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Mega Drive is a bad name

OsakaDon

OsakaDon

Member
Oct 29, 2017
967
Osaka, Japan
Both sound good to me. Way better then the dumb sames systems have had recently.
But then again when you get down to it, they are all kind of dumb.
 
Soulstar

Soulstar

Member
Oct 25, 2017
874
•79• said:
Americans had both the worst name substitution for Mega Drive but also the ugliest SNES model too.

The 16bit years were rough on them.
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Finding out years later that we had the worst Nintendo design and Sega name years later was shocking. I was baffled wondering who thought these changes were a good idea.
 
Gato

Gato

Member
Oct 26, 2017
19
Los Angeles, CA


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Hokey

Hokey

Member
Oct 29, 2017
2,164
I thought the Genesis sounded worse. MegaDrive is pretty cool in my books, definitely better than anything Nintendo have come up with except maybe the Switch.
 
MrBS

MrBS

"This guy are sick"
Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,275
The Sega Mega Drive gave me years of my mother referring to it as the Mega Sega Drive which my brother and I thought was hilarious at the time. You can never take that away from me OP!
 
Thac0

Thac0

Member
Nov 15, 2017
235
I came in here to roast the OP but they really have a point with "Sega Mega". I still like the name Mega Drive better on it's own but...you've given me some things to think about.
 
Shion

Shion

Member
Nov 8, 2017
216
Mega Drive > Genesis

SEGA CD > Mega CD

Japanese MD logo > European MD logo > Genesis logo

Everybody wins.
 
Bastables

Bastables

Member
Dec 3, 2017
369
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive

Genesis does not fit in unless Sega of america was actively pretending Sega consoles did not exist.

Or Sega of America just felt it was a more sellable name than the Japanese titles.
 
iswasdoes

iswasdoes

Member
Nov 13, 2017
3,087
Londinium
It's a drive, like a computer drive

It's mega (mega was and perhaps still is a very popular colloquialism, like awesome)

It's not the genesis of anything
 
Pyramid Head

Pyramid Head

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,850
Nah. They're the same number of syllables and 'Sega Mega' Drive rolls off the tongue no harder than 'Sega Geneh' sis. In fact, for me, 'Mega Drive' feels much more pleasant to say.

Plus, 'Mega Drive' had a much better logo than the ugly, chunky 'Genesis', and didn't invoke images of 'lame dad rock' or religion to the 11 year old me.
 
Iztok

Iztok

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,169
Sega Mega is good because it rhymes.

You can't beat that.

Certainly not with "Sega Genesis", which was cringy even back then.
 
Meatwad

Meatwad

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,653
USA
Mega Drive sounds like a marketing term for a new high capacity HDD.

"Store over a 1,000 hrs of video on the MEGA DRIVE"
 
Issen

Issen

Member
Nov 12, 2017
6,851
Genesis is alright but Mega Drive is fucking amazing. Only slightly surpassed by Dreamcast.
 
sweetmini

sweetmini

Member
Jun 12, 2019
3,921
I lived in two main places. the system was colloquially called "The Megadrive" in the first one, the "Segamega" in the second...
never the combo.
i like Megadrive the best.

I don't like Genesis, because that reminds me of the music band and the Wrath of Khan.

superness or supafami... yeah... super enn eee esss... nah...
 
Vex

Vex

Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,213
Blast processing makes more sense with the "mega drive" name.

Genesis does what what nintendoesnt sounds better.

I grew up with the Genesis so it is more natural to me but the mega drive sounds way cooler.
 
belairjeff

belairjeff

J->E Localization
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
4,310
Can we all just agree that naming your product a different name in a different territory is a bad business decision and should be avoided at all costs?

If you need the feel the have different names in different territories, then the names of the product isn't good enough.
 
SJPN

SJPN

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,026
Next week in "Objectively Wrong", OP will be claiming that the US SNES is more attractive that the JP/PAL version. Stay tuned!
 
swift-darius

swift-darius

Member
May 10, 2018
943
my spanish mum still calls it the "segamega"

personally i think genesis is a stupid name, especially in non-english languages, and even then it feels over the top american. like a car name or something
 
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