PlayStation Was Almost A Nintendo Product
Back in the 16-Bit console wars, there was a lot of pressure to move on to the “revolutionary new technology” known as CD-ROM. Nintendo was still king of the hill, but was losing some ground due to the Sega CD and PC Engine. Nintendo began working with Sony to produce a CD-ROM drive for their SNES. It was named the “Play Station.”
Where the Big N made their gravest error was then going behind Sony’s back to more seriously pursue a deal with Phillips to engineer the CD-ROM add-on instead. Furious, Sony took the technology that it had already developed and invested in releasing their own competitive console. And Sony has been one of Nintendo’s most aggressive rivals ever since.
The Atari Landfill
The early 1980s were a dark time in video game history. The market had been flooded with so many crappy games that it suffered a near-fatal crash. The final nail in the coffin appeared to be ET: The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, universally agreed upon as the worst video game of all time. They literally couldn’t give the game away, resorting to distributing the game as the free prize in breakfast cereal.
At the end of it all, Atari ordered all remaining copies of ET, as well as many other titles they were unable to sell to be driven out into the desert by the truckload, and buried in a landfill. Somewhere in New Mexico now rests an Atari graveyard, filled with thousands of unsold cartridges. Don’t think about seeking relics of gaming’s past, since Atari chose that particular landfill due to its no-scavenging policies and every cartridge was thoroughly crushed to bits before being buried.
Most Games Are Developed By The Same People
Whenever a video game company wants to knock out a game, but reserve all their in-house talent for the blockbuster titles, they outsource it to another development house. The house often turned to is Tose. Tose has developed games for Sega, Capcom, Square-Enix… just about everyone.
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