Nintendo PlayStation Prototype History & Review - Adam Koralik

[@ReptilianRichardRamirez]

It even turns yellow from oxidation like the SNES!

[@EmeraldLavigne]

I saw that and I was like "They shoulda given it to Adam to restore!"

[@elephystry]

Many plastics do that, cuz of a fire suppressant containing bromine inside, that breaks down.

[@gkft]

I just realized he passed away this past year, what a bummer. That's amazing that he allowed so many people not only to see it in person but to play it and touch it. RIP

[@CMC6996]

You are so lucky man. You got to hold and experience a piece of history. One of the best channels on youtube

[@jamesgillre]

Really cool, Terry seems like such a nice guy and very humble. I am so glad it was found by some so genuine, he deserves every penny he can get from it. He has served the community well touring with it. Great story, all the best! Also thanks Adam again for the great content as always

[@suluturnip]

Yeah. He’s so nice he’s selling it to the highest bidder instead of donating it to a museum. How cool is that? So cool. /spit

[@jamesgillre]

@@suluturnip no need for that, he found it and did the work. He realised it was something special, and is entitled to every penny

[@suluturnip]

Nintenjam bullshit. He’s been making money off of it since he found it. It belongs in a museum and you know it.

[@sirdan357]

@@suluturnip Your comment is bullshit. It belongs to the guy and he can do whatever he wants with it. I guarantee you would do the same thing as would all the other whiners.

[@iTzFarmy]

@@suluturnip You’ll never get to see it Ha Ha

[@cax1175]

Adam, you've gotta put being a Nintendo Playstation security guard on your resume.

[@jh6025]

Adam got to caress a unicorn here. Can you imagine that feeling? It's probably like every new console and PC part that you'll ever get combined.

[@bigo2681]

Easily the single greatest thumbnail for a KZbin video of all time.

[@FlyingV555]

Big O instead of boobs, the console

[@izzymaedavidson1974]

I can’t believe you actually got to touch it.

[@darktetsuya]

man that was a hell of a story! I've been watching this unfold since the first news about that short youtube video that he recorded it's been neat to see!!

[@mscottjohnson3424]

It's crazy when you think about it, Nintendo never released anything that played off of CDs. That guy on the TV in that Sega CD commercial was right, "there is no Nintendo CD".

[@madfinntech]

He basically found a lottery ticket with the winning numbers.

[@Nin10Guy]

I was at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this year and I had no idea this was there. It's a real shame because I would've loved to see it in person.

[@sonicthehedgehog1fan]

Watching this in the Fouth Gen Recap playlist. Terry's an absolute legend, R.I.P

[@thegoldendragonacs]

This is so incredibly cool. I never thought I would even see this thing. I thought that every picture was just a mock up. So to see this in a video is beautiful. And in a video from you? Dude... I love it.

[@6Stevo]

The holy grail of console collecting! The dreams of what could've been!

[@SolidWander]

Just now finding out about your video thanks to your Lost in Cult article. Awesome work and thank you so much for getting Terry talking and showcasing this things wild history!

[@AdamKoralik]

Thanks for reading!

[@_trudge]

Great video, Adam! Thanks for the work you do. I really like the interview with Terry.

[@MrInternetMan]

Terry's you're wrong. It really should be in a museum. If someone buys it and shoves it in a personal display never to be seen again, that's just wrong.

[@BricktheSystem]

"like Adam was saying when Sony and Nintendo were butt buddies" Best part.

[@mclaine33]

This console was mythical status for the longest time. It was stuff of legends. Only rumors existed. So to have found the one surviving unit, it’s absolutely incredible. This is the gaming equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. Thank you guys for making this video.

[@D4Disdain]

Great video Adam and huge props to Terry for finding this gem of gaming history and sharing it with everyone! I'm wondering if Terry is considering putting it up on auction instead of selling it. Just on the provenance alone I legitimately believe that it would sell at auction for somewhere in the 7 figure range. Truly the Action Comics #1 of the gaming world and no doubt the most unique and historically relevant find of the past decade as far as collectibles go. It's the first fricken Playstation (prototype) known to exist!

[@axelxbc]

Never clicked a video so fast in my life! Great content Adam. One of the most ( If not the most ) historical consoles in gaming.

[@fruitcake7789]

This thing has also been repaired by Ben Heck several times, no idea why nobody in the video mentioned it.

[@johnnychang4233]

Perhaps because those chapters of the Ben Heck Show are copyrighted by element14 and any mention of it could arise a flag that can get this video banned?

[@AdamKoralik]

As Terry said, we went for the "5 minute version."

