I don't know why but I like the sound of Dolphin the best.

7. Nitro, becouse it sounds cool!

8. ..because….

9. You know that's better than Ultra 64? Mega 64.

10. Project Atlantis, because it sounds like something a villain in a Bond film would try to do.

11. a screen on the controller? how about "wii fail." because the last thing i care about is looking at my controller while i'm playing.

    seriously. it's the very last thing i'll ever care about.

12. I voted Project Reality mainly because nowadays it sounds like something out of a B-movie (but in a good way!). It also conjures up images of 3D landscapes that Nintendo used when hyping the N64. For some reason I can vividly picture a 3D petrol station…happy days

13. Dolphin got my vote, just because of all the different homages Nintendo included to that system name. (Take Pikmin for example.)

14. btw- sry about the apparent trolling with the last comment. we were up late and laughing about a controller with a screen on it, which we didn't care about, and we thought that name was hilarious for some reason. i prob need to censor my late night posts…

15. Since the Cafe controller has the ability to be it's own portable gaming device, Nintendo is hoping for everyone to be playing it outside their homes & into different places like Cafe shops. I think they should just call it the 2nd Revolution.

16. I actually quite like Cafe! There's a lot of hate for it but I think it's really cool! It's so unexpected, so undecipherable. It doesn't sound like a game console which probably means it'll be a very interesting one.

17. Dolphin, because the gamecube had all those references to dolphin, plus I just liked the gamecube period.

18. Ultra 64 without question. Walking into my local Arcade during it's best attempt to catch my attention with every bell and whistle technology could throw at me in 1994, somehow I was drawn to the unique sounds of an "ULTRAAAAA Combo!" bouncing around a rather large crowd that surrounded the one and only Killer Instinct. This game was marketed as "Ultra 64" hardware and displayed it proudly. I was out of quarters that day after a few tries at it but I didn't want to leave. That game had me clamoring for what would become the Nintendo 64.

19. Cafe, it is a very unexpected, different name (while at the sametime, one that is a real noun as opposed to "wii"). I'm looking forward to E3 perhaps clue'ing us in on why it is called "cafe".

    I'm actually looking forward to what the big N has to present this year at E3

    cheers!

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