Unique ‘Nintendo Play Station’ is auctioned for $ 360,000 – Gaming -. Geeks

On Friday, March 6, the auction for the “Nintendo Play Station,” probably the last copy from a time when Sony and Nintendo ever worked together, went under the hammer for $ 300,000.

It is a device that Sony and Nintendo developed together and that should be able to read both CD-ROMs and Super Nintendo cartridges. Including the so-called buyer’s premium the amount occurs the console out at 360,000 dollars, converted around 319,000 euros. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had gone into battle to get hold of the piece of video game history, but his maximum bid of $ 280,000 was not enough. The winner is according to CNN Business Greg McLemore, a collector who earned his living during the dot-com boom and is the founder of Pets.com and Toys.com.

The Nintendo Play Station only works partially. Super Nintendo cartridges do work, but the CD-ROM part doesn’t work for the most part. The CD drive can run with a special cartridge, but does not like PlayStation games. However, there is also a Nintendo Play Station emulator for the CD section, and a game made for that, well-known engineer Ben Heck knew get working.

The owner was Terry Diebold, who got hold of the device through an auction when the company where he worked went bankrupt in 2009. The CEO of that company, Advanta Corporation, was Olaf Olafsson and he was the CEO of Sony Computer in the past Entertainment, when Sony and Nintendo made the prototype. Diebold told Kotaku that he once refused a 1.2 million dollar bid for the console.

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