Talk:Sega Genesis
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shadow dancer is the best game ever
- Nah... it is good, but Shinobi 3 is way better! Though maybe Wikipedia is the right place for this kind of discussion...
There is a discussion about Genesis v Megadrive at User_talk:WhisperToMe. -Nommo 00:16, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I have another question. What if I made "Sega Megadrive" into a completely separate article as Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System are. I found a webpage with a list of differences between the Japanese and European editions of the Megadrive, and the Genesis -WhisperToMe
- I don't really know enough about it, but if the two are as different as the NES and the Famicom and you can squeeze two articles out of it, I can't see a problem. There's clearly a precedent here. But like I say, I don't really know anything about it. -Nommo
- "Squeeze" sounds about right! The Genesis/Mega Drive is basically a single product with two different names - it's not comparable to the NES/Famicom in that respect. Creating separate articles makes no logical sense, unless you're also planning to write articles for "Mega Drive in Europe", "Mega Drive in Japan", "Mega Drive in Brazil", etc. As things stand, they're just duplicate articles ripe for merging. AdorableRuffian 19:35, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Trust me, it's been squeezed enough. These two should stay separate. People will argue over which "title" should be the title. WhisperToMe 22:09, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I know I'm late to the discussion, but that's an incredibly lousy justification for anything. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to facilitate easy access to information, and having two seperate articles where the majority of information is duplicated does not qualify as "easy access," as it creates a lot of problems for updating, editing, etc. What title is more appropriate is up for debate, certainly, but it's of minor practical concern, as redirects will cover it, regardless of what is ultimately chosen. – Seancdaug 18:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, two separate articles is nonsense. There are a *lot* of things/products that have difference names in different countries with slight modifications and those certainly don't get duplicate articles either. --04:18, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with all those points, particularly the difficulty of keeping both updated. It's only necessary to have one article about Sega's 16-bit console. --Nick R 15:54, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)