Board 8 > No one ever said "Ness" or Sness" when the consoles were current.

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red13n
11/26/18 10:20:51 PM
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I am going full grumpy old man with this but I absolutely want to punch everyone that says the console names in that way out loud.

Also googling, apparently it originated in some old UK marketing. Seriously people, no one cares about Europe. Why the hell would you mimic their awful old advertising.
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FinaIFantasy
11/26/18 10:22:19 PM
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This is wrong, I remember hearing NES forever....

Now Snes... yeah that one is new, and god awful horrible.
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redrocket
11/26/18 10:22:36 PM
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Sness was definitely used when it was current. I don't recall ever hearing people uses Ness though.
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CelesMyUserName
11/26/18 10:23:53 PM
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I remember fellow nintendo fans in school well after their time (so like gamecube era) saying sness and i was so confused
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davidponte
11/26/18 10:26:05 PM
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I got yelled at by the EB games employee when I went in to buy the NES Classic for my dad because I said "ness" and she had apparently in the past had multiple people on the phone ask if they had the "ness" in stock only for them to show up and learn that she had misheard them and they actually wanted the SNES classic, which led to some angry customers.

It's the only time I've ever had someone get angry at me for using the acronym.
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Jakyl25
11/26/18 10:27:09 PM
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NES was just Nintendo

After the SNES debuted, it was Regular Nintendo and SNES was Super Nintendo
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red13n
11/26/18 10:27:42 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
NES was just Nintendo

After the SNES debuted, it was Regular Nintendo and SNES was Super Nintendo


yes, this.
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ShatteredElysium
11/26/18 10:28:51 PM
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I'm from the UK but we always called it NES and SNES assuming you mean pronouncing it as a word rather than each letter individually
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Paratroopa1
11/26/18 10:29:02 PM
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I've used N-E-S or just "Nintendo" and S-N-E-S or "Super Nintendo" all my life but never ness or sness
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swirIdude
11/26/18 10:30:35 PM
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You just made this thread to hide an attack on Europeans.
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CelesMyUserName
11/26/18 10:30:55 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
NES was just Nintendo

After the SNES debuted, it was Nintendo and SNES was Nintendo

fixed for parents

I still might even refer to my Switch as a "Game Boy" to them if the situation comes up like, "have you seen my game boy" as they'll basically understand it as a portable gaming system

Paratroopa1 posted...
I've used N-E-S or just "Nintendo" and S-N-E-S or "Super Nintendo" all my life but never ness or sness

this would be me in every other / normal situation!
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JonThePenguin
11/26/18 10:31:08 PM
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Or Super Enn Ee Ess which I definitely remember hearing in US marketing as a kid.
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Heroic Bigpun
11/26/18 10:32:08 PM
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Everyone around me always said Nintendo and Super Nintendo
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red13n
11/26/18 10:32:16 PM
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swirIdude posted...
You just made this thread to hide an attack on Europeans.


I had typed up everything but that part prior to googling.
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CelesMyUserName
11/26/18 10:33:24 PM
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CelesMyUserName posted...
fixed for parents

I still might even refer to my Switch as a "Game Boy" to them if the situation comes up like, "have you seen my game boy" as they'll basically understand it as a portable gaming system

addendum, I would go back to referring to it as the Nintendo in docked mode
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CoolCly
11/26/18 10:34:12 PM
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they were just called nintendo and super nintendo a lot but i did use the terms nes and snes and then when nintendo 64 came out it just made sense to stop calling them "nintendo".

NES, SNES, and N64. If you can't handle the objectively superior way to call them then that's your problem.
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ninkendo
11/26/18 10:35:36 PM
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Ness and Sness were west coast things as far as I can tell

hate it
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CoolCly
11/26/18 10:35:51 PM
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JonThePenguin posted...
Or Super Enn Ee Ess which I definitely remember hearing in US marketing as a kid.


now this has always been an abomination
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Paratroopa1
11/26/18 10:36:15 PM
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ninkendo posted...
Ness and Sness were west coast things as far as I can tell

hate it

not in the part of the west coast i live
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ninkendo
11/26/18 10:37:15 PM
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might not be our age bracket either usually when I see it its dudes in that are now in their 40s
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iiicon
11/26/18 10:39:11 PM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
ninkendo posted...
Ness and Sness were west coast things as far as I can tell

hate it

not in the part of the west coast i live

it was in the part of the west coast i live, 3 hours north of you
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azuarc
11/26/18 10:50:14 PM
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Heroic Bigpun posted...
Everyone around me always said Nintendo and Super Nintendo

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ChichiriMuyo
11/26/18 10:54:02 PM
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I heard both at the time, but it was uncommon.
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NFUN
11/26/18 10:54:23 PM
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youre old
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Lopen
11/26/18 10:55:52 PM
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I'm assuming it's because people see it in print abbreviated more often nowadays than they did when it was actually current. Still dumb as hell though.
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davidponte
11/26/18 10:56:25 PM
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My first console was the SNES and my family always referred to is as the Super Nintendo. When I later played the NES I always said N-E-S because it felt weird to just call it "Nintendo". I think it's because by that time there were already so many Nintendo consoles out there that the name "Nintendo" was more of a brand and less of a console name to me.

