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Prototype SNES-PlayStation Spotted

Prototype SNES-PlayStation Spotted - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 03 July 2015 / 4,001 Views

Before Sony entered the console arena, the company collaborated with Nintendo on a joint console project.

Ultimately things didn't work out - at CES in 1991 Nintendo revealed that it was working with Philips and this threw a spanner into the works. Sony decided to go it alone and thus the original PlayStation was born.

The pre-cursor console to this was the fabled SNES-PlayStation, and now for the first time one has apparently been unearthed:

Reportedly the console was found in a simple box of junk that was due to be thrown out:

"My dad worked for a company, apparently one of the guys he used to work with, I think his name was Olaf, used to work at Nintendo and when my dads company went bankrupt, my dad found it in a box of "junk" he was supposed to throw out."

It's thought that Olaf could be Olaf Olaffson, President and Chief Executive Officer at Sony Interactive Entertainment, Inc.

Source: [NintendoLife]


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6 Comments
Justagamer (on 03 July 2015)

I'll bet the drive stopped reading game discs months after they made it.

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Chris Hu (on 03 July 2015)

I see the bottom uses the same yellowing over time plastic as most SNES did.

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Yafea (on 03 July 2015)

This is really cool.

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MARCUSDJACKSON (on 03 July 2015)

History. Cool.

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thetonestarr BraLoD (on 03 July 2015)

It has a slot on top for SNES games, so if it works, it should at least play those.

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