old console magazines dig...

i've found a few weird announcements i'd like to share... here's a list; please if you can shed some light on anything you know about... if it was false, unreleased, just rumor and such... some are ABSOLUTELY false but i'll post them for a good laugh


1) street fighter II conversion for megacd+megadrive

2) the jaguar was supposed to be a full fledged computer and having as available media cartridges, cd-roms and VHS (!)

3) here is the mega-nes converter allowing NES games to be played on the Genesis (never saw one before) and..... roooooooolling cd-rom for the NES (this one LOOOOOKS FAAAAAAAAAAAKE)
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...olemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=007&page=7
(on an april issue, obviously)

4) here is a SNES cd-rom artwork i never saw in years and that look perfectly legit:

http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=008&page=11

please note the system rom cart and side insertion of cd-enclosed disc.

5) here http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=008&page=19

there's an interesting pic of an early f-zero

6) i guess this one:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=008&page=66
is one of the most ancient famiclones it says with stereo out and headphones too.

7) finally as a bonus i've found the game that looked like f-zero that i had asked infoa bout long ago:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=019&page=91
it was exhaust heat II

karsten

edited for adding points.

 

For some reason, that old-computer-mags website makes all my browsers crash. Is it your site?

 

nah i found it by chance... weird i can use it easily with both chrome and ff....

 

Maybe has anything with this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console_emulator

 

That site has some good stuff but why use bloody Java? It's awfully slow and chunky in the latest Fire Fox. Still, good to see the pictures when they finally appear. Thanks for the link karsten!

 

yeah i tought the same... if he only used PDF or just pics! :/

i guess he doesn't want someone to steal the pictures he stole from scanning the magazines

@hazuki, no it's 100% an april fools and it would have been suposed to run with some hardware

 

Funny this should be posted today.
I was browsing through some old issues of Nintendo Magasinet earlier today (It's a Scandinavian Nintendo magazine from the early 90s). And in their section of SnesCD coverage and rumors, they mentioned a rumor of Capcom doing a SnesCD port of Street Fighter II, which, according to the rumors, would feature improved visuals, such as "animated scenes" between the fights. Guess more funky character portraits + animated ending sequences is what they were referring to.

Possibility that these are related? (rumor of a "CD version" spreading to a "CD version for a specific console", or maybe Capcom was looking into doing a CD "enhanced" version of SF2 for all platforms?)

Heh, wow. Never seen that one before. Has the caddy going too, but it seems like the caddy is more of a regular/standard CD cover in that one.

 

I believe there was some kind of device from Camerica that would have turned any portable CD player into an NES Cd rom. Never seen any pics but there was a writeup on it in EGM somewhere.

 

I keep meaning to scan in a couple of pages from a mag I have called What Video Game? (it was a supplement that came with a video enthusiast magazine called What Video? here in the UK years ago, I have two issues, but there might be a few more).

It is all about the Atari Panther, and even has a couple of pictures of the unit and screen shots! Don't know how this tiny supplement got the scoop over Ace Magazine who was doing the rounds in the UK at the same time...

Will dig it out and fire up the scanner!

 

I also read that Capcom were working on a SegaCD/MegaCD conversion of Street Fighter 2

 

Italian in high school really did come in handy. Thanks!!

 

Newsflash: it's chunky & slow in everything.

 

eheheh good for you

 

x

 

Capcom said in an interview that a SEGA-CD version of SF2 was 'definitely planned sometime in the future'.

 

some more digging; unreleased snes game called Radio Flyer, from Ocean

http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=013&page=20

Also is mentioned another Ocean game called "the abyss", another tie-in.. unreleased too.

http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...x=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=001&page=9

here is stated that the project 64-bit console called jaguar has been ceased and that a new 32-bit jaguar (the panther i guess) a machine using a motorola 68030 that can be interfaced to cd too... funny to see how things progressed afterwards!

Talking about the SNES cd-rom a misteryous XA-bridge technology emerges in some interwiev... along with the snes+cd-rom being 8 times faster than a normal SNES (if they were to insert the super fx 20mhz chip it would make sense... 20+3.75= around 24mhz, almost 8 time more than a vanilla snes).

here:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=017&page=16

are talking of a barcode battler extension for the SNES... was it ever released?

Some picture of a game called the fang of edo for the snes, it looks like a very nice scrolling fighter... Never heard about it, supposedly to be released in 1993...

I keep digging!

 

They were probably using the same technology that Rainbow Arts used for a greatest hits compilation on C64 - which also came on CD!
(they included a simple circuit which connected the audio out of a cd player with the datasette port on the C64, so the cd took the place of the tape. Nevertheless, this was the first use of a cd as a storage medium on a home computer afaik )

 

Yep, I'm pretty sure it was.

This was also released and complete crap although it does look nice in stills.

yakumo

 

@yakumo: any picture or info on that BB for the snes?

and a lot more!!!

a VR device from sega at less than 200$ with surrond sound and head tracking. titles for launch;
Nuclear rush (bundled), iron hammer, outlaw racing and matrix runner.
foto here http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=019&page=13
article here:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=019&page=14


a misterious (vaporware i guess) device that would be a console playing NES_SNES_GENESIS_MASTER SYSTEM games all in one called Action Gamemaster: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=019&page=17

here: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=019&page=20
there are talks of a game dedicated to yoshi alone called Yoshi's haunting and of a F-zero2 prototype in full 3d (SFX chipped) that should be called "racing hero"...

What about a rumored sonic RPG called sister sonic? Sound so fake!

Also a cotton port to mega cd... i think it was out only for genesis

here: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=023&page=27
is yunemegata or midnight serenade for Mega CD. never heard of it and can't find any info... maybe an unreleased?

also on the same page it's stated that a super FX game based on transformers was in the work by argonaut (any truth in this?)

here is yet another game i can't find infos; popel meil for mega CD (unreleased? only jap?)
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=023&page=28


in this page can be seen a game called shadow stalker (can't find ANY info on it, unreleased?) for snes and Fido dido (snes too)
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=025&page=27

here is a radio adapter for the gameboy:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...=Gamepower.htm&base=Gamepower&num=026&page=16

 

I've posted about this before: the Super FX game Vortex was rumored to have started development as a Transformers game based on the Generation 2 toyline, but the license was dropped after the toyline proved unpopular. This is probably the first time I've seen evidence of this from the era, though.