The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation (engadget.com)
- Reference: 0180916244
- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/03/06/026213/the-national-videogame-museum-acquires-the-mythical-nintendo-playstation
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-national-videogame-museum-has-acquired-the-mythical-nintendo-playstation-173529085.html
> Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in a hybrid console that could play both. The partnership didn't last long, though, with Nintendo backing out before it ever really got off the ground, announcing that it would instead be working with Philips. Sony decided to make the PlayStation on its own instead, in an act of revenge that you have to say paid off in the long run, and we never did get to see Crash Bandicoot running around the Mushroom Kingdom. Still, the short-lived Nintendo PlayStation remains a fascinating what-if scenario in video game history, and the USA's National Video Museum has acquired the original development kit.
[1] https://x.com/nvmusa/status/2029301026482979305
[2] https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-national-videogame-museum-has-acquired-the-mythical-nintendo-playstation-173529085.html
NVM + VCF + Time Rift Arcade was awesome!!! (Score:1)
I flew to VCF (vintage computer festival) last year in Dallas. We went the [1]NVM [nvmusa.org], and the party NVM hosted at [2]Time Rift Arcade [timeriftarcade.com] on Sat night. I got to meet The 8-Bit Guy, Adrian Black, Usagi Electric, and several other famous YouTubers. Such a great experience. If you've never been to these amazing places, highly recommend a trip to Dallas!
[1] https://nvmusa.org/
[2] https://timeriftarcade.com/
Re: (Score:2)
> If you've never been to these amazing places, highly recommend a trip to Dallas!
That same event and party is happening again this May. Time Rift and NVM are again both sponsoring VCF Southwest.
[1]VCF Southwest tickets are here [vcfsw.org].
[1] https://www.vcfsw.org/event-details/vintage-computer-festival-southwest-2026-1
Re: (Score:2)
> Get your pocket protectors ready! Ya'll can bond over late night games of D&D too!
Dude. Time Rift has a bar and was full of hot gamer girls when I was there. These places are not what they were when we were kids... they're way better!
Re: NVM + VCF + Time Rift Arcade was awesome!!! (Score:1)
Why can't we all have some fun, even if it's not your cup of tea? And have you ever even had Elven pussy? If not, you're missing out!
I had the luck to play with a pre-release Sony PSX (Score:2)
I knew someone who worked at [1]Psygnosis [wikipedia.org] (later Studio Liverpool, later dead...), and got to play early cuts of Ridge Racer and Wipeout. It was clear at the time that this was a step above anything else that was out and it was going to be a huge success.
I also remember hating the name when it first appeared as well - PSX was the pre-launch name, and it seems to have stuck around in people's consciousness since as well.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psygnosis
Revenge? I doubt it. (Score:2)
More likely Sony just brought forward making a console that it was planning on doing anyway. Whether it was a SuperNES compatible or not is all that changed.
Re: (Score:1)
> More likely Sony just brought forward making a console that it was planning on doing anyway. Whether it was a SuperNES compatible or not is all that changed.
man the world is busted when people make comments like this without doing any research whatsoever
this story is famous at this point that nintendo put the screwjob on sony. its in the fucking ps1 wikipedia article. literal books have been written about this
and yet with supreme confidence, like an upper middle class white kid with parents, they say "nah, i dont think its true." oh my source? my gut. did i look into any of this at all? no, of course not.
Re: (Score:2)
Sony's real genius was making the Playstation a 3D first console, with an architecture that was reasonably easy to develop for, and then marketing it to adults.
There were 3D consoles before, like the 3DO, and they were competitive with the Playstation in terms of performance. But they were too soon, the tools developers needed were not ready, and they were still toys.
Sega made the Saturn, but thought it was too early to go full 3D and so put a lot of effort into making it a powerful 2D system. Their decisio