Megadrive vs Genesis

[David J.]

You mean they had CD-ROM when the Mega Drive was announced??? Wow! I know I'd be skeptical too!

[Rusty Venture]

And I always thought that Super Castlevania IV was perhaps the most retarded name for a game ever because it implied that there was another version of Castlevania IV that wasn't as good. Despite this, it remains my mostest favoritest SNES game of all time.

I like CV4 myself, but i find the addition of "Super" to some titles to be downright silly.

I could understand "Super Mario World", but 95% of the "Super" games had that part tacked on as some cheesy ass way to make the SNES version/game seem like it was "Superior".


As for CD-ROM's, when did the PC-Engine get it's add-on?

[evildragon]

how about Doom 64?

Funny though, Mario had Super in it's name, before the Super Nintendo.. Super Mario Brothers.. that might be where Nintendo got SUPER from..

[Rusty Venture]

I'm far more tolerant of the use of "64" in a title than what would have been the alternative, "ULTRA".

ULTRA DOOM

ULTRA MARIO KART

ULTRA EXCITE BIKE

So on....


That might be where Nintendo got the idea for "Super" but there were a lot of games that didn't really need that tacked onto the name.

[Joe Redifer]

Yeah I quickly grew tired of all of the "64's" attached to N64 game titles as well. Thankfully the trend didn't continue with putting "Cube" on every Gamecube title.

You mean they had CD-ROM when the Mega Drive was announced???

They had announced that a CD-ROM player of some type would be down the road for the unit. The PC Engine CD was just about to come out when I read that. My friend decided that they built the CD-ROM right into the console, like the Saturn. I told him that the Saturn wouldn't be invented for quite some time and we'd have to deal with the CD-less Mega Drive first.

[TheGZeus]

Oh yes, Lords of Thunder WAS released for Japanese Mega CD!
It has a different(stupid) name, and the cover of the disc is completely innappropriate.
I'd tell you, but I don't know how many copies the store I'll be ordering from has, and I'm greedy...

[GeckoYamori]

how about Doom 64?

I think FIFA takes the cake. You get FIFA 94, 95, 96, then 64 all of a sudden.

[Mr Smith]

I think FIFA takes the cake. You get FIFA 94, 95, 96, then 64 all of a sudden.

The 1963/1964 season was a great one for football.

[Elusive]

Megadrive always sounded a bit goofy to me. Like the SNES and all their "Super" titles. What does Megadrive mean anyhow? I get the mega part, as mega was always part of Sega's marketing on the Master System carts... but Drive? Where was it driving to? It didn't have a hard drive, there was no drive of any kind unless there were weird Japanese floppy disk attachments. I could see the MegaDrive being sold as the MegaCD attachment, because it has a CD drive. Genesis wasn't as flashy, but it got the point across that this was something new.

It's part-Engrish. 'Mega' as in Mega-<verb>, Drive as in car - freedom, power, the kind of ideas you see in car ads. The Drive as in CD drive is a happy little coincidence as far as I'm concerned.

[Gentlegamer]

"Genesis" does it for me!

[NAE1000]

megadrive all the way (i'm a brit)=and it just sounds great. i always felt genesis sounded crap and was just 'the americans' trying to be better than everyone else.

now we know that's only half true, the name had to be changed.

but yeah, genesis- bit too biblical- bit too ' the start'- bit too phil collins!! (of course, peter gabriels' work is fine!)

[ary incorparated]

hmm lords of thunder sega cd sucks compared to the pace of the pc engine version,pc engine cdr2 1991 i think,the megadrive already extern output for the md cd or what ever plans back then for that,they had mega?stands for?mega power or 100000 1MIPS ? i dont know mega for the power in the system and drive couse it drives the add ons and couse it had a whopping 7,58 mhz which no home console had in 88,not even the tg 16,had a slower drawing engine.

[TheGZeus]

Oh, I'm getting the PC Engine version of Lords(Winds) of Thunder.
But being a Sega freak and liking the Mega CD's music ALOT more...

[TheGZeus]

Upon further research, the various sites that claim there's a Lords of Thunder in Japan under a different name are wrong.
The game they say is Lords is in fact just some dumb card-based RPG.
Odd, as it's based on a Tokusatsu show...

[ary incorparated]

i have to own that game,btw the mega cd version sounded better i dont think so i think the pc engine sounds more pitched tighter guitar work.