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[HvySky]

I refer to it as the N-E-S, but I refer to the Super Nintendo as the "sness". I have no idea why.

 

[RoslindaleOne]

Nintendo, then Super Nintendo. I still call it the NES Nintendo except on the Internet.

 

[MCN]

En Eee Ess, or Nintendo. Never called it nes or snes. It's an acronym and I rarely say acronyms. Like, I say "Ee Ess Pee En" for ESPN, not pronouncing it phonetically like a word. Black Entertainment is Bee Eee Tee, not bet. NBC is En Bee See, not nubuk.

How do you handle GIF, JPEG and NeoGAF?

 

[Stopdoor]

Enee-es is super easy and catchy to say, it's not a bad acronym. "Ness" just feels like it could be more easily confused with other things, doesn't sound like a game console name.

 

[Fawk Nin]

The "Nez"

First post got it.

 

[FunkyDealer]

Ness.
Super Nintendo.
N64.
Gamecube.
We.
WeYou.

Gameboy.
Gameboy.
Gameboy.
Gameboy.
Gameboy.

 

[eNut_ButteR]

Nintendo, like a civilized human being.

 

[MikeE21286]

N.E.S

 

[Rats Off To Ya]

N.E.S. and S.N.E.S.

It was real weird to my ears when I started listening to gaming podcasts and heard people saying "ness" and "sness." I'm still not really used to it.

 

[usp84]

Nintendo

I had no idea what a NES was when i first saw it mentioned on the internet

 

[Jetku]

When growing up, the Super Nintendo came out around the time I started to be interested in games (age 4-5) so I called the NES the "Original Nintendo". I eventually moved on to N.E.S. And now the Ness

 

[The Cartographer]

Nehs...or maybe it's Nhes.

Whatever.

 

[butman]

Nintendo. NES when emulators happened.

 

[SuperCambot]

Nintendo or "N-E-S"

Super Nintendo

 

[ffdgh]

N.E.S

 

[AkimbO_Arcana]

Man, Super Nintendo is such a fantastic console name.

 

[yyr]

N.E.S.

I never heard anyone pronounce it as Ness until the Internet came around.

This person typed my response already.

N.E.S. and S.N.E.S.

It was real weird to my ears when I started listening to gaming podcasts and heard people saying "ness" and "sness." I'm still not really used to it.

I agree; where else in society do people say acronyms as words?

 

[Fantomas]

It was the Nintendo, plain and simple. When the SNES came out, we just called it the Super.

 

[Sesuadra]

N.E.S. and SNESS

 

[Cheeseman Battitude]

NES = NEZ
SNES = SNEZ

And I've never ever referred to the Gamecube as GCN like some odd websites did.

 

[Dark-VIII]

Family computer

 

[ChrisD]

Always called them the Ness and the Sness.

 

[Empty]

en-ee-ess

nesss is stupid. might as well call the psp the pussper or the gba the goobaaa

 

[djlr181]

Nintendo or "N-E-S"

Super Nintendo

Mostly the same as you, but would also say Super "N E S"

 

[QuiteWhittle]

N.E.S and S.N.E.S

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

I pronounce "NES" which each letter, like how you would pronounce "NAACP", and I always have.

 

[YaGaMi]

Ness, Sness and then Ultra 64

 

[Menitta]

I call it the "N.E.S." and I call the SNES the "Super Nintendo"

 

[IdreamofHIME]

NEZ

 

[Nishastra]

N.E.S. or Nintendo.

 

[Hazelhurst]

"nintendo" I did not start using nes until the beggining of the emulation age.

This

I'm pretty sure everyone called it Nintendo when it was current gen. I never heard it referred to NES until the the emulators came out over a decade later.

 

[Lupin3]

Ness, of course!

 

[EricDiesel]

N E S
Super N E S || Super Nintendo

First time I heard it said as a word was on Giant Bomb.

This exactly for me. The idea of pronouncing it "ness" or "sness" never entered my head until Giant Bomb. Must be a regional thing. It was always "Nintendo/Super Nintendo" and (rarely) "N.E.S./S.N.E.S." where I grew up.

 

[Menitta]

Man, Super Nintendo is such a fantastic console name.

Adding "Super" in front of a console name is something everyone understands. "U" is terrible.

 

[Etzer]

Ness and Sness

In school, I never heard anyone spell out the acronyms and we talked about video games all the time. Maybe it's the younger people who call it Ness and Sness? I wasn't even alive when either of them were released.

"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".

Having learned Spanish in Puerto Rico, it's very strange for me to hear people use "la" for consoles. For me, it was "el Playstation" or "el Xbox".

 

[SynthFetish]

EN-TEN-DOUGH

UPER-EN-TEN-DOUGH

 

[Christof]

Super nintendo and nintendo.

in southern California I guess we say each letter of acronyms: S.N.E.S

I never heard sneaze, which is a very unappealing name, until youtube.

I remember the first time I heard someone say star wars' A.T.-A.T. As an "at at", made me sick to my stomach.

 

[_Spr_Drnk]

Another Nez vote here, same for its follow up, the 'Snez'.

 

[HF2014]

When i was young, i was saying Nintendo, i now call it N.E.S.

 

[Christof]

This person typed my response already.



I agree; where else in society do people say acronyms as words?

In the technical field, the ultimate dream of an acronym is to be promoted to a word: Laser

 

[brandonh83]

I heard someone pronounce it as "Snes" once like it was a word, and I'm pretty sure I made the biggest what the fuck face in history.

 

[Josh5890]

For me it has always been

NES
Super Nintendo
The 64

 

[petran79]

my late grandmother used to call it "Nitebo", so we used that name ever since....

 

[formasymphonic]

"Nintendo" when talking about it generally.
"Nez", "Snez" & "N64" when talking about specific models

Edit: i think the Nez/Snez might be a UK thing. thats just what we called them when i was but a lad

 

[Stinkles]

N.E.S. then Sness, then EnSixtyFour, then Gumcab, then Why, then WhyUs.

 

[Hentailover]

Dendy

 

[wbEMX]

N.E.S.

 

[dead_lighter]

Ness

Super Ness


But I say P.E.S., not pess nor pez...

 

[Jaymageck]

From the UK.

Ness.

and.

Sness (SNES)

 

[Agent Unknown]

Been gaming since the '80s, I've always said N.E.S. and Super N.E.S. and so does pretty much everybody I know including people I know at work who I talk games with. Wasn't until the internet that I started hearing the occasional "Nez" and the worst, "Snez/Sness" which sounds like a form of sinus congestion.