jarrod said:
Outside the original Mark III/Master System, the only one I can think of is the Saturn, which had both a CD-ROM drive and a cartridge slot. Of course, no games were ever released only on cart, it was mainly used for memory units and RAM upgrades (and originally intended for MD backwards compatibility, though that got scrapped). At least one game (KOF 95) had a dual media release though, using both CD and cart in tandem. Gaming oriented computer formats like MSX or the earlier SG-3000 often had various media inputs though (game cards, game carts, floppies, etc). There were also combined platform units for consoles released though, like the Turbo Duo, Twin Famicom, X'Eye or Genesis CDX. Originally Nintendo also wanted to put two DS card slots in the DSi, though they decided against it due to the added footprint. |
Yeah, the reason I didn't mention the Saturn was because the cartridge slot was only used as a kind of memory card port and RAM expansion. And I didn't count the combined units because the Sega-CD and Turbo Duo and the like were essentially add-ons, not secondary ports included in the machine. The SNES and GameCube, in a sense, had secondary gaming inputs with the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player, respectively.
The only actual console out of my 30-odd systems with two ports, both intended for different game mediums is the Master System.
