yeah it's Nez, thread over, game done, we win (not sure what we win, but i need a win dammit!!)
En. E. Es. (N-E-S)
But we'd just call it Nintendo (and Super Nintendo the SNES) when we were kids.
La Nes.
I'm Spanish
Truth.N-E-S and Super N-E-S (or Super Nintendo). I'm from the USA (U-S-A, not Yousuh).
That's just wrong.
El Nes would be better. El Enies would be better.
Voy a usar el Nintendo, not la Nintendo.
Ness
Sness
See-ga
UK
En-Ee-Es/N-E-S
It always bothered me to hear people pronounce acronyms, for example GUI (graphical user interface) as "gooey"
OK, I can't even...
As in "do you see that over there?"
The game bootups themselves say "say-gah!'
Also 'Shmup'. Gross. They're shooters.
They are shooters, but so are Halo, Gears of War, and House of the Dead. Shmup is a specific subgenre of shooter, and while it may sound stupid, it is a useful descriptor.
Just because kids in one town/country called it one thing back then, doesn't mean that was global.
I've seen this discussion many times over the years, broadly while NA kids pronounced it N-E-S and Super N-E-S or S-N-E-S or even Super Nintendo, UK kids called it NEZ/NES and SNEZ respectively. Five syllables was a bit much for the playground
I wonder if the UK pronunciation was also helped along by popular use on our games TV shows of the time like Gamesmaster and Bad Influence.
Neo Gee Ay Eff?N-E-S. Each letter stands for something, so you should say each letter individually.
I'm 32 years old and have never heard "Nez." "Nes," maybe, but not "Nez." That couldn't be further from being correct. Reading "Nez" is leaving me completely dumbfounded and somewhat angry. What the hell is that?
NEZ?!
EDIT: Yeah, I always have and still say "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo." It's not hard to use full words.