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's iconWaffles]

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