Interesting post on GAF about the unreleased Namco 16-Bit Super System console

Some EGM clips mentioning Namco's unreleased 16-bit Super System:









It almost became the PC-Engine 2 but NEC released the 8-bit SuperGrafx instead.

So what what became of the Namco system? Was it just scrapped entirely or was it used as the basis of one of their arcade boards? Have a look at some of Namco's 16-bit arcade hardware: http://system16.com/museum.php?id=7 Do any of those look like they were originally intended for a console? I'm really curious.

edit: I think it became the Namco NA1/2 boards, but I still don't know for sure. I'd love it if someone could find a concrete answer.

 

Remember Quatermann?

The dude who was wrong 99% OF THE TIME.

Nowadays we call him Kotaku.

 

Quartermann was just Steve Harris.
THe name of that column was "Gaming GOSSIP" so it served it's purpose well.

 

From my own experience game magazine writings are usually pretty shitty on the facts - especially on import consoles where they can have specs, developers, and key titles misworded - but not to the extent where they can make a whole game/console up wholecloth.

Even if there isn't a proper Namco 16-bit console, the article was probably based on -something-.

 

I mean yeah, I'm sure there was SOME truth to the Namco console, why make up something like that?

 

I'm sure there was some reason they latched onto this idea but I'm sure it was BS. And curious, I'd never heard of Namco having anything to do with the PC-Engine. I'd always heard it was Hudson and NEC. Namco released some games on PC-Engine but that is all.