Super NES/Famicom Prototypes


All of the following scans and info on this page was provided by Tristan Fletcher tristan.fletcher@severed.overflow.com.


Here are a few pictures of pre-production Super NES/Famicom designs. Apologies for the poor quality but they were scanned from very old publications/very small pictures.
 



This prototype is squarer than the final model, and also has more buttons. The control pad is unchanged, apart from the button colors. There also appears to be a headphone jack and volume control on the side.
 


 

Very similar to the final design, but the controller ports are to the right and the cart slot is a different shape. The power button is also red instead of grey.


Again very similar, but controller ports are to the left this time and there is an extra port on the front.



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