I was more surprised by changed made to the title screen in later revisions of Revenge of Shinobi to resemble Chiba less. Maybe just the VC version? Not sure.
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I was more surprised by changed made to the title screen in later revisions of Revenge of Shinobi to resemble Chiba less. Maybe just the VC version? Not sure.
WiiredShawn
Member
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
In a way, my brain is attracted to its novelty, but then the oddities smack me in the face: namely, why the flap? What functional purpose does it serve?
Well, I guess there's a reason we never received this version, ha.
Back then we did shit just because it looked cool, didn't have to be functional. Good times
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
Those designs are so early 90s it hurts
SUDDEN JUTTING OUT ANGULAR THING
THROW SOME PURPLE ON THAT BITCH
superfamicom
Banned
Some of these prototypes always reminded me of the NES redesign.
Also check this out.
The early proto of both NES and SNES, check the controller, SNES style with red NES buttons. Cool. Also a better shot of the early controller without the L and R buttons, and non slanted select and start buttons.
Early Dreamcast prototypes, it looks like they had a Wii remote controller design.
Clearly Sony was looking at Nintendo's early grill designs when it came to PS3.
Also check this out.
The early proto of both NES and SNES, check the controller, SNES style with red NES buttons. Cool. Also a better shot of the early controller without the L and R buttons, and non slanted select and start buttons.
Early Dreamcast prototypes, it looks like they had a Wii remote controller design.
Clearly Sony was looking at Nintendo's early grill designs when it came to PS3.
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
where do i insert the paper?
With a name like yours, i know better than to try to dispute that claim, they were more subtle in the arcade shinobi.
I kind of just assumed (or imagined) that those were Sho Kosugi's eyes.
oh god
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
ha pretty much
WiiredShawn
Member
L + R buttons were a simple, yet awesome addition.
Electronics design was a scary, scary world before the iPod.
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
WiiredShawn
Member
Aw, well, the iconography of the iPod is its own accomplishment, but I think the quirkiness of older products is kind of fun. Not everyone cares for "character" when it comes to electronics, but eccentricity is sometimes more memorable and meaningful.
Some of these prototypes always reminded me of the NES redesign.
Also check this out.
The early proto of both NES and SNES, check the controller, SNES style with red NES buttons. Cool. Also a better shot of the early controller without the L and R buttons, and non slanted select and start buttons.
Early Dreamcast prototypes, it looks like they had a Wii remote controller design.
Clearly Sony was looking at Nintendo's early grill designs when it came to PS3.
Mind = shocked.
Perhaps more novel, but certainly not more memorable, nor meaningful.
I love seeing concept designs. They remind you that great ideas are themselves products of iteration. They don't simply explode from heavenly inspiration. Many who fail in their endeavors will forget this.
lostinblue
Banned
It's a shame that idea was dropped. That NES redesign is beautiful and sits really well alongside that early SNES (still better design than the US SNES had).The early proto of both NES and SNES, check the controller, SNES style with red NES buttons. Cool. Also a better shot of the early controller without the L and R buttons, and non slanted select and start buttons.
DAT NES, closeup:
Some more SNES:
People above might as well post all prototypes for Play Station controllers:
Silent_Ocarina
Member
Wow, the PlayStation went through quite a bit of protoypes. I'm really intrigued by all of the different button configurations.
NoirVisage
Banned
*pats head* there there little one, don't try to fathom it.
rainking187
Member
Most of those Playstation controllers look like they should belong to one of those awful knock-off systems.
ResidentDante
Member
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
Kind of reminds me of this type of design, the NES got at a late stage (the NES 2 apparaently):
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It's badly drawn, but it's just a cool deisgn feature to cover det controller ports.
So that's where the PAL SNES got it's design from, the best looking SNES of them all.DAT NES, closeup:
Some more SNES:
dreamcastmaster
Banned
You do know the PAL SNES is the same as the Japanese Super Famicom right?
ResidentDante
Member
I do now! Always though the way uglier NTSC SNES was in the US and Japan and since we got it later in Euroland we got a redesign. So why on earth did they remodel it for the US?
