This blog began 20 years ago and I've reviewed PlayStation hardware across generations. So it's only right I share my memories on the 30th anniversary of the game-changing console.
I wouldn't own Sony's upstart console with a copy of Tomb