Prototype SNES-PlayStation Spotted - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 03 July 2015 / 4,001 ViewsBefore 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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I'll bet the drive stopped reading game discs months after they made it.
I see the bottom uses the same yellowing over time plastic as most SNES did.
This is really cool.
History. Cool.
It has a slot on top for SNES games, so if it works, it should at least play those.