Poll of the Day > History Channel Toys That Built America

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I watched this over the weekend and was totally surprised when they did the video game segment.

When Sony and Nintendo was suppose to partner to make the SNES a cart and CD rom console, at the last minute without warning at the CES show, Nintendo did an about face and announced they were partnering with Phillips to the surprise of Sony who thought they had a deal to product the Nintendo Play Station.

I also did not know that a Black guy name Jerry Lawson help design the Fairchild Channel F which was the first game console based on a microprocessor and game cartridges and he also invented the first commercial video game cart based on an idea he got from looking at an 8 trace tape cartridge.

Lawson is known as the "father of the video game cartridge" so it's safe to say if not for Mr. Lawson, maybe there isn't an Atari, NES. SNES, Sega MS or Sega Genesis.

Guys like Mr. Lawson and Mr. Ralph Baer, the father of the video game, never get their fair shake.

Mr. Lawson passed away in 2011! Mr. Baer passed away in 2014!

BUMPED2002 posted...

When Sony and Nintendo was suppose to partner to make the SNES a cart and CD rom console, at the last minute without warning at the CES show, Nintendo did an about face and announced they were partnering with Phillips to the surprise of Sony who thought they had a deal to product the Nintendo Play Station.

You didn't know this? It's pretty much been common knowledge for like 30 years.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

You didn't know this? It's pretty much been common knowledge for like 30 years.

No I honestly did not know that Sony and Nintendo was suppose to partner for an add on for the SNES dubbed the Play Station. But it wouldn't have made sense simply because the SNES used carts and the Play Satation was cds so I doubt people would have bought both cart games and cd games for the same console.

They also went to Sega who turned Sony down as well because they were developing the Saturn.

But yeah I never knew this stuff. In the 1990s there was no internet so outside of gaming magazines, there wasn't too many sources to get gaming information.

BUMPED2002 posted...

But it wouldn't have made sense simply because the SNES used carts and the Play Satation was cds so I doubt people would have bought both cart games and cd games for the same console

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_CD