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I can remember hearing the rumours/myths about this machine back when I was kid, turns out they were actually true.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51628836 Nintendo briefly teamed up with Sony to make an updated version of their SNES console which featured an inbuilt CD-ROM drive but the machine remained as a prototype and never made it to market. Nintendo instead chose to persue an ill-faited CD-Rom project with Phillips that was quickly forgotten, whilst Sony went on to develop the Playstation on it's own and the rest is gaming history. The myth was finally proven true when an example of the machine was discovered accidentally in a box of random junk cleared from the offices of a former tech company which had once employed an ex-nintendo executive. This now ultra-rare piece of gaming history, the only surviving example of it's type known to exist, has just been sold at auction for  234,000/ 300,000. |
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@obi_jon | 6 March 20 |
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@obi_jon | 6 March 20 |
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Basically a prototype PS1 with a front loading CD tray, with a fully functioning SNES cartridge slot on the top. The finders of the machine report having tested it and say it does play SNES cartridges, the CD-ROM drive works and plays audio CDs but not PS1 games, no games were ever developed for it and Sony adopted a different CD format for the PS1 itself.
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@crail | 6 March 20 |
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I remember the CD drive you could plug into the snes. My mate had one
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@3mel | 7 March 20 |
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maybe it was for the best, Nintendo do a lot more of their own games don't they ? maybe there'd have been a lot less made. |
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@warded | 7 March 20 |
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The Nintendo games on Philips CD-I are notorious.
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@ufohunter | 12 March 20 |
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I still have a working Sony PSone console, could be worth a fortune in the future
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@crail | 13 March 20 |
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@ ufohunter - 12.03.20 - 08:34pm I still have a working Sony PSone console, could be worth a fortune in the future They were mass produced. It's never going to be worth anything. Millions have one |
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@ufohunter | 13 March 20 |
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@ crail - 13.03.20 - 02:33am They were mass produced. It's never going to be worth anything. Millions have one Mine is 'chipped', looks new.. so still worth something. |
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@ufohunter | 13 March 20 |
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@ ufohunter - 13.03.20 - 07:33pm Mine is 'chipped', looks new.. so still worth something. Plus, I have an authentic PS1 multitap, and about 5 memory cards. PS2 DualShock controllers work perfectly with the console and multitap. For a long time it wasn't in use because my brother accidentally broke the disc spindle, which was a good thing.. kept it as it is. A few years ago I was given an old Sony Walkman which I disassembled, took out the disc spindle and placed it in the PSone console. Good as new (with a chip job) |
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@crail | 18 March 20 |
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Maybe in 200 years
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