Do you correct non arcade game owners?

I tell you want i really hate. Is when people call it the NESS or the SNESS. I never heard anyone call it that as a kid. It was the N-E-S or the Nintendo.

I never even heard anyone call it "N-E-S" when I was a kid. It was always just "Nintendo" ("Ni'tendo" is what my cousin Mike and a lot of other kids actually said) and its successor was always called "Super Nintendo."

The one that bugs me the most is when people call the playable character in Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out "Little Mac." Even if you don't know the history of the Punch-Out series of games, the playable character in the arcade entries very obviously isn't "little." He's in the same size range as the opponent characters. In Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, they drew the playable character as a 2' 6" tall, 25-pound midget, so the name "Little Mac" makes sense.
 
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I never even heard anyone call it "N-E-S" when I was a kid. It was always just "Nintendo" ("Ni'tendo" is what my cousin Mike and a lot of other kids actually said) and its successor was always called "Super Nintendo."

The one that bugs me the most is when people call the playable character in Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out "Little Mac." Even if you don't know the history of the Punch-Out series of games, the playable character in the arcade entries very obviously isn't "little." He's in the same size range as the opponent characters. In Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, they drew the playable character as a 2' 6" tall, 25-pound midget, so the name "Little Mac" makes sense.

NES was used in advertise.



But after the NES came out, you might also hear it called regular Nintendo.
 
NES was used in advertise.

I know it was, and so was "Nintendo Entertainment System," like in this commercial:


I never heard anyone in real life call it a "Nintendo Entertainment System" when I was a kid either.

But after the NES came out, you might also hear it called regular Nintendo.

I never heard it called anything other than "Nintendo" in real life when I was a kid.
 
I know it was, and so was "Nintendo Entertainment System," like in this commercial:


I never heard anyone in real life call it a "Nintendo Entertainment System" when I was a kid either.



I never heard it called anything other than "Nintendo" in real life when I was a kid.
Fuck yeah. First it was ' let's play Atari', then it was 'Let's play Nintendo'. Never heard any kids calling them the '2600' or the 'VCS' or the 'Nintendo Entertainment System' or the 'NES'.
 
Fuck yeah. First it was ' let's play Atari', then it was 'Let's play Nintendo'. Never heard any kids calling them the '2600' or the 'VCS' or the 'Nintendo Entertainment System' or the 'NES'.

Not counting advertisements and professional writers, I think all that business started on the internet. It's natural to abbreviate things when writing and I do it myself, but it doesn't influence how I talk in real life. I think most people who say "N-E-S" (or "Ness") in real life are people who didn't grow up when the Nintendo was all the rage, so they're just saying what they've always seen written on the internet. My nephew, who was born in 1991, calls it "Nez," and he calls the Super Nintendo "Snez."

I never heard anyone say "VCS" either, but I did hear people say "2600" when a distinction from the 5200 or 7800 was needed. Before either of those came along it was always just called "Atari" though.
 
Oh yeah, for sure Nintendo was the word used mostly in life and on the playground. But NES was common enough. I Never heard a soul NESS or NEZ until the internet videos and podcast started.
 
But NES was common enough.

Not in my neck of the woods. If someone had said "N-E-S" or "Ness" or "Nez" to me in the 1980s or 1990s I would have had no idea what they were talking about. I saw some of the Nintendo commercials on TV back then, and maybe they said "N-E-S" in some of them, but if they did, I didn't take note of it, since I already knew the commercial was for the thing that I and everyone else called "Nintendo."

And while I'm at it, I never heard anyone use the term "console" back then either. That's another one that I first encountered on the internet. We only ever called them by their names: Atari, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Nintendo, etc. The only thing "console" meant to me back then was a TV or radio in a wooden cabinet that sat on the floor. We had a console TV and a console radio / record player / 8-track player when I was a kid.

And that reminds me: I never heard anyone call a record player a "turntable" back then either. On top of that, I never heard anyone call a record "vinyl." To me, "vinyl" only meant one thing: fake leather, like knock-off Air Jordans and red jackets with lots of zippers (Michael Jackson style) from Kmart or Zayre were made of.

Also, I never heard anyone say "VHS" back then either. Sure, those letters were written on everyone's VCR and on all the tapes (not counting the few who had opted for Betamax), but a VCR was just a "VCR" and the tapes were just "tapes." If someone had said to me, "I have that movie on VHS," instead of "I have that movie on tape," I would have said, "On what?"
 
I'm guilty of spreading misinformation among the non-arcade people when talking about PCBs. They might say somthing like, "Cool, do you own a Pac-man?" I might then respond with, "I do, but it isn't working at the moment. I need to fix the motherboard." The lady in the office of my sons school understands motherboard. No point in saying PCB and then explaining it's like the motherboard.
 
I absolutely despise "Man Cave"
I used to hate that term with a passion as well. Then my mom bought my boys a 'Man Cave' neon sign and my 16-year-old still loves it. In fact, I just repaired it for him yesterday. Power wires got pulled out of the 12 V plug and I had to cut back some of the insulation and re-solder and heat shrink everything. If he loves it, how can I hate it, know what I mean?
 
I usually just let it fly. You know who I'm talking about.

Quix
Tay-to
Dragonslayer
Arkanow
Honestly who are we to say how whoever came up with these names pronounced them. Maybe we are wrong. Does it really matter. Life is too short to quabble. I have some arcades for sale if you are interested. (-:
 
I used to hate that term with a passion as well. Then my mom bought my boys a 'Man Cave' neon sign and my 16-year-old still loves it. In fact, I just repaired it for him yesterday. Power wires got pulled out of the 12 V plug and I had to cut back some of the insulation and re-solder and heat shrink everything. If he loves it, how can I hate it, know what I mean?
Of course you want a 'Man Cave' sign when you are a boy. I bet you that sign will be talked about long after you are gone. "Yeah, grandma bought me that sign and dad repaired it for me. It ain't never gonna be for sale..." I can hear it now...

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Pleasure Pit just sounds better.
 
Yes but that infers a mirror on the ceiling and funky lava lamps

Lava lamps are for 20-something "retro" posers. You need live braziers to do it right!
Hang them from the ceiling or just use pedestal braziers scattered around the floor. Only wood/charcoal/coal fuel sources.
 
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