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[Infernal Monkey]

I never knew people actually said it like "es en ee es". Neat.

It's always been "sness" to me.

But I still pronounce Sega as "SEEGAH" too, so eh.

 

[Nose Master]

S.N.E.S is how the cool kids say it.

Legit how everyone I knew growing up said it. Super Nintendo sometimes. Snessss is recent horseshit.

 

[plasmasd]

When it launched everyone called it the Super Nintendo. Ever since the dawn of the speedier internet it has been the snesss. I just call it sness. It's easier and I'm not going back

 

[jennetics]

Sness is so much quicker and easier to say, though...

 

[-tetsuo-]

I never heard anyone say Sness until some youtuber a couple years ago. Terrible name.

 

[Chittagong]

I used to work for Nintendo and we had a very strict style guide.

Either Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES.

Never SNES.

Definitely and absolutely never Super Nintendo.

 

[fester]

Sness is so much quicker and easier to say, though...

No, it sounds dirty and uncouth.

 

[HarryKS]

I always said Sness despite being almost 30 years old, that's how people talked about it, at least where I live in France.

Saying S-N-E-S in French just sounds wrong, sorry.

The French has always been Super Nintendo, not SNES.

 

[cordy]

Super Nintendo. Didn't know people said differently until the mid-2000s.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

closed caskets for anyone that says "sness"

 

[Evolved1]

I fuckin cringed reading this thread title...

 

[StoneFox]

I use both Super Nintendo and Super NES interchangeably.

Mostly because I call the NES the En EE Ess and the SNES is the super version of it.

 

[jennetics]

No, it sounds dirty and uncouth.

Well, I wouldn't call myself a respectable or civilized person to begin with lol

I'll try to say Super Nintendo from now on...

Spoiler

I won't try very hard, honestly

 

[ChronotriggerJM]

OP's coming for me lol. I adored the Sness.

 

[dadjumper]

I say Super Famicom (or SuFami), what does that say about me?

 

[Khaos Kontrol]

I always called it Super Nintendo.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Super Nintendo and snes

Sness what?

 

[mrmickfran]

People that say Sness were serial killers in a previous life.

 

[ShinAmano]

i say all three.

what now?

Yup

 

[HotHamBoy]

I call games "carts."

 

[Duane Cunningham]

As someone who was there: Ess En Ee Ess, Super En Ee Ess, and Super Nintendo are all acceptable and were commonplace. "Sness" is not real. At least not where I lived. Nor is "Super Ness" or for that matter refering to the NES as "Ness" (unless it's immediately followed by "Advantage", "Max" or "Play Action Football").

But I will point out that plenty of people sadly called the games "tapes".

Also, I worked at FuncoLand in the late 90's, and after the disc based systems arrived, the was a segment of the populace who STILL called them tapes.

 

[Synth]

People that say Sness were serial killers in a previous life.

People who say S.N.E.S were probably their victims.

 

[Social]

Mare ee oh

Aaaaarghhhhh raaaaaaaage!

 

[yansolo]

in Australia we say snez

 

[Dsyndrome]

I've never heard someone call it the Sness, the beauties of not being in Europe until well after its time I suppose. S.N.E.S. all the way. Sness sounds like you're trying to get something out of your nose.

Super N.E.S. is entirely acceptable.

 

[Archanfel]

I'm an American southern white boy that grew up with Regular Nintendo and Super Nintendo. That's what we called it and we liked it that way.

 

[Mesoian]

The only person I've heard who has said Sness/Snez was Sammus and I think she was joking.

I don't think she was, but it's all good.

 

[StoneFox]

I just binged watched a bunch of SNES commercials.

99% of the time in North American commercials it was Super NES or Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

I guess there's your answer.

 

[Jachaos]

Being born in Montreal, it might change things, but I say Super Nintendo 100% of the time in French but only maybe 10% of the time in English.

I mostly say S-N-E-S in English.

 

[Jaguar Victory]

Biggie was dead ass on: we all called it Super Nintendo or S.N.E.S.

 

[JasonUresti]

I always said and heard it as Super Nintendo. S.N.E.S. occasionally.

