![]() Of course, the collaboration never came to fruition. The coming together of two titans of industry was to change the worlds of both video gaming and electronics, and it did… just not in the way anyone could have imagined. Nintendo was (at the time) the biggest video game company in the world, and Sony was the biggest consumer electronics company by a massive margin. The Super Nintendo PlayStation CD-ROM system was expected to release in Japan in 1992, and would usher in a whole new era for both companies. The two giants were working together in 1991, having signed an agreement in 1988 to cooperatively develop a CD-ROM system for a future Nintendo console. Nintendo and Sony are now old rivals in the video game world, but that wasn’t always the case. The Birth of the Nintendo PlayStation Prototype But how did one of gaming's holy grails end up in a pile of random boxes in a failing financial company's basement? It comes down to some astonishing coincidences, and a lot of luck. It was simply one item - in hundreds - purchased at a bankruptcy auction. The Nintendo Playstation required no Indiana-Jones style mission through the thick jungles, nor an elaborately planned and executed heist to extract it from a secret government facility. Still, the Nintendo PlayStation serves as a nice piece of gaming history.The discovery of one of gaming's rarest and most valuable treasures is a tale of failure, loss, discovery, redemption, and a $360,000 payday when all was said and done. Then again, there are plenty of game consoles that found next to no success compared to mainstream gaming platforms. The system can still play SNES games on cart, but at that point it's better just to purchase a normal SNES if all one wants to do is play games. ![]() Speaking of games, since this is still a prototype system, there's likely no games developed on the "Super Disks" that are available to purchase. With all of this being said, it does seem a little excessive to spend so much money on a console that is essentially an SNES that plays games on disks rather than cartridges. There's likely a plethora of obscure or cancelled gaming systems like the Nintendo PlayStation that next to nobody in the community knows about due to their obscurity. Considering how short a time frame the video game industry has existed compared to other mediums of entertainment, it's amazing how much of the industry's history is lost on most members of the gaming community. ![]()
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