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Jimbot posted:Did people actually call the Super Nintendo the "Super NES" or was that just the XTREME 90's bullshit we look back on with confusion and shame? SNES or Super Nintendo is all I ever heard.
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Sness. Just as is spelled. NES was pronounced by my friends and I just like that Earthbound character's name, Nes. SNES just had an "s" sound in front.
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Nov 26, 2016 00:34
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we said super nintendo or S.N.E.S or super NES. I never heard it called "snez" at any point when I was a kid
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Nov 26, 2016 00:35
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SwissCM posted:Dreamcast homebrew holds a special place in my heart. Making things work was all voodoo, I used Nero Burning Rom as DiscJuggler didn't work on my drive and most guides and releases used the latter, so I had to do a lot of converting and merging of files and all sorts of stuff to get things working. I was pretty blown away playing VCDs ~*ON A CONSOLE*~.
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Nov 26, 2016 00:43
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d0s posted:we said super nintendo or S.N.E.S or super NES. I never heard it called "snez" at any point when I was a kid these are the only correct ways to say it and if you pronounce "snes" as a word you're a monster
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Nov 26, 2016 00:44
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checksin posted:i met nicholas picholas at a bar once and watched his entire body sigh when someone asked him if that was his real name That's awesome! I got to be on the show when I was a kid around 1995. My dad worked vaguely in the TV industry and had a hook up. We were playing Donkey Kong Land but for some reason my Gameboy player was defective and they had to make it look like I was playing when they edited the episode. My dad complained though and they gave me a free copy of Kirby's Dreamland 2 which I played the poo poo out of. I should look for the tape of the episode when I'm home for Christmas.
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Nov 26, 2016 02:01
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beaver_cheese posted:I might be able to top that for the best thing you've heard all day. Actually, it was a friend posting on fb about going to this very event that prompted me to look up old episodes and subsequently post them here. Also, is that Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?  Also also, I forgot how much I used to love Nick's co-host, Krista 
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Nov 26, 2016 02:19
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Used to watch Top 10 all the time, the prizes were never great, and you never saw much game footage, but man was it addictive.
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Nov 26, 2016 02:42
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When I heard the cohost say "Vay-darr" for Vader, I had to turn it off. I almost lost it at the dude who gave the Illusion of Gaia tips because he sounded like Randal from Clerks. I still can't understand how I put up with Captain N's "interpretation" of Simon Belmont, so feel free to judge me. Also, count me in for "Super N-E-S/Ess-Enn-Ee-Ess." My rule is: if the acronym spells a word, you can use the word. An acronym doesn't create a word just because you can fudge the pronunciation to be lazy.
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Nov 26, 2016 02:59
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S. N. E. S. But most people in the neighborhood only had one console, so a lot of the time we just said 'games'. Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I still can't understand how I put up with Captain N's "interpretation" of Simon Belmont, so feel free to judge me. In Captain N's world being cursed by Dracula just turns you into a dick.
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Nov 26, 2016 03:10
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super intendo
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WaitsUp posted:Used to watch Top 10 all the time, the prizes were never great, and you never saw much game footage, but man was it addictive. I really loved how often kids would write in letters talking about how much they love their Nintendo when the prize they were sending out to writers that week was Sega
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Nov 26, 2016 03:27
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d0s posted:we said super nintendo or S.N.E.S or super NES. I never heard it called "snez" at any point when I was a kid
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Nov 26, 2016 04:16
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So who wants an LA Gardina Book Off trip report? Well, tough. I'm telling you anyway. Last time I went to this location they had a dozen pre-PS2 games. This time things were improved a lot. I wouldn't call it a retrogaming store, but they had enough stuff that I had to dig through things. For console carts, there were a couple of dozen boxed things and a few loose carts. Most of it was Japanese game store left overs but I got a few things. There was a good selection of PS1 and a ton of PS2. The real magic, however, was in the portable games as there was a metric poo poo ton of stuff for portable systems and it was cheap. Still, what you could get was spotty. I looked for a few of my stalwarts that I'm always on the prowl for and didn't find them. OTOH, I did get a few games I had been wanting for a while and one that I had to get because it sounded nuts. Oh, and there was a 20% off black Friday sale!  On everything except video games.  Here's my haul: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (DS) - Finally a copy of my own. Now I just need the sequel. Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Advance (GBA) - Part of a weird series of Japanese word games that I am apparently collecting. Machi (PS1) - The visual novel that Japanese nerds voted the fifth best video game of all time. I am going to work on my Japanese until I can finally understand why. Goemon 64 - A boxed copy for a few bucks. Kachou Kousaku Shima (SFC) - A visual novel that the box assures me is "The Super Business Adventure". How I could resist for a few bucks. I passed on the Pepsiman action figure even though it was $32 after discount. However, if anyone wants to buy it for me for Christmas... 
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Nov 26, 2016 04:49
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I think Nez and Snezz were a European thing, maybe specifically British. The only person I've ever personally known who called them that is British, anyway. I'm at work so I can't access YouTube, but pretend I linked that prank call video with the guy calling a game store and asking if they had any Puss-threes or Puss-pees.
