Where does “The original Nintendo” fall on this chart?
Somewhere off the bottom, shaped like a deck of playing cards.
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 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.
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.
No-friendo is what we called it. Still played it every day tho
Mario Machine
Old Nintendo
I say “N.E.S.”, but also “Super Nintendo.”
Sness
Which is the unleaded Nintendo?
Intendo as the little kids might say
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“Normal Nintendo” is what we call it.
Nintendinho (small Nintendo).
Rough translation, but here it was “Ordinary Nintendo”, as opposed to the Super Nintendo
Yep, Nintendo ordinaire. Lol
Famicom
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