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  1. FAKE by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2 · on A Look At the Rare Hybrid Console Built By Sony and Nintendo

    and lame

  2. Appears to be Fake by aitikin · · Score: 4, Informative · on A Look At the Rare Hybrid Console Built By Sony and Nintendo

    Per page 7 of the forum, it appears to be a fake:

    http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/nintendo-snes-playstation-finally-uncovered.57166/page-7

    from a French modder that does custom cases.

  3. Forum Link by markg11cdn · · Score: 1 · on Former Sega Employee Reveals Sega Pluto Prototype Console

    Here's a link to the forum where the guy first posted about the console : http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?45489-The-Real-Sega-Pluto

  4. Concerns over Tetris games back in the day by elegie · · Score: 1 · on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones

    Depending on where one looks, legal concerns over the Tetris game are not necessarily new. In 1989, the notable game Tetris: The Soviet Mind Game, which was produced by Tengen, was removed from the market after a legal ruling against Tengen. (It would be interesting to know as to whether the actual issue was one of copyright or trademark.) In addition, it has been said that there was a now-obscure Tetris game that was released for the Sega Megadrive console.

    Over the years, there have been multiple instances where games have resembled existing games. For instance, on the Apple Macintosh platform, there was the shareware Bakudanjin game which has been regarded as a clone of the Bomberman video game. (According to the iDevGames "Bakudanjin Postmortem" article, producing a game that constituted a clone was one of the aspects that didn't work so well with the Bakudanjin project, even though the Bakudanjin game was successfully released.) In addition, there was the freeware Arashi game which is said to be similar to the Tempest video game.

  5. A large subculture by sharopolis · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market

    There's a large and fairly obsessive subculture associated with videogame prototypes. The ultimate goal for most people involved is to find prototypes 'in the wild' like this, but a lot of ultra rare video game stuff is found through dodgy deals and allegedly, bribery and outright theft.
    http://www.atariprotos.com/ is a repository of Atari stuff and http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/ is a message board discussing the subject.
    The big area for debate around prototyes is wheather or not they should be realeased. Regardless of the fact that this game never saw commercial release, it's still likely to be someone's intellectual property, and they may not be keen on seeing it spread around freely.
    A lot of prototypes are worth serious money, this one as an Atari game will be too. A lot of collectors refuse to relase prototypes they've discovered incase it lowers the value of them.