NES

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

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.

It only really became NES once the SNES came out.

Before that it was just Nintendo.

I still just call it "Nintendo".

I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to it as "ness". I think I'd be confused -- what does the Loch Ness Monster have to do with gaming? -- until they clarified.

Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”

Do you hate it when they write it?

To my ears it would be the same.

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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.

I prefer gameboy (really it's a PSP)

Lol yeah I experienced this also.

In addition to 'run down stairs and get a "coke"' when In reality its a Dr pepper

Sness

Same. Not sure if it's generational, regional, or a combination of the two.

Same. Nez and Snez

After the Super Nintendo came out, it really did become a term for differentiating which 'Nintendo' you might've had in the 90s.

It absolutely is.

As a kid, everyone's parents (boomers) called NES cartridges "tapes". Considering their generation had a lot of experience with 8-track, cassette, and VHS/Betamax, it kind of makes sense. I guess every generation has this.

There are undoubtedly people out there who still use "Nintendo" to describe literally any videogame system ever made.

Same for me and most people i know a nintendo is a ds(and the ds and 3ds are kinda the same for most of them)

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

Both subs and supras loved a good cartridge blowjob.

Ness was first introduced on the Super Famicom. Though he only really got popular when Super Smash Bros came out on the NES64.

Yep, Nintendo ordinaire. Lol

Nintendo, the first ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Okay, I think I’m using this one from now.

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.

I live in the US and me and all my friends pronounce SNES as SNess. (And NES as Ness) for what it is worth. It seems to be somewhat common as my friends who grew up on the other side of the country say it this way too.