Nuon’s Rarest Game, Crayon Shin-Chan 3, Has Finally Been Preserved Online

We can all sleep a bit better now.

The Nuon is one of the most obscure gaming systems of all time – partly due to the fact that it’s not really a gaming system at all, but a DVD player that also plays video games.

Based on a chipset created by VM Labs, Nuon would attract the likes of Samsung, Toshiba, and Thomson Multimedia when it came to hardware support, but its high price and lack of marketing in the face of the PS2 meant it was a commercial flop. Only eight games were commercially released, one of which, Crayon Shin-Chan 3, has become something of an obsession for Nuon collectors.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

We can all sleep a bit better now.

The Nuon is one of the most obscure gaming systems of all time – partly due to the fact that it’s not really a gaming system at all, but a DVD player that also plays video games.

Based on a chipset created by VM Labs, Nuon would attract the likes of Samsung, Toshiba, and Thomson Multimedia when it came to hardware support, but its high price and lack of marketing in the face of the PS2 meant it was a commercial flop. Only eight games were commercially released, one of which, Crayon Shin-Chan 3, has become something of an obsession for Nuon collectors.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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