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[doncale]

awesome pages! mostly Famicom & Super Famicom stuff
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/


some of the, IMO, best

an early ChouMakaiMura (Super Ghouls N Ghosts)

early version of Jerry Boy

R-Type II on Super Famicom before it became Super R-Type

maybe a hoax Super Famciom?

now this is very interesting:
And below is a really amazing find! This comes from an announcement of the Super Famicom hardware, in February 1989. The article discusses some of the features of the new system (stereo sound, scaling, ROM size, etc...) But the system pictures are intriguing, to say the least! The system on the left side of the page is a redesigned Famicom, called a "Famicom adaptor". Who knows if it connected with the SFC as an adaptor, or if it was just a fancy name for a redesigned Famicom to complement the SFC design. This new FC design wasn't produced.

BUT! That picture on the right side of the page shows an early design of the SFC, as above. This time, the labels of the switches are clearly visible: Power Switch; FAMICOM Switch, and Reset Switch! Is this the fabled Super Famicom prototype that was backwards-compatible with Famicom games? It looks possible...

now I know what this white Famicom on the left is! seen in EGM #2

It is the 'Famicom Adaptor' in the above black & white article

btw there's more pics of Dragonfly, one of the first Super Famciom demos. would later become Pilotwings. oh and that b&w article is from a Feb 1989 Japanese magazine. didn't know SFC info came out that early. well i should know, since SFC was announced in 1988...


an unreleased RPG called Splendid Saga

some ideas for Bonk's RPG

whoa! go online on your Japanese TurboGrafx (PC-Engine)

here is a mysterious (and of course, unreleased) attachment for the PC-Engine called the Tsushin Booster. With it, you could use the modem to connect to BBSes, play online games, even do game graphics and PROGRAMMING! It would have been a cool attachment.

 

[Blackbird]

could've sworn we had the very same thread a few months ago... same images and I *think* in the very same order too.

 

[doncale]

next is Super Aleste and Axelay with slightly different graphics

Opa-Opa will appreciate this: Space Fantazy Zone

Here is the infamous Space Fantasy Zone, for the PC-Engine CD. It was never released officially, of course, but you can find bootleg versions of this great game on the 'net. What we can see here is an even earlier version. The "Weaponald's" shop is different from later versions, for example.


and finally:

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Here are some funny comics containing some sometimes merciless humour. This series could be called "Why systems failed."
They run vertically, by the way.

I'll transcribe some of the text from each of them; they're just too good to miss.
1) "Hi, I'm Disk-Kun! You can save games and save money". But time went on and bigger games with battery save data came along, and sent the Famicom Disk System quickly off to Game Hell.
2) Don't cry over dead systems like your Sega Mark III and Betamax VCR. Life goes on and better systems have come along. It's time to grow up!
3) 1st caption: PC-Engine Super Grafx: This is amazing!!! 2nd pic: the colour fades... 4th pic: BIG, EXPENSIVE, UNCOOL!!! That is not the way to make money!
4) Game Boy (in Japanese): "GEMU BOI DEeeSU!" Lynx (in English): "GOOOD MORNING TOKYO! MY NAME'S LYNX. I'M VERY CLEVER!". 2nd caption: Game Boy: "But Tetris is fun, right?" Lynx: "HAHAHA! Black & White graphics are lame, etc.etc..." 3rd caption: they continue to fight then the Lynx sudenly stops. 4th caption: Lynx's batteries are about to die.


there are many more pics on that site, besure to check them all out. these were just the best IMO.

 

[FriScho]

I have a picture of the prototype Nintendo Playstation. That was the SNES+CD-ROM by Sony before Nintendo dropped the project and Sony created the Playstation based on the SNES CD-ROM. But I would need to scan it from an very old gaming mag.

 

[Chittagong]

I remember seeing this before, but it's cool still anyway. We see all too few Nintendo prototype pics. Anyone remember the NES concepts?

 

[doncale]

a picture of, and an article on, the Nintendo Playstation has been doing the rounds on GAF...

just the pic

 

[Chittagong]

That's officially the coolest prototype in gaming history in all it's irony. But the NES concepts with really futuristic design, keyboard, cassette player etc.

 

[doncale]

Chitta, yes the Nintendo AVS - Advanced Video System

 

[xexex]

holy shit. this stuff is sweet.

 

[Jonnyram]

Haha, the blurb says "12 Megabyte cartridge big enough to hold 48 Dragon Quests!!" Go SNES!