You will have to refer to it to make sure everyone knows you are too cool and modern to not refer to it anymore. It's a paradox.
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You can tell a lot about a person by how they refer to Nintendo's ~La Snesse~ (SNES)
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You will have to refer to it to make sure everyone knows you are too cool and modern to not refer to it anymore. It's a paradox.
They just shouldn't be in this thread.
What I find interesting is that it spread all over the UK fairly quickly- in this thread alone you've got people from Scotland, the North, the Midlands, your good self and then me (grew up in Hertfordshire) confirming it. To me that implies it's probably down to a cultural thing preferring to shorten a phrase to a 'friendlier' perceived informal reference, rather than the greater regard given to the precise 'official' name in the US, in the same way that the BBC was 'the beeb', an umbrella a 'brolly' or a Spectrum is a 'speccy'.I'm 30+ from UK. I and literally everyone I knew at the time called them NES (pronounced Nezz) and SNES (pronounced Snezz).
Whatcha got OP?
Well put. Ness was a Loch monster from Scotland and laterly a Nintendo character from Earthbound.
And pronouncing Snez as 'Sness' would have been offence worthy of several months of ridicule in my schools (grew up in Yorkshire then Channel Islands)
Having said that, although some credited Bad Influence for 'SNEZ', Urban Dictionary suggests Your Sinclair magazine coined 'Speccy', so maybe it was the media after all!
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Steve.1981
Unconfirmed Member
Here in Scotland, it will forever be called the Snez.
I'm popping into my local game store this afternoon to ask them if they have any pre-orders left for the Snez Classic. It wouldn't ever have occurred to me to ask in any other way.
You want to start something pal?
I'm popping into my local game store this afternoon to ask them if they have any pre-orders left for the Snez Classic. It wouldn't ever have occurred to me to ask in any other way.
You want to start something pal?
Lapidus' Beard
Member
OP needs to check his facts. Nearly every box (both US and Europe) says that it contains a Super NES control deck, not Super Nintendo.
And that picture from a T-shirt (I think) is only half the logo, it should have Entertainment System in a red bar underneath it.
And that picture from a T-shirt (I think) is only half the logo, it should have Entertainment System in a red bar underneath it.
Call it whatever you like.
kqedequalsvolvo
Member
Yeah, reckon there's a lot of truth in that, really well put.
I grew up in London and then the South Midlands and it was Snez in both schools.
Dread to think what will happen when people find out about Maccie D's...
Z..
Member
That is the case pretty much everywhere in Europe. I'll take the chance to remind our North American friends that we outnumber them 2 to 1 so "snez" isn't that crazy when you think about it.
Charles Brandon
Member
Sssh.
D.Lo
Member
I read UK magazines back then (CVG, Total, Sega Power, Super Play) and many of them also called Nintendo 'Ninty'.
But I just took a look at an old Total and they called it the 'Super Nintendo' and 'Super NES' at least in this issue.
RollerMeister
Neo Member
Super Nintendo Entertainment System or nothing
IdreamofHIME
Member
Snez. Sorry for you being so intolerant.
Inferno313
Banned
Mostly use "Super Nintendo." Once in a while "Super N.E.S". When I was a kid, "S.N.E.S"
But good lord, never "sness"... not even once
But good lord, never "sness"... not even once
JohnSpartanLee
Member
A lot called it Super N.E.S. here in the beginning including me. But since it was marketed as "Super Nintendo" after a while everyone just called it that.
Heavy Iron Industries
Member
My friends and I called it, "The Super".
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Was typically called Super Nintendo here in Sweden. Sometimes Sness. Never S.N.E.S.
Taliban Stan
Member
I never heard "snes" until podcasts. When I was a kid, we just called it Nintendo or super Nintendo. Genesis was either genesis or just Sega.
Nes and Snes as words still feels like a weird internet only thing to me. I've never met a person in real life who refers to them in this way.
Nes and Snes as words still feels like a weird internet only thing to me. I've never met a person in real life who refers to them in this way.
That is my experience as well.
Charles Brandon
Member
Chazzwozzer
Barrel Cannon
Member
I feel like everyone called it the Super Nintendo when I was a kid including myself. Then when emulators started taking off I feel like the world slowly shifted to SNES.
Also lol at the title change
Also lol at the title change
Weltall Zero
Member
I call it snake NES, or "SNES".
Triggerhappytel
Member
I don't think I've ever met anyone in the UK who didn't call it the SNEZ. Sorry, Americafolk.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
Snez for life
darkjedi187
Member
Got to be s.n.e.s or super nes. When I hear snesss I cringe. Hate it.
You like that Dexter, don't you spukc?
ElfArmy177
Member
It's super Nintendo, wtf is wrong with GAF? I've never heard sness, only S.N.E.S at times. People are fucking weird, sness doesn't even sound like a word, more like you're having a seizure
Dark_3nergy
Member
SNESSSSSS
This word TRIGGERS ME. As an avid fan of the.. SNES.. hearing it mis pronounced makes my blood boil.
This word TRIGGERS ME. As an avid fan of the.. SNES.. hearing it mis pronounced makes my blood boil.
Kanhir
Member
Assuming you're European, in which case agreed.
I was around for the lifetime of the SNES and never called it anything but the "snez".
chromatic9
Member
i grew up in that era and no one I knew called it Sness, we said each letter "S" "N" "E" "S", because we used to call the original nintendo "N" "E" "S", never "ness" like a whole word. or we called it Super "N" "E" "S".
It annoys me when I hear it referred to as "sness" and I instantly lose a bit of respect for anyone that does.
It annoys me when I hear it referred to as "sness" and I instantly lose a bit of respect for anyone that does.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Pretty sure you can read Super NES on the console's box and also on the underneath sticker.
edit: pics from ebay
Correct.
Nintendo only recognises terms Super NES or Super Nintendo Entertainment System. There is no 'SNES'.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
The MJES THE SNAZZZ AND THE GAME BOAH
Abstrusity
Member
No guys, it's Ess-ness!
Ess-Enn-Eee-Ess or simply Super Nintendo
Charles Brandon
Member
Can we just stop for a second.
There are a whole bunch of people bad-mouthing Sness, Snesssssss and La Snesse. Fine, people who use those terms are straight-up cunts (sorry but that's an empirical truth). However, I don't see too many posters admitting to that. The war on Sness is a fake war.
The real options are:
ess en ee ess
Super en ee ess
Super Nintendo
and...
Snez. That's Snez with a zed. Not this minority Sness bullshit. Snez.
I get the feeling that people are lumping the Sness morons in with the glorious Snez massive. Don't tar us with that brush goddamit. We hate Sness as much as you do.
There are a whole bunch of people bad-mouthing Sness, Snesssssss and La Snesse. Fine, people who use those terms are straight-up cunts (sorry but that's an empirical truth). However, I don't see too many posters admitting to that. The war on Sness is a fake war.
The real options are:
ess en ee ess
Super en ee ess
Super Nintendo
and...
Snez. That's Snez with a zed. Not this minority Sness bullshit. Snez.
I get the feeling that people are lumping the Sness morons in with the glorious Snez massive. Don't tar us with that brush goddamit. We hate Sness as much as you do.
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