Idem

1991 - After a collaboration with Sony to help develop a CD add-on for the SNES turns sour, Nintendo decides to partner with Sony’s rivals, Philips Electronics NV. Nintendo grants the company permission to use Mario and Zelda in a series of games for the Philips CD-i console, and in exchange Philips agrees to work on a CD add-on for the SNES. But the add-on is later dropped.

1991 - The Super Famicom is released in the US as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
1993- Gunpei Yokoi and his R&D1 team begin researching Virtual Reality technology.


SNES
In the box
CPU: 65c816 (16-bit)
CPU Speed: 2.68–3.58MHz
RAM: 1Mbit (128Kbyte)
Resolution: 512 x 448 Pixels
Colours: 32,768
Maximum Sprite Size: 64 x 64 Pixels
Maximum Sprites: 128 Sprites
Maximum Colours Displayed at Once: 256
Sound: 8-bit Sony SPC700

Trivia - Star Fox, released in the US in 1993, was the first 3D polygon game to ever appear on a home console. It made use of the cartridge’s Super FX chip to create 3D effects. The chip and game were developed in the UK, by Argonaut Software.

1995 - Nintendo partners with Satellite Digital Audio Broadcasting Co to release the Satelleview-X (BS) in Japan. Comparable to The Virtual Console, it’s a modem add-on for the SNES that allows gamers to listen to music, watch television shows and play games by tuning into a service called ST GIGA.

1995 - Nintendo releases the Virtual Boy in Japan. With its cumbersome looks, high asking price and lack of software support by other developers, sales for the machine prove slow and the project would eventually be considered a flop
by Nintendo.

1996 - The Virtual Boy is released in the America. It never finds a release in Australia.

Trivia - Only 22 games were ever released for the Virtual Boy, most by Nintendo. It’s reputed that the machine was always intended to ship in a different – less bulky – form but was rushed out of production by an impatient Nintendo which wanted to focus its time and efforts on the N64.


End of part 5.