Sness strikes wrong to my ears, but maybe it's a generational thing. I cringe a little when people say Mario "Broze" or Smash "Broze" but that seems common amongst younger gamers.

 

[KingNoLife]

I always say Super Nintendo like we did at the time, but I have nothing against other people using the sness pronunciation either: it's faster to say and it doesn't bother me.

 

[Caelus]

My first experience with the names NES, SNES, N64... comes from filename extensions for roms since I emulated a lot of these games as a kid. I tend to read filename extensions by the letters (PNG = pee enn gee, BMP = bee emm pee) so that's why I say enn ee ess, ess enn ee ess, enn sixty-four.

 

[ignata]

The most important of threads. Super Nintendo is the correct way to say this. I never heard anything else, especially Sness, until I started listening to podcasts.

 

[Synth]

My first experience with the names NES, SNES, N64... comes from filename extensions for roms since I emulated a lot of these games as a kid. I tend to read filename extensions by the letters (PNG = pee enn gee, BMP = bee emm pee) so that's why I say enn ee ess, ess enn ee ess, enn sixty-four.

How about wav, zip, rar, iso, bin?

 

[ubiblu]

Snez 4 lyfe.

Edit: As someone previously pointed out, Aussie here.

 

[Adam_Roman]

I call it the Super Nintendo Entertainment System because I have class.

...Just kidding I call it the Sness because that's what everyone around me called it.

 

[shoryukens]

I say S.N.E.S mostly, and I do sometimes take my 15 minute breaks thank you very much.

We can't be friends if you say snessss though.

 

[Naked Snake]

Mare ee oh

This grates my gears every time.

 

[SuomiDude]

I spelled it Super Nes, so basically Nes is almost spelled like Ness the character from Earthbound but with shorter s.

 

[key]

I say "Super Nintendo" when I'm talking with people who I feel would be more familiar with the system and "es en ee es" otherwise. It will always be the Super Nintendo to me, though.

 

[Herne]

My SNES owning friend called it a Snez, and so I did, too. In fact, most people did from what I remember, with a small few people calling it the Super Nintendo. The NES didn't really exist for many people in 80's Ireland (and much of Europe) so nobody had any reason to call it the Super N.E.S.

 

[Magnus]

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. S.N.E.S. for life.

 

[D.Lo]

I'm an American southern white boy that grew up with Regular Nintendo and Super Nintendo. That's what we called it and we liked it that way.

Australian and the same.

After the Super Nintendo came out, some people referred to the NES as 'Original Nintendo' or 'En ee Ess'.But I never heard any variation of the SNESsss/Super NESss/SNEZ. Why would you downplay the 'Super'? It was literally called Super to make it sound better than any Sega console.

TV ads from Mattel only called it the 'Super Nintendo Entertainment System'.

Eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZBHu-5cUw

 

[Havok1313]

I use all of them..and I'm 30.

Honestly most of the people I hear say Sness are in the 30s or 40s. I feel like the younger people that didn't have one would be the ones to use the proper name.

 

[luka]

I say Super Famicom (or SuFami), what does that say about me?

to me it says that you are cool and good and we should hang out

 

[BigDes]

I say hahahaha piece of kiddie shit didn't have blast processing.

Also my uncle is a lawyer and he says that because of the way the law works in Japan and because of Nintendo's failures abroad, Sega will own Nintendo. So stop pinning your hopes on the Ultra 64 Nintenclowns, it's never oming out.

Mario game on the Dream cast at launch. It's happening.

 

[ozfunghi]

It's obviously the Super Nintendo, since that's what the label on the console says in big letters!

Spoiler

(...beneath it it says "entertainment system" in small letters).

And Ralph Wiggum agrees! End of thread!

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

I always said Sness despite being almost 30 years old, that's how people talked about it, at least where I live in France.

Saying S-N-E-S in French just sounds wrong, sorry.

What does it sound like in French?

 

[MrMephistoX]

S.N.E.S is how the cool kids say it.

This...I never heard it referred to as SNESS until I started listening to podcasts.