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Mega Drive is a bad name
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Not fond of Mike Rutherford, are we? Or is it Phil Collins that gets your git?
EDIT: damn the joke's been done
We JUST had this thread https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-sega-genesis.120825/
Also, no, screw you and your bad american names.
Master System goes Mega Drive, not Genesis
Also, no, screw you and your bad american names.
Master System goes Mega Drive, not Genesis
Came in ready to fight but everyone is already telling the truth.
I'll also start calling the Mario 64's console the "Nintendo Nintendo 64"
I'll also start calling the Mario 64's console the "Nintendo Nintendo 64"
they're both great names.
bayonetta has way more in common with sega's legacy than anything nintendo.
bayonetta has way more in common with sega's legacy than anything nintendo.
Goes great with a mega cd. Or add in a computer and now it's a tera drive (because greek prefixes geddit). Now you're playing with mega power.
Mega Drive sounds like it's the most powerful electronics device ever built. Ready to revolutionize gaming as we knew it through a 16-bit revolution thanks to its built in flux capacitor and its blast processing capabilities.
Genesis is what we made up when we didn't have science. Built with wood and stones, smoke and mirrors.
Genesis is what we made up when we didn't have science. Built with wood and stones, smoke and mirrors.
Genesis kid here and I think the Mega Drive is one of the best system names ever. Nothing subtle, about the name---- just pure awesome
Hell even that big-ass 16 BIT on the console screams late 80's maximalism
Hell even that big-ass 16 BIT on the console screams late 80's maximalism
Back in the 16-bit era, I thought Mega Drive was the cooler name. I'm in Canada so it was called the Genesis here but I bought plenty of Japanese MD games. Today, I think Mega Drive sounds more like generic computer parts. Genesis is a bit weird but stands out more.
This might be the first time I put a thread on ignore ( not the op, but I want to though).
Respect Mega Drive.
Respect Mega Drive.
It is. Genesis branding and advertising is what made it for Sega in the 16-bit era.
It does seem a little ironic when British youtubers doing retrospectives of the Sega "Mega Drive" always fall back on a clipshow of the 16-bit era SOA Genesis ads as they narrate through the console wars and Sega's meteoric rise between 1989 and 1994.
It's impossible to write the Genesis out or write it off, and it's a one word brand that encapsulates and captures the zeitgeist of the moment and pronounced Sega's arrival as a major player.
It does seem a little ironic when British youtubers doing retrospectives of the Sega "Mega Drive" always fall back on a clipshow of the 16-bit era SOA Genesis ads as they narrate through the console wars and Sega's meteoric rise between 1989 and 1994.
It's impossible to write the Genesis out or write it off, and it's a one word brand that encapsulates and captures the zeitgeist of the moment and pronounced Sega's arrival as a major player.
This is a completely US-centric viewpoint.
A high proportion of the sales of the machine were in countries where it was named Mega Drive. I grew up with the Mega Drive in Australia and didn't know what the fuck a Genesis was, even when i did occasionally see some games available for rent at Blockbuster that were branded with that title. I'm sure Europe and Japan were similar in this respect.
British Youtubers using clips from US ads likely reflects more on the availability of the clips than it does on that particular brand name "capturing the zeitgeist of the moment", whatever that means.
Having watched a lot of videos around the 16-bit era, I feel what you call it, "Genesis" or "Mega Drive" is necessarily tied to your region. So in a sense both answers are right, and that's how it's been for a long time. It's really the recent push to declare Mega Drive the 'better' brand or what have you that have irked me. It absolutely wasn't. The brand that made all the difference was the Genesis. This thread is very much a response to that. I believe ERa has a previous thread on this as well where people declared Mega Drive to be the 'correct' name or whatever. The needless tribalism is perplexing and the region-centricism ought to be called out.
At the end of the day, back then the SNES was called the SFC/SuperFamicom in Japan and the European SNES had Japanese stylings. So market fragmentation was common. I would be equally ridiculous I think for a Japanese person to declare the SuperFamicom as the better name. This whole kerfuffle over names is more irritating to me for its frivious tribalism. But I digress. I've said my piece and will leave it at that
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I suppose it depends on how you say Sega. We've had that thread too!
Mega Drive sounds like a monster truck jam.
Genesis sounds like a prog metal song that kicks off with a deep synth crescendo.
Both are 90's X-TREME.
Genesis sounds like a prog metal song that kicks off with a deep synth crescendo.
Both are 90's X-TREME.
