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’
"You will accept Dommy Mommy Nintendo's strap on as you buy the 6 year old game that is STILL full price." whip💥
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.
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.
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've actually turned into an Old Man and have referred to the Switch as "Gameboy" unironically.
Excuse me. It's called "Mans Crowning Achievement to the Gods", not just the virtual boy. Show it some respect.
I say DS for Switch on accident all the time. Like I just had such a good time with the goddamn DS. And yes, the fucking 3ds is also a ds. That was my youth and I’m too old to change monikers now!
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.
"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)
I thought my family were the only ones! Must have been to differentiate it from the "Super Nintendo" we also had.
Rough translation, but here it was "Ordinary Nintendo", as opposed to the Super Nintendo
Ness was first introduced on the Super Famicom. Though he only really got popular when Super Smash Bros came out on the NES64.