The kind of unprecedented video game machine known as the "Nintendo Play Station" has sold at auction for $ 360,000
Pop-culture auction house Heritage Auctions has offered the device, a product of a temporary partnership between Nintendo and Sony, as part of a series of high-end video game sales this week. The last bidding took place live at Heritage Center in Dallas, Texas on Friday morning, with phone calls and the internet also being able to participate.
Starting back in 1991, the service known as “NinTendo Play Station ”is actually Sony's first attempt to create a piece of game hardware. It would have been known as the "Play Station," and it was actually a Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a built-in CD-ROM drive. It would expand Nintendo & # 39; s 16-bit programming capabilities to include CD games.
A crossed between Nintendo and Sony made this device, and reinforced Tony's willingness to use it alone in the gaming industry in 1994 for what we know today as the original PlayStation.
The document was originally the property of former Sony Computer Entertainment America president Olaf Olafsson, and was later purchased at auction for a man named Terry Diebold. Diebold kept it in his attic until 2015, when it was there reunited her son and shared on Reddit. Since then, the Diebolds have traveled the world with the device, displaying it in various classic game shows. Terry Diebold told Kotaku in December that he declined a $ 1.2 million offer to the device before the auction.
Bidding on the Nintendo PlayStation has been ongoing since last month. Bid hit $ 350,000 at one point, but then it dropped to $ 280,000 by Thursday afternoon as protesters apparently had moved out. Palmer Luckey, founder of VR firm Oculus, was present participation in bidding, he said on Twitter that he wants the video recorder.
The high price of the Nintendo PlayStation is part of the trend of large sums drawn by popular game collections. Recently, the original print of Super Super Bros. in a mine, frozen state sold for over $ 100,000, and another collector pay $ 1 million a collection of a few rare games.
Other games sold this morning at Heritage Auction include signed factory copies of the NES games Sporting Events ($ 66,000), Mike Pys-Food Punch-Out !! ($ 45,600), and later print Super Super Bros. ($ 20,400).