[Flygon]

I always thought it was 'See-ga' really.

[Rika Chou]

...I always though it was pronounced the way they say it on the Sega screen on the Sonic games.

[Lizam]

...I always though it was pronounced the way they say it on the Sega screen on the Sonic games.

Which is like Flygon said, they say "SEEEEEEEGAHHHH"

That's how I've always pronounced SEGA.

[Blanche Hodapp]

Which is like Flygon said, they say "SEEEEEEEGAHHHH"

Only in some parts of the world. Others have some man having a fit

IOW: I pronounce it Sayga like the Sega screen in my region, anything else sounds clumsy and awkward

[Kurosan]

I thought the Michael Jackson's boots bit seemed like a made-up rumor.

That was confirmed, though.

[Black Squirrel]

It's "Say-gah" though occasionally it pops up as "Seh-gah" possibly because of accents or whatever. I blame the "Seh", because some people will pronounce that as "say" and others "sehhh"

Sega Rally and Outrunners are two official games that have a slight variation, but even in the master system days it was "say-gah"

but in the early days of PAL ads it was See-gah


so basically the only people to blame are Sega's inabillity to get their name right in the late 80s and accents

[SonikkuForever]

It really annoyed me how he pronounced Ristar. I've never heard it said Rye-Star before.

[Skyler]

"Sega has released the Genesis, or the Mega Drive in the United States" I think he got mixed up

I think he meant it like, "SEGA has released the Genesis - or Mega Drive (in EU/JP) - in the United States."

[Overlord]

It really annoyed me how he pronounced Ristar. I've never heard it said Rye-Star before.

Yeah, that's not right at all. It's supposed to be Rist-ar - because it's a pun on his wrists, which he uses a lot of in the game =P

EDIT: And it's say-gah.


And Ma-rio, not MAH-rio =P

[DeanSatan]

its Say - Guh .. . .. . if you say "see - guh" . . . youre from the midwest, or south dakota don't cha know.

Its Rye-Star. . .like rising star.

the red brick building shown as sega is the new sega building in san francisco - the actual old one (88-93) was in south san francisco

if "mad" is the mother of sega then . . yeah well I'll just leave that one alone. . but then by the same reasoning this guy Bert is the dad... but in a confusing timmy has four dads and a mom but they live in different houses kinda way. hes the guy who solidified the reward scheme of x# of rings = continue and x# = free man..etc. hes the us arm that went to japan during development.

the clinton thing is highly dubious. .. but like the michael jackson or teddy roosevelt it depends on how many people believe it to be true... then it becomes true.




re: the mickey and mario poses being similar: its the two buttons that signify suspenders and the "y" from ymca pose...after sonic launched, see how many mascots followed that popped out of a circle and had their fingers up as either #1 or peace sign or thumbs up...including but not limited to ghostbusters1-2, chuck e. cheese, crash, bubsy, bug!, conker, awesome possum, zero, aero,



I guess episode 2 is in the works?

This post has been edited by DeanSatan: 23 July 2009 - 02:39 PM

[Epsilonsama]

its Say - Guh .. . .. . if you say "see - guh" . . . youre from the midwest, or south dakota don't cha know.

Well, maybe the American Branch say it [sæ.gɘ], but im sure is [sɛ.ga], at least thats how the japanese will pronounce it because they pronunciation is more similar to Spanish, at least with the vowels.

This post has been edited by Epsilonsama: 23 July 2009 - 04:46 PM

[Phos]

Just watched it, he seems to have basically paraphrased the Gametap Retrospective.

Dean: The Bill Clinton thing come right from the man himself (Oshima).

[Herm the Germ]

IOW: I pronounce it Sayga like the Sega screen in my region

I'm pretty sure they say Sehga in this thing, which IS a PAL-Release.

[PorpoiseMuffins]

Hmm... Why add a "y" that's not there? I don't know of many other words in which "e" gets a long A sound.

But obviously both pronunciations are used by both the company and its fans, so who really cares?


...and my vote goes for "wrist-ar" :P

This post has been edited by PorpoiseMuffins: 23 July 2009 - 06:25 PM

[OSM]

That was a pretty cool video, nice find. Wonder when part 2 will be up.