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[GKSilKamina]

I alternate between "Super Nintendo" and "S.N.E.S.".

 

[Soran]

I call it "The Super"

 

[tenderbrew]

I was prime age in the "sness" era and I call it a "sness".

 

[Zafir]

What?

Everyone I know in the UK calls it Sness/snez.... Regardless of age.

 

[Ponn]

EGM was our bible then.

EGM was like the bargain mag you would buy in the grocery store when you got dragged along. Really Real Gamers were always waiting for their Gamefan sub to be delivered.

 

[Aleh]

As someone who wasn't even born yet back then, I always called it Sness in my mind and even thought saying just Super Nintendo sounded dumb. You learn something new everyday lol.

 

[RoyaleDuke]

Super Nintendo, but I always thought SNESS was a weird way of pronouncing it.

Technically since SNES stood as an acronym for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and not some kind of weird word that makes me think of a fantasy creature sneezing.

 

[Version 3.0]

My dad used to call my NES and SNES and even GameBoy "Ataris." Then once I had Playstations and XBoxes those got called Nintendos.

LOL. My dad did that, too. Like he was trying to keep up with the times, but was 5 or 10 years too slow.

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

I've always used snez not sness, but Super Nintendo, Super N.E.S., or snez. I generally use(d) a system where:

Pedantic - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Formal - Super Nintendo
For effect - Super EN EE ES or ES EN EE ES
Informal - snez

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

What about ess en E ess?

This and Super Nintendo.

Everything else is weird.

 

[Feffe]

I say Sufami or Super Famicom

 

[Vinegar Joe]

Wasn't the NES commonly referred to as simply 'Nintendo' in the US? So it makes sense that 'Super Nintendo' would follow.

In the UK we called it the NES, because we had other consoles by different manufacturers and they all had different names. We didn't call them a 'Sega' or a 'Commodore' because that would be ridiculous.

And most of the names were abbreviated for ease of use during normal conversation.

So for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System we just popped the 'S' in front of 'NES' and our accent took care of the rest.

If Americans find it annoying, that's a job well done I guess?

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

Since the SNES, I've always called the NES "regular Nintendo". Do you hate me too, OP?

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

LOL. My dad did that, too. Like he was trying to keep up with the times, but was 5 or 10 years too slow.

At least he tried to keep up. One benefit for my mother and aunts when the Wii came out was that the systems the little kids had were back to being "Nintendo's" so they were correct again after 10+ years.

 

[.J.]

It's always "Super Nintendo" for me. I'm from the states.


Side question: was the SNES classic thread locked? Can't find it.

 

[nkarafo]

Super En EE Es.

Am i a good person OP?

Also, En Sixty Four.

 

[KojiKnight]

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

This... Or just super Nintendo. I didn't know "sness" was as thing till the game grumps did it. It's an initialism, you say the damn letters!

 

[Mahonay]

I'm about that Sness life.

 

[Charles Brandon]

It's always "Super Nintendo" for me. I'm from the states.


Side question: was the SNES classic thread locked? Can't find it.

yup.

 

[Verelios]

People don't say Super Nintendo only? Weird.

 

[nkarafo]

Also, you say Super Nintendo is the right one because that's what the box says. So it's you who needs to take 15 minute breaks for every 1 hour of play as instructed in the manual, for the same reason, like you say in your OP.

Spoiler

/shrug

 

[Eggiem]

S. N.

Spoiler

ot available

E. S.

 

[Accoun]

Every time I see someone call a NES "Nintendo", I picture them as an elderly person buying it for their grandchildren. For whatever reason "Super Nintendo" feels more acceptable.

 

[Zyrox]

Thought this thread was going to be some disgusting "Sness" propaganda.
Thanks for walking the righteous path of justice OP.

 

[Capra]

I mean, you call it an "N.E.S.", right? Not a Ness or a Nintendo Entertainment System. So logically, the SNES is just an "N.E.S" with an "S" in front.

 

[capylikesgames]

I was born and raised on a Snes though, OP. All the neighborhood kids would call it that. You can't tell me what to call my childhood friend. :'P

 

[Shaneus]

I say "Sness", because it's fewer syllables and more efficient. Unlike it's CPU, which is slower than the Genesis' one haiyooooo

 

[lord]

We called it the super, lets go play super

 

[.J.]

yup.

