First time you heard N.E.S. called "NESS"?

[7eve70rd]

The
Nintendo
Entertainment
System ...

Any Ess?
NESS?
Nintendo

How did you abbreviate?
What was the slang word to call it?

 

[DunkeyKong]

I've called it N E S one by one, not too fast, not too slow
Just N E S

 

[RustySK]

Around where I live people used to call the system a Nintendo. Still do, really - Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64.

 

[Gorse]

I've heard British and Australian people pronounce "Sega" as "See-gar". In my world, that would be punishable by death.

 

[Yousef]

I've heard British and Australian people pronounce "Sega" as "See-gar". In my world, that would be punishable by death.

Cigar smokers beware

 

[DunkeyKong]

I've heard British and Australian people pronounce "Sega" as "See-gar". In my world, that would be punishable by death.

"I play cigar, I smoked them"

 

[χKai]

I didn't start hearing it called that until the 2000s. I never liked it.
I just call it the Nintendo, usually; as literally anyone I'd ever met had been wont to do.

 

[bubbyrude]

nesticle.
we always called it "regular nintendo" and "super nintendo" to differentiate until early 2000s.

 

[Clippy]

You know what would be a real confession?
N-6-4
X-B-O-X-3-6-0

I'm sure you're out there somewhere.

 

[χKai]

Calling it NES just makes me think of the kid from the Mother series. Nothing against that, but it's far from my favorite.

 

[Gorse]

X-B-O-X-3-6-0

"...because when you see it, you turn 3˚, 6˚, and 0˚, then walk away."

 

[Yousef]

"...because when you see it, you turn 3˚, 6˚, and 0˚, then walk away."

Hey remember when the series X was first announced and people started calling it xbox SeX?

 

[DunkeyKong]

Hey remember when the series X was first announced and people started calling it xbox SeX?

"Buy SeX now, limited edition"

 

[Yousef]

"Buy SeX now, limited edition"

“Buy the new SeX! With a bigger hard drive!”

 

[fake-kun]

*Insert Game Theory joke*

 

[Yousef]

*Insert Game Theory joke*

Matpat is a joke

 

[jon2]

First time you heard N.E.S. called "NESS"?​

Back when I first encountered the SNES in 1995.

Before that, all I knew that the one before it was called the Nintendo Famicom

 

[freebie#47]

Does Earthbound count? Ness, Ninten

Honestly I called it the "In Ee Ess"....still do

 

[7eve70rd]

Calling it NES just makes me think of the kid from the Mother series. Nothing against that, but it's far from my favorite.

Adam Sessler Legend of Zelda Retrospective (Gamespot TV 2000)​

At 15 secs Adam says "dates all the way back to the [NESS]" ...

 

[χKai]

Adam Sessler Legend of Zelda Retrospective (Gamespot TV 2000)​

At 15 secs Adam says "dates all the way back to the [NESS]" ...

So you're
Actively trying to get me to think of this kid on purpose?

 

[Waffles]

2006, by watching AVGN.

 

[denha]

Around where I live people used to call the system a Nintendo. Still do, really - Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64.

same - it was just "nintendo" i didnt hear anyone say "NES" until ten or fifteen years after it came out

 

[7eve70rd]

Does Earthbound count? Ness, Ninten

Honestly I called it the "In Ee Ess"....still do

So when Mother/Earthbound was localized did Nintendo of America (West Coast office in Seattle) create the name of the character NESS?

Adam Sessler would pronounce N.E.S. as N~E~S often while talking on video.

2006, by watching AVGN.

My theory is that N E S with 3 syllables was a tongue twister and took too long to say.

NESS with one syllable flowed in scripts better.

Calling Super NES the SNESSS? Was that ever used?

 

[stealthRUSH]

Never have? I called it N.E.S. three separate letters and still do.

 

[tropicalavera]

I called it the 'nez' for a while as a kid because my only interaction with it was through the 'nesticle' emulator. So it figures when I learned about the SNES I just called it the 'snez'. Pretty soon I started hearing people say N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. in online videos and such and promptly changed my tune :3