Not fond of Mike Rutherford, are we? Or is it Phil Collins that gets your git?As a Brit, I honestly think 'Genesis' sounds shit and always will do.
I'm not sure you know what 'rolling off the tongue' means.
Yeah I'm not a fan of Phil Collins either.As a Brit, I honestly think 'Genesis' sounds shit and always will do.
Hear hear
This is a completely US-centric viewpoint.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.
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.
I suppose it depends on how you say Sega. We've had that thread too!"Sega Mega Drive" is really clumsy, because of the "Sega Mega" part.