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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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.