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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It only really became NES once the SNES came out.

Before that it was just Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I still just call it "Nintendo".

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[–] teft 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Grandma: Calling all consoles "the Nintendo".

[–] flicker 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo (Really, it's a Playstation 2)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I prefer gameboy (really it's a PSP)

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] lemonmelon 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] samus12345 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Lawnman23 4 points 2 months ago

Hi Super Nintendo Chalmers!

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[–] Agent641 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] brap 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BowtiesAreCool 5 points 2 months ago

Same. Nez and Snez

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] accideath 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] kitnaht 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dual_sport_dork 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Which is the unleaded Nintendo?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"8-bit Nintendo"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That Famicom close that added DRM

[–] Zannsolo 5 points 2 months ago

Intendo as the little kids might say

[–] nandeEbisu 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Cadeillac 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Dicska 4 points 2 months ago

In my language we just called it small Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dandu3 3 points 2 months ago

Yep, Nintendo ordinaire. Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"Normal Nintendo" is what we call it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ProfessorProteus 4 points 2 months ago

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

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