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Nov 26, 2016 04:52
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Rollersnake posted:I think Nez and Snezz were a European thing, maybe specifically British. The only person I've ever personally known who called them that is British, anyway. Makes sense, seeing as they're a country that somehow thinks "Jezza" is a good and rational shortened form of Jeremy.
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Nov 26, 2016 04:55
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Cindy Shitbird posted:Makes sense, seeing as they're a country that somehow thinks "Jezza" is a good and rational shortened form of Jeremy. See also: Ninty and Shigsy which Nintendo Official Magazine UK used constantly.
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Nov 26, 2016 05:02
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Rollersnake posted:I think Nez and Snezz were a European thing, maybe specifically British I'm pretty sure "shmup" is also a british thing, they're disgraceful
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Nov 26, 2016 05:51
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Shmups is an everywhere thing, I've heard that in the US ever since I was aware enough to categorize games into specific genres beyond RPG, Action, etc. I use a bunch of terms for the SNES and NES depending, but I've never heard anyone say that last "s" as a "z" sound and I don't know why they would.
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Nov 26, 2016 05:59
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I can't believe that all british people call fighting games "button bashers"
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Nov 26, 2016 06:22
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d0s posted:I'm pretty sure "shmup" is also a british thing, they're disgraceful I never heard the term shmup until I listened to American podcasts. We called them shooters.
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Nov 26, 2016 06:36
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I still laugh every time I think about whatever Aussie thought it was a good idea to pronounce Sega as "SEE-guh".
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Nov 26, 2016 06:50
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Cindy Shitbird posted:Makes sense, seeing as they're a country that somehow thinks "Jezza" is a good and rational shortened form of Jeremy. Excuse me, that's clearly Australian slang and I'll thank you not to use it without a minimum of three beers inside you. .
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Nov 26, 2016 06:53
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I still laugh every time I think about whatever Aussie thought it was a good idea to pronounce Sega as "SEE-guh". Sonic 2 opens with a guide on how to say sega
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Nov 26, 2016 07:21
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I still laugh every time I think about whatever Aussie thought it was a good idea to pronounce Sega as "SEE-guh". loving Siri always thinks I want to know about Bob Seger. The Seger Saturn.
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Nov 26, 2016 07:57
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:loving Siri always thinks I want to know about Bob Seger. The Seger Saturn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZKmElt9u4 ------------------------------ You know what non-HD game still looks real good on an HDTV? Rhythm Heaven Fever
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Nov 26, 2016 08:09
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checksin posted:Sonic 2 opens with a guide on how to say sega Sonic 1 did it first
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Nov 26, 2016 08:29
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Sega Australia put out "it's pronounced say-gah" shirts at one point.
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Nov 26, 2016 08:49
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njsykora posted:I never heard the term shmup until I listened to American podcasts. We called them shooters. what I heard is that it was coined by the wacky british game magazines of the 80's
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Nov 26, 2016 09:08
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shmup sounds like a fancy name for mashed potatoes with peas.
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d0s posted:what I heard is that it was coined by the wacky british game magazines of the 80's Maybe, it certainly wasn't around when I was reading NOM and PC Zone in the 90s.
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Nov 26, 2016 09:18
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d0s posted:we said super nintendo or S.N.E.S or super NES. I never heard it called "snez" at any point when I was a kid completely this I literally never heard it called the "sness" or "snez" until the era of youtube, at which point I polled the people I was chatting with on IRC and they all apparently said that poo poo back in the day, and they're Americans. They responded to me like I was insane. So I have no loving clue.
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Nov 26, 2016 10:43
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Super Nuhtendo.
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Nov 26, 2016 11:59
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Over here in Finland people said either "Super Nintendo" or "snes" or "snessi". (same kind of convention applies to the NES, just remove the first "S") I've always thought saying the Es-En-Ee-Es must be a pronunciation for those who speak english as their native language but reading some comments here I'm not so sure anymore.
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TeaJay posted:Over here in Finland people said either "Super Nintendo" or "snes" or "snessi". (same kind of convention applies to the NES, just remove the first "S") those people are bad and wrong and it is completely the essenneeess
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Nov 26, 2016 12:20
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Improbable Lobster posted:I can't believe that all british people call fighting games "button bashers" That's reserved for terrible fighting games which reward just mashing buttons randomly. Edit: quote:ROM set sorting/fixing with Good Tools Isn't the entire point of the No-Intro sets to trim the list down to only the best copies of games, making it easier to search? Or would you want some of the hacked/beta/whatever versions still? legooolas fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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Nov 26, 2016 12:28
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I'm British and it was the "nezz" and "snezz" for me. Why waste time saying all those syllables when you could be playing games?!
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Nov 26, 2016 13:37
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Stumiester posted:I'm British and it was the "nezz" and "snezz" for me. Why waste time saying all those syllables when you could be playing games?! Where does the "Z" come from though? I don't understand. Is this some sort of rhyming slang tomfoolery?
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oi mate do ya fancy a shmup on the telly shall we play the speccy or the snezzy oh bugger a chav nicked me mobile arse bollocks put another shrimp on the barbie
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Feh, typical yank, can't even make fun of other countries properly  .I mean, you didn't even mention popping down th' local chippy! Or Big Ben!
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