Once upon a time when Sony and Nintendo were a bit more buddy-buddy, the two technology and gaming giants nearly collaborated on their first CD-ROM console in what would have become the SNES ...

In February 2020, an amazing piece of gaming history was unearthed. A SNES PlayStation CD-ROM prototype appeared on an auction website, drawing the eyes of collectors and enthusiasts. At the time, the ...

The bidding war for the SNES-PlayStation prototype is over. The seller, Terry Diebold, will get a substantial $360,000 for the strange slice of gaming history. But he could've gotten a whole lot more ...

Ben Heck's hardware hacking gets a unique CD-ROM drive spinning again. Cool stuff. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I wonder what the full story of how it got to the estate sale was.

IIRC the SNES-CD was supposed to include some 3D support hardware. In retrospect it probably made more sense to release it as a completely separate console, since the SNES CPU was going to be just ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Though many gamers have our preferences, really playing all of the great new games out there ...

We’ve recently taken a very detailed look at the “Nintendo PlayStation”, perhaps the most notorious of all unreleased consoles, but something from the same era that’s even rarer is Nintendo’s repeated ...

Prior to the release of the original PlayStation, Nintendo was working with Sony on an add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which would have had support for CD-ROMs. Eventually, ...

The SNES CD, the SNES peripheral that Sony was working on with Nintendo, was long thought to be lost, but a prototype for the device resurfaced in recent years. This reappearance forms the story of ...