Confused. Can you help?

[Doku_san]

Hi, I just joined (yay).
Okay, so I'm just getting into the sega scene, and I was wondering whats the difference between a Genesis and a Mega-drive. I live in Australia if you were wondering.
Thanks for your help.

[Samudra]

"The Mega Drive/Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. It debuted under the name Genesis in North America (1989), as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that territory."

Taken from:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sega+Genesis%2fSega+Megadrive

[j_factor]

Yeah, it's Mega Drive everywhere except North America.

[Doku_san]

Ahh. That makes sense. Thanks guys. ^^