It’s a gaming legend more notorious than the The Last Guardian’s conspicuous production status, the perennially delayed Duke Nukem Forever and a sequel to Beyond Good and Evil that never materialised. It’s the Nintendo PlayStation.
Discovered in a “pile of junk” by Redditor DanDiebold, this relic looks like it could be the doomed product of a failed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony in 1988. At the time, the two companies were working together to create an add-on for the SNES before it evolved into its own console. The device would have been capable of playing SNES cartridges as well as housing its own CD-ROM to play newer games.
However, creative and professional differences between the two companies meant that only 200 early PlayStations were ever made with this unauthenticated design looking like being one of them. The Redditor claimed on the gaming subreddit that his father had previously worked at Nintendo and that this was one of his mementos. It’s certainly better to have a priceless piece of gaming history than a watch to remember your old job by, that’s for sure.
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