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[Tenki]

"La Nintendo" in Spanish for me when I was a child. Now I call it "la NES" (as in the ness).

And the SNES for me was "la Super" most of the times, instead of "la Super Nintendo".

 

[Ostinatto]

Nintendo and Super Nintendo (spanish pronunciation)

 

[inner-G]

Regular Nintendo

 

[bones123]

N.E.S.

But for some reason, "Sness".

 

[viewtiful_dru]

Nintendo

And with SNES it continued and we called it Super Nintendo

^this

 

[Firebrand]

"Nintendo" (or "Nintendo 8-bit") and "Super Nintendo". If you had said "NES" or "SNES" nobody would have known what you were talking about. Sweden.

 

[Ostinatto]

"La Nintendo" in Spanish for me when I was a child. Now I call it "la NES" (as in the ness).

And the SNES for me was "la Super" most of the times, instead of "la Super Nintendo".

yup, im also say "la play", "la play dos" , ""la play tres", "la play cuatro" and "la Xbox"

 

[UncleMeat]

Now = N.E.S.
Then = Nintendo

 

[Kamek]

Nintendo, Regular Nintedo (as opposed to Super Nintendo) or N.E.S.. Never said NESS

 

[Macka]

Ness and Sness.

I used to call the SNES the Super Nintendo though.

 

[Aeriscloud]

The Regular Nintendo

 

[hemo memo]

Family computer.

 

[uceenk]

just Nintendo

 

[FTF]

N.E.S

Or sometimes I'll say the original Nintendo..

 

[rardk64]

"Old" or "original" Nintendo for years. Occasionally (rarely) the "Ness".

Now NES exclusively.

 

[Fularu]

In France we used "La ness (la nesse with french prononciation)

It was "la Super ness" or "la super famicom" if you wanted to be edgy

 

[old manatee]

order of Nintendos:

Nintendo
Super Nintendo
N64
The GameCube
Revolution
NX

 

[Chocolate & Vanilla]

I have always said Nez/Snez. Who in the hell has time for multiple syllables.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Nintendo as a kid. Super Nintendo obviously for Snes

 

[Rhomega Beta]

En Ee Es

 

[Mingledorff]

Ness 4 life

 

[GoodMorningPluto]

Dendy.
We neved had original NES in Russia, only its clone called Dendy, so that's how everyone here calls it.

 

[Macka]

Like any normal person I call it a Nez

Why? It's not the N.E.Z

 

[Nosgoroth]

"N.E.S." in english, "nes" in spanish.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Anything but Ness, what's wrong with those people???

 

[Dreamwriter]

I worked for Nintendo as a Gameplay Counselor in 1995, at that point we were told to refer to the SNES on the phone as the "Super N.E.S."

 

[blakep267]

Just Nintendo/super nintendo. "Hey you wanna come over and play some Nintendo". I always find it weird calling stuff by acronyms. "Let's play some Nes". Nah doesn't work

 

[AmaterasuOni]

It was a NES.

 

[Rajang]

Just 'Nintendo'.

 

[qazqaNii]

For some reasons my uncles call it 'Atari'.

 

[RAWRferal]

Nezz and Snezz.

Anything else is just weird tbf.

 

[Dr. Black Jack]

En Eee Ess or "regular Nintendo", mostly the former.

 

[N-Forced]

Been calling it n.e.s. since I got mine in the 80's. Calling it anything else seems weird.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

N.E.S. or Nintendo. I have never in my life other than online heard someone call it the Ness or Nez or any variation of that. Nez doesn't even make sense to me.

 

[kromeo]

How did they pronounce them on gamesmaster? lol

I'm guessing super nintendo..

 

[Htown]

N.E.S., generally. Occasionally Ness.

 

[half a moon]

Then: Nintendo
Now: N.E.S.
Super Nintendo

 

[Walpurgis]

I call it N.E.S. I suppose Ness might be easier but I don't talk about the machine enough to make that stick. Come to think of it, I don't think I ever talk about it unless I'm making fun of PS+.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

N.E.S.

The people I would actually bring this up in conversation with would assume "Ness" to be me talking about the Smash Bros character.

 

[theusedversion]

Are people just trying to be funny or did people really call it Ness? Lol if so.

 

[Davey Cakes]

It's a "phases of life" thing for me.

When I was a little kid, Nintendo.

When I was a bit older, Ness.

Now I stick to N.E.S.

 

[MiszMasz]

"Nez"
After it, came the "Snez".

 

[Zalman]

N.E.S.

Ness is the protagonist of EarthBound, and Nintendo is the company.

 

[Gnilres]

N-E-S or "ness" interchangeably.

Super Nintendo or "Sness" interchangeably

 

[Nosgotham]

N-E-S
S-N-E-S

snez or nez just sounds ridiculous to me

 

[Mudron]

Just "Nintendo" and later, "Super Nintendo", but now it's usually "En Ee Ess" and "Sness/Super Nintendo" (after 25 years, I finally got worn down by so many other people & podcasters saying "Sness").

 

[Skatewarp]

Nintendo

And with SNES it continued and we called it Super Nintendo

This.

Knees

Wat.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

The N-E-S, cant hear or see it any other way.

 

[Outrun]

It was, and always will be, my friend.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Nez, same as every British and European person I've ever met, and all media in the UK at the time.

Both Nez and Snez sound correct to me. Spelling them out always seemed a bit long winded and silly when the acronyms form perfectly decent, uniquely distinct words.