1970s Prototype Game System From Sony
30/04/2016 13:29 #36064
από stabill
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70's "Playstation"...!!!
www.playboy.com/articles/1970s-sony-prot...ver-saw-light-of-day
Apparently, Sony was kicking around getting into video games years before it finally released its landscape-altering Playstation console in 1994.
Before its Playstation, Sony briefly partnered with Nintendo to create a game machine, but that deal fell through. But even that wasn’t Sony’s earliest feelers into the gaming world—it created a console way back in the 1970s so prototypical, it never even had a name.
As Kotaku reports, the console floated up to the surface of the internet this week thanks to a timely post on Video Games Densetsu, which cited an old article by Japanese magazine Famitsu, which in turn found the console at a gaming history exhibition in the early 2000s. Apparently the thing would run cards or cartridges of some kind, likely similar to the kind that used by the Atari 2600, and was seemingly controlled by the buttons and big-ass dial on the actual machine. The labels on the controls, according to Kotaku’s translation, don’t make them sound especially engaging: the buttons are marked “Answer” with the numbers 1, 2 and 3, and “Proceed.” Sounds like a retro-future bar trivia machine.
The craziest part is that this thing never seems to even have gotten out of the board room or R&D lab. The label on the exhibit just calls the console “Prototype TV Game Machine.” You don’t get more “Yeah, nevermind” about a piece of technology than that. Too bad Sony didn’t keep that kick-ass ’70s spacestation color scheme for its later machines, though.
www.playboy.com/articles/1970s-sony-prot...ver-saw-light-of-day
Apparently, Sony was kicking around getting into video games years before it finally released its landscape-altering Playstation console in 1994.
Before its Playstation, Sony briefly partnered with Nintendo to create a game machine, but that deal fell through. But even that wasn’t Sony’s earliest feelers into the gaming world—it created a console way back in the 1970s so prototypical, it never even had a name.
As Kotaku reports, the console floated up to the surface of the internet this week thanks to a timely post on Video Games Densetsu, which cited an old article by Japanese magazine Famitsu, which in turn found the console at a gaming history exhibition in the early 2000s. Apparently the thing would run cards or cartridges of some kind, likely similar to the kind that used by the Atari 2600, and was seemingly controlled by the buttons and big-ass dial on the actual machine. The labels on the controls, according to Kotaku’s translation, don’t make them sound especially engaging: the buttons are marked “Answer” with the numbers 1, 2 and 3, and “Proceed.” Sounds like a retro-future bar trivia machine.
The craziest part is that this thing never seems to even have gotten out of the board room or R&D lab. The label on the exhibit just calls the console “Prototype TV Game Machine.” You don’t get more “Yeah, nevermind” about a piece of technology than that. Too bad Sony didn’t keep that kick-ass ’70s spacestation color scheme for its later machines, though.
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03/05/2016 10:29 #36092
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Απαντήθηκε από Fotis_KFOR στο θέμα 1970s Prototype Game System From Sony
Άλλο ένα prototype που δεν είδε ποτέ το φως! (συζητούσαμε και πρόσφατα για ένα παρόμοιο θέμα).
Ωραίος σχεδιασμός πάντως ακόμα και για τα 70's από τη SONY
Ωραίος σχεδιασμός πάντως ακόμα και για τα 70's από τη SONY
My Collection / Projects / Various :
Computers , Consoles-Pongs , Various , Not-working , Handhelds-Tabletops , Intel p4004 (First CPU) , Old Hardware Parts , Magazines ,
Retro Computer Project , M.A.M.E. Cabinets , My Retro Computers & Consoles Room
UP THE IRONS!!! - My Iron Maiden Collection
My Wish List : www.retrocomputers.gr/collection/my-wish-list ;)
KEEP RETRO
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03/05/2016 12:31 #36095
από GeoAnas
Απαντήθηκε από GeoAnas στο θέμα 1970s Prototype Game System From Sony
Πολυ "χρυσαφι" ομως βρε παιδακι μου...
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