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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)
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[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mega drive would have sounded cool when it came out, though it’s perhaps the most dated sounding name of the bunch.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It always sounded weird to me. The word drive always made me think of a disk drive or something.

I can only assume they were looking at PC Engine and wanted a similar name.