07/20/2025
Wow I had to post this up I never knew this Console existed!!!!
through ill dad attic in Philadelphia wane he found a
strange-looking console - beige, boxy, with a Super Nintendo cartridge slot - and the word "PlayStation" stamped on the front.
His dad, Terry, was a maintenance man who had picked it up years earlier at a company bankruptcy auction, not realizing what it was. Dan didn't either - until he posted a few photos online and the internet exploded.
What they'd found was real - a prototype from a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the early 1990s. The companies had planned to release a hybrid console that could play both SNES cartridges and CDs.
But the deal collapsed, and nearly every prototype was destroyed.
Except one.
Dan and Terry spent the next few years taking the
"Nintendo PlayStation" on the road - showing it off at gaming expos around the world. In 2020, they put it up for auction.
It sold for $360,000 - one of the highest prices ever paid for a video game console.
A console that never made it to shelves.
And a lost piece of gaming history - brought back to life.
