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- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/11/2007, -2/+71"Instead of the 3D boom, would we all be playing FMV games now?"
The SegaCD says no. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+59I wonder how much that unit would fetch on Ebay...
- TigerGD, on 10/11/2007, -2/+58The world would be so different if Nintendo and Sony hadn't dissolved their partnership. It's fun to speculate on how the ripple effect might have changed the course of gaming. I imagine Sega would have still mis-managed themselves out of the console business, but who would have stepped up to take their place as Nintendo's primary competitor, with Sony being their ally?
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+49Was it Sony's or Nintendo's idea to paint "game-rave.com" all over the prototype??
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -11/+52There wouldn't be a playstation, but the world wouldn't be that "different."
- djSyndrome, on 10/11/2007, -2/+41"Sure, the N64 was there and really started it, but the PS expanded on what was there"
The PlayStation was released in Japan almost two years before the N64, and had several 3D games at launch (Ridge Racer, Toh Shin Den). When it was launched in the US in the fall of 1995, the N64 was still almost a year away. The N64 may have had more powerful 3D processing than the PlayStation, but the PS was definitely the first to market, and it could be argued the first successful system to bring 3D gaming into the home. - Markpdotcom, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35What the ***** is the point of posting such a small image, then plastering it with your crappy blog/website no one cares about.. Jeeze a little logo in the corner would have done!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28@Markpdotcom
Because then that ***** Eric Bauman would steal the pic, put his ebaumsworld watermark on it and then say "HAY GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND!" and make ad revenue off it. - Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23You mean like the SNES? Sony designed its sound unit.
- grumbel, on 10/11/2007, -9/+29Mario64 on the N64 is what started 3D gaming as we know it today, at least the third person ones, the fps ones can be blamed on Wolfenstein and Doom. Mario64 certainly wasn't the first 3D game around, not even the first 3D jump'n run around, it however was the first to do it the way we still do it, i.e. control relative to the camera instead of relative to the character, analog-stick movement, special camera control via separate dpad (later became the second analog-stick), etc.
How big the jump was with Mario64 becomes evident when you look at the earlier 3D jump'n runs, those where either strictly rail-based and basically just 2D gameplay with 3D graphics (Clockwork Knight), full 3D, but again heavily rail-based with special passages needed to walk into and out of the screen (Bug!) or had behind-the-character cameras which where rather problematic in many situations.
This was one of those cases where everybody was kind of already doing it, but it was Nintendo who showed the world how to do it the right way and most people are still doing it like shown in Mario64. - z00k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22I wouldn't mind getting my hands on it... But till then I will stick to my TreamCast SE (No, the spelling isn't incorrect.)
On a second note: The front looks nice... But the back looks like utter *****, even for a "Prototype"
http://www.game-rave.com/psx/sony_famicom_back.jpg - TheThestral, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Coleco would totally have stepped up, given they dont rust up!
- Wisgary, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21@TalkingBanana
Uh, the PS1 was out years before the N64. The N64 didn't start anything, it just made everything slightly prettier, less jaggy, without load times, though without FMV.
edit:Darn, beat to it by dj - coolmike129, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19Looks like a really bulky black game cube
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16The article you mentioned, scanned:
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/history/images/egm_snes_cd_article.jpg
(it's from EGM not Nintendo Power, by the way) - AK10, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Way back in the day (1992 or '93 maybe) Nintendo Power magazine had some photos of a different looking SNES-based CD system along with screen shots of The 7th Guest running on it. Who would have thought it would take more than ten years for Nintendo to release a disk based system...
- grumbel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Then please name the one that was then. Doom and Quake where certainly very important for 3D gaming as a whole, but in terms of third person stuff Mario64 is the most significant when it comes to gameplay and camera control.
- apothekari, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Anyone else find it Ironic that the Eject button is SO friggin' huge?
- drewmacphee, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8If you're looking for what really kick started 3d gaming then you are looking for id Software's Quake. Although GLQuake came out in 1997 it really started a movement in 3d hardware support that has affected all platforms around today. nVidia and ATi Chips are now in all serious 3d platforms today.
Not to mention Quakeworld / quakespy starting internet gaming to which xbox live and the sony network would be ages behind without.
Though in consoles I do believe you are looking for Starfox on the SNES which came out in 1993. Or that ***** 3d racing game where you crashed and the windshield cracked. - shaunmadams, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@Elranzer
There was an article in Nintendo Power that also displayed screenshots. I can still picture it. I must have read it hundreds of times and called the Nintendo hotline early on Saturday mornings just to try and talk one of the customer service reps heads off about it. It was the coolest damned thing a nerdy fifth grader could have ever imagined. - grumbel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5### When was the last time you saw an adventure game in the shops?
