Nintendo PlayStation prototype hardware was completely lost to history until a man found it abandoned in a box of literal junk his father bought at a corporate bankruptcy auction.

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Nintendo PlayStation prototype hardware was completely lost to history until a man found it abandoned in a box of literal junk his father bought at a corporate bankruptcy auction. Terry Diebold paid a mere seventy-five dollars for a lot of abandoned property from Advanta Corporation, completely unaware that a former executive had left a one-of-a-kind piece of gaming history in a cardboard box. For years, the only existing physical evidence of the failed partnership between Sony and Nintendo sat gathering dust in a suburban attic. When his son finally realized what they had and posted pictures on Reddit, the internet absolutely lost its mind. The console eventually sold at auction for over three hundred thousand dollars, making it the most profitable pile of forgotten office trash ever purchased