A Huge find! (SuperGrafx protos!)

[SuperPlay]

Nice :-)

Much better than having my keyboard remapped at work today ;-)

[csgx1]

  Good one.  Had me going for a bit. 

[Mathius]

You're so evil Chris!

[esteban]

Happy April Fool's Day, everybody! 

Perfectly executed! I love that you took the time to do this. Building anticipation by telling us "more info coming soon" was just divine. Perfect execution, as far as I am concerned.

[nat]

Finally, as Black Tiger pointed out, a totally convincing page is not a good April Fool's joke.  Just like in comedy, a scene should start out normal, introduce something incongruous, and then crank up the unbelievability until people get the joke.  I thought with my "Excited-blind-faith-diehard PCE Fanboy" writer's voice and Johnny Turbo echoes (Arcade feel!) it should have tipped everyone off; the ridiculous features of the Console (Dual screens!  Money feeder!) were the punchline.

Heck yeah, the jape was perfectly executed*.  Only you and your collection of prototypes and rare goodies could've pulled it off so successfully. 

* - though a Queeg reference would've made it even better (just for you, nat).

April, May, June, July and August Fool's?

[ccovell]

Short after the picture-shock was gone, I was wondering, why isn't it docked into a SGFX? It doesn't make sense to dock it into a simple SCD ROM and hey play some rad SGFX games. lol.

It is docked into a SuperGrafx.  At that perspective, the slightly wider bump at the back-right is all of the SGX that sticks out of the Power Console (the Expansion Bus lump is visible too, of course.)  And I "connected" the whole thing to my SCD to take RGB screenshots from the Power Console software, of course.  O:)

[sunteam_paul]

This reached a new level of awesome.

[TheClash603]

I called it first

Nice prank, this is one of the best holidays!

[Mathius]

Short after the picture-shock was gone, I was wondering, why isn't it docked into a SGFX? It doesn't make sense to dock it into a simple SCD ROM and hey play some rad SGFX games. lol.

It is docked into a SuperGrafx.  At that perspective, the slightly wider bump at the back-right is all of the SGX that sticks out of the Power Console (the Expansion Bus lump is visible too, of course.)  And I "connected" the whole thing to my SCD to take RGB screenshots from the Power Console software, of course.  O:)

I thought I remembered being docked to a SGX.

[Keranu]

Once I read "Other ports down the left side are an additional video output from the Console, and a coin slot and bill feeder too!" I could no longer take the rest of the page seriously .

HOWEVER Chris did raise something that I never even noticed before: are those 2, 3, 4, 5 ports on the right side of the peripheral really for extra controllers?

I also doubt the system has LCD displays, but that would be awesome if those little radars lit up!

[DesmondThe3rd]

Damn, I know it was a joke and all but I wish there was another SGX game out there.

[Sparky]

hahaha... wow i still believe it
well done...  and a hell of a good read ...

[awack]

HAHA...i think its time to let the cat out of the bag, the Porto's are not real, but the power console is, i put in half of the price(were talking car money here, it was allot)....i haven't had it in my hands yet, but from what Ive been told the yoke or steering is a little wonky.

[ccovell]

Added a "Making of" here: http://www.chrismcovell.com/PowerConsole/makingof.html

 

[turbogrfxfan]

Brilliant **** -turbo