[@johnnychang4233]

@@AdamKoralik Undoubtably Ben deserve 5 seconds of those 5 minutes as he was who put the prototype in working condition fixing the CD-ROM drive and the sound system.

[@AdamKoralik]

Simple oversight man, it happens when you're just speaking off the cuff.

[@johnnychang4233]

@@AdamKoralik Acknowleged 👍😉

[@shenmeowzo]

Wow that was a great story about how he came to have it. Amazing piece of history. Great vid mate.

[@DannyGPro]

Great video, thanks for making it and preserving the history of this.

[@aa3680]

Awesome interview Adam

[@zahialsalman]

What a cool guy! I'm glad this fell into Terry's hands

[@schooltrashers]

I wish I had enough money to buy it myself so that I could tour with this thing and continue to allow people to enjoy the Nintendo Playstation.

[@kaminobatto]

Great vid man, you definitely made this piece of history go out with a bang!

[@henfjo]

I’m glad I got to see it in person :)

[@ToolCraze]

Interesting how they didn't notice the front bottom section with the controller ports, is hinged. This means that it's a cover that can open upwards. I wonder what's behind the cover?

[@DevilBatKick]

I had the honor to play this awesome piece of gaming history a couple of years back at my first Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The game was Street Fighter II and I played 3 rounds with some other random con attendee and won. It's something I don't think I'll ever forget.

[@POOPIESkillz]

playing the nintendo playstation is definitely on my bucket list

[@nimrodlevy]

"...and i hope you enjoy it.." hell man, i always am! Many thanks for the time n effort! I love these obscure vg history!

[@Wubsy96]

9:48 - *slaps head* "EPIPHANY!"

[@nickygwilson]

That's so cool. Glad it ended up with someone who appreciated it and not in a skip somewhere.

[@CrashMcCloudX29]

Based around that story at the start it almost seems like Sony was planning a hostile takeover of Nintendo with the Playstation.

[@texanman7191]

There mission is to take down both Nintendo and Sega. They successfully took down Sega (well Sega did it to themselves) and try to get Nintendo. Luckily for Nintendo, they dominated Handheld consoles.

[@elbucho8867]

Then Microsoft rose up to challenge them and now they are in the process of being knocked out.

[@kokotheclown2588]

And now it seems Sony it’s falling do to Microsoft and Nintendo basically been all friendly heck Nintendo it’s getting all COD for 10 years while Sony ain’t getting none

[@rustymixer2886]

Great video bro

[@raiden2254]

Awesome thanks for the video I wish I could buy it to put it in the video game museum

[@krillen64]

Dude it does not belong in a museum. it should still be out in the world like it has been since he found out what it was. That way the most people can enjoy it the way they have been, getting to hold it, take photos of it/with it and play it too. it makes me made the people thinking put in some museum. Not everything especially something like it belongs in a museum. If I owned it I would do the same thing Terry Diebold has done sharing it with the world as should have been.

[@mcleanF1]

Amazing video. Two super cool guys.

[@jtlovescodelyoko]

This is the content i love from you and why i subscribe to you're Channel. This and you're recap serise.

[@FlyiDCG]

What really makes this console special is it involves two of the Biggest gaming companies in the industry. Two companies that have survived so many generations. This box is technically a generation 4 system. It's also the only Nintendo affiliated system that actually plays audio CDs. The GameCube, Wii & Wii can only play games and not CDs or DVDs. Someone should write a book about this thing so we all can own some part of it. SNES Play Station the Holy Grail of gaming.

[@cyo_corner]

Adam thank you very much for sharing this

[@matthewwolff3729]

That small console essentially passed the torch from Nintendo to the Sony Playstation.

[@ttewelow1]

Holy shit Adam, I've never really been much of a collector of consoles, but this is a SERIOUSLY cool find. For anyone who knows their history with both Sony and Nintendo that's what would've been and it's hard to believe it even exists. My only gripe with this video is that it feels a bit out of place. This commodity feels more like a 5th gen item than a 4th, but otherwise great video once again. Nice work

[@chadbrick67]

Some guy got one of these working on a KZbin video a bit back. This is worth a fortune. Big adam in the house

[@STP.83]

Before watching this video I didn't know it's working and playable. Nice work!

[@ZeusWeus]

I kinda forgot there was an actual physical version of this

[@ドリフト180X]

200 were made, there could be some other one sitting in a storage locker somewhere.

[@AdamKoralik]

There isn't, long story short, that was confirmed during all this.

