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”
I’m guessing once the snes came out and the ‘regular’ just made sense to mean ‘not-super’
Sub Nintendo.
Dom Nintendo 🥺👉👈
“You will accept Dommy Mommy Nintendo’s strap on as you buy the 6 year old game that is STILL full price.” whip💥
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.“Sness” is way less unacceptable than “ness” to me, for some reason.
Same ppl call their weedwhacker a “strimmer”
I’ve heard it pronounced “ess-ness” and “snezz” and “sness”
All are equally terrible.
“Snezz” is fine.
Source: Called it “Snezz”.
It only really became NES once the SNES came out.
Before that it was just Nintendo.
I still just call it “Nintendo”.
I 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.
Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”
Do you hate it when they write it?
To my ears it would be the same.
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I’ll give the Europeans a pass, but not the French.
Famicom
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Grandma: Calling all consoles “the Nintendo”.
I’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.
You mean the pokey-mans?
Yessss
Nintendo (Really, it’s a Playstation 2)
I prefer gameboy (really it’s a PSP)
I’ve actually turned into an Old Man and have referred to the Switch as “Gameboy” unironically.
The red Gameboy
The Virtual Boy?
Excuse me. It’s called “Mans Crowning Achievement to the Gods”, not just the virtual boy. Show it some respect.
Crowning achievement to optometrists maybe
I say DS for Switch on accident all the time. Like I just had such a good time with the goddamn DS. And yes, the fucking 3ds is also a ds. That was my youth and I’m too old to change monikers now!
Lol yeah I experienced this also.
In addition to ‘run down stairs and get a “coke”’ when In reality its a Dr pepper
I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it “ness” after that.
I say “N.E.S.”, but also “Super Nintendo.”
Hi Super Nintendo Chalmers!
Ah, Super Nintendo Chalmers, welcome! I hope you’re ready for an unforgettable luncheon!
Sness
?
Super N.E.S.
Go to your room this instant and think about what you have said!!
Same. Not sure if it’s generational, regional, or a combination of the two.
In my country; all the retro consoles (up to playstation) are called atari.
Everyone I knew called/calls it the “nez”.
Same. Nez and Snez
“Regular Nintendo” is redundant.
To me it’s just “Nintendo”. Everything after gets a subtitle.After the Super Nintendo came out, it really did become a term for differentiating which ‘Nintendo’ you might’ve had in the 90s.
I know too many people for whom „a Nintendo“ means a Nintendo DS. Perhaps a generational thing.
It 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.
Yea, 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.
everyone’s parents (boomers) called NES cartridges “tapes”.
My parents were very much boomers and I’ve never heard this. It was ‘games’ or ‘cartridges’,
There are undoubtedly people out there who still use “Nintendo” to describe literally any videogame system ever made.
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)
Where does “The original Nintendo” fall on this chart?
Somewhere off the bottom, shaped like a deck of playing cards.
Which is the unleaded Nintendo?
That Famicom close that added DRM
Intendo as the little kids might say
“8-bit Nintendo”
