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.
Looks like a vacuum cleaner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
>>3225013
Maybe it has a hatch like the NES?
This model sorta looks like the wii fit board, and probably had a hatch like >>3225016 said
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.
i wish this console got released. taito is the shit.
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.
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
>>3225035
Damn, look at those controllers! Even more pointy than normal NES ones.
Keep it coming OP, loving this thread!
>>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.
A triple wammy of SNES designs. Why do so many console prototypes look like vacuum cleaners like >>3224973 said?
>>3225039
>Gee, it sure is boring around here.
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
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.
A metric fuckton of playstation controller molds. The rectangular ones on the middle-right intrigue me the most.
>>3225072dinner
>>3225110blaster
My favorite type of conceptual designs is by far the logos. Iconic designs could have been radically different had these been more popular
>>3224971
If they released it and called it the Sega Trilobite I'd fucking buy it.
Early Super Famicom, circa 1988
Later Super Famicom, final controller ports and weird external IO on the front, from 1989
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"
>>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..
Not sure if retro, but these are some slightly less retarded Jaguar controllers that should have been
N64 controller progression, from "Ultra 64" era, to late 1995, to final
>>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.
>>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?
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
>>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.
>>3225143
shit, i forgot the jaguar was 1993. It's so lame i comepletly forget when it released
>>3225153
I'm pretty sure they would have shoehorned it in the titles one way or another.
>>3224971
I dunno why but it looks like a karaoke machine or something like that.
Another Nintendo AVS concept
>>3225202
Funny that you mention that...
>>3225209
>cue asian business men singing terribly
>>3225134
damn nigga i never seent this b4
>>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.
A prototype msx2
>>3225104
If only they stuck with the 4th down from the top-right.
>>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".
>>3225078
That "artist" clearly didn't know the first thing about perspective.
How the fuck did that doodle make it to publication?
>>3225143
>two sticks
It looks like someone's modern idea.
>>3225134
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X725.86
>>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.
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.
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.
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.
>>3226420
Isn't it an isometric drawing.
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.
>>3225037
I had no idea Taito was even making a system at one point. Nice find.
>>3225145
The stick on the black prototype looks a lot better.
>>3225145
why not the first one?
>>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
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