10 reasons Mega Drive is better than Genesis

[Flojomojo]

Also - Mega Drive sucks as a name, because there is no mechanical drive in the unit, and Mega is a misused adjective. Genesis, while non-specific, at least has a historical/societal context to it, and just sounds cool.

There's such a thing as a "solid state drive," it doesn't need to be mechanical. As for "Genesis," I'm fine with excluding ancient creation myths from my video games, thanks very much.

[John Stamos Mullet]

There's such a thing as a "solid state drive," it doesn't need to be mechanical. As for "Genesis," I'm fine with excluding ancient creation myths from my video games, thanks very much.

there wasn't such thing as a Solid State Drive in 1989 when the Sega Genesis was released. And no, Sega didn't invent one either.

 

Genesis as a term isn't specific to nonsensical religious use. It is a term for the beginning of something, and is more scientific in nature than it is biblical.

[Flojomojo]

First SSD, 1976

 

Genesis is planet forbidden!

 

[John Stamos Mullet]

First SSD, 1976

 

Genesis is planet forbidden!

 

https://youtu.be/6_bFnHTSg0A

There wasn't any consumer grade solid state drives in 1989.

 

Star Trek is like Star Wars for dudes who get atomic wedgied by Dungeons and Dragons nerds.

[Flojomojo]

That's why Mega DRIVE is so extra awesome. Arcade power in the home.

 

Who run the world? Nerds

[John Stamos Mullet]

That's why Mega DRIVE is so extra awesome. Arcade power in the home.

 

Who run the world? Nerds

actually, fascist dictators run the world right now, but that's a story for another thread on another board.

[Flojomojo]

What do you get when you cross a penis? with a potato ??

[John Stamos Mullet]

What do you get when you cross a penis? with a potato ??

No Potato! No Potato! You're the potato!

[Osgeld]

This is not correct. The actual name is the "Sega Master System." It says it right on the console, on every iteration of the console ever sold. There are no consoles that just say "Sega Base System" or "Segascope 3D System" they just say Sega Master System Power Base on them.

 

Even the Sears Wishbook sold it as the Sega Master System.

 

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/16/vintage-video-game-ads_n_6318730.html

 

except for the Mark III, which was the original master system

 

as far as SSD's intel and sharp did have bubble memory in a few machines of the mid 80's (like most of the early model GRiD laptops used it as non volatile storage)

Edited April 22, 2019 by Osgeld

[TheCoolDave]

Everything said was an opinion. Maybe if you grew up on the "other side of the pond" you would view it that way. But, in the US...Nope...

[+Black_Tiger]

The Euro Mega Drive logo is one of the ugliest console logos and the Japanese Mega Drive logo(s) one of the very best.

 

Their sense of taste is as terrible as their humour.

 

But I do agree that Mega Drive was a cooler name overall.

[MrMaddog]

On 4/16/2019 at 11:43 AM, DurradonXylles said:

I like both names, honestly, though I'll use "Genesis" most of the time because that's what I grew up knowing the console as.

 

There is a bit more context of the name chosen for NA outside of Mega Drive being taken up and appealing to the religious sensibilities of the continent like what the article suggests. Due to Nintendo of America violating several antitrust laws and monopolizing the video game industry with the licensing and publishing policies they had for most of the NES's lifespan, most Americans never experienced the Master System when it originally released here. Sega's presence was known primarily in the arcades up to this point in this part of the world, and even those who knew of Sega's 8-bit home console opted to choose Nintendo because their system had far more to offer in software.

 

The name "Genesis" was chosen with this context of Sega's NA release of the 16-bit console: for the first time the entire gaming audience in the US and Canada actually got to see Sega enter the console market without overshadowing by the Big N. It was really the beginning of Sega's presence in the home market in this part of the world, adding to that it would strangely enough be the most relevant couple of years the Master System would ever be as well thanks to the Master System II and Power Base Converter coming out not long after.

That and at the time there was another company in the US using the name "Mega Drive" for hard disk storage.

 

I still think the name Genesis fits as it sounds like an epic beginning of the 16-bit era (in the States).  At least they didn't go with the original name of Tomahawk which was too war like...

 

 

[Flojomojo]

Ugh, Tomahawk, really? That's even worse than Katana. 

 

I like the current generation of names, they're much cuter. ___box, play_____. 

[Osgeld]

wait a sec, if we mush them into one machine we get a playbox

 

I personally can't stand the newer machine names "playstation one pro new S x DS lite" like what the hell am I buying I just want to play games, not spec a freaking PC 

[+sixersfan105]

Funny read, indeed, but it ultimately comes down to the nostalgia factor and what you grew up with, based on where you grew up. It's pretty much impossible to beat that. 

 

On 4/16/2019 at 11:43 AM, DurradonXylles said:

Due to Nintendo of America violating several antitrust laws and monopolizing the video game industry with the licensing and publishing policies they had for most of the NES's lifespan, most Americans never experienced the Master System when it originally released here.

Of course, this is only part of the story (albeit a significant one). Sega's decision to select Tonka as the distributor of the Master System in the US was a poor one, as the maker of toy trucks hadn't a clue how to market video game systems. Similarly, Nintendo's decision to pick Mattel as the distributor for the NES throughout most of Europe hurt the NES' success in that market.