{"id":1808922,"date":"2026-03-05T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808922"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:26:09","slug":"the-united-states-national-videogame-museum-has-acquired-the-mythical-nintendo-playstation-which-led-to-the-ps1s-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808922","title":{"rendered":"The United States&#8217; National Videogame Museum has acquired the &#8220;mythical&#8221; Nintendo PlayStation which led to the PS1&#8217;s creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">The United States&#8217; National Videogame Museum has acquired the &#8220;mythical&#8221; Nintendo PlayStation which led to the PS1&#8217;s creation<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Ancient history.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Nintendo-x-PlayStation.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Nintendo x PlayStation\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Nintendo-x-PlayStation.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer\/Nintendo\/Sony<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/fran-j-ruiz-author.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"fran-j-ruiz-author.png\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/fran-ruiz\">Fran Ruiz<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-05T15:26:09+00:00\">March 5, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/us-national-videogame-museum-acquires-nintendo-playstation-prototype?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          2 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>As we try to wade through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/highguards-final-update-which-wildlights-skeleton-crew-crunched-to-finish-goes-live-just-days-before-the-game-disappears-forever\">waves of big new stories<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-pokopia-sets-first-limited-time-event-with-hoppip-skiploom-jumpluff\">game launches<\/a> today, we&#8217;ve come across something that should make our older readers happy. (I was born in the early 1990s and think it&#8217;s quite cool, if that counts.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember how PlayStation came into existence? At some point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/1998\/08\/28\/history-of-the-playstation\">Nintendo wanted a CD-ROM drive for the Super NES<\/a>, and Sony quickly came in with a solution and high hopes of getting involved in the video game market. Shortly afterwards, one of the great betrayals in gaming history happened, and Nintendo chose to stick with cartridges instead. This led to Sony developing what would become the first PlayStation console out of spite (or so we like to imagine).<\/p>\n<p>Few prototypes of the early Nintendo-PlayStation hybrid exist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/someone_has_already_offered_usd1_2_million_for_the_snes_playstation_prototype\">one of them was sold off a few years ago<\/a>, leaving fans wondering about its nature and the first ideas the companies toyed with before the working relationship broke. Now, via retro gaming news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2026\/03\/the-national-videogame-museum-has-acquired-a-mythical-nintendo-playstation\">Time Extension<\/a>, we&#8217;ve learned about the existence of an earlier model of those prototypes, and it now belongs to the United States&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenvm.org\/\">National Videogame Museum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed_wrapper\" data-domain=\"twitter.com\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation! \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>This Sony MSF-1 is the OLDEST known existing Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact, and is the original development system for Sony\u2019s planned Super Nintendo CD attachment. It is the ONLY known unit to exist!\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JQyCsFtxc\">pic.twitter.com\/9JQyCsFtxc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Videogame Museum (@nvmusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nvmusa\/status\/2029301026482979305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The chunky Sony MSF-1 does indeed look like an even earlier model of the system that was never meant to be. There&#8217;s no &#8220;polished retail casing&#8221; or proper buttons, and quite honestly, it looks like an entirely different thing when you compare it to the SNES PlayStation that we saw years ago. Regardless, it&#8217;s a significant part of gaming history that deserves its place in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Videogame Museum (not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/thenvm.org\/\">its UK counterpart<\/a>) is located in Frisco, Texas. At the time of writing, it&#8217;s unclear when the Nintendo PlayStation will be part of the exhibition after the 4th March announcement, but the museum is promising it&#8217;ll be a key part of its collection.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>As we try to wade through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/highguards-final-update-which-wildlights-skeleton-crew-crunched-to-finish-goes-live-just-days-before-the-game-disappears-forever\">waves of big new stories<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-pokopia-sets-first-limited-time-event-with-hoppip-skiploom-jumpluff\">game launches<\/a> today, we&#8217;ve come across something that should make our older readers happy. (I was born in the early 1990s and think it&#8217;s quite cool, if that counts.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember how PlayStation came into existence? At some point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/1998\/08\/28\/history-of-the-playstation\">Nintendo wanted a CD-ROM drive for the Super NES<\/a>, and Sony quickly came in with a solution and high hopes of getting involved in the video game market. Shortly afterwards, one of the great betrayals in gaming history happened, and Nintendo chose to stick with cartridges instead. This led to Sony developing what would become the first PlayStation console out of spite (or so we like to imagine).<\/p>\n<p>Few prototypes of the early Nintendo-PlayStation hybrid exist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/someone_has_already_offered_usd1_2_million_for_the_snes_playstation_prototype\">one of them was sold off a few years ago<\/a>, leaving fans wondering about its nature and the first ideas the companies toyed with before the working relationship broke. Now, via retro gaming news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2026\/03\/the-national-videogame-museum-has-acquired-a-mythical-nintendo-playstation\">Time Extension<\/a>, we&#8217;ve learned about the existence of an earlier model of those prototypes, and it now belongs to the United States&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenvm.org\/\">National Videogame Museum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed_wrapper\" data-domain=\"twitter.com\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation! \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>This Sony MSF-1 is the OLDEST known existing Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact, and is the original development system for Sony\u2019s planned Super Nintendo CD attachment. It is the ONLY known unit to exist!\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JQyCsFtxc\">pic.twitter.com\/9JQyCsFtxc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Videogame Museum (@nvmusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nvmusa\/status\/2029301026482979305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The chunky Sony MSF-1 does indeed look like an even earlier model of the system that was never meant to be. There&#8217;s no &#8220;polished retail casing&#8221; or proper buttons, and quite honestly, it looks like an entirely different thing when you compare it to the SNES PlayStation that we saw years ago. Regardless, it&#8217;s a significant part of gaming history that deserves its place in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Videogame Museum (not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/thenvm.org\/\">its UK counterpart<\/a>) is located in Frisco, Texas. At the time of writing, it&#8217;s unclear when the Nintendo PlayStation will be part of the exhibition after the 4th March announcement, but the museum is promising it&#8217;ll be a key part of its collection.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News The United States&#8217; National Videogame Museum has acquired the &#8220;mythical&#8221; Nintendo PlayStation which led to the PS1&#8217;s creation Ancient history. 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