The National Videogame Museum has announced that it's acquired a Nintendo PlayStation development unit, thus preserving what it calls the "oldest known artifact" of this strange time in Nintendo and Sony's histories.
In a post on social media, the museum says the Sony MSF-1 is "the oldest known existing Nintendo PlayStation hardware artifact", and it's also "the original development system" for the Super Nintendo CD attachment that Sony was working on for the SNES.
According to the museum, this unit is "the only known unit to exist", and if that's accurate, then the museum has gotten its hands on a very important piece of gaming history here.
In case you need a little history refresher here, the SNES CD-ROM was a potential CD attachment that would have allowed the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to play CD media as well as the cartridges it natively accepted.
There were two units, one developed in conjunction with Sony and the other being worked on alongside Philips. The latter became the ill-fated CD-i system, which then went on to achieve notoriety (albeit sometimes affectionately meant) thanks to its exceedingly janky Legend of Zelda and Super Mario games.
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