NES

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”

I’m guessing once the snes came out and the ‘regular’ just made sense to mean ‘not-super’
- Sub Nintendo.
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.
- "Sness" is way less unacceptable than "ness" to me, for some reason.
- I've heard it pronounced "ess-ness" and "snezz" and "sness"
  All are equally terrible.
- Same ppl call their weedwhacker a “strimmer”
It only really became NES once the SNES came out.
Before that it was just Nintendo.
Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”
Do you hate it when they write it?
To my ears it would be the same.
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.
- Anybody remember Nester?
- I’ll give the Europeans a pass, but not the French.

Famicom

Grandma: Calling all consoles "the Nintendo".

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.
- You mean the pokey-mans?

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

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

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

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

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

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.
- Yea, for my dad, everything you use a controller with is a PlayStation and every handheld is a gameboy. Funnily enough, he never had either one and I also didn’t have a PlayStation until I have moved out. The only noteable difference for him is the Sega Master System, because he did have that as a child.
- everyone's parents (boomers) called NES cartridges "tapes".
  My parents were very much boomers and I've never heard this. It was 'games' or 'cartridges',
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)

Which is the unleaded Nintendo?

Intendo as the little kids might say

That Famicom close that added DRM

"8-bit Nintendo"

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?

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.