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Sblargh · Jan 4, 2016

I'll put a "The" in front of the names to make them sound even more omnous and bad ass.

The Master System
The Genesis
The Mega Drive
The Saturn
The Dreamcast

Of these, my favorites are either Master System or Mega Drive. Few things in this weary world of ours deserve still to be called "rad"; but Master System and Mega Drive are pretty rad names.
Genesis and Saturn are two strong sounding words and Dreamcast is an amazing console name and even when I understand why consoles don't want to call themselves something like Master System, they should have been striving to be something like Dreamcast.

Compare those amazing Sega console names with
Playstation - sounds like something an engineer announced to the press before the marketing department could shoot him down
Xbox - Sounds like the project name and, again, the marketing department just let is slide.
Super Nintendo 64 - Sounds like that you have enough brand recognition to honestly don't even care.
Gamecube - Another prototype name.
Wii - Good, simple, fun name. Could be less abstract, but I like the simplicity and good hearted nature of the sound.

In a time where developers waste precious console names just reminding the public that this is the same company that made their last favorite console, I think we should honor sega for what they strived for.
Just think of the children whose consoles were: Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and then Playstation 4.
Think of them and weep, NeoGAF.

ShooterMcGavin · Jan 4, 2016

Sblargh said:
I'll put a "The" in front of the names to make them sound even more omnous and bad ass.

The Master System
The Genesis
The Mega Drive
The Saturn
The Dreamcast

Of these, my favorites are either Master System or Mega Drive. Few things in this weary world of ours deserve still to be called "rad"; but Master System and Mega Drive are pretty rad names.
Genesis and Saturn are two strong sounding words and Dreamcast is an amazing console name and even when I understand why consoles don't want to call themselves something like Master System, they should have been striving to be something like Dreamcast.

Compare those amazing Sega console names with
Playstation - sounds like something an engineer announced to the press before the marketing department could shoot him down
Xbox - Sounds like the project name and, again, the marketing department just let is slide.
Super Nintendo 64 - Sounds like that you have enough brand recognition to honestly don't even care.
Gamecube - Another prototype name.
Wii - Good, simple, fun name. Could be less abstract, but I like the simplicity and good hearted nature of the sound.

In a time where developers waste precious console names just reminding the public that this is the same company that made their last favorite console, I think we should honor sega for what they strived for.
Just think of the children whose consoles were: Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and then Playstation 4.
Think of them and weep, NeoGAF.

I still wish they went with Revolution.

BennyBlanco · Jan 4, 2016

Agreed. Sega were the best at it.

You're selling the Gamecube short tho. That's a top tier name when you look at the thing.

SolVanderlyn · Jan 4, 2016

Yep. Sega had this on lockdown.

Dusk Golem · Jan 4, 2016

NeoGeo, the scrapped Neptune, hell, even 32X...

I don't think many would argue with you to say they probably had the coolest naming schematic.

Booker.DeWitt · Jan 4, 2016

And yet all those consoles were outsold by the ones with less appealing names.

chaosblade · Jan 4, 2016

Gamecube's development name was Dolphin though. I think it's fine.

But yeah, Sega was the best when it came to names. Except Game Gear. That was kind of bad.

BadWolf · Jan 4, 2016

Dreamcast is such an awesome name.

Dusk Golem · Jan 4, 2016

Booker.DeWitt said:
And yet all those consoles were outsold by the ones with less appealing names.

Genesis/MegaDrive did far better in the US/Europe than its competitors at the time, but was outswamped shortly after.

But this doesn't have to do with names.

Crimsonclaw111 · Jan 4, 2016

Booker.DeWitt said:
And yet all those consoles were outsold by the ones with less appealing names.

Yeah too bad this topic is about names and not sales.

CO_Andy · Jan 4, 2016

Dusk Golem said:
NeoGeo

wut

Ceadeus · Jan 4, 2016

My personnal best is Dreamcast and its startup logo.

I would have like it to live on for 10 more years. Those were the best gaming era ever. Ps2, dreamcast, gamecube and xbox.... A dream once true.

GDGF · Jan 4, 2016

Dusk Golem said:
NeoGeo, the scrapped Neptune, hell, even 32X...

I don't think many would argue with you to say they probably had the coolest naming schematic.

SNK made the NeoGeo, though.

But Sega was great at names indeed.

My favorites were Master System, Genesis, and Dreamcast.

enigmatic_alex44 · Jan 4, 2016

Saturn is a great name, shame it had to be tied so such a flop system.

