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"Dreamcast" is probably the single best gaming console name of all time, too.
Retro Sega systems stand out with their cool, mystical/sci-fi sounding names: Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast.
They were unique and felt like they were telling customers that we'd be in awe when using their consoles.
(Master System and Sega CD were pretty boring though)
Most other big systems' names seem so utilitarian and uninspired:
GameCube and Xbox are little boxy devices on your shelf that play games.
The Nintendo Switch can switch between handheld and docked.
All the PlayStations are stations that you play games on.
Yawn
Turbo Grafx was pretty cool tho.
NEC made an amazing system with the PC Engine/TG16. It would have been great if they followed it up with a next generation system
The PC-FX?
For some reason I thought the pcfx was adjacent to the PCEngine. Now I'm reading the wiki article on it and see i was wrong!
Thank you for the info