[@ZeusWeus]

@@AdamKoralik Thank you for showing us it and hearing a bit about it

[@alpyboy]

@@AdamKoralik Were they all destroyed by Nintendo personally?

[@Vampire__Squid]

The main thing that mattered about the SNES CD is it ended up in the right hands

[@bane2886]

Adam,great history video,thanks you

[@FlyiDCG]

The Holy Grail of video game systems. Cool review on the SNES Play Station. I'm looking forward to the news of this console being sold. It's an incredible story. Polymega should really market the SNES-PS1 combination of their system so all gamers can have some type of SNES PS1 box. What a magical thing.

[@lostboy626]

Only way to top that little display would be if the Sega Pluto would have been next to it.

[@BroApollo]

Wow you lucky duck. I wish I could have played with that but hey you still got to document it for us to all enjoy. So thank you.

[@TheGemini5]

Nice job Adam!!

[@jesseglidden321]

Awesome video!

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I just hope that the person who buys it is as cool as Terry is, the type who takes it to conventions rather than puts it in their private collection never to be seen by the public again. Either way, Terry does deserve the money he'll make off of it, and I hope he had an amazing experience traveling everywhere with it.

[@DeathTheKidFTW998]

Holy fuck I just thought he was going to discuss it and he pulls the fucking console out.

[@AdamKoralik]

Didn't the thumbnail make it obvious? :P

[@DeathTheKidFTW998]

Adam Koralik I wasn’t paying enough attention. Just focused on the title I guess. 😂

[@ericmay2d2]

Best rundown video of this console

[@TRIPPLEJAY00]

Thanks for sharing lads.

[@greenhxify]

Beautiful c: thanks for sharing!

[@dannyschultheis5989]

This is a dream if PlayStation and also tender would have work with each other

[@superstar64]

I honestly think this prototype deserves to go to somebody willing to continue the legacy, and it ain’t gonna be Apple Macintosh Centris 660av guy with an Iomega Jaz drive over here.

[@JaredTru]

Looking forward to PS4 and XBox One 6 year birthday vids. Definetly a highlight of my year.

[@scottythompson940]

cool video tech talk adam

[@dondraper3898]

Mr. Koralik got his hands around the neck of the Loch Ness Monster!

[@AtaGunZ]

where do I get the 50 minute story

[@AdamKoralik]

Not sure.

[@Monia-Hime]

Awesome! this prorotype should really end up in some museum or something

[@adidas1984x]

13:56 crystal Pepsi and the Nintendo PlayStation together

[@johneygd]

Now let’s clone it sothat everybody can get a piece of it.

[@ThoseGuysPlay]

"Has my DNA on it." And the bids have GONE UP. -Matt

[@matthewwolff3729]

So much history, so much of an impact on video games in one small console. The back story makes it better!

[@coolweezing8468]

I have played on this console when I was at the Sac Gamers Expo 3 years ago, and I am still finding out new things about it like the source code to develop games for it. I really hope it stops by Sacramento one last time so I can play Super Boss Gaiden.

[@ReptilianRichardRamirez]

No, you didn't. Stupid lie.

[@terrydiebold2284]

You can Google it and play it on your computer for free!

[@coolweezing8468]

@@terrydiebold2284 I know, But I believe it was originally made for that console. I could be wrong on that though.

[@DirtyBob7777]

I thought ben heck fixed the damn thing. Is the snes part a 1 chip or 2 chip?

[@AdamKoralik]

He did, and I'm not sure.

[@TNVGAMING]

They need to make casings out of these to people can make replicas out of Rasberry Pi's

[@58jharris]

I hope there are some more homebrew games made for it. I would like to see what this thing can do.

[@lanedj801]

The real reason Nintendo broke the deal was because they thought people would use the disk tray as a cup holder.

[@vahn_legaia]

Amazing. I hope whoever ends up with it treats it well.

[@CCH3900]

Great video of the device that gave us in roundabout way gave us the Sony PlayStation. The only question I have is, if this thing came out... What kind of games would we have gotten? Would Nintendo in their next hardware have gone the disc route? And would the PlayStation as we know it been made a Nintendo/Sony console? Man just thinking what that means, Final Fantasy 7-9, MGS, Crash, Spyro... and more on a Nintendo console in the 90s. That just seems odd. Anyway rambling a bit here. Awesome video Adam as usual thanks for making it. And a huge thank you to Terry for sharing this unbelievable piece of gaming history. I hope he gets all the money he can for this, but I do hope this Play Station prototype goes to someone who will care for it and respect it.

