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On further research, King’s Cross does appear to be the King’s crossroads, specifically George IV.
I assume people just stuck with the old symbolism.
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Why did the chicken x the road?
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I doubt there’s any quotable source at this point. You’d have to find a Nintendo employee that was active in the late 80’s/early 90’s that worked on the hardware design. I don’t even know where to start on that.
Actually, I know where I’d start. I’d talk to EAD Ninja and A Black Falcon on Resetera. They would be a good start. They’re fairly reliable Video Game Historians. I might also look to talk to Chris Kohler - of Kotaku.
https://www.resetera.com/members/ead-ninja.16911/
Why would a Nintendo employee be a valid source for the rationale behind Sony’s decision to switch the button functions when they released the PlayStation in the U.S.?
By that point they’d long since parted ways.
I was actually looking to see if either PS or XBox had a style guide where they provided expected usage of the buttons. That probably wouldn’t work great in games, but for menus and other components you’d expect that to be standardized.
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Or X as wrong when tests are graded?
ETA: But Xs and Os are hugs and kisses, both pretty nice.
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You know its amazing how things seem so intuitive now, and you look at old games and they didn’t know what they were doing.
I play a lot of Let it Die, which uses third person with camera control. Other games I have played the camera control seems to work the same way. Like the way you move the right stick to look to the right is the same.
They re-released Bounty Hunter on the PS4, and I though, hey, why not give it a try. OMG - the camera controls work opposite of what is now intuitive.
I think NOW if I move the stick left, then it looks what is on the left side, like I am turning my head to look that way. THEN if I move the stick left, the CAMERA moves left, but then shows what is on my right. It makes it almost unplayable because of this. Or at least un-fun…
The war on X-Mas marches on.
/s
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Charing Cross, at least, is an actual cross, but I mean, “x” stands for the word “cross”; there’s no reason to take it as a pictogram, even if the letter shape is the origin of the association. Like, it’s not confusing to refer to t-shirts with a lowercase T.
Press “X” to pay respects…
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Coincidentally, Cif is also pronounced “jif”.
Snickers is pronounced “marathon” and Starburst is pronounced “opalfruits (madetomakeyourmouthwater!)”
You are Raymond Luxury-Yacht, and I claim my £5!
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And I sat the same to both of them… you are wrong.
His title . His name starts with an I in Greek.
The Bible doesn’t specify cross shape. But the most common Roman formats at the time were apparently a single post, and variations of the T. X shape crosses were common, but IIRC later and mostly among non-Romans. Or maybe it was the common Greek approach, can’t recall.
The character X in Greek is Chi, which covers various bits of C/K noises and is usually equivilent to the English CH. Which you might find we represent with a CH in English. The character X in English is Eks, which encodes KS and Z noises. Which don’t appear in Cross, Christ, Crucifiksion.
Which is all a very long winded way to say its just as likely that “most people in the world” would read X as whatever the name of that character is in their language or alphabet. If it occurs in their alphabet. Which is not often “Cross”, or related to Cross. Little too Dan Brown on that one. “Most people” in the world aren’t even Christian.
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Is it a geometry thing?
O = 1 locus of points linear element / features
X = 2 lines
Triangle = 3 lines
Square = 4 lines
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It’s pronounced “ped zing”.
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Congratulations. You completely missed my point.
For everyone else, they are two lines. Which, you know, cross.
