On this day in 1994, Sony launched the Playstation in Japan, we wouldn't see it in other parts of the world until almost a year later, it is its birthday nonetheless.
The Playstation has it's start as a cd add-on concept for the Super Famicon(AKA Super Nintendo) that started in the late 80's, later called the "Play Station". The SNES-CD was to be announced at the May 1991, but when Hiroshi Yamauchi read thl 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized the agreement gave Sony control over any titles written on the format, and secretly cancelled the projet.
After the joint projet collapse, Sony decided to take what they had and made a stand alone console , Removed the space from "Play Station", and the Playstation was born.
It would be the first console to reach a Hundred Million units sold worldwide, and even held its ground against the Nintendo 64.
Happy Birthday Playstation!!
Two models now in line for a hard strike...
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...with three more coming in line during the early period (as they don't go
out far enough). Now the Navy Nogaps is also showing a cat 3 strike on the
nort...