Like yesterday? Dreamfall, Fahrenheit, Tunguskar, Runaway 2, Moment of Silence, Ankh, Broken Sword 4, Sam'n Max, Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk, etc. where released in the last two years and plenty more. Tomb Raider: Anniversary also features a very point&click-adventure like level with the Croft Manner. The adventure genre is far from dead, it certainly has seen better times, but even the mainstream press has noticed games like Dreamfall and Fahrenheit. And for the future we have games like Dreamfall: Chapters and Heavy Rain in development. Adventure genre won't die anytime soon, since even today, its still the best way to do real story telling in games. - zepolen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Don't forget ouze.
- Kinjiru, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7bah they both suck.. PC's rule! :)
- ptacnik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"PlayStation went on to become the system that Nintendo fanboys would simultaneously hate and own."
so true - finnishgeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Those "disk caddies" look just a little bit like something Sony is producing today. Maybe the UMD?
- msaeger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32d platformers with really good music bring it on that would be great !
- tasaturi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3HMPH. I had two of those, one was called Playendo , the other, Nintstation.
- velvet396, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Any chance this is a hoax someone spent a little time throwing together?
- JonRick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5If you click the photo of it and continue onto the website with the picture of the back. It looks super fake. "Prototype" or not, the case looks like it was made in someone's garage. More then likely taking the guts from a SNES and putting them in some gray project box he found, then screen printing "SONY" and the rest of the lettering. =
- smacksaw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Most of you would know what the Japanese already knew about the awesomeness of TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine CD games.
Instead it took until 2006 to get away from 3D pissing contests and back to fun and innovation.
Thank you, Wii. - cosmicr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I apologise. I guess I just feel like when Sierra and Lucasarts stopped making their adventure games and some became 3d, that adventure games died. I know there are still adventure games out there, but they sit at the back behind modern 3d games.
- Boomkin, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5FTA: "It's a little scary to think of how games may have developed if this product had been successful. Instead of the 3D boom, would we all be playing FMV games now? Or 2D platformers with really good music?"
Uh... what I remember of the 3D boom is that while it was popularized to the lowest-common-denominator mainstream by consoles, a good deal of the pioneering work was done in the PC games industry. So I guess the question really should be, "If the 3D boom only happened on PCs and not on consoles, would consoles exist at all today?"
(Granted, it seems unlikely that ever could have happened.) - vonkiaser, on 10/11/2007, -9/+10Sometimes I miss the days and wonder of mid 90s video gaming
- geartype2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I was thinking that it actually reminded me of the original xbox when I first saw it, with a inbreed saturn mixed into it. Odd huh?
- krazyfiend, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1dugg just for the fact you made me recall Mr. Faust and the eerie nights spent playing the 3 or 4 cd-rom based 7th guest game on my 486DX
- caddyalan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The Sega CD had a few notable games, but a lot of bad spinoffs and gimmicky games.
Likewise, there were great Saturn games... but even if that system had no competition, would it have still died from bad timing or bad console design? - dragon76, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Disc BASED yes, but disc available, heck, the NES used a kind of floppy disk for a long time in Japan and the N64 had a disk add-on.
- SteveMax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Had you ever seen a SNES, you would understand the large "Eject" button.
- TheTjalian, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2No wonder Nintendo thought it was going to fail, the Super Famicom Play Station was ***** ugly.
- erkokite, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Looks a little like a Saturn.
- matthewcorg, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0A combination of Super Famicom and Playstation. I could image it being 50-60 dollars. It looks like the FC Twin they had on the http://originalnintendo.net/shop page. It could play Nes and Snes games. The only difference is this could play Nintendo and Playstation games. This could become popular.
- ReiAyanami, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Wow, it's amazing how these two companies were thinking of making a system together. Just imagine how gaming would be today if this actually went through. What kind of systems would be available today?
- muleskinner, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2no...
- inkubux, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1It looks big and ugly.. exactly like the original Xbox
- cosmicr, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3I kinda wish this did happen. I still feel that the 3d games industry came too soon, and we never got to the full potential of 2d games. One of the biggest genres that died when 3d took over was Adventure Games. When was the last time you saw an adventure game in the shops?
- rowlodge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1an xbox wrapped in an playstation around a wii.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Hey guys, did you know if a person on digg gets enough "blocks" from other users, they can get their account disabled?
See that little circle to the right of ouze's name? Click it! - whiteguysamurai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Insulting sega will get your head caved in here pal.
- randyrandall, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Big and ugly, like your m... nevermind.
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