#sony imagesoft

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Bram Stoker's Dracula

"Play It If You Dare" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #47, June 1993)

[blazehedgehog]

What would you consider the biggest what if in video games.

I guess the thing that would completely change the face of gaming is whether or not Sony actually got to complete their deal with Sega or Nintendo.

Because that's how we got the Playstation, right. Sony had a deal with Nintendo for a CD add-on to the SNES, and Nintendo felt like Sony wanted too much control in that deal so they broke it off even though there was functioning prototype hardware.

Sony then tried to strike up a deal with Sega, given their Imagesoft studio already had a good relationship with them. Sega also turned them down.

So Sony took their ball, went home, and built their own hardware. That became the Playstation and it took over the world.

If Nintendo completes that deal, then the entire industry changes for the next 30 years. When or if we get the Playstation changes, when or if we get the Playstation 2 changes, Nintendo sticking to cartridges through the Nintendo 64 changes, everything about the Gamecube probably changes, and who knows if we even get the Wii at all. The motion control fad never happens, the Kinect never happens, the Nintendo DS might not happen.

Or let's say Nintendo rejects Sony but Sega realizes what they've got on their hands. The Saturn becomes a completely different device. The Dreamcast becomes a completely different device. Sega would probably still be in the hardware business to this day. Or maybe they would eventually be completely absorbed by Sony and cease to exist. In which case Sony might become even more powerful, leading to a radically different Playstation 3.

The creation of the PS1 is a point in time that splits off into some very interesting alternate universes.

[eightiesandninetiesforever]

Cliffhanger commercial [1993]

Video game based on the Sylvester Stallone action flick by the same name. Released for all Nintendo and Sega Systems.

Source [YT: RetroCCN]

[cidraman]

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Mega Drive). Traveller's Tales / Sony Imagesoft - 1993.

[aardwolfpack]

After Almost 3 Decades, You Can Finally Read The Comic For SNES Classic 'Skyblazer' Online

Originally published in UK magazine 'Manga Mania'

Did I really never post this?

[abandonwave]

Hook (SNES), 1992.

[vgprintads]

‘Cliffhanger’

[MULTI] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1993]

Cliffhanger gives me this inescapable sense of déjà vu. I completely lost track of the number of times I encountered the same platforming challenges, in exactly the same order throughout my hour-long adventure. I’ve honestly never seen such a blatant reuse of assets before. Maybe the developers just assumed that we’d be too absorbed in the gripping story to notice. ~Alli Flanagan, Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the SNES Library

Source: Game Players, December 1993 (#54) || RetroMags; E-Day

[ohno3do]