How did such a large number of people decide on calling it “regular Nintendo” before having internet?
Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”
40ReplyI’m guessing once the snes came out and the ‘regular’ just made sense to mean ‘not-super’
19ReplySub Nintendo.
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I worked in an Electronic Boutique (now GameStop) years and years and years ago.
I still think about the kid that came in and asked for a sness. 13Reply"Sness" is way less unacceptable than "ness" to me, for some reason.
4ReplySame ppl call their weedwhacker a “strimmer”
2ReplyI've heard it pronounced "ess-ness" and "snezz" and "sness"
All are equally terrible.
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It only really became NES once the SNES came out.
Before that it was just Nintendo.
7ReplyI still just call it "Nintendo".
6ReplyAlso, I hate when people call it “Ness”
Do you hate it when they write it?
To my ears it would be the same.
2ReplyI don't think I've ever heard someone refer to it as "ness". I think I'd be confused -- what does the Loch Ness Monster have to do with gaming? -- until they clarified.
2ReplyThen you must hate many Europeans
1ReplyI’ll give the Europeans a pass, but not the French.
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Famicom
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Grandma: Calling all consoles "the Nintendo".
20ReplyI'm really looking forward to pulling this crap as I get older.
Particularly about Pokémon. I grew up with Pokémon. I've played every single main game (or at least one of the two that released!) I cannot wait to call them all Pikachu just to watch a kid squirm.
10ReplyYou mean the pokey-mans?
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Nintendo (Really, it's a Playstation 2)
19ReplyI prefer gameboy (really it's a PSP)
10ReplyI've actually turned into an Old Man and have referred to the Switch as "Gameboy" unironically.
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Lol yeah I experienced this also.
In addition to 'run down stairs and get a "coke"' when In reality its a Dr pepper
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I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it "ness" after that.
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I say "N.E.S.", but also "Super Nintendo."
12Reply 7ReplyHi Super Nintendo Chalmers!
4ReplyAh, Super Nintendo Chalmers, welcome! I hope you're ready for an unforgettable luncheon!
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Sness
6ReplySuper N.E.S.
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Same. Not sure if it's generational, regional, or a combination of the two.
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In my country; all the retro consoles (up to playstation) are called atari.
11Reply"Regular Nintendo" is redundant.
To me it's just "Nintendo". Everything after gets a subtitle. 9ReplyAfter the Super Nintendo came out, it really did become a term for differentiating which 'Nintendo' you might've had in the 90s.
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Everyone I knew called/calls it the "nez".
9ReplySame. Nez and Snez
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I know too many people for whom „a Nintendo“ means a Nintendo DS. Perhaps a generational thing.
8ReplyIt absolutely is.
As a kid, everyone's parents (boomers) called NES cartridges "tapes". Considering their generation had a lot of experience with 8-track, cassette, and VHS/Betamax, it kind of makes sense. I guess every generation has this.
2ReplyYea, for my dad, everything you use a controller with is a PlayStation and every handheld is a gameboy. Funnily enough, he never had either one and I also didn’t have a PlayStation until I have moved out. The only noteable difference for him is the Sega Master System, because he did have that as a child.
2Replyeveryone's parents (boomers) called NES cartridges "tapes".
My parents were very much boomers and I've never heard this. It was 'games' or 'cartridges',
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Same for me and most people i know a nintendo is a ds(and the ds and 3ds are kinda the same for most of them)
1ReplyThere are undoubtedly people out there who still use "Nintendo" to describe literally any videogame system ever made.
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Where does "The original Nintendo" fall on this chart?
7ReplySomewhere off the bottom, shaped like a deck of playing cards.
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Which is the unleaded Nintendo?
6ReplyIntendo as the little kids might say
5Reply"8-bit Nintendo"
5ReplyThat Famicom close that added DRM
5Reply"Normal Nintendo" is what we call it.
4ReplyIn my language we just called it small Nintendo.
4ReplyI thought my family were the only ones! Must have been to differentiate it from the "Super Nintendo" we also had.
4ReplySub Nintendo
4ReplyBoth subs and supras love
da good cartridge blowjob. 4ReplyThey just didn't though. You just enjoyed giving them
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Rough translation, but here it was "Ordinary Nintendo", as opposed to the Super Nintendo
4ReplyYep, Nintendo ordinaire. Lol
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I ... dont think I ever realised they called it Ness and not Nes.
4ReplyNess was first introduced on the Super Famicom. Though he only really got popular when Super Smash Bros came out on the NES64.
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3ReplyDendy
3ReplyIn the UK and Ireland, we call the SNES "the Snez", but I've never heard it said that way in the States. Is that peculiar to this part of the world?
3ReplyMost of the time I hear S N E S (each letter pronounced individually) or Super Nintendo.
I have heard "the Snes" (pronounced with an S sound instead of a Z), but I didn't hear that commonly until much later, after it was considered a retro console.
5ReplyI live in the US and me and all my friends pronounce SNES as SNess. (And NES as Ness) for what it is worth. It seems to be somewhat common as my friends who grew up on the other side of the country say it this way too.
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Old Nintendo
3ReplyNintendinho (small Nintendo).
3ReplyOkay, I think I’m using this one from now.
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Mario Machine
3Reply9 10 dodo
3ReplyNintendo 1
3ReplyNintendo, the first ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
2ReplyNintendo Senior
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NintendOG
2ReplyNo-friendo is what we called it. Still played it every day tho
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