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Post by DPB on Sept 3, 2015 17:49:29 GMT -5
To give more context, no one actually called it the "En-ee-es" or "ness" back then, but simply the "Nintendo." When I was a kid in school in the 80s, no one ever called a NES "En-ee-es" or "ness" I agree, but it was often pronounced "nez". Yeah, in England in the 80s it always the "nez", I've never heard anyone in this country pronouncing the letters individually.
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Post by moran on Sept 3, 2015 18:18:09 GMT -5
No one in my area every used NES until the last decade or so. It was Nintendo until SNES came around. And then it became Regular Nintendo.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 18:30:56 GMT -5
Clark Kentendo
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Post by moran on Sept 3, 2015 18:39:16 GMT -5
Nintendo is what Genisisn't: the cerebral assassin of your psyche.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 19:15:52 GMT -5
D'you think the gamer physique ought to be called Nint endomorph?
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Post by moran on Sept 3, 2015 20:33:24 GMT -5
It writes itself. Though, I was expecting a person with a xenomorph-like crouch holding a controller.
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Post by Ike on Sept 3, 2015 21:00:18 GMT -5
"Nintendo Hard" is something I've understood to be "requiring snap reflexes that doesn't offer to help you beat a challenge."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 3:35:43 GMT -5
The "Genesis does what Ninten-don't" ads were from around '89 or '90, weren't they? I seem to remember watching those on tv back in the third grade, which would have been around that time. If that was the case, it was well before the SNES hit American shores, and definitely was positioned as a way of making the NES look outdated and simplistic next to Sega's newest system. In all truth, it worked.
As for the "N-E-S" vs. "Nintendo" debate, people called it both where I grew up. Generally, the ones who referred to it as "Nintendo" were what you would call "casual" gamers now. You know, the ones who had lives outside of gaming and actually made an effort to go outside the house on a regular basis. The "core" gamers called it the "N-E-S".
Any way you slice it, I've only ever beaten the original Ninja Gaiden once, thanks to those goddamn eagles in stage 6-2.
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Post by Elvin Atombender on Sept 4, 2015 6:59:36 GMT -5
Can't speak for all of Europe, but in Italy we used to refer to the NES as "the Nintendo". Intevilvision.
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Post by moran on Sept 4, 2015 7:06:24 GMT -5
The "Genesis does what Ninten-don't" ads were from around '89 or '90, weren't they? I seem to remember watching those on tv back in the third grade, which would have been around that time. If that was the case, it was well before the SNES hit American shores, and definitely was positioned as a way of making the NES look outdated and simplistic next to Sega's newest system. In all truth, it worked. Yeah. That was their marketing campaign before the SNES. Then the all powerful BLAST PROCESSING claim was pulled out.
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Post by surnshurn on Sept 4, 2015 11:03:24 GMT -5
The "Genesis does what Ninten-don't" ads were from around '89 or '90, weren't they? I seem to remember watching those on tv back in the third grade, which would have been around that time. If that was the case, it was well before the SNES hit American shores, and definitely was positioned as a way of making the NES look outdated and simplistic next to Sega's newest system. In all truth, it worked. I remember in 92 or 93 the white page advertisements for Nintendo that looked like an editorial article. Explaining that blast processing isn't real and SNES has superior hardware. Looking back, it's some next-level trolling on Nintendo's part.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 4, 2015 11:14:48 GMT -5
To give more context, no one actually called it the "En-ee-es" or "ness" back then, but simply the "Nintendo." Hence the Genesis commercials in 1990, "Genesis does, what Nintendon't," and eventually the term "Nintendo hard." I still call it The Nintendo from time to time, and I always get the quizzical look of "which Nintendo?" I still call the Genesis the Sega. So it goes Master System, Sega, Saturn, Dreamcast as far I'm concerned. And yeah all of those "...What Nintendon't" ads are pre Sonic. Which predates the SNES. If not the SFC. But those ads are older then that still. And as for the topic. Nintendo Hard comes from a place where the AVGN is popular and always talking about confusing, obtuse, incomprehensible, "quarter-munching" games. It's not accurate. But it is a system known for Mega Man, three Ninja Gaidens, Castlevania, Super C, Gradius, and Battletoads. Even the licensed stuff was hard. Like Batman. And Super Mario Bros is a deceptively tough game. Not to mention you start comparing some stuff. Like Metroid to Super Metroid, where you have to refill your energy from 30 pts. You have no map. You have no explanation of items. It's a weird confusing game. Zelda 1 is much the same way compared to Zelda 3. I think that's where the idea comes from. Not that NES was the hardest system around. But it's what everyone had. And what everyone moved on from. It's one thing for someone to have played Phantasy Star and compare it to 4. But who the hell owned a Master System back then?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 11:25:15 GMT -5
I forget which Sega systems could lock together to form a tower, but I always called the resulting contraption the Megazord as a kid.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 4, 2015 11:29:47 GMT -5
That'd probably be the Genesis. But I don't think you could stack actual Genesises. Just in between Sonic & Knuckles, 32x's and Action Replays, that thing could look pretty stupid by the end.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 11:43:00 GMT -5
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