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

[Gorse]

I called it the 'nez' for a while as a kid because my only interaction with it was through the 'nesticle' emulator.

Wh... but... Were you pronouncing "Nesticle" as "Nezzticle"? That explanation still doesn't track!

 

[tropicalavera]

Wh... but... Were you pronouncing "Nesticle" as "Nezzticle"? That explanation still doesn't track!

I think 'nezticle/nesticle' is a LOT closer to 'testicle' than 'EN-EE-ESS-ticle' - but if your doctor hasn't corrected you at the clinic you probably don't need to worry.

 

[7eve70rd]

Wh... but... Were you pronouncing "Nesticle" as "Nezzticle"? That explanation still doesn't track!

I think 'nezticle/nesticle' is a LOT closer to 'testicle' than 'EN-EE-ESS-ticle' - but if your doctor hasn't corrected you at the clinic you probably don't need to worry.

I do remember attempting to run NESticle emulator on Windows 3.1.

It wasn't a play on words combining Tickle and N.E.S.?

ESticle offered its initial release as NESticle v0.2 on April 3, 1997. Its name is a portmanteau of "NES" (the console it emulates) and "testicle".

The program originally ran under DOS and Windows 95, offering few features and only supporting a handful of games. It was one of the first freeware NES emulators, and soon became more popular than shareware rivals such as iNES.

NESticle was coded in C++ and assembly using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.10. Part of the emulator's appeal was performance: its system requirements capped at around 25MHz[4] enabling it to run on modest Pentium and 486 DX2 PCs.

 

[7eve70rd]

Did anyone say
SNESSS?
Super NES
Snintendo?

 

[DunkeyKong]

Did anyone say
SNESSS?
Super NES
Snintendo?

I did say SE NES

 

[χKai]

S Any S

 

[PhrawzT]

I always called the N.E.S. or Nintendo. I never heard it called a Ness until talking with British people about gaming.

 

[χKai]

Ahh; the Any S.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Hmmm i rarely ever say it out loud, but mentally i do think Nes, as in Nest but without the T.

So yeah i can totally see that.

 

[Karnik]

Hm.. Sometimes I've heard it called NESsy... other times Loch Nes.
Many swear to have seen it, but to this day there is no proof.

 

[7eve70rd]

Ahh; the Any S.

Not the S.E.G.A.!

 

[χKai]

Not the S.E.G.A.!

I always tried to say it like it says it when you turn a game on.

 

[ciro64]

My introduction to NES was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the gbc. NES was the name that would always pop up when I search for it, so I've been calling it that from the start.

Some people here in Brazil would call it "Nintendinho" I think, but to this day I'm not sure whenever each person was referring to the NES or the SNES.

 

[DunkeyKong]

My introduction to NES was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the gbc. NES was the name that would always pop up when I search for it, so I've been calling it that from the start.

Some people here in Brazil would call it "Nintendinho" I think, but to this day I'm not sure whenever each person was referring to the NES or the SNES.

Lmao Nintendinho, they thought of football player or something?

 

[Tonberry]

Over here it was either called simply "Nintendo" or "Nintendo 8-bits" but in my language.
I've always said "nés" and "snés" with an E that's sort of impossible to pronounce in the anglo tongue.

Edit: Actually, it's present in english in the middle parts of the words "dear" and "smear".

 

[χKai]

Over here it was either called simply "Nintendo" or "Nintendo 8-bits" but in my language.
I've always said "nés" and "snés" with an E that's sort of impossible to pronounce in the anglo tongue.

Edit: Actually, it's present in english in the middle parts of the words "dear" and "smear".

Nays




Snays

 

[Tonberry]

Nays




Snays

Close but not really!
"ay" would be "ej" for me.

 

[Yukyon]

Did anyone say
SNESSS?
Super NES
Snintendo?

In spanish some people do abbreviate Super Nintendo as "Súper Nes"
And we say Nes or just nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Not the S.E.G.A.!

Heh suddenly reminded. There was this funny skit on the radio of a teacher in a classroom talking to the kids about their summer vacation trip to New York.

Student: "And so we went to the empire state building, and to the park and this and that.. But THEN we went to the UN building..."

Teacher: "Ummm it's U.N."

Student: "I know how to spell the word UN. Anyways they were telling us about their UN-security force, and how they had UN-wanted global policies how they were helping to make the world UN-safe...."

Another Student: "I think the teacher is about to get UN-hinged"...

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I don't remember the whole skit and only heard it briefly in 1990's, but it went something like that.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

It was only ever called a Nintendo where I grew up. Ditto with the Super Nintendo.
I did hear the terms nes and snes (pronounced as abbreviations) relatively early on when I asked my older brother what systems the Final Fantasies before VII were released on because you know Pal region, but it was super rare to hear the consoles being referred to in that way and to this day (Super) Nintendo is the most common way to call them.

 

[fishboneKiller]

ive always pronounced each letter for NES, but SNES is a little more variable. sometimes i pronounce is like "sness", sometimes i pronounce each letter, and sometimes i call it the super nintendo.

 

[Jeanfranc]

For me it's always been NESS, It's an english acronym so it doesn't make much sense to say each letter separately in a different language

Not the S.E.G.A.!

Where I live it's "SI'GA", not because it's natural for us to say it like that but because saying the correct way has "foul implications" where I live

 

[RetroLaw]

I'm french, we always called it "ness"when we didn't call it Nintendo.

We also used to say Game Jeer.

 

[χKai]

For me it's always been NESS, It's an english acronym so it doesn't make much sense to say each letter separately in a different language

Where I live it's "SI'GA", not because it's natural for us to say it like that but because saying the correct way has "foul implications" where I live

Is it socially unacceptable the sound it makes to turn the game on?

 

[Jeanfranc]

Is it socially unacceptable the sound it makes to turn the game on?

Yes actually, It's hard to keep a straight face when hearing it come out of your speakers and not burst out laughing