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Why wasn't the Genesis called the Mega Drive in the US?
- Thread starter NuclearCake
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Genesis is the generic one. The term literally refers to 10000 different things.Genesis is a better name.
Mega Drive is generic.
Mega Drive only refers to one thing.
Americans also had a wrong looking SNES
Here's how it is normally and perhaps one of the best designed consoles.
Genesis always sounded odd back then, it was religious and at the time it was a bald Phil Collins band. It portrayed a very stuffy image but their loss. An odd ball name and missed out on the best looking console.
Here's how it is normally and perhaps one of the best designed consoles.
Genesis always sounded odd back then, it was religious and at the time it was a bald Phil Collins band. It portrayed a very stuffy image but their loss. An odd ball name and missed out on the best looking console.
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Honestly now that I'm thinking about it, "Mega Drive" is probably a cooler name, but it just feels wrong to me. The Genesis is the Genesis. When I hear Mega Drive I feel like I'm hearing people from some weird alternative universe where Sega released some other, less successful console than the Genesis. I don't feel this way about Famicom and Super Famicom, which I like more than NES and SNES and feel natural. But the Genesis is the Genesis.
I can't believe people think Mega Drive is better than Genesis lol, and I say that as a European.
It's a pretty shit name for their second mainstream home console.
I think, for me, Mega Drive sounded like a suitable replacement for the 'Master System'.
I think if I heard it out of context, in 2021, for the first time I'd prefer Genesis to Mega Drive.
But as it is ive got too much nostalgia for Mega Drive. So my hearts with that.
Too bad that didn't continue on after the Mega Drive. Saturn Rings. Got a nice...ring to it, eh?
OP tried to help Genesis win by giving it more poll options and it still lost haha!
Oh sorry meant that to mean I like it as a non gaming term machine. Wii wasn't gaming but was weird. Xbox is atrocious even with the connection to direct x. PlayStation is a little better. I mean I think YouTube is a bad name we are just used tonit
LMAO 😁😁😁
This too. I mean lilac coloured buttons I ask you!
Mega will always be cool which Sega had a thing for even before MD. Such as -
The Mega Cartridge ™
lol? "Sega Saturn" is probably my favorite console name.
I miss the era whe products could launch with bold but goofy ass names like Mega Drive / Master System / Super Nintendo. I Sony think you could pull it off in a brand new product now, but I hope there is some truth to the "Super Nintendo Switch" rumours because I'd enjoy it a lot more than Switch Pro / Plus / XL / New etc
What?
Back then everything came with a SUPER/MEGA/EXTREME label.
Mega Drive is definitely generic.
I'm sure there was some, but I can't think of a single product with the name Genesis, besides the Sega Genesis.
Americans also had a wrong looking SNES
Here's how it is normally and perhaps one of the best designed consoles.
Genesis always sounded odd back then, it was religious and at the time it was a bald Phil Collins band. It portrayed a very stuffy image but their loss. An odd ball name and missed out on the best looking console.
I was a Mega Drive kid and I don't regret it at all but yeah, EU SNES was sexy as fuck. A close friend of mine had it, was awesome going to each other house to play a different console.
It's bad enough that we have folks saying that "Genesis" is the better name, but now they're saying the US Snezz better looking than Japan/EU? GEROUTTAHERE!
I contend that "Every hero has a Mega Drive" has a better ring to it.
Hold up hold up hold up!!! First of all, the purple Super Nintendo is the best Super Nintendo.
SECOND, how else were we going to get this line from Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G. and I quote:
SECOND, how else were we going to get this line from Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G. and I quote:
This reasoning doesn't make sense because it was only called Genesis in the place where religious stuff in games was being censored.
Genesis is the Greek word for "origin" or "reproduction". It's used a lot outside of Christianity.
To be fair most console names are bad, Sega were just extra bad at it. Genesis? Saturn? Dreamcast? Fuck does it mean?
NES/SNES/N64/Gamecube were all pretty good and easy to understand, before Nintendo went slightly off the rails With the Wii and Wii U. PlayStation is boring but descripive enough; it's an.. uh.. station where you play? Xbox literally came from DirectX Box, became the Xbox, and then MS went off the rails with the 360, One and Series. But Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast and the unreleased Jupiter and Neptune? Those names don't make much sense for consoles.
But not necessarily worse for it. Playstation is an even more generic name ("play" and "station" being very common words) but I rarely see people have a problem with that name.
Edit: Gamecube too actually but, in my opinion, that was a great name.
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Y'all really out here thinking Mega Drive was a better name than Genesis. Putting the word "mega" in your console name is not cool, it's fuckin lame as hell. I'm looking at you too, Nintendo.
Mega Drive... despite not having a drive...
Genesis... despite being their third console... and sounding like a Bible machine?
;)
Dreamcast is the real dud name. Despite everyone getting used to it after a while, it does sound exactly like a fishing rod.
Separate from Sega, Playstation is the all time worst for that, sounds like a Fisher Price train set for babies.
Genesis... despite being their third console... and sounding like a Bible machine?
;)
Dreamcast is the real dud name. Despite everyone getting used to it after a while, it does sound exactly like a fishing rod.
Separate from Sega, Playstation is the all time worst for that, sounds like a Fisher Price train set for babies.
We just called it a sega when I was a kid.
I will say the US always gets the worst box art though.
I will say the US always gets the worst box art though.
The Master System wasn't really advertised as the Master System in North America before the Genesis came out, though. Commercials usually just called it the Sega system similar to how the NES was usually just Nintendo at the time.
Americans also had a wrong looking SNES
Here's how it is normally and perhaps one of the best designed consoles.
that thing looks beautiful, but if it ran at 50hz you can keep it I'm good.
Mega Drive always sounds more like a desktop computer peripheral and less like a console to me.
Playstation is a a literal play on the term "Workstation"
.................wha
Somehow I've never thought of that, and I've been gaming on PS platforms for 20+ years.
If I hadn't quit drinking I would've poured myself a whisky now.