Get the latest tech news

Ill-fated Nintendo PlayStation's first game was a space shooter, says former exec Shuhei Yoshida

The legendary, unreleased Nintendo PlayStation was due to get an unnamed 2D space shooter as its first game - and the p…

The first game everyone played, said Yoshida, was a 2D (or 2.5D) space shooter with assets streamed from the disc to offer richer graphics than had been seen at the time. Watch on YouTube Yoshida compared the graphics to Silpheed developed by Game Arts that was released on Sega's Mega CD and used pre-rendered animation as a full motion video background. As the Nintendo PlayStation was never released - and only one prototype seemingly still exists - Yoshida's comments are the only snippet we have of what kind of games players could have expected from the system.

Get the Android app