History of Nintendo Video

jwdonal · Post by **jwdonal** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:23 am

Just thought I'd post these links. The entire show is in 3 parts. I thought they were really interesting myself so I thought I would pass them along. Maybe everyone has already seen these, but if not, you might like them.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCai4W1IAmQ
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-l5b2vbeDA
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er43lTLubiY

Pz!

Jonathon

MetalSlime · Post by **MetalSlime** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:20 am

I'd never seen that before. Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing! NoA pres pronounces it enn ee ess like me

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:34 am

MetalSlime wrote:NoA pres pronounces it enn ee ess like me

Yeah, I was gonna ask you guys about that. The first time I heard an american saying it I was surprised, but then I realized everyone pronounced it "N", "E", "S". But in this video I heard someone pronouncing it like "NES" for the first time.

Saying it letter by letter is much more common than saying "NES" in the US, right?

Here in Brazil nobody calls it "N", "E", "S", few people call it "NES", but the majority calls it "Nintendinho", the diminutive of "Nintendo". I guess it's because the official NES was only released after the SNES (usually called "Super Nintendo") here, so people tried to make it clear that the NES was the little brother. Also, many people don't know what an NES is, they know the various clones we had, like the Phantom System, without even realizing they were NES clones.

Post by **tepples** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:18 am

And in Soviet Russia, Dendy calls it YOU!

Commercials in the United States said [ɛn i: ɛs] (N-E-S). I can't seem to find it on YouTube, but I do remember that it's especially clear on the commercial for Tiny Toon Adventures.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:23 am

It seems to me that in official material such as commercials they always used the full name (Nintendo Entertainment System) rather than the abbreviation.

MetalSlime · Post by **MetalSlime** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:28 am

Where I'm from (Texas) we always called it "Nintendo" or "N" "E" "S". I don't think I ever heard "NES" before youtube. Could be regional though.

For SNES, we (that is, my friends and I growing up) called it "Super Nintendo" or "Super N E S", never "sness".

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:55 am

MetalSlime wrote:Where I'm from (Texas) we always called it "Nintendo" or "N" "E" "S".

When I heard american people saying "Nintendo" I always wondered if they really meant the NES or just the "console manufactured by Nintendo", because in movies and such it was also common to hear people saying they'd play "SEGA", even though SEGA doesn't have a console named "SEGA", so they were actually talking about the Genesis or the Saturn.

Post by **tepples** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:56 am

U.S. commercials for Super NES products called the console Super N-E-S [supɚ ɛn i: ɛs], except for the Super Game Boy commercial that used S-N-E-S.

Trailers for the film Surf Ninjas (not to be confused with 3 Ninjas) spoke of a boy who could "see the future in his Sega game" (that is, Game Gear).

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:35 am

Well, calling is 'N''E''S' sounds really weird to me. Here people most often call it (mitakingly) "Super Nintendo" as many people don't make any distinction between both systems anymore. It used to be refered (confusingly) to plain "Nintendo", so to avoid confusion with the company now people refer it to "the old 8-bit Nintendo" or something like that.

With the raise of Internet communality calling it "NES" or calls it plain "NES" (pronounced ness).

Post by **tepples** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:06 pm

N.E.S.

Another N.E.S.

Ness.

Bottom left: Dark Ness, who has the same powers as Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon or Paint Roller from Kirby series.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:43 pm

Anyway, the video is interesting. Nintendo seems kinda evil in that part about the unlicensed games.

This reminds me a bit of this Sonic the Hedgehog retrospective, which I find very interesting:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9h-4vQUHM
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkhjBAYL2Hs
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFs2v7XM4o
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbu4TEE1_pE

Although it's game-specific, it contains quite a bit of video game history, like the NES video. So even if you are not a Sonic fan it might still be interesting.

koitsu · Post by **koitsu** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:02 pm

MetalSlime wrote:Saying it letter by letter is much more common than saying "NES" in the US, right?

Often depends on the area someone's from. Most I've heard (here out west) pronounce NES and SNES as a single word ("ness" and "super ness"). Folks I know from the midwest tend to emphasise each letter ("enn eee ess" and "super enn eee ess"), and east coast seems to be either-or. Those from the south tend to pronounce it "gyuh-hyuk, youz gotz a purdy mouf".

The first time I heard someone pronounce it "enn eee ess" it came as somewhat of a shock but you get over it pretty quick. Less talk, more gaming. ;D

koitsu · Post by **koitsu** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:05 pm

tepples wrote:Bottom left: Dark Ness, who has the same powers as Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon or Paint Roller from Kirby series.

I just want you to know that whenever you post stuff like this, it's like my brain gets smashed into a brick wall at 900km/h. Harold and the PURPLE CRAYON. Wh... b... a... *cries himself to sleep*

Edit: I meant that in a nice way... mostly. :) It's just so crazy/random that I can't stop laughing while my brain tries to process it and fails. Every time.

kyuusaku · Post by **kyuusaku** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:35 pm

Everyone I've known (Bay Area, CA and Massachusetts) called NES "Nintendo", SNES also "Nintendo" or "Super Nintendo", Master System "Sega", and Genesis "Sega" or "Genesis". Nobody spelled out or spoke the initials until N64 where it almost always was "N.64.". Sega Saturn was always "Sega Saturn".

jwdonal · Post by **jwdonal** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:26 am

Growing up my friends and I always called it "N" "E" "S" or just straight "Nintendo". I never even knew people called it "Ness" - that's really interesting and funny (at least to me). LOL Reminds me of the Lochness monster - Nessie.

Super Nintendo was always "Super Nintendo"
Sega Genesis was always "Sega"
Nintendo 64 was always "N-Sixty-Four"
Sega Saturn was always "Sega Saturn"

Pz!

Jonathon