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Luke Miller
Luke Miller
@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

In Australia, SEGA is pronounced SEE-GAH but in some other countries I'm led to believe it's pronounced SAY-GAR.

After intensive research I have found that SEGA is a shortened version of "SErvice GAmes of Japan", which sold slot machines to US military bases after WW2.

So SEGA is most fairly pronounced SER-GAY.

There you go, now nobody is happy

#sega #retrogaming

The logo for the video game company SEGA, pronounced SER-GAY
The logo for the video game company SEGA, pronounced SER-GAY
The logo for the video game company SEGA, pronounced SER-GAY
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Hisham
Hisham
@hisham_hm@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@upmultimedia the games themselves literally say SEGA out loud in the splash screen, and people still discuss the pronunciation?

it's clearly SEEEEGAAAAA

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@upmultimedia Intensive research = looking at first two paragraphs on Wikipedia 😅

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@bovaz@misskey.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place that's deeper analysis than google's ai summaries
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@bovaz @upmultimedia truth

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Ben
Ben
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@upmultimedia

https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/110955646798592240

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Luke Miller
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@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@TheBreadmonkey It's clearly saying "meh-gah" as in Mega Drive 😉

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Ben
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@upmultimedia

Noooooooooo😂

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Luke Miller
Luke Miller
@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@TheBreadmonkey Obviously SER-GAY is correct but I offer up this little nugget from 1992

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Ben
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@upmultimedia

Seagar? Urgh.

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@surdfish@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@TheBreadmonkey @upmultimedia

🎶 Come in here, dear boy, have a SEGA 🎶

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Jimmy
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@jhavok@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@TheBreadmonkey @upmultimedia Same places that say Chiner and buttah.

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