/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3224971]

Let's get some prototype shit going here. Pic related, an early Dreamcast design. Looks goofy, but i think the prongs were supposed to be controller ports.

[Anonymous No.3224973]

Looks like a vacuum cleaner.

[Anonymous No.3224976]

This is another early Dreamcast before it got slapped with the weird curvy design aesthetic that it sadly shipped with. I personally like the black case, it makes it look less like a computer and more like a game console.

[Anonymous No.3224986]

The last Dreamcast thing im gonna post is this design, which is realy similar to the final one but it has some Cyclops-tier laser hole on the top of it.

[Anonymous No.3224996]

This is a prototype NES that has its controllers mounted on a deck sorta like the Famicom. I don't see where the carts would be inserted, but i like to to think it would have been a top loading system.

[Anonymous No.3225002]

The black one is pretty nice. The First prototype is kinda WHOAH! Where is the front?

I wonder how late into development they decided to drop the SEGA name from it? Although its not on the white one.

[Anonymous No.3225013]

This design is my favorite out of all that ive seen. It looks suspiciously similar to a ps3, which also raises the question of where the hell the cartridges go.

[Anonymous No.3225016]

>>3225013
Maybe it has a hatch like the NES?

[Anonymous No.3225021]

This model sorta looks like the wii fit board, and probably had a hatch like >>3225016 said

[Anonymous No.3225035]

This is the nintendo AVS, what the NES would have been shipped like until it was retooled into a gaming only system. I think one of these is on display in the new york store, but i dont remember.

[Anonymous No.3225037]

i wish this console got released. taito is the shit.

[Anonymous No.3225039]

what would have been... What specs do you guys think this could have been like and how could it have affected Mario and Zelda? What games could they have been like with the change.

[Anonymous No.3225041]

Another AVS pic, with diagrams to show where the subsections were and their function. It was slated to utilize wireless controllers, which was the shit back then but would have fucked with the retail price and probably would have been laggy.

>>3225037
I wish i could find more info on this, it would have been pretty cool

[Anonymous No.3225042]

>>3225035
Damn, look at those controllers! Even more pointy than normal NES ones.

Keep it coming OP, loving this thread!

[Anonymous No.3225050]

>>3225039
This might be old news at this point, but some guy found a prototype in his dad's attic with what i think was a boot disc. It played regular snes games too.

[Anonymous No.3225067]

A triple wammy of SNES designs. Why do so many console prototypes look like vacuum cleaners like >>3224973 said?

[Anonymous No.3225068]

>>3225039
>Gee, it sure is boring around here.

[Anonymous No.3225072]

>>3225068
>>3225039
>Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, gay Luigi?

[Anonymous No.3225078]

Im a real sucker for these boxy, sloping type consoles. I would have prefered this as the final product as opposed to the rounded one that shipped

[Anonymous No.3225092]

Technically not a prototype, but the Net Yaroze is a little known lite devkit that sony crapped out back when. It was orderable by mail and for some reason, distributed at universities in japan and europe.

[Anonymous No.3225104]

A metric fuckton of playstation controller molds. The rectangular ones on the middle-right intrigue me the most.

[Anonymous No.3225110]

>>3225072
dinner

[Anonymous No.3225113]

>>3225110
blaster

[Anonymous No.3225116]

My favorite type of conceptual designs is by far the logos. Iconic designs could have been radically different had these been more popular

[Anonymous No.3225125]

>>3224971
If they released it and called it the Sega Trilobite I'd fucking buy it.

[Anonymous No.3225131]

Early Super Famicom, circa 1988

[Anonymous No.3225132]

Later Super Famicom, final controller ports and weird external IO on the front, from 1989

[Anonymous No.3225134]

Going back real far, this hunk of junk was the prototype 2600 system. I think this design could have been marketable as the "Leaning Tower of Garbage"

[Anonymous No.3225138]

>>3225116
The logo in the bottom right that ended up being the final choice is extremely iconic to me and I feel like it is currently under-utilized in exchange for the sleek white PS4 letters..

[Anonymous No.3225143]

Not sure if retro, but these are some slightly less retarded Jaguar controllers that should have been

[Anonymous No.3225145]

N64 controller progression, from "Ultra 64" era, to late 1995, to final

[Anonymous No.3225149]

>>3225138
It took me way too long to realize that he logo is made up of the letters of the console name. That design is so burned into my mind it doesnt even resemble a P and an S, it looks like some letter that doesnt exist in the alphabet.

