Once upon a time when Sony and Nintendo were a bit more buddy-buddy, the two technology and gaming giants nearly collaborated on their first CD-ROM console in what would have become the SNES ...

In February 2020, an amazing piece of gaming history was unearthed. A SNES PlayStation CD-ROM prototype appeared on an auction website, drawing the eyes of collectors and enthusiasts. At the time, the ...

Retro gaming is full of fascinating stories, especially when it comes to rare hardware like the SNES Game Wizard, but few ...

A lot of people don’t know that Sony wasn’t preparing to go into the console business all those years ago. Their PlayStation console started life as the CD-ROM add-on for the once king of the console ...

Since a prototype of the fabled, unreleased SNES-CD (aka the “Nintendo PlayStation”) was first found and disassembled last year, we’ve learned enough about this one-of-a-kind piece of hardware to ...

We’ve recently taken a very detailed look at the “Nintendo PlayStation”, perhaps the most notorious of all unreleased consoles, but something from the same era that’s even rarer is Nintendo’s repeated ...

Months after a one-of-a-kind “Nintendo PlayStation” console was discovered and restored to working condition, diehard SNES fans have crafted a homebrew game compatible with Nintendo’s unreleased SNES ...

IIRC the SNES-CD was supposed to include some 3D support hardware. In retrospect it probably made more sense to release it as a completely separate console, since the SNES CPU was going to be just ...

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