[@FlyiDCG]

Sadly if this was ever released it would have been too expensive to sell well. Cartridge was King in 1991-92. The Sega CD & Turbo Graffix CD did sell as well as the Genesis & SNES. Most people would only buy the core unit, very few would buy add ons. Even now a base console will sell more that the enhanced versions. The SNES Play Station like the SEGA CD was too ahead of its time. Gamers want one format, disc or cart. A unit that plays both will be more expensive to produce.

[@CCH3900]

@@FlyiDCG I get what your saying, but this has (or would have had) a full SNES on board. However, I wasn't exactly saying this unit anyway. I was saying something more on the level of the Sony PlayStation 1.

[@Antpaok]

This honestly belongs in a museum

[@AdamKoralik]

See right around the end of the video.

[@Antpaok]

Adam Koralik haha I was still watching the video, I mean like actually bought by a museum and treated honorably, he definitely deserves the money for it

[@The_Future_isnt_so_Bright]

Why has no one 3d printed one yet?

[@RobbWes]

Could it be possible to get the satellaview working on it?

[@AdamKoralik]

Presumably, yes. Though I don't know if it would fit.

[@RobbWes]

@@AdamKoralik 3d printed adapter would make it work. Then there is the problem of the connections on the back.

[@mrburns366]

There must have been several of these made because there's a pic of one with rainbow colored lettering on the "Playstation" part above the buttons.

[@joeyparkhill8751]

Adam you are one lucky bastard!

[@ctg8563]

Glad I got to see and play the snes ps console.

[@JamesRBentley]

What a dude. Delighted for him, deserves to make a million off this!

[@MDK22420]

You know it's legit cuz its yellowing like the actual SNES lol.

[@weaksaucep4539]

terry is great i barley had herd of it, then ran into him with it in Canada was honored to spend a couple minutes with it playing street fighter

[@jasonarmstrong5750]

16:27 looks like Dr. Jones has already contacted him

[@theshadowman1398]

Damn I wonder where it eventually ends up. Something tells me somewhere in the Middle East where it eventually gets blown up when shit hits the fan. Why is Ben Heck not mentioned ? He is the one who got this thing up and running

[@AdamKoralik]

Just an oversight.

[@terrydiebold2284]

I've actually thanked Ben in a lot of podcasts and at all of the Expos/Cons that I've been to!

[@Waifu4Life]

I'm surprised that people around the world didn't start a fundraiser to indeed have it placed in a video game museum with some sort of agreement that the museum can't sell it back.

[@Ryuujin1078]

People don’t care as much as they claim to be.

[@Waifu4Life]

@@Ryuujin1078 Then if they're not willing to put their money where their mouth is, they should STFU.

[@harryg2453]

Would be cool to see what it looks like cleaned and restored !

[@robd9921]

Hey Adam, is the thumbnail of you holding the Nintendo Playstation a reference to the 1987 Michael J. Fox film, "The Secret of My Success"?

[@AdamKoralik]

Ha, can't say it was done intentionally.

[@Darko1226]

There is a way to preserve this in a museum and for Terry to get his money at the same time. Terry can start a kickstarter for it to be donated to a museum. He can set a goal of a million or two million dollars and once the goal is hit, he donates it. He can also charge $10 a person to take a picture with it and play the system and make his money that way and donate it.

[@AdamKoralik]

I can't even imagine the internet ramifications of that.

[@Darko1226]

I really don’t think anyone should care about the internet trolls as long as the system is preserved and Terry gets the money he wants for it. They will eventually get over it.

[@christoffer6527]

Hope you still have it because one sold for more than 300k yesterday

[@AdamKoralik]

That's the one that sold yesterday. There is only one.

[@christoffer6527]

@@AdamKoralik haha I didnt realize it was one of a kind

[@AdamKoralik]

Learn something new every day!

[@psychopoison]

But the first idea was a CD add on for the snes, people always cut that

[@AdamKoralik]

I did mention that it was the Super Disc AKA SNES CD.

[@OhSanjiBoi]

Wouldn't there possibly be out there?

[@AdamKoralik]

Unlikely, the rest were destroyed.

[@MrRatchet12661]

Now imagine what would happen if it actually worked out back then.

[@SevenDeMagnus]

I wish he sold it to that guy for US$1.5M but US$300K+ bid price, isnt' too bad. I think it beat the Apple 1 board, bid price.

[@KaizerSozaye]

Wait hold on. Why does everyone think the Sony Nintendo PlayStation is a myth if Sony announced the thing back in the early 90’s?

[@AdamKoralik]

Different era, no real proof, and Sony constantly denied it was true.

[@spinksy173]

I'm interested to see how much this goes for....