BTW: Does anybody have any prototype console pics from Sega? Nintendo seem to release stuff like this much more than they do.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Super Ninte... erm..I mean Sony all up in this bitch
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I actually think Sony's design was pretty awesome back then. All of those alternate controllers and logos are neat.
Early concept designs for the US Super Nintendo.
Wow.
Wow, now that's a crazy console design. The Wii U needs more random things sticking out of it, and big round purple things. lol
ResidentDante
Member
It looks very ninties and that exact time period, it great to see stuff like this. Brings back a strong feeling of nostalgia.
dreamcastmaster
Banned
MrCunningham
Member
Sega Black Belt, AKA Saturn 2/Dreamcast.
Some Early Dreamcast Prototypes:
Also, it is interesting to note that one of these controllers looks strikingly like the original XBox Duke:
Obviously the Duke adds a second analog stick and more buttons, but the shape looks identical.
ResidentDante
Member
Sega Black Belt, AKA Saturn 2/Dreamcast.
Damn, so cool. So I wasn't just making things up when I'd read about a machine called Black Belt that would follow up the Saturn way back in the day. I remember my friends not believing me. I wonder if it was something they completely scrapped and went with Dreamcast later on or if it developed into Dreamcast if you know what I mean?
Some more:
SpongeBob NoPants
Member
Thank you. Much appreciated.
ResidentDante
Member
Also, it is interesting to note that one of these controllers looks strikingly like the original XBox Duke:
Obviously the Duke adds a second analog stick and more buttons, but the shape looks identical.
Anybody know about the relationship between Sega and Microsoft. Wasn't the Dreamcast powered by some sort of Windows version? The Xbox controllers were clearly inspired by the Dreamcasts.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Bill Gates invested in the Sega Dreamcast because he had an interest in videogames. So the Dreamcast got the ability to run games built for Windows C.E., which was a special low-impact, low-resources version of the OS designed to run on "embedded systems" (ATMs/etc.) and early smartphones.
I remember hearing somewhere that might've been what sparked interest to create the Xbox, but that's anecdotal. A similar rumor is that when Sega shut down hardware production, Microsoft was apparently interested in buying the whole company. That's where Sega's partnership with the Xbox began, which lead to JSRF, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Gun Valkyrie, etc. But again, just a rumor, I think.
ResidentDante
Member
I wonder if the Xbox had been Sega branded, but with MS running the economy and strategy (Sega clearly have made so many mistakes with this through the years) how the console would have been. Sega exclusives etc.
Hell yeah, the 90s!
And, well, the 80s, too. Doing crazy shit because.
It looks like the Blue ranger has some sort of pulley system on the Pink ranger...
They got a lot of sega exclusives as it was, I know a lot of people at the time saw the Xbox as the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast (yeah, it wasn't the only system that got Sega games, but it definitely got a lot of the experimental quirky ones that totally fit the DC era innovation Sega had.
Super FAmicon?
Is this an image of what the Sony/Nintendo Collaboration would have been?
lostinblue
Banned
No, that's afterwards; notice it's Sony only.
Sony had given themselves the right via the deal with Nintendo to do SNES compatible machines, so their plan for Playstation was playing SNES games in spite of what Nintendo wanted. In time, though, they dropped it.
lostinblue
Banned
Saargabath
Member
Nice one!
Tribes of Trusty
Member
Come on, that's the kind of thing that must be cool to figure out on one's own.
Damn you stealth edit !
ResidentDante
Member
True, guess it's just part of me that would have loved a Sega logo on that nice shiny black Xbox 360 slim.
Now, it's just a boring one
The iPod and its clones are some of the blandest design I have ever seen. These old designs at least had some character and were memorable.
ResidentDante
Member
Now, it's just a boring one
The iPod and its clones are some of the blandest design I have ever seen. These old designs at least had some character and were memorable.
That's the downside to minimalist design. It sure lasts longer and doesn't date as fast, but years later it doesn't show must resemblance on the time you're trying to remember. Timeless design versus popular design for it's time period I guess.