Nach wrote:But the SNES never had the CD-ROM add-on.
I thought they made the Phillips CD-I addon for the Snes, but it never made it.
Please don't spread misinformation. Sony made the actual add-on that was scrapped. The Philips CD-i was a stand-alone device that actually was released.
Nach wrote:But the SNES never had the CD-ROM add-on.
I thought they made the Phillips CD-I addon for the Snes, but it never made it.
Please don't spread misinformation. Sony made the actual add-on that was scrapped. The Philips CD-i was a stand-alone device that actually was released.
Actually, Nintendo was going to work with Philips to release the snes add on, and it was going to be CD-i compatible.
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now wait a minute, i was thinking snes was working with sony to make a cd add on but sony backed out and made the playstation. or something along thoes lines. heres a link:
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DEFIANT wrote:now wait a minute, i was thinking snes was working with sony to make a cd add on but sony backed out and made the playstation. or something along thoes lines. heres a link:
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But the original Japanese PlayStation (not the PSX that came to America) did play SNES games iirc.
what? no way...
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_playstation.htm wrote:
Only two hundred models of the first Playstation (that could play Super Nintendo game cartridges) were manufactured by Sony. The original Playstation was designed as a multi-media and multi-purpose entertainment unit. Besides being able to play Super Nintendo games, the Playstation could play audio CDs and could read CDs with computer and video information as well. In 1994, the new PlayStation X (PSX) was released that was no longer compatable with Nintendo game cartridges and only played CD-ROM based games.
I think I originally read about this in Steven Kent's Ultimate History of Video games, I can't find the quote in his book, or maybe it was High Score: The Illustrated History of Video Games by Rusel DeMaria.
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That is false information. The prototype Playstation was an SNES add-on device. The SNES-capable Playstation was NEVER RELEASED.
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Well, there were prototype all-in-one "PlayStation" units with a "Super Disc" slot. This would be comparable to the Nintendo/Sharp "Twin Famicom."
The "200" number cannot be verified, but that number has spread all over the Internet. While there might be 200 prototypes if you include every variation along the way to the final Playstation (with no Super Famicom capability), I seriously doubt there were 200 of any particular prototype produced.