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.
I’ve heard it pronounced “ess-ness” and “snezz” and “sness”
All are equally terrible.
“Snezz” is fine.
Source: Called it “Snezz”.
Same ppl call their weedwhacker a “strimmer”
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.
It only really became NES once the SNES came out.
Before that it was just Nintendo.
Famicom
2
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
Lol yeah I experienced this also.
In addition to ‘run down stairs and get a “coke”’ when In reality its a Dr pepper
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
I say “N.E.S.”, but also “Super Nintendo.”
Sness
Super N.E.S.
Hi Super Nintendo Chalmers!
I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it “ness” after that.
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.
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)
There are undoubtedly people out there who still use “Nintendo” to describe literally any videogame system ever made.
Where does “The original Nintendo” fall on this chart?
Somewhere off the bottom, shaped like a deck of playing cards.
Intendo as the little kids might say
I thought my family were the only ones! Must have been to differentiate it from the “Super Nintendo” we also had.
I … dont think I ever realised they called it Ness and not Nes.
Ness was first introduced on the Super Famicom. Though he only really got popular when Super Smash Bros came out on the NES64.
Which is the unleaded Nintendo?