I only really say "ness" and "sness" now out of laziness.
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SgtSphynx
11/26/18 11:08:45 PM
#27:


Jakyl25 posted...
NES was just Nintendo

After the SNES debuted, it was Regular Nintendo and SNES was Super Nintendo

This, but NES was also occasionally N E S.

Also, grew up in San Diego and never heard Ness or Sness
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paperwarior
11/26/18 11:16:15 PM
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Can we just unite against anyone who says Snez?
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StartTheMachine
11/26/18 11:16:16 PM
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SgtSphynx posted...
Jakyl25 posted...
NES was just Nintendo

After the SNES debuted, it was Regular Nintendo and SNES was Super Nintendo

This, but NES was also occasionally N E S.


All of this. I don't think I ever heard the SNES called anything but the Super Nintendo back in the day, but I definitely heard NES on rare occasions. Usually just Regular Nintendo though.
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Naye745
11/26/18 11:16:43 PM
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what do you mean nobody said "ness" during those eras? how else would they refer to the lead character from earthbound?
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bryans7
11/26/18 11:20:22 PM
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NES = Nintendo
SNES = Super
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Esuriat
11/26/18 11:29:51 PM
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I almost always did N-E-S and Super Nintendo as a kid. Sometimes Super N-E-S.

It's the same now and 'sness' is fine too because it's a fun word even if I never personally use it.
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Grand Kirby
11/26/18 11:32:18 PM
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We just called it all Nintendo
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LapisLazuli
11/26/18 11:38:50 PM
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No, *insert way I say it here* is right, and everyone else is an idiot.
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pjbasis
11/26/18 11:41:36 PM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
I've used N-E-S or just "Nintendo" and S-N-E-S or "Super Nintendo" all my life but never ness or sness


This
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Keltiq
11/26/18 11:45:45 PM
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I grew up in Ontario and my friends called it the sness.
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UF8
11/27/18 9:42:56 AM
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nez snez
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Reg
11/27/18 9:55:29 AM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
I've used N-E-S or just "Nintendo" and S-N-E-S or "Super Nintendo" all my life but never ness or sness

This, though I used "Regular Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" as a kid, basically until the Gamecube's release (at which point the consoles quit being 'Nintendo X' or 'X Nintendo' and N-E-S seemed more logical)
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Mr Lasastryke
11/27/18 9:57:39 AM
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yeah, i only heard "nintendo" and "super nintendo."

i don't think i knew "NES" and "SNES" were things before i first went to this site.
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Safer_777
11/27/18 12:03:56 PM
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I say Ness and Sness all the time. Maybe because English is not my first language?
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Not Dave
11/27/18 12:09:27 PM
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it was always ness and sness for me
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WazzupGenius00
11/27/18 12:09:56 PM
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what's even worse about that European marketing is that they didn't even pronounce them "ness" and "sness" but rather "nez" and "snez"
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Hardcore_Adult
11/27/18 12:11:22 PM
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It was "Nez" or "Snez"
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red13n
11/27/18 3:53:46 PM
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WazzupGenius00 posted...
what's even worse about that European marketing is that they didn't even pronounce them "ness" and "sness" but rather "nez" and "snez"


wow even worse than I thought.
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SuperNiceDog
11/27/18 4:14:12 PM
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yea we just said "let's play nintendo(entertainment system)"
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STElNER
11/27/18 4:17:46 PM
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red13n posted...
WazzupGenius00 posted...
what's even worse about that European marketing is that they didn't even pronounce them "ness" and "sness" but rather "nez" and "snez"


wow even worse than I thought.


oh my god this whole topic makes me so angry
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neonreaper
11/27/18 6:55:22 PM
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Nester
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LeonhartFour
11/27/18 6:56:05 PM
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it was Regular Nintendo and Super Nintendo

nobody ever used the abbreviations
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paperwarior
11/27/18 8:22:31 PM
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But then there was ZSNES and SNES9X and nobody said Super Nintendo 9X.
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HaRRicH
11/27/18 9:16:56 PM
#50:


Growing up, it was absolutely two things:

Regular Nintendo
Super Nintendo

I'll sometimes say N.E.S. nowadays since modern consoles release in different variations, but even still I'm usually using Regular Nintendo/Super Nintendo.
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