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Early 90s prototype 'Nintendo PlayStation' purportedly discovered by Redditor

By Ben Hooper
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WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- A Reddit user in the United States shared pictures and video of a long-rumored "Nintendo PlayStation" console from an aborted early-1990s partnership between Sony and Nintendo.

Dan Diebold, who shared his discovery in a Reddit post under the username analogueboy, said his father, Terry Diebold, obtained the "Nintendo PlayStation Superdisc" console in the 1990s while working with a Sony executive believed to be Olafur Olafsson, who was the chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment in 1991.

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A video shared by Diebold on YouTube shows what appears to be a Sony/Nintendo creation that resembles the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The console bears both companies' logos and features writing in Japanese along with the year 1992.

The partnership between the two companies to create a SNES-CD console during the 1980s and 1990s has long been known in the gaming community, but all prototypes were previously believed to have been destroyed.

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