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The Super Nintendo with CD-ROM drive manufactured by Sony in collaboration with Nintendo has sold for $ 360,000 (about 316,000 euros) at auction, after its owner rejected an offer of $ 1.2 million.

The founder of Pets.com and Toys.com, Greg McLemore, who is also a video game collector, has been the winner of the auction, which began on February 27 through Heritage Auctions.

McLemore has told CNN that the console "is the most expensive thing" he has bought after a house. "I think I've got a good offer. For me it's worth it, especially when I join it with the rest of my collection," he added.

This is a unique article, as it could be the last prototype of the 200 that were created. As Heritage Auctions explains, the other 199 prototypes were destroyed following a dispute between Nintendo and Sony and the project ended up being canceled in 1991. Three years later, Sony created its own PlayStation.

The console was manufactured by Sony and the idea was to play with standard Super Famicom cartridges and also run games from a CD-ROM drive.

The owner of the console, Terry Diebold, bought at a auction in 2009 a box that belonged to a former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive, not knowing that inside was the Nintendo PlayStation prototype.

In 2015, Terry's son discovered the console and decided to bring it to light. Until then, the Super PlayStation had only been seen in magazine pages.

Since then, father and son have taken the console all over the world, showing it in exhibitions of classic games, among other things, and last year they said they were ready to auction it.

Diebold said he had repeatedly rejected millionaire offers, including one he received from Norway for 1.2 million dollars (around 1.08 million euros).

The owner of the Nintendo Playstation prototype told the videogame blog Kotaku that after paying the corresponding taxes, dividing the rest halfway with his son and paying the outstanding debts, "he would end up with virtually nothing."

"I can't keep losing money," Diebold explained. "I have worked a lot traveling with the console and we have not done anything about it. Each trip we have made has cost us money from our pocket," he said.

The Nintendo PlayStation prototype acquired by McLemore belonged to the first president and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Olaf Olaffson, who became president of Advanta Corporation in 1998.

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