Dreamcast sounds really bad though. Like a child's plastic fishing rod toy.

androvsky · Jan 4, 2016

enigmatic_alex44 said:
Saturn is a great name, shame it had to be tied so such a flop system.

Dreamcast sounds really bad though. Like a child's plastic fishing rod toy.

Dreamcast is what Project Morpheus wanted to be called. It casts dreams like a spell.

Gaogaogao · Jan 4, 2016

certainly a better name than xbox one or wii u

Dusk Golem · Jan 4, 2016

CO_Andy said:
wut

GDGF said:
SNK made the NeoGeo, though.

But Sega was great at names indeed.

My favorites were Master System, Genesis, and Dreamcast.

I TYPED WRONGLY. XDDD I was going to type SEGA CD, but somehow I subconciously wrote NeoGeo. Don't know how that worked out.

Kilau · Jan 4, 2016

They also had Game Gear and Nomad.

entremet · Jan 4, 2016

The magazines were not loving Dreamcast.

It grew on folks.

I like the project names. Project Katana--Saturn

Project Dural--Dreamcast

Kagoshima_Luke · Jan 4, 2016

enigmatic_alex44 said:
Saturn is a great name, shame it had to be tied so such a flop system.

Dreamcast sounds really bad though. Like a child's plastic fishing rod toy.

MrCunningham · Jan 4, 2016

Sega SG-1000

Sega SC-3000 (personal computer variant of the SG1000)

Sega SG-1000 Mark II

Sega Mark III (Sega Master System)

Sega Nomad:

Sega Pluto (Prototype Sega Saturn + Netlink unit) :

Sega Neptune (Prototype 32x/ Genesis hybrid)

SolVanderlyn · Jan 4, 2016

I was a Nintendo kid and I never had a good argument when people brought up Sega's cool factor.

Sblargh · Jan 4, 2016

ShooterMcGavin said:
I still wish they went with Revolution.

While it makes sense in hindsight; I guess a name like "Revolution" for an underpowered console aimed at non-teenagers would have been a bad idea. This is where Sega could get away with stuff like Mega Drive; they went straight to the 12 year olds; which is not what Nintendo wanted with the Wii.

BennyBlanco said:
Agreed. Sega were the best at it.

You're selling the Gamecube short tho. That's a top tier name when you look at the thing.

Gamecube's and N64's logos are among the best, the name, though, c'mon, the gaming console is shaped like a cube, so we'll call it the Gamecube? That's weak!

Dusk Golem said:
NeoGeo, the scrapped Neptune, hell, even 32X...

I don't think many would argue with you to say they probably had the coolest naming schematic.

32X is cool, but I little too much of an inside joke, since it only made sense to people who cared about bits. I'll disagree with you on the NeoGeo. I don't even know what the word is trying to do. Is it trying to be New Generation?

chaosblade said:
Gamecube's development name was Dolphin though. I think it's fine.

But yeah, Sega was the best when it came to names. Except Game Gear. That was kind of bad.

While it's true that Dolphin was the development name, it does sound the other way around, imo. And while Dolphin is not a great word when you say it out loud; I feel they missed an opportunity to start naming all their consoles as animals.
I mean, it worked with the Jaguar!

enigmatic_alex44 said:
Saturn is a great name, shame it had to be tied so such a flop system.

Dreamcast sounds really bad though. Like a child's plastic fishing rod toy.

Sounds mystical to me! Like a machine of wonders!

Speely · Jan 4, 2016

Dreamcast is still the best name for a console yet, for my money. Perfect.

kodecraft · Jan 4, 2016

I agree.

Better than names like XB1, Wii U, PlayStation 1-4.

Hoya Destroyer · Jan 4, 2016

"Mega Drive" is the coolest name for any console ever IMO.
"Dreamcast" is ok. Too gentle though.

Finaika · Jan 4, 2016

Sega itself is a cool name.

Soul_Pie · Jan 4, 2016

Sega Saturn is the greatest console name in existence. It sounds like a fucking cool band.

Neff · Jan 4, 2016

The first time I heard 'Dreamcast', I refused to believe it.

To this day I still think it's the most brilliantly insane perfect console name ever.

Cormano · Jan 4, 2016

Agreed.

Shinigami · Jan 4, 2016

Sblargh said:
I'll put a "The" in front of the names to make them sound even more omnous and bad ass.