[Anonymous No.3225153]

>>3225145
I wonder if the console had still been the Ultra 64, would all the games with 64 in the title stayed the same or would Mario 64 have been released as Ultra Mario?

[Anonymous No.3225173]

The Sega Pluto was a retooled Saturn with a built in modem. I liked the space-themed console naming and while i love the dreamcast, this would have been much cooler

[Anonymous No.3225196]

>>3225132
The Famicom has a similar EXT port on the side for light guns, 3D system, extra controllers, etc. It was probably an evolution of that.

[Anonymous No.3225197]

>>3225143
shit, i forgot the jaguar was 1993. It's so lame i comepletly forget when it released

[Anonymous No.3225201]

>>3225153
I'm pretty sure they would have shoehorned it in the titles one way or another.

[Anonymous No.3225202]

>>3224971
I dunno why but it looks like a karaoke machine or something like that.

[Anonymous No.3225208]

Another Nintendo AVS concept

[Anonymous No.3225209]

>>3225202
Funny that you mention that...

[Anonymous No.3225226]

>>3225209
>cue asian business men singing terribly

[Anonymous No.3225252]

>>3225134
damn nigga i never seent this b4

[Anonymous No.3225545]

>>3225173
I think one of the SEGA if America ex employees took this prototype home with him after he left the company. I remember reading that somewhere, they interviewed him about it.

[Anonymous No.3225573]

A prototype msx2

[Anonymous No.3226268]

>>3225104
If only they stuck with the 4th down from the top-right.

[Anonymous No.3226293]

>>3225226
My farther was in the Royal Navy. He told me of the time he was stationed in Japan and he was invited to a karaoke bar. He said that one of the funniest things he ever witnessed was a bunch of grown-ass men trying to sing "I'm a believer" but pronouncing as "I'm a big beaver".

[Anonymous No.3226420]

>>3225078
That "artist" clearly didn't know the first thing about perspective.

How the fuck did that doodle make it to publication?

[Anonymous No.3226457]

>>3225143
>two sticks
It looks like someone's modern idea.

[Anonymous No.3226554]

>>3225134

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X725.86

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[Anonymous No.3227115]

>>3225013
It's crazy how close it is to the first PS3... to the point where I'm sure someone dug this up and used it directly.
Also I think the entire top would have flipped up and the cartridge would load sideways and down like the NES.

[Anonymous No.3227187]

Atari has a metric shitton of prototypes and things that never got released, many of which were pretty much complete before getting scrapped. I guess it was just a very mismanaged company.

Starting off with some Atari XL computer protos, with very different case designs.

[Anonymous No.3227205]

The Video System X, or Atari 3200 worked on by Atari from 1980-81. It was meant to succeed the 2600, but apparently developers found it too difficult to program for. So they stuffed their existing Atari 8-bit hardware into a giant console-y box, resulting in the Atari 5200.

[Anonymous No.3227215]

The Atari 2700, a redesigned 2600 with built-in wireless controllers. It was just about to release when they cancelled it due to FCC compliance problems. A very tiny production run managed to make it out.

[Anonymous No.3227228]

>>3226420
Isn't it an isometric drawing.

[Anonymous No.3227234]

And last but not least, an official Atari 5200 controller that doesn't suck balls. In fact, Atari's engineers knew how shitty they were (referring to them as "jokesticks") and tried to delay the console's release and stop Atari from using them as is, but to no avail. This one is self-centering, and was presumably meant to replace the original one, but wasn't completed in time before Atari pulled the plug on the 5200.

[Anonymous No.3227369]

>>3225037
I had no idea Taito was even making a system at one point. Nice find.

[Anonymous No.3227379]

>>3225145
The stick on the black prototype looks a lot better.

[Anonymous No.3227416]

>>3225145
why not the first one?

[Anonymous No.3227431]

>>3225092

>little known

in the UK, Official Playstation Magazine always had Net Yaroze games on their demo disks. they were eventually bundled and released all on one disc as "net yaroze collection" or something along those lines

[Anonymous No.3227598]

>>3225104