Lol why?

It was harmless!

 

[ramparter]

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

Nintendo 64 was a stupid name but st least you can just call it the Sixty Four, kind like the Three Sixty.

 

[Masked Man]

I'm an "Ess En Ee Ess" or "Super Nintendo" kind of guy, but I had lunch with a Brit yesterday who was exclusively "Snezz."

 

[natureboy46]

Generally refer to it as the Super Nintendo but I have been known to call it the Sness.

And for what it's worth, back in the day, the NES was never referred to anything but "The Nintendo"

 

[Berserking Guts]

Every time I see someone call a NES "Nintendo", I picture them as an elderly person buying it for their grandchildren. For whatever reason "Super Nintendo" feels more acceptable.

I think more kids called the nez a Nintendo back in the 80s cuz the name was a new brand to most people.

No other mainstream nintendo thing came before it (unless you include game and watch, arcade, toys or cards). It was the first. It was The Nintendo.

 

[Charles Brandon]

Lol why?

It was harmless!

I have no idea. Something about it being a pointless megathread, It wasn't pointless, it was actually very helpful and also amusing.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I don't think I called it anything? It was just "video games." After getting a PS1 I started calling it The Nintendo.

 

[sixteen-bit]

intendo tapes

 

[daTRUballin]

I have no problem with any of those different ways to call the system. I use all of those, including S.N.E.S. which the OP left out for some reason.

Although I do notice the one I use the least is the "Sness". I barely ever use it compared to the others.

Anybody who pronounces Mario as Mare-e-oh deserves to be slapped in the face though.

EDIT: Nvm. The OP did mention S.N.E.S. My bad

 

[.J.]

I have no idea. Something about it being a pointless megathread, It wasn't pointless, it was actually very helpful and also amusing.

Seriously. I secured a couple of preorders thanks to that thread. Hopefully they don't get cancelled. I was really relying on that thread to let me know when US sites went live so I could order there and cancel the other stuff.

 

[Charles Brandon]

I mean, you call it an "N.E.S.", right? Not a Ness or a Nintendo Entertainment System. So logically, the SNES is just an "N.E.S" with an "S" in front.

I called the Nintendo Entertainment System "Nez" and so did everyone else I knew.

Seriously. I secured a couple of preorders thanks to that thread. Hopefully they don't get cancelled. I was really relying on that thread to let me know when US sites went live so I could order there and cancel the other stuff.

¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Charles Brandon]

dp

 

[Minions]

I'm a convert. I use to say Super Nintendo or Super NES, but now I say Sness since its faster to say.

 

[Podge293]

I don't think I've ever heard it anything but the SNES unless someone is explain what the acroynm means.

Obviously seen it typed every way you mentioned

 

[Nostremitus]

I've been calling it either Super Nintendo or S.N.E.S since it launched. I hadn't heard it called Sness until a couple of years ago. It's an odd thing to hear...

Same with calling the "Nintendo" or N.E.S. "Ness"... Ness is the name of the character in Earthbound... Not the original system...

 

[Sheroking]

I type SNES. I say Super Nintendo.

 

[mieumieu]

es en eee es

 

[eliochip]

Called it Super Nintendo
Because you call it by its name
You say Super Mario not SM

 

[Dali]

i say all three.

what now?

I spell "diarrhea" right on occasion too. What's your point?

 

[InsertCookiesHere]

I call it SNES, because I don't feel like reinventing history and calling it anything other then what it was called by 90% of people at the time.

 

[Axass]

I love how both the OP and half the posters are oblivious to the fact that not all the world speaks English. "Sness" is way more natural to say than s.n.e.s in my language.

Still I've always called it Super Nintendo.

 

[squidyj]

I still remember the day i came home from school and my parents had bought me a sness. I played Mario for hours. Up until then we hadn't had any console and I had only sometimes played games on the ness at a friend's house. I was the first kid I knew who had a sness so my friends would come over and we would play sness all the time.

Fight me.