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[CrackPebbles]

I say either super nintendo or snes. Never thought about it too hard I didn't think people actually cared.

 

[Gaspard]

SNESSsss is horribly caucophonic but it is one syllable and convenience beats all in some minds.

I wasnt there really so I call it Super Nintendo, but all my friends do call it snesss and it's kinda grating.

 

[ThisIsMyDogKyle]

I called it a "sness" for a long time... I was also born in 1998 so I've got a bit of an excuse, however I have been calling it the "Super N.E.S", is "Super Nintendo" the proper way to say it?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

this-is-neojee-ey-ef.gif

 

[Hippopuncher12]

I have always said Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Occasionally we would shorten to the N.E.S. Super N.E.S variation, but it was rare. Anyone that calls it a damn Sness/z is just....

 

[cpp_is_king]

What about "Super Ness" and "Ess Ness"?

 

[YearoftheWooster]

I say Ess En Ee Ess.
I'm okay with Super Nintendo or Super NES.
Snezz is straight up wrong.

 

[Klappdrachen]

Super Nintendo

Mega Drive

what the fuck is a Genesis?

Agreed. Genesis sounds so try-hard.

 

[styl3s]

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

Every kid at school and all my friends always referred to it as S.N.E.S including myself.

Saying it that way makes the most sense to me but that's because that's how everyone referred to it kind of like how everyone i know refers to 2017 at twenty seventeen not two thousand and seventeen. That being said i know a lot of people who just refer to it as SNES or super nintendo. Never heard super NES.

 

[Ermac]

Do y'all remember when Garnett Lee pronounced it "Ess Ness" on Weekend Confirmed and the crew roasted him lol.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

I alternate between "Super Nintendo", "Super NES" and "SNES", with the latter two involving me pronouncing each individual letter.

Pronouncing it "Sness" is just wrong.

You don't go around saying "Fubehaye" for FBI, or "Neeyehpeedeh" for "NYPD".

Nahsah says hi.

Ah, touche.

 

[Dick Jones]

Super Nintendo

Mega Drive

what the fuck is a Genesis?

Exactly, it wasn't even SEGA's first console. It's like calling your third console "The One". Insanity

 

[joesploggs2]

In reply to your thread title and whole point: no... no you can't.

 

[FunkyDealer]

this-is-neojee-ey-ef.jif

FTFY

 

[snowsabre93]

Es En Ee Es.

 

[eme]

What is this nonsense

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[FreedomFighter]

It was always "Super Nintendo" for me and my friends.

 

[Nitpicker_Red]

S.N.E.S is uncomfortable to pronounce in some languages/accents. (the world is not America yet)

Super Nintendo is the short full-ish name, but sometimes you want something shorter, so Snes.

 

[Pieman0920]

I'm a Super N.E.S. speaking type person thing, personally.

I don't quite get what you're trying to say about me there OP. I say carts though.

 

[Link_enfant]

How about S.C.A.L.P.E.R.S.

 

[molnizzle]

What is this nonsense

If you were there then you'd know that we called them "tapes," "records," and "Super Nintendo."

 

[Gaspard]

Exactly, it wasn't even SEGA's first console. It's like calling your third console "The One". Insanity

Well Genesis is really a new start for the company in a lot of ways especially how it really took off in the states.

I love the Genesis name.

 

[weekev]

It's a SNES pronounced sn-e-z if you didn't call it that I'm gonna say your a bit of a weirdo. No one asked to play Super Nintendo.

 

[LegendofLex]

It was Super Nintendo when it was on the market, but basically as soon as I started referring to NES by its acronym (i.e. when I started using the internet to talk about games) I started saying Super NES also, because NES was no longer just a "Nintendo" with "Super Nintendo" being its only successor.

I sometimes will just pronounce each letter (ess en ee ess) but I'll never say "sness."

 

[eme]

You can tell a lot about a person by their judgement of unimportant choices.

 

[BGBW]

The really test if whether you call the unit itself a console or a control deck.

 

[gnomed]

Super Nintendo

Mega Drive

what the fuck is a Genesis?

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke I couldn't picture this...

 

[MrS]

It's a Snez. Always has been, always will be.

 

[Boy Wander]

It's changed over time for me. I called it Super Nintendo when I bought one at age 18 at UK launch. Now I call it Sness.

 

[the_lizard]

I pronounce it the same way I pronounce Hydrocity.

 

[Feichaw]

What about "Super Ness" and "Ess Ness"?

gtfo with this abomination

 

[HStallion]

I called it garbage compared to my superior Genesis

 

[adj_noun]

The really test if whether you call the unit itself a console or a control deck.

Or a Nintendo

regardless of what the thing actually was, it was a Nintendo

looking at you, parental types

 

[CadetMahoney]

Nessy

 

[Metal-Geo]

I alternate between "Super Nintendo", "Super NES" and "SNES", with the latter two involving me pronouncing each individual letter.

Pronouncing it "Sness" is just wrong.

You don't go around saying "Fubehaye" for FBI, or "Neeyehpeedeh" for "NYPD".

So how should one pronounce FUBAR, SNAFU, NASA or GAF?

 

[Ruruja]

Snez in UK but we say Mario correctly so it evens out.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Do people who say Super Nintendo also call the NES the "Nintendo"?

 

[belteshazzar]

I'm gonna call it whatever I want, so stfu. Who do you think you are?

 

[spectator]

Suu Famiiiiiiiiii!

 

[CloudyTuba]

Gonna play some maireeo on my sness.

I say "Super Nintendo" 90% of the time and "Ess-En-Ee-Ess" occasionally. Never sness. I'm no hillbilly.

 

[potatohead]

Sness people are assholes

Super Nintendo people are normal

 

[Deleted member 231381]

I alternate between "Super Nintendo", "Super NES" and "SNES", with the latter two involving me pronouncing each individual letter.

Pronouncing it "Sness" is just wrong.

You don't go around saying "Fubehaye" for FBI, or "Neeyehpeedeh" for "NYPD".

Nahsah says hi.

Sness is wrong though, since the final s is hard. It rhymes with fez, which is good because fezzes are good.

 

[eme]

So how should one pronounce FUBAR, SNAFU, NASA or GAF?

I don't know, but I can tell a lot about you based on how you pronounce them.

 

[Version 3.0]

Every time one of those fuckers on Giant Bomb says "Sness", I shudder like other people do when someone scratches fingernails down a chalkboard.

But what can you do? You realize this thread isn't going to change a single mind, right?

 

[munster]

Nez, Snez, Megadrive

 

[molnizzle]

It's a Snez. Always has been, always will be.

Maybe in the Soviet Union.

God's children of freedom knew it by its real name. Super Nintendo.

Every time one of those fuckers on Giant Bomb says "Sness", I shudder like other people do when someone scratches fingernails down a chalkboard.

This bugs me too because they're not even European. They have no excuse for using that filth.

 

[EvB]

Nessy

But you’ll never find a Snezzy in the Zoo

 

[actthafool]

It's always been Snez/Snes in the U.K. I never heard it called anything else as a kid. Same with the NES with Nez.

 

[sonto340]

I got a snes for Christmas and my parents who were born in 1957 called it a snes and I still call it a snes and I'll fight to the death to say it as snes

 

[spectator]

I pronounce it the same way I pronounce Hydrocity.

The winner.