In the early '90s, Nintendo and Sony collaborated on a console featuring Super NES hardware combined with a Sony-designed CD-ROM drive. Informally known as the Nintendo PlayStation, it would become an infamous bit of gaming lore, with Nintendo ditching the collaboration at the last minute to instead partner with Philips.
The partnership between Nintendo and Philips would ultimately result in a handful of terrible games for the doomed CD-i platform featuring characters like Mario and Zelda. Sony, meanwhile, would take the idea for PlayStation and turn it into an all-new console, cementing itself as a central pillar of the games industry in the process.
