Nintendo’s PlayStation, the Holy Grail of Game Memorabilia, Has Been Found

An extraordinarily rare prototype of the Nintendo PlayStation console, which was created as part of a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony some 25 years ago, has been discovered. Never-before-seen images offer the first ever close-ups of the machine, now yellowed with age, which combines the form factor of the SNES along with the branding of PlayStation. When it was first revealed in 1991, the system was referred to as the “Nintendo Play Station”, and Sony was thought to have created some 200 prototypes.

I found it a couple of years ago. My dad had it in his attic.

Dan Diebold, son of Terry.

The pitch from the electronics giant was that the console would not only play Nintendo game cartridges but also games on compact disks. However, due to a public fall-out between both companies, the prototypes were destroyed. However, one unit appears to have survived and Philadelphia-based Terry Diebold kept onto it and stored it in his attic. This unit is so rare that its specific design features, such as a horizontal volume slider at the front and an assortment of outputs at the back, were not public knowledge.

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