Another variations embrace a giant purple energy swap and the truth that the controller ports are on the left facet of the console, relatively than centered as they have been within the eventual manufacturing mannequin. There’s additionally what appears to be like just like the console’s enlargement port on the entrance, relatively than the underside the place it lived on the ultimate design. The panel surrounding the controller ports appears to be like yellowed — it wouldn’t be a part of the SNES household with out that although, would it not?
Right here’s a gallery of the pictures from the public sale:
Evaluate that to the ultimate launch:
And the horrible factor we ended up with within the US:
These design touches went out the window for the SNES launched within the US, which ended up with a chunky, boxy design that had purple, sliding switches on high as an alternative of the spherical, sloping, compact design. Nintendo launched a revised SNES, the New-Style Super NES, in 1997 that got here a bit nearer, however with a pill-shaped energy swap and round reset button.
One other misplaced Nintendo prototype confirmed up just a few years in the past within the Nintendo / Sony PlayStation that Pets.com founder Greg McLemore bought at an auction — which additionally had a headphone jack. Two years earlier than that, an unreleased, wired model of the Wiimote that connects to the GameCube was sold in a Japanese auction for $660. The Tremendous Famicom prototype being auctioned as we speak is, as of this writing, sitting at simply over a million yen (simply shy of $7,000 USD), with greater than 5 days to go.