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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago

How did such a large number of people decide on calling it “regular Nintendo” before having internet?

Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

I’m guessing once the snes came out and the ‘regular’ just made sense to mean ‘not-super’

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"You will accept Dommy Mommy Nintendo's strap on as you buy the 6 year old game that is STILL full price." whip💥

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

I worked in an Electronic Boutique (now GameStop) years and years and years ago.
I still think about the kid that came in and asked for a sness.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"Sness" is way less unacceptable than "ness" to me, for some reason.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

It only really became NES once the SNES came out.

Before that it was just Nintendo.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

I still just call it "Nintendo".

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago
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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Grandma: Calling all consoles "the Nintendo".

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'm really looking forward to pulling this crap as I get older.

Particularly about Pokémon. I grew up with Pokémon. I've played every single main game (or at least one of the two that released!) I cannot wait to call them all Pikachu just to watch a kid squirm.

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

Nintendo (Really, it's a Playstation 2)

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I prefer gameboy (really it's a PSP)

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I've actually turned into an Old Man and have referred to the Switch as "Gameboy" unironically.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago
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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Excuse me. It's called "Mans Crowning Achievement to the Gods", not just the virtual boy. Show it some respect.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 1 week ago

I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it "ness" after that.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I say "N.E.S.", but also "Super Nintendo."

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

In my country; all the retro consoles (up to playstation) are called atari.

[-] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Everyone I knew called/calls it the "nez".

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Same. Nez and Snez

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Regular Nintendo" is redundant.
To me it's just "Nintendo". Everything after gets a subtitle.

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[-] accideath@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I know too many people for whom „a Nintendo“ means a Nintendo DS. Perhaps a generational thing.

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[-] kitnaht@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Where does "The original Nintendo" fall on this chart?

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Somewhere off the bottom, shaped like a deck of playing cards.

[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Which is the unleaded Nintendo?

[-] s_s@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

"8-bit Nintendo"

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Intendo as the little kids might say

[-] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

That Famicom close that added DRM

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I ... dont think I ever realised they called it Ness and not Nes.

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[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I thought my family were the only ones! Must have been to differentiate it from the "Super Nintendo" we also had.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

In my language we just called it small Nintendo.

[-] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Both subs and supras love~~d~~ a good cartridge blowjob.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They just didn't though. You just enjoyed giving them

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

"Normal Nintendo" is what we call it.

[-] velxundussa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Rough translation, but here it was "Ordinary Nintendo", as opposed to the Super Nintendo

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[-] 58008@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

In the UK and Ireland, we call the SNES "the Snez", but I've never heard it said that way in the States. Is that peculiar to this part of the world?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Most of the time I hear S N E S (each letter pronounced individually) or Super Nintendo.

I have heard "the Snes" (pronounced with an S sound instead of a Z), but I didn't hear that commonly until much later, after it was considered a retro console.

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