So I guess unicorns are real.
So as I was scouring the internet today for today’s topic, and lo and behold, I found an interesting little nugget on Polygon. Apparently the infamous, fabled “unicorn” of the gaming world, the Nintendo PlayStation prototype exists, and it works. Pictures of the mysterious device have been floating around since this past July, but only now has been proven to work.
So, what exactly is it?
Well, back in the late 80s into the early 90s, before Sony was also a video game company, they were working with Nintendo to bring CD-ROMs to video game consoles. This partnership brought about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Super Disc (SNES-CD). It was designed to be like a regular SNES console, but with an added CD-ROM drive on the bottom of the system for add-ons and new games. It’s said that there were only 200 that were made, but they were quickly destroyed once the Nintendo-Sony partnership fell through; well, except for this guy.
Now, remember how I said it works? Well, it does, but only partly. The key selling point to the console, the disc drive, didn’t work when the system was first turned on. That aside, the fact the thing exists is super important to gaming history. It was common to think it never existed, but one was found and it still works.
This is super cool. I might need you to excuse me because I need a moment.
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