Saturn Prototype?

A friend my mine found this in a magazine:



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Have you seen this one before? Looks like they captured the screen from a VHS Cassette :lol:


You can find this in an old german magazine called "Playtime" 5/94.
The arrows are like "We don't know what this cartridge port is about" and "We expectet a CD-ROM Drive"

 

wonderful find! a really nice proto, never saw it so far.

by the way, they expected 4x speed cd rom and free mpeg playing

 

It seems a bit like the normal casing with the middle led panel and cartridge panel missing (I know, some shapes are different). Nice picture!

 

50 games at launch? Wow, not even 5 were available :lol:

 

Looks like the image is now a big yellow banana

Yakumo

 

And HERE is the magazine from 5/97itself.

 

only 1 processor

 

Wow, nice image. I don't think I've seen that one before. I do remember reading that it was going to get a x4 speed CD drive though. Still, the Saturn is a pretty fast loader to be honest so a x4 speed drive wasn't really necessary.

Yakumo

 

Nice find! Love browsing through my old magazines and stumbling upon pictures of unreleased goodies.

 

Ah you eternal Saturn lover!!!

Nice image, looks really sweet like that :thumbsup:

 

Hitachi SHZ kicked SH2 in the balls apparently, so it was never materiliazed. Or it's just a typo