So what is a "MegaDrive" in the states then?

[pr8cjb]

Video game history books all say that the 16-bit Sega console was called the Genesis in the US because the name "Megadrive" had already been registered, but nowhere does it say to whom or what for. Does anyone over the pond know what a MegaDrive is/was?

[Bratwurst]

A little research at the US Trademark Office website suggests that it was a trademark owned in 1988 by an athletic shoeware company, skis, etc. Trademark's dead apparently, a bicycle company owns it now.

[izret101]

Genesis sounds so much cooler anyways.
Why not find out what was trademarked Genesis over in Europe at that time?

[Querjek]

Dude, the Christians already took the term "genesis".

[rbudrick]

Yeah, but the copyright expired in the year 70. LOL :D

-Rob

[Mayhem]

Japanese name was Megadrive, hence no doubt Sega would have marketed it as that worldwide if not for that patent in the US...

[TheRedEye]

Japanese name was Megadrive, hence no doubt Sega would have marketed it as that worldwide if not for that patent in the US...

Right, just like the Mark III and the Famicom.

Oh, wait.

[hydr0x]

well, we europeans are so lucky we didn't get the Genesis name, it plain sucks

[pookninja]

well, we europeans are so lucky we didn't get the Genesis name, it plain sucksyeah,but if sega would have been able to call the genesis megadrive here in the states,we would have never got the great genesis does what nintendont commericals

[Jasoco]

MegaDrive does what Nintendon't. Still works. But Genesis sounds better.

[link1110]

Genesis sounds so much cooler anyways.
Why not find out what was trademarked Genesis over in Europe at that time?

It's the progressive rock band that gave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins their starts. They were big in the 70s and 80s.

[Jasoco]

I think we all know who Genesis is. :roll:

http://www.jasoco.net/data/files/images/genesis.jpg
:D

[izret101]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.

[TheRedEye]

http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics/americanpsycho2.gif

EDIT: Don't just look at it, eat it.

[Jasoco]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.
I feel sad for your generation. :(

Though, funny. I have that song too. Reminds me, I have to go through my Library and delete all the shit I don't listen to. Thanks for reminding me.

[Promophile]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.
I feel sad for your generation. :(

Though, funny. I have that song too. Reminds me, I have to go through my Library and delete all the shit I don't listen to. Thanks for reminding me.

Just like all the people that think Limp Bizkit came up with Behind Blue Eyes :roll: .

[Jasoco]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.
I feel sad for your generation. :(

Though, funny. I have that song too. Reminds me, I have to go through my Library and delete all the shit I don't listen to. Thanks for reminding me.

Just like all the people that think Limp Bizkit came up with Behind Blue Eyes :roll: .Well, to be fair, Sum41's "In too Deep" isn't the same song at all as Genesis'. Though Genesis' version kicks Sum major ass.

But I know what you mean. I hate when one of todays groups remakes a song and peoiple think they're the best song writers. "OMG! They came up with some killer lyrics!" Not knowing someone else did the song 20-30 years before them.

[Flack]

Out on the road today I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

Or was it a Dead Head sticker? I forget.

[izret101]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.
I feel sad for your generation. :(

Though, funny. I have that song too. Reminds me, I have to go through my Library and delete all the shit I don't listen to. Thanks for reminding me.

Just like all the people that think Limp Bizkit came up with Behind Blue Eyes :roll: .

i know he didnt come up with that. I like it better than the original.
Another song i like better than the original is Simple Man by Shinedown.

What was this topic about again?

[Jasoco]

Out on the road today I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

Or was it a Dead Head sticker? I forget..You know, when I first heard that part, it really pissed me off. And my youngest sister who is more into newer music, but also got angry that they would change the lyrics like that.

NO ONE disses the Grateful Dead like that. :angry:

[o2william]

Or was it a Dead Head sticker? I forget.

It'll always be Dead Head to me. But then, my favorite Genesis album is Selling England By the Pound.

I'm old. LOL

@Topic: Could the U.S. trademark have been the Jasmine Megadrive for the Mac? I found a post (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=megadrive+-Sega&start=10&hl=en&lr=&selm=9109301404.AA14584%40leander.think.com&rnum=19) on Google Groups that mentions "aging" Jasmine Megadrives and that dates from 1991, which puts it around the correct time.

I kinda prefer the name "Genesis" myself. "Megadrive" sounds like something you'd hear on a car commercial.

[Push Upstairs]

When i first heard the name "Megadrive" (back when i was 12 or 13) it reminded me of some sort of road name.

"Yeah, i live at 1304 Mega Drive." LOL

[Jorpho]

I think the first time I encountered the term may have been when I was reading about that the Mega PC. the special Amstrad 386 with the built-in cartridge port. Made perfect sense in that context.

[maxlords]

Japanese name was Megadrive, hence no doubt Sega would have marketed it as that worldwide if not for that patent in the US...

Right, just like the Mark III and the Famicom.

Oh, wait.


Wow! I had no idea that Sega named the Famicom! @_@

[Ed Oscuro]

Japanese name was Megadrive, hence no doubt Sega would have marketed it as that worldwide if not for that patent in the US...

Right, just like the Mark III and the Famicom.

Oh, wait.


Wow! I had no idea that Sega named the Famicom! @_@
The PC-Engine, for that matter!
x_x

[GaijinPunch]

Mega Drive is a a cooler name me thinks.
While I think Famicom is kinda goofy if you really know what it's derived from, I think the acronym for the NES, and even SNES has a very bad ring to it.

"Dude -- just just snessed all over yourself!"

[hydr0x]

http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics/americanpsycho2.gif

EDIT: Don't just look at it, eat it.

i had to think of that too as soon as the band genesis was mentioned here ;)

[alexkidd2000]

I think the reason why systems dont change their names now is simple. The Internet and game magazines. People here about the systems in Japan so early now that if they changed the name it would confuse everyone. I know I hadn't heard of a Mark III when i first got my Master System. When the Saturn and Playstation were released we were used to calling them that. The last system to change its name that I remember was the Mega CD to Sega CD. I was so used to saying Mega CD i wass pissed when they changed it.

[Cauterize]

Never heard of them. I know the song In too Deep by SUM41 though.
I feel sad for your generation. :(

Though, funny. I have that song too. Reminds me, I have to go through my Library and delete all the shit I don't listen to. Thanks for reminding me.

Just like all the people that think Limp Bizkit came up with Behind Blue Eyes :roll: .

And the george michael song faith that limp bizkit did!

[Jasoco]

Don't forget Tupac's rendition of Changes. Speaking of Tupac, I wish the dead guy would stop releasing fucking albums already. He's been DEAD for EIGHT FREAKING YEARS! Yet he still keeps releasing CD's and movies. :angry:

When's John Candy or Chris Farley gonna make another movie? :roll:

[Push Upstairs]

Tupac isnt dead...he can't be with all this music of his coming out.

Unless his restless spirit takes possession of Puff Daddy every week to record a new song.


And GaijinPunch's post reminded me of the way EGM used to call the SNES. I have always, always, always seen it called SNES whenever people don't wanna spend half an hour writing out "Super Nintendo". The "fine" folks at EGM always called it "S-NES" which looks odd and always makes me think of S-Video.