The Master System
The Genesis
The Mega Drive
The Saturn
The Dreamcast

Of these, my favorites are either Master System or Mega Drive. Few things in this weary world of ours deserve still to be called "rad"; but Master System and Mega Drive are pretty rad names.
Genesis and Saturn are two strong sounding words and Dreamcast is an amazing console name and even when I understand why consoles don't want to call themselves something like Master System, they should have been striving to be something like Dreamcast.

Compare those amazing Sega console names with
Playstation - sounds like something an engineer announced to the press before the marketing department could shoot him down
Xbox - Sounds like the project name and, again, the marketing department just let is slide.
Super Nintendo 64 - Sounds like that you have enough brand recognition to honestly don't even care.
Gamecube - Another prototype name.
Wii - Good, simple, fun name. Could be less abstract, but I like the simplicity and good hearted nature of the sound.

In a time where developers waste precious console names just reminding the public that this is the same company that made their last favorite console, I think we should honor sega for what they strived for.
Just think of the children whose consoles were: Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and then Playstation 4.
Think of them and weep, NeoGAF.

Since when was it called Super Nintendo 64?

Sblargh · Jan 4, 2016

Shinigami said:
Since when was it called Super Nintendo 64?

It's just so I could talk about the SNES and N64 at the same time.

MrCunningham · Jan 4, 2016

Shinigami said:
Since when was it called Super Nintendo 64?

It wasn't. The original name of the console was called the Ultra 64 to fall in line with the "Super" name of their 16bit console.

mr_chun · Jan 4, 2016

I'm partial to the big three, yeah. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast.

Don't really care for the rest. Master System is a little corny for me.

Mozz-eyes · Jan 4, 2016

I love the name Nintendo 64. It's so clear and up in your face.

Nintendo. 64 motherfucking bits. What's a bit? I have no fucking idea but here's 64 of them.

Mr. Nice_Guy · Jan 4, 2016

I've always loved Saturn as a console name. Sega Saturn just rolls off the tongue so well, and still sounds pretty cool. I've always been partial to the Dreamcast as well.

DeepEnigma · Jan 4, 2016

ShooterMcGavin said:
I still wish they went with Revolution.

As crummy as the name was, it was a smart Apple marketing rip they went with.

As for the OP, agreed.

GoDLiKe · Jan 4, 2016

Dreamcast is simply the best console name ever.

Dereck · Jan 4, 2016

You can talk all the shit you want about Sega failing the console race or Sonic Adventure games being shit or whatever, but you can't tell me ever that the names of their consoles weren't always on top.

At least let me have that.

Mihael Mello Keehl · Jan 4, 2016

Agreed! DREAMCAST was amazing

Playstation is good too but the consecutive numbers just burn out.

Kyoufu · Jan 4, 2016

I miss Sega consoles and all their awesome 1st party games so much.

I don't miss all the dumb add-on shit they did though, Jesus. Could you imagine if the big three tried that shit today?

jroc74 · Jan 4, 2016

I can agree with this.

VendettaRed07 · Jan 4, 2016

OP is correct and should feel good about himself for making this thread

Dreamcast is the ultimate name for a system.

if only Nintendo was half as good at Naming shit as they were. They should take note with NX. Hire Segata Sanshiro to do ads for them.

Lucumo · Jan 4, 2016

I don't think anyone can disagree with that statement.

mr_chun · Jan 4, 2016

Kyoufu said:
I miss Sega consoles and all their awesome 1st party games so much.

I don't miss all the dumb add-on shit they did though, Jesus. Could you imagine if the big three tried that shit today?

You mean like Kinect, Move, and WiiMotion+?

dezzy8 · Jan 4, 2016

Dreamcast is definitely the GOAT. I think Sony nailed it with PlayStation though.

Coda · Jan 4, 2016

I think the Dreamcast may be my favorite console ever aesthetically and by name. Thing is just a beast powerhouse in a small form factor, how can you not love it?

I definitely dislike the fact that now systems just go in a numerical order now. What happened to the fun factor of a new console name? I guess brand recognition and marketing got the best of it.

Wyndstryker · Jan 4, 2016

Finaika said:
Sega itself is a cool name.

Well I'd take Sega over the original name of "Service Games".

The original name was pretty bad.

But yeah, Dreamcast was awesome. Games, console, and logo

Mihael Mello Keehl · Jan 4, 2016

All yall saying you miss sega stop fuckin lyin! Else yall wouldve bought Dreamcast

Kyoufu · Jan 4, 2016

mr_chun said:
You mean like Kinect, Move, and WiiMotion+?

If only Kinect, Move and WiiMotion+ were in the same realm as this shit:

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