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Post by Whybother » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:48 am

Yup. It was only ever called nintendo. So much so in fact that the word "nintendo" literally became a synonym for video games. The phrase "play some nintendo" was often used even when referring to other consoles entirely.
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No. People only ever called it "Nintendo".

"NES" didn't enter anyone's vernacular until the Internet came around. After SNES launched people called it "Regular Nintendo".
Or alternately "original Nintendo."

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by Guru Larry » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:32 am

da PAC Nigguh wrote:
Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:15 am
No. People only ever called it "Nintendo".

"NES" didn't enter anyone's vernacular until the Internet came around. After SNES launched people called it "Regular Nintendo".
We've used that term "NES" in the UK since the late '80s. Even moreso with SNES.

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by Guest » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:12 am

da PAC Nigguh wrote:
Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:15 am
No. People only ever called it "Nintendo".

"NES" didn't enter anyone's vernacular until the Internet came around. After SNES launched people called it "Regular Nintendo".
Nintendo was pretty insistent on using "NES" on all their official literature. Just look at any of the early issues of Nintendo Power and it's always "NES" and "Super NES", never "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo". They even have a style guideline for that. I'm guessing they wanted to avoid confusing the console with the company that it was named after.

Anyway, I only seen Japanese sources pronounce it "Ness" (which they hardly use, since their version of the console was the Famicom). In U.S. commercials, it was always Any-Ess.

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by Kugelfisch » Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:07 pm

Well, here it was "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo". Using the actual terminology is a newer thing but only really for the NES. Nobody calls the SNES anything but Super Nintendo. It's just too clunky and pointless.
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Post by Kugelfisch » Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:13 pm

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by jpakke » Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:25 pm

In here we called it wormbox, but I was a big C64/Amiga guy ;)

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by Liar Revealed » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:47 pm

In the US we called it "Nintendo", and "N.E.S." became more prevalent after the SNES came out. I don't recall anyone saying "Ness" and never "Nezz".
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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by Whybother » Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:18 pm

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Re: The Angry Video Game Cuck

Post by BlueberryRagamuffin » Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:48 pm

da PAC Nigguh wrote:
Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:15 am
No. People only ever called it "Nintendo".

"NES" didn't enter anyone's vernacular until the Internet came around. After SNES launched people called it "Regular Nintendo".
My family called it a "ness" in the '90s but we're from New Jersey so it's possibly just a regional quirk.
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