Racketboy

So it seems some people are happy with referring to a Genesis as a Mega Drive and vice versa? That makes no sense.

Chips and crisps are different from Genesis and Mega Drive in that an American can happily eat and digest a crisp, where as a Genesis will have a hard time playing a PAL Mega Drive game. Even if you find a way around it (via Game Genie or a system mod) that doesn't change the fact that the system is a Genesis and the cartridge is a Mega Drive cart.

Region-locked technology does not equate with same but differently named foodstuffs. Unless Europeans have a deadly poison in their crisps, which they are immune to but Americans are not....

Would the GameCube be called the Master Nintendo Entertainment System then?

I was thinking more along the lines of Ultimate but that might be to confusing with Ultra. Master would be confused with the Master System. Anybody know any other words that mean more powerful then Ultra not with U.

Quintessential

More like the Dolphin Nintendo Enertainment System, or F.L.I.P.P.E.R for short.

Haha who cares what someone calls the "Genesis". This is pointless and won't change what people call it. Whatever floats their boat man. BUT I do find it rather annoying when people refer to the Genesis as a "Sega". "Hey yo do you have sonic for the sega?!?!"

Obviously a few people care, based on this thread. So let's say I talk about growing up with the Genesis, only instead of Genesis I call it Mega Drive. Right there I presented a problem, as growing up with the Genesis is a very different experience from growing up with a Mega Drive (difference in ad campaigns, games, magazines, commercials, COUNTRY).

Another example: one Sega fan says to another "Dude, I bought a Mega Drive! Come over and play it!". Their friend agrees to come over, bringing a stack of Mega Drive games, and discovers that their buddy actually has a Genesis. "Why did you call it a Mega Drive?" asks the friend who drove thirty minutes to visit his buddy's house. "Well, lol, its the same thing right?" says the Genesis owner. "No, you implied that you have a Japanese or PAL machine that would play these region specific games that I brought over. Looks like I wasted a trip over here and brought these for nothing. We're not friends anymore. Goodbye Kevin."

Im pretty sure thats the single best example I have ever heard.

Oh I thought we were upgrading the system names like PokeBalls. It really wouldn't be too far off for Nintendo to do something like that.