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[Synth]

I doubt many Spectrum ads called it the 'Speccy' but we called it that anyway.

Yea, searching for how it was used in ads is a bit silly imo. It'd be like someone looking back going "I can't find any evidence of it being referred to as a PS2 back then... all the ads are saying PlayStation 2!".

Check more informal usage on UK TV, and you'll find it being called a "snez" constantly. https://youtu.be/hkgcg4pRsaA?t=4m36s

 

[Kamina]

In Europe during the early 90s we always said Super Nintendo, so that stuck with me. Super NES was never said, and Sness maybe a few times only.

 

[XaosWolf]

I hope everyone who pronounces SNES as an initialism also think L.A.S.E.Rs are cool and don't like S.W.A.T-ting.

 

[PumpkinPie]

The loch SNES monster.

 

[Speedwagon]

I hope everyone who pronounces SNES as an initialism also think L.A.S.E.Rs are cool and don't like S.W.A.T-ting.

Thank you.

 

[PSOreo]

I think it's dependent on the context for me to be honest. I think when I was young or asked what I'm playing it was "Snez". If I was asked what the system was called it would be "The S.N.E.S" but I don't think I've ever called it "Super Nintendo". The only time I would use "Super" was before Mario.

 

[ugly]

Snezz bra

 

[massoluk]

Kids in my country called Super Famicom... "Super"

And it makes more sense to me

There was a Famicom then a Super

 

[Phil-NeoGAF]

Super Nintendo was the only term that made sense to me. I called the NES, just Nintendo.

 

[BosSin]

SNEZ

 

[FutureLarking]

What about people who just call it "The Nintendo"?

 

[redcrayon]

Yea, searching for how it was used in ads is a bit silly imo. It'd be like someone looking back going "I can't find any evidence of it being referred to as a PS2 back then... all the ads are saying PlayStation 2!".

Check more informal usage on UK TV, and you'll find it being called a "snez" constantly. https://youtu.be/hkgcg4pRsaA?t=4m36s

Yeah, I dimly remember one of the Bad Influence presenters calling it a "snez", that probably helped in terms of playground terminology, alongside the tendency to shorten everything as far as possible. Most of my friends had their names either reduced to one syllable or two (and then it was the short version with a 'y' on the end), spelling out a games console continually as a 'Super N.E.S' day after day would have sounded very formal. UK kids also largely got their games info from the thriving mag industry here (at the time) which probably led to pronunciation as they saw it on the printed page, as Ryu and every other mispronounced JP name can attest.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Yea, searching for how it was used in ads is a bit silly imo. It'd be like someone looking back going "I can't find any evidence of it being referred to as a PS2 back then... all the ads are saying PlayStation 2!".

Check more informal usage on UK TV, and you'll find it being called a "snez" constantly. https://youtu.be/hkgcg4pRsaA?t=4m36s

Ah, Violet Berlin. The 'Patient Zero' of my attraction to short haired, punky tomboys.

 

[Randam]

Super Nintendo or SNES.

Are/were there really people who say/said Nes or Snes?
Like a single word?

 

[Night Angel]

I'm gonna start calling it an ess ness just to annoy people.

 

[febLey]

SNES, S.N.E.S. or Super Nintendo.
Depends if I'm lazy.

 

[redcrayon]

Super Nintendo or SNES.

Are/were there really people who say/said Nes or Snes?
Like a single word?

Nah, we hated those guys. It's a SNEZ

In all seriousness, read the thread, the majority of UK kids called it that for a variety of reasons.

 

[Vinegar Joe]

If the SNEZ mini thread can get to 200 pages, so can this one.

 

[Lutherian]

Très cher, j'ai toujours dit "La Snesse". Parce qu'here, en France, nous parlons always like that.

SNES and Super Nes. I'm ok with people saying N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. .

 

[Waji]

Five syllables versus two.

Good luck/RIP OP.

This.
And if I had to I'd say Super Famicom.

 

[Rezbit]

Super Nintendo or Snez.

It is known.

 

[Nepenthe]

I say either Super Nintendo or S.N.E.S.

Sness just sounds dumb.

 

[GhostTrick]

I say either Super Nintendo or S.N.E.S.

Sness just sounds dumb.

Kids knows the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klmd7FCYSxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIOhqL-9e48

 

[DealWithIt]

Snintendo

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Ugh, Super Nintendo, Super N.E.S. or S.N.E.S. Fine... I'll even tolerate it just being called "Super" but Sness or a variation of that... No, just no.

 

[Neptonic]

You give every god damn letter the respect it deserves. S N E S

 

[Conciliator]

I was 100% the most alive at the time and at least two of my friends called it the "sness." I didn't, cuz i thought it was stupid, but that was 100% a thing at the time. So come to what conclusion you will is what i'm sayin, but "sness" isn't new.

 

[Kilrogg]

Très cher, j'ai toujours dit "La Snesse". Parce qu'here, en France, nous parlons always like that.

SNES and Super Nes. I'm ok with people saying N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. .

Speak for yourself, mon ami.

I'm French too (really), and we've always said "(la) Super Nintendo", "(la) Super Ness" or "(la) S Ness" among my friends and family. I never heard "Sness" once growing up. Maybe it's a regional thing, I don't know.

What's universally true in France though, is that nobody spells out the letters. Nobody says "S.N.E.S" or even "Super N.E.S." like so many Americans do. If you find someone who says it like that here, they're not one of us; they're a spy or an alien. Possibly an alien spy.

 

[redcrayon]

Ugh, Super Nintendo, Super N.E.S. or S.N.E.S. Fine... I'll even tolerate it just being called "Super" but Sness or a variation of that... No, just no.

In this thread, posters discover what it feels like to be British and see/hear weird/awkward (to us) Americanisms every day You couldn't expect UK school kids to have used a formal-sounding 4/5 syllables when a short, oddball, acronym would do. The tendency was to make things sound more informal, hence 'SNEZ' and 'Speccy' etc.

 

[EYEL1NER]

I think I've probably called it the Super Nintendo most often in my life, but I can't rule out ever calling it the S.N.E.S. or Super N.E.S. I don't think I've used those often, or maybe that last one at all, but I would at least immediately recognize what someone was talking about if I heard them use them. If I heard someone IRL seriously pronounce it as "sness," I don't think I would be able to contain my laughter.

I wonder if there was some place on earth where people referred to the Sega CD as the Sega "Sid/Cid," or if they were excited to get a new "Vhiss" VHS tape game for their Action Max console.

 

[GhostTrick]

Très cher, j'ai toujours dit "La Snesse". Parce qu'here, en France, nous parlons always like that.

SNES and Super Nes. I'm ok with people saying N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. .

B.S

 

[Carn82]

Super Nintendo, or the 'Sness', or Super 'Ness'. We also called the NES the 'Ness'. Nes is also a dutch place & name so it kinda fits the language.

 

[Skronk]

Thank God the Nintendo 64 doesn't have a horrible sounding acronym.

Dude what? N64! Enn Sixty Four!!!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

SNES is fine. The Brits love of "SNEZ" not so much.

Yeah I don't understand SNEZ. IN Australia it was always SNESS, or Super NESS etc

How could they get such a harsh sounding S at the end but such a soft S at the beginning? Really they should be saying ZNEZ which makes even less sense

 

[Village]

$oopah Nin10Doh!

(( forreal I just say Super Nintendo ))

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Dude what? N64! Enn Sixty Four!!!

Enn Six Four actually, subtle difference

 

[Kyonashi]

In the UK, only ever called it or heard it called the SNES (pronounced SNEZ) since the 90s.

Calling it the Super Nintendo is real dumb to me, cause you're missing out the noun part of the name. Calling the Super Nintendo Entertainment System the 'Super Nintendo' is akin to calling the 'Nintendo GameCube' the 'Nintendo'. In fact if the SNES is the 'Super Nintendo' then by that logic, every other Nintendo console is called the 'Nintendo'. Are you someone's grandmother, OP?

 

[Trigonometrize.]

S-N-E-S all day

Apparently you're like the only person who knows how to properly denote the pronunciation of individual letters.

Quit using those periods people!

 

[Thud]

It was definitely marketed as Super Nintendo in the Netherlands now that I remember.

https://youtu.be/thXWDRhmgHU

 

[Piichan]

I always called it a "Nintendo", whether it's a NES, SNES or Wii.

 

[Yarbskoo]

SNES

Pronounced "Super Nintendo"

or "Snezz" by imbeciles.

 

[fastest finger]

Nintendo themselves in their own commercials only ever called it the Super NES or Super Nintendo, even in the UK where I see the most posters going "Snez is the how it was said here". I have yet to find an ad from the UK using the word "Snez".

I think the TV show Bad Influence lived up its name here in the UK. They pronounced it Snez and I guess it caught on with young viewers.

 

[D.Lo]

SNEZ pronunciation is outright incorrect.

The sound similar to 'z' for 's' typically comes from adding the s to the end of a word to mark it as plural (dogs, cats, etc).

Singular nouns that end in 's' (bus, glass, Texas, Christmas) typically have the long 's' sound.

You're not talking about the plural of SNE here. If you're going to read out SNES it should be SNESS.

 

[Sotha Sil]

If you have to write "SNEZ" to let people know how you pronounce "SNES", you already know you're wrong.

Airtight logic.

 

[GRaider81]

SNEZ, NEZ and Super NEZ.

From Scotland.

Honestly never heard anyone say S.N.E.S or anything else tbh.

 

[ISee]

Only heared people/other kids calling it super nintendo or s.n.e.s. here in germany during my childhood.

 

[Zalman]

S.N.E.S. all the way.

 

[Cpt Lmao]

SNES is what people called it and so SNES is what it is.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

I hope everyone who pronounces SNES as an initialism also think L.A.S.E.Rs are cool and don't like S.W.A.T-ting.

I'm a fan of the PissToo, Giba, and Gicken

 

[SlickShoes]

SNEZ, NEZ and Super NEZ.

From Scotland.

Honestly never heard anyone say S.N.E.S or anything else tbh.

The only person I ever heard call it S.N.E.S was a kid that had been living in America.

It was always Nez or Snez for me on the east coast of Scotland