The Weird History Of The Super NES CD-ROM, Nintendo's Most Notorious Vaporware kotaku.com

“It’s just around the corner!” read the April 1992 issue of Nintendo’s in-house magazine Nintendo Power, in a piece about the SNES CD-ROM drive.
AdvertisementThe ‘Play Station’ prototype discovered in 2015 is the machine that Sony’s Ken Kutaragi created in 1991—a Super Nintendo with a CD-ROM drive attached to it.
Cyan had published the first PC CD-ROM game, The Manhole, and was a year away from launching CD’s first killer app: Myst.
Square’s newsletter did not mention any specific game titles, but we would later learn that its inaugural SNES CD-ROM game was meant to be Secret of Mana.
The discovery in 2015 of Sony’s “Play Station” prototype was an important moment for the history of the SNES CD-ROM.