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N - E - S

 

[ChrisD]

I say N-E-S, but SNES is "Sness."

 

[cRIPticon]

yeah it's Nez, thread over, game done, we win (not sure what we win, but i need a win dammit!!)

Hey kids, it's an acronym. N-E-S is the only way to fly.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

I don't think I ever just say the acronym. If I refer to it in speech, I say Nintendo or Super Nintendo.

 

[CloudNein]

I've never heard anybody say it as one word.

I, and anybody I've talked to in person, spell out the letters. Just like how people spell out S-N-E-S, or just say super nintendo.

If someone said it out loud as one word I'd would stare at them funny.

 

[TheGreyHulk]

N-E-S

Super nintendo or Super N-E-S

California, USA

I never knew ness/nez was a thing until gaf had a thread a while back.

 

[Sojiro]

For me its always been N-E-S and S-N-E-S.

 

[jakncoke]

n-e-s or regular nintendo

 

[nikos]

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.

 

[Justinh]

En. E. Es. (N-E-S)

But we'd just call it Nintendo (and Super Nintendo the SNES) when we were kids.

This is me, although I usually call it "the Nintendo" even still.

USA.

 

[SkullHydra]

In. Ee. Ess.

Super Nintendo

 

[RumblingRosco]

N-E-S and Super N-E-S (or Super Nintendo). I'm from the USA (U-S-A, not Yousuh).

 

[whiteninja]

En-Ee-Es/N-E-S



It always bothered me to hear people pronounce acronyms, for example GUI (graphical user interface) as "gooey"

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

La Nes.

I'm Spanish

That's just wrong.

El Nes would be better. El Enies would be better.

Voy a usar el Nintendo, not la Nintendo.

 

[SkullHydra]

N-E-S and Super N-E-S (or Super Nintendo). I'm from the USA (U-S-A, not Yousuh).

Truth.

 

[Ysarus]

That's just wrong.

El Nes would be better. El Enies would be better.

Voy a usar el Nintendo, not la Nintendo.

It's also la NES in French (for most people anyway), because our consoles are female.

Gendered languages are weird.

 

[Jal]

Ness
Sness
See-ga

UK

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Ness
Sness
See-ga

UK

OK, I can't even...

As in "do you see that over there?"

The game bootups themselves say "say-gah!'

 

[Robot Pants]

It's N-e-s.
If anyone here says NES I'll find you and kick you in the stomach

 

[Toki767]

Nintendo
Super Nintendo

That's how I referred to them as a kid. None of this NES/SNES stuff.

 

[XaosWolf]

En-Ee-Es/N-E-S



It always bothered me to hear people pronounce acronyms, for example GUI (graphical user interface) as "gooey"

But pronouncing it Gooey would make it an Acronym. Saying G.U.I would make it an Initialism.

 

[Chezzymann]

N-E-S
But I say "Snes" since S-N-E-S is too many syllables

 

[Jal]

OK, I can't even...

As in "do you see that over there?"

The game bootups themselves say "say-gah!'

Yes, Sea Ga

 

[Cheesemeister]

Lots of wasted syllables in this thread. This American says "NEZ" for life. Screw the haters.

 

[Warewolf]

Nintendo.

and Super Nintendo.

Or "Supa Nintendo" as it were.

(Australian)

 

[virtualS]

N E S.

Sometimes Nes when I'm lazy.

Never Nez. Not sure where that abomination originated from.

While we're at it, may I reiterate how much I hate the word 'Ninty'.

Also 'Shmup'. Gross. They're shooters.

 

[Qwark]

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.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Nez and Suh-Nez for life yo.

 

[MetatronM]

N-E-S or "the Nintendo"

Super N-E-S or Super Nintendo. Nobody really ever used "S-N-E-S" (or any other variation of that abbreviation) out loud as far as I can remember.

I never heard anyone ever use "nes" or "snes" as a word until I heard them used on the internet at some point over the last decade or so. I never ever ever heard anyone use either term in the 80s or 90s.

 

[Occam]

N.E.S.
It's an acronym.

 

[justinluey]

N-E-S now, but called it Nintendo when it first came out.

Super Nintendo from day one.

I'm from Canada, near the New York border.

 

[Occam]

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.

2D shooter.

 

[Artex]

N. E. S.

C'mon man...

 

[SnowTeeth]

Ness, Sness, Segah - Australia. Always have, always will.

 

[beinfilms]

I'm from the US, and use N-E-S and Ness pretty much interchangeably. (I think about it as 3 separate letters, though.)

Also, I don't know if the Sega discussion is still going on, but I just say it like they told me:

https://youtu.be/a9224qZ7N38

 

[JimmyJones]

Nez and Snez

 

[Muzy72]

It's N.E.S.

Pretty sure that's the official name too. Satoru Iwata says it @ 23:00 in this video. http://youtu.be/OS_gYzv02SQ

 

[Asparagus]

We had a thread like this years ago.

Google Maps was used to better show where everyone was.

It's NEZ / SNEZ here in the UK, always has been (although earlier this year I heard some teenage kids talk about getting some en-ee-es games, probably Youtube having an influence there).

 

[Sephzilla]

I call it the Nintendo

 

[SweetJohnnyCage]

N E S, and S N E S. I die a little inside when younger folks say Nes or Snes.

 

[Quintin DM]

I'm Canadian and I've always pronounced it N-E-S, I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't pronounce it this way either.

 

[ninjaboyjohn]

80s kid from the Atlanta area - we said "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" and "N64" or just "the 64" but later would say N-E-S and Super N-E-S.

I don't think I'd heard "ness" until I got to college.

 

[bumpkin]

I always said N-E-S growing up. Same goes for the Super ("Super N-E-S").

 

[Bleepey]

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.

I vaguely remembered Dominik Diamond criticising people who called is the SNEZ on When Games Attack if i recall correctly

 

[Sarobi]

N-E-S & S-N-E-S, or just Super Nintendo. I've never heard anyone call it Nez outloud.

 

[MrS]

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.

Neo Gee Ay Eff?

 

[florin3k3]

N-E-S

The same way i Say F -B- I, not fbee/fbye for FBI

 

[catbrush]

It's pronounced "Nintendo".

 

[Zee-Row]

I've always said N-E-S , the only NES I know id Nester from the Nintendo Power comics.

 

[Vitacat]

I always say/said "N.E.S." More often in person I say "original Nintendo" or "Nintendo 8bit" and people know what I mean.

I know some say "Ness" and that's fine, I don't really care. But to my mind, it's "N.E.S."