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.
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.
- Anybody remember Nester?
Also, I hate when people call it “Ness”

Do you hate it when they write it?

To my ears it would be the same.
Then you must hate many Europeans
- 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?

Nintendo (Really, it's a Playstation 2)

I prefer gameboy (really it's a PSP)
- I've actually turned into an Old Man and have referred to the Switch as "Gameboy" unironically.
Lol yeah I experienced this also.

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

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".

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

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

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)

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

Which is the unleaded Nintendo?

"8-bit Nintendo"

That Famicom close that added DRM

Intendo as the little kids might say

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

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

"Normal Nintendo" is what we call it.

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

Sub Nintendo

Both subs and supras loved a good cartridge blowjob.
- They just didn't though. You just enjoyed giving them

In my language we just called it small Nintendo.

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

Nintendinho (small 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.