Having grown up in the Genesis region, I honestly don't know which I like better in terms of the name. Either works for me.
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Having grown up in the Genesis region, I honestly don't know which I like better in terms of the name. Either works for me.
Personally, I love the madness of it all:cool: Let's also not forget the fantastic wraparound art on some of those covers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimaera
That's really stretching it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimaera
I believe that the opposite is true for most of this. I can't post the usual examples of coverart, but back covers in Western releases tend to be much busier than Japanese MD games and the quality of the artwork is usually better in Japan and worse or bad in Western regions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimaera
True, there are a lot of Genesis games that got stuck with incredibly cheesy covers (Strider, Last Battle, etc) where the original Japanese was better. I don't know, I guess it's just bc I grew up with it, but I just like the uniform look of the red and black cases. I also really like the EA boxes' design. Of course, I'm not really into manga or anime and a lot of Japanese covers utilize that style (El Viento, Arrow Flash, etc). I'm just a dumb American :roll:
I adore my Mega Drive and the nice blue boxes that accompanies the latter library of games for it. There are some boxes that I prefer the Genesis version over, though. Such as Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (it just looks more colourful on the Genesis box). So, out of respect of my roots, I have to pick Mega Drive. But some of the Genesis boxes do look pretty sweet compared to their PAL counterparts.
So by a very close margin it's looking like it's going to be Mega Drive for the win! It's only logical really, although I have always liked the name 'Genesis' it was only called that in North America and the console was quite literally known as the Mega Drive everywhere else on the planet. I do find it funny though how some of you actually think that the console wouldn't have been the success it was in America had it gone by it's original name. If true that surely says far more about y'all stateside than it does about the actual name. ;)
Genesis already won, this poll should have closed two years ago.
Genesis is by far the better name. If they named it Mega Drive in North America it would have sold like it did in Japan... True story ;)
It was named Mega Drive in Europe and it sold pretty well and more than it did in Japan... True story. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cowboyscowboys
I think the console also had good results in Brazil under the Mega Drive name.
My vote goes for the Mega Drive. I had a MD2 clone as a child so this influenced me a lot :)
Both places the Master System flourished.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wesker
Actually, the combined Master System + Mega Drive coexistence that Sega put a lot of faith on in both regions a lot to do on that and benefited both systems equally, as the Master System wasn't that much big in Europe (and I suppose this was the same in Brazil) before the arrival of the Mega Drive. The consoles even had their name styles perfectly associated despite the fact that the Mega Drive was a Japanese name while the Master System was a North American name (although later adopted by the Japanese too, although very briefly before the console demise).Quote:
Originally Posted by cowboyscowboys
Another possible reason was that the Famicom/NES was just too big in Japan and North America to have a change against, something that didn't happen in Europe at all as the console market was quite small and the videogame market was largely dominated by computers. Master System and Mega Drive were actually the first to have the lead in the home console front, with Game Boy doing the same the portable console one on the other hand.
NES was leading in Brazil before the SMS arrival here, but it was being poorly handled by Gradiente.
When Tec Toy brought the SMS they did it guns blazing and pretty much vanished the NES from the official market.
But Wesker is right, Mega Drive was brought to Brazil just a bit after the Master System and it sure contributed a lot to the SMS success as well. Sega brand was then associated with powerful, cutting edge tech hardware, etc.
Mega Drive, along with the PS1, has the most brilliant hardware design ever in terms of consoles IMO.
I still vote Genesis. To an American kid, Mega Drive sounds like something that only plays racing games. Genesis sounded more...cool. Of course that was assisted by the brilliant ad campaigns that ingrained "Genesis" and "SEGA!" into my head.
That said, I wouldn't have terribly minded if Sega had just named the thing "the Sega Mega System" and been done with it. Then again I think it would've been better for NEC to have named TG16 "Turbo Game System" or something along those lines, so what the hell do I know.
As an aside into the whole "how to write Mega Drive/MegaDrive" "debate": with all due respect to my Anglo friends here, particularly from the UK and you Aussies as well, you all need to STOP mispronouncing Amiga.
OK, well I pronounce Amiga "Ameega", and so does every person I have ever met. What have we being doing wrong all these years?Quote:
Originally Posted by spiffyone
It is "Ameega," Spanish for female friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey
Even as a 12 year old only ever seeing Amiga in game mags, I always promounced it "ameega".
I don't care if anyone thinks it should be pronounced differently, because I won't read it in my head any differently, but if it helps, I'll never have a conversation in person in which the Amiga will come up. :p
And Aussies, it's Say-ga, not See-ga.
lol yeah, I've met a few Aussies that pronounce it "Seega". I'm not sure where they got that from except that maybe when it was launched in Australia perhaps it was mispronounced in early advertisements, commercials and marketing and it just stuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
Mega Drive sounds better to me, and I grew up with a Genesis. And it's "uh-mee-guh."
Why would it be pronounced "uh-mee-guh"? It's quite clearly spelled with two A's. Oh well, each to their own. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by o.pwuaioc
Some (mis)pronounce it "a-mig-guh" and call it a "mig" for short. I swear I've seen some vids on youtube where that's how they pronounced it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey
Yes, you are correct in your pronunciation.
Amiga = spanish for female friend
English phonetics, chief.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey
It makes me wonder if any of them played Sonic the Hedgehog. Most of the cart is taken up by the "Say-ga" jingle intro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey
Not trying to be a nit-picker, but that sound effect only takes up about 1/19th, if you're counting the first sonic game. Still, the "sea-ga" pronunciation does sound really weird and wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
Along that tangent, people kept saying "mare-ee-oh" even after "It's a mee, Mario!" became a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
I think you're from New York, isn't that the common pronunciation around there? I can see people being hard to break that habit on a pre-existing name.Quote:
Originally Posted by o.pwuaioc
Yep, definitely, especially among those from New Jersey or Long Island.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
The "see-guh" pronunciation is actually used in this video from 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUiNMRAEXs
Start around the 50 minute mark, and you'll find it. Then again, this was back in 1982, so nobody had the Sonic games to go by yet ;)
I wonder if See-guh was the original pronunciation, and it changed when it was bought out by Japan or something. Sega was a fairly big name in 1982, so they wouldn't have been unknown, but then again, plenty of companies and games had weird names with multiple pronunciations (think Xonox, Engesoft, Galaga) and regional variations.
I can't really decide as I like both names but would happily had Mega Drive on my Genesis if that happened. I still can't find the original owner of the Mega Drive name in NA that caused the division in title with Genesis in the first place, they probably went bankrupt anyway lol. Not all bad the Genesis name, had some funny memes and mentions of the band that shared it's name, I also hear part of the bible mentions it too. :lol:
I always pronounced it as Seh-Gah because it's a made up word without language origins so I never applied any language rules to it, SErvice GAmes.
Genesis is a bit pretentious when you consider, in hindsight, that it got a slow start, and that its add-ons marked the beginning of the end. However, Mega Drive isn't much better, even with their attempts at sounding different than System, and superior with Mega. I would have called it Wonderbit, when bits were the thing to measure consoles with. The Wonder part is self-explanatory, although a bit hard to pronounce after SEGA. It would create a series starting with Wonder and ending in a Dream, with the Dreamcast. Perhaps the Saturn is when things would get "real", with the jump to 3D.
I know WHY the Genesis is so named in the US, but I suppose I prefer it, only because I had no experience with the Mega Drive branding in the eighties. Getting information from anything other than whatever random computer gaming publications that drifted through the pharmacy's magazine racks was impossible, and most of those publishers wouldn't send people to Japan to study the console gaming scene after the great implosion.
Just let the logos speak for themselves..
http://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/...esis_Logo1.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5zN7pIJL6v...0705100521.png
http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/...psdf114767.png
I think the Genesis logo is the worst of the three, the PAL Mega Drive looks absolutely stunning with its metal reflections, and the original Megadrive logo is so stylish..
Nothing beats the Genesis...
The Model 1 wears the name so proudly.
Genesis and original Mega Drive logos look best, but the name Genesis still wins.
The PAL name should have been SLOW MOTION DRIVE.
For me it goes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tor Landeel
BEAUTIFUL
MD Japanese<------------Genesis------------------------------------------------->MD European
^ That's how I'd place them too. Nothing beats the JP logo. Nothing. BITD it represented often unattainable import goodness for me.
That's funny: I think the JP MD logo is ugly and nonsensical. From the choice of colors to the "english for the sake of english" nonsensical phrasing.
I do like the EU MD logo, though.
Yeah I never liked the look of the Japanese logo either. It looks like a failed experiment in 80's modern graphic design. Judging by the console's success, or lack of it I should say, in it's home country the Japs weren't too keen either if we're going purely on aesthetics as a bench mark. The EU PAL logo is sheer metallic, sleek sexiness that really reminds me of the reflective quality of the opening titles to the first Terminator movie.