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NES or N-E-S?
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InfiniteCombo
Banned
Interesting... US GAF here:
NES = N-E-S
SNES = S-N-E-S
Sega = Say-Gah (pronunciation first learned when booting up Sonic 1 on the Genesis for the first time)
English is actually my second language, and I find this acronym stuff to be all over the place. So while "USA" is U-S-A, something like NATO is "Nay-Toh," not "N-A-T-O". I could go on with a million examples where in some cases the acronym is pronounced as the individual letters, while in some others is pronounced as a word of its own.
s_mirage
Member
It's a single s, the s is hard. How do you say words like buses and trains? Busess and trainss? I can't speak for other parts of the world but, in my part of the UK at least, a short s tends to sound more like a z than a ss.
tenderbrew
Member
N-E-S
and
Sness
and
Sness
GeordieMark
Member
I've always referred to them as NES and SNES.
Stallion Dan
Member
NES - Nez
SNES - Snez, or Super Nez
Sega - Say-ga
Mario - Marry-o
Raiden - Ray-den
Gaiden - Gay-den
Ryu - R-eye-you
UK.
SNES - Snez, or Super Nez
Sega - Say-ga
Mario - Marry-o
Raiden - Ray-den
Gaiden - Gay-den
Ryu - R-eye-you
UK.
No idea. The first time I remember hearing the 'Say-Gah' jingle was House of the Dead Overkill. And by that stage 'See-Gah' was too burnt into my muscle memory.
I owned a lot of Sega products as a kid too. Had a Megadrive (Genesis) with dozens of games. Maybe the PAL releases didn't do the jingle?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
The spanish pronunciation of NES.
Same with SuperNES and SEGA.
Basically saying the letter E as when you say "eh"
Same with SuperNES and SEGA.
Basically saying the letter E as when you say "eh"
wanderjahr
Banned
NES is a lochness monster living in Scotland. N-E-S is console. Who confuses the two?
baudelinog
Member
I'm curious. I'm from Spain and, as previously said, among my neighbors/friends/classmates, in the late 80s - first 90s, it was always 'la Nintendo'. I NEVER heard 'the NES' in any Spanish mouth until the Internet times.
'La SEGA' became 'la Master System' in the moment the Megadrive appeared.
I think if I will ever see the day that MARRIO introduces himself as "It's a me, Marry-o" I'll put my controller down for good
So you've not played a game since 1996?
OK here is something weird! I Pronounced the NES 'En-E-Es' and bought video game magazines imported from the U.S but then went on to call SNES predominantly 'Super Nintendo' or 'SNEZ'. At the time i continued to buy mags from the U.S but my favourite SNES magazine was Super Play which was from the U.K. Weird or what?
BTW, I am from Australia.
EDIT - Still to this day, I pronounce Sega 'Sea-Ga' and have never heard an Australian say it the other way.
BTW, I am from Australia.
EDIT - Still to this day, I pronounce Sega 'Sea-Ga' and have never heard an Australian say it the other way.
Yeah, I think that's how everyone here say it.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
La NES ive heard it A LOT, and I use it myself, not at the begginning when it was used la Nintendo (as you said), but just as the SuperNES was released, I used it to differenciate both when talking with someone about videogames, and that was before the internet, and same with people I know, they used la NES when the Super was released.
La Super Nintendo, or just La Super was also used.
La SEGA ive havent heard it in my whole life. Always La Megadrive, La Master System (or la sega master system)....
timetokill
Banned
Those are both pronounced the same way.
timetokill
Banned
TanookiTom
Member
I definitely don't hear anybody saying marry-o in there ;-)
baudelinog
Member
Interesting! I bought the Master System in early 1988; I saw the NES before, but really never caught my attention. Sega did it way better, at least where I lived: the stands were 'full' of Master System material, while the NES was resting next to C64 and Atari and so.
In my school, when I said 'Tengo la Master System', not many knew what I was talking - there were the Spectrum and Amstrad days. But everyone knew there were two new gaming things, and they came from Nintendo and Sega; so they called them 'La Nintendo' and 'La Sega'. That was the very early days, I must say.
Then, in 1990, the Megadrive appeared; 'la Sega' was innapropiate, and there were A LOT more console gaming culture, so new forms of calling seemed natural: 'la Master System' and 'la Megadrive'. 'Sega' dissapeared.
In 1992 it came the SNES. I knew a lot of people with NES and SNES back in that days, but I really never knew one calling them 'la NES' or 'la Super NES': they were always 'la Nintendo', 'la Super' or 'la Super Nintendo'. You can even check the advertising or the Spanish gaming magazines. I just knew they were called NES and SNES in some places because I used to read CVG and other English magazines.
But maybe all was that way because we lived in a small region; maybe in Madrid or Barcelona the situation was different. Are you from Madrid or Barcelona?
like.a.ser
Member
Always said N-E-S.
Side note, I didn't call SNES either variation. I just called it "Super Nintendo"
Side note, I didn't call SNES either variation. I just called it "Super Nintendo"
Massive Nights
Member
NESS as in Eliot. And logically SNESS from that.
SEGA is "say-ga".
Ireland.
SEGA is "say-ga".
Ireland.
How do you pronounce 'marry'? That's the problem with spelling out pronunciation, people pronounce words differently. The issue with the z at the end of NEZ and SNEZ has also confused some because I think some put too much emphasis on the zzzz when they read it so they think it sounds funny.
Mario says his name with a short 'a'. Lots of people incorrectly give it a long 'a'. Ma-ri-o rather than Mar-i-o.
Sylverstone14
Member
N-E-S. Feels weird hearing other variations.
On habit, I'd say Super N-E-S, but I just say Super Nintendo.
Normally Seh-ga for SEGA.
Makes me wonder what people called the Nintendo 64, if other bizarre variations do exist.
On habit, I'd say Super N-E-S, but I just say Super Nintendo.
Normally Seh-ga for SEGA.
Makes me wonder what people called the Nintendo 64, if other bizarre variations do exist.
GametimeUK
Member
Nez for the NES and Snez for the Super Nintendo. (That doesn't mean S Nez, it's literally Snez as one word, one syllable).
Back in the 90s I was too busy playing with the Puss to care about the N64.
Cosmonal
Neo Member
We say the number on our language too, there's no console called "sixty four" or "three sixty" for us
Here in Brazil, the N64 is the "Nintendo Sessenta e Quatro" on all of its blurred texture glory ^_^Also, when there's a loose letter on some name like "R-Type" we don't say "ahrr" we say "érre" (brazilian portuguese pronunciation for "R") and then proceed in english saying "Type" as you guys. It's a whole new game!
TanookiTom
Member
Yes I suppose you're right regarding the different pronunciation of words. But Charles Martinet is trying to fake an Italian accent for Mario, so the "a" is more like in the romance languages. Like "Mah-rio" but with a non-english a
But yeah, it's hard to spell out the pronunciation of words. Would really come in handy if I understood the phonetic alphabet lol