Mega Drive is a bad name

[Nerdkiller]

Genesis does what Mega Drive don't

Mega Drive sounds like a $20 console you'd find at K-mart.

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I posted this earlier, and I'm posting it again, because there's no way you can top the wordplay going on for my comeback.

 

[higemaru]

I posted this earlier, and I'm posting it again, because there's no way you can top the wordplay going on for my comeback.

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Your username is apt

 

[Saint of Killers]

If you just compare the names "Mega Drive" and "Genesis", both are perfectly fine choices, and I could see someone having a preference for either one.

But when you look at the full names, with "Sega" included, it's a different story.

Sega Mega Drive.

Sega Genesis.

"Sega Genesis" rolls off the tongue.

"Sega Mega Drive" is really clumsy, because of the "Sega Mega" part.

Whoever named that thing wasn't thinking of the make of the company putting the system out.

Pointless to bring it up in 2019, but I was inspired by a random tweet.

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Sounds awful if you pronounce Sega the American way.

Segga Mega Drive.

Awful.

Say-ga Mega Drive.

Wholesome.

But yeah, we just called it the Mega Drive.

 

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megasis

 

[fiendcode]

It's just "Mega Drive" in Japan. Sega didn't put their full name on their platforms in the home market often really unlike the west.

• SG-1000
• Sega Mark III (Sega Master System)
• Mega Drive (Sega Genesis)
• Game Gear, later rebranded Kid's Gear
• Mega CD (Sega CD)
• Super-32X (Genesis 32X)
• Sega Saturn
• Dreamcast

 

[Deleted member 8752]

Ah yes, I also love my Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox.

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I really prefer the Shin Nihon Kikaku Neo Geo Pocket Color

 

[Heid]

As a Brit, I honestly think 'Genesis' sounds shit and always will do.

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[fiendcode]

Out of the Japanese console makers Nintendo's the only one who puts their name in the platform title often, and even then it's pretty split:

• Family Computer (Nintendo Entertainment System)
• Game Boy
• Super Famicom (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)
• Virtual Boy
• Nintendo 64
• Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Pokémon mini
• Nintendo DS
• Wii
• Nintendo 3DS
• Wii U
• Nintendo Switch

 

[Rangerx]

It's amazing how two different minds work. Mega Drive is the far superior name. Yeah it's the name I grew up with, I didn't even know it was called the Genesis in the US until my late teens, but it evokes images of a super computer and just sounds video gamey. Genesis is a truly awful name for a console.

 

[GavinUK86]

Sega Mega Drive rolls off my tongue better than Sega Genesis.

 

[Joltik]

Wait, why is the band, Genesis bad again?

 

[Deleted member 52065]

Mega Drive is a name that is trying too hard. Mega what?

 

[SJPN]

Genesis is such a lame name, conjuring up Bible thumping and awful Prog Rock.

Mega Drive suggests ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.

 

[Theonik]

Your face is a bad name.

 

[nib95]

I think nearly all the console names are bad. I mean, PlayStation, Xbox, Super Nintendo, Wii? Lol. It's like they came up with the names thinking they'd only appeal to children. Switch, Genesis and Gamecube (because of the shape of the system) are not terrible though.

 

[DenverCo]

When I found out the Genesis was called the Mega Drve in Europe and thought name was way better and wondered why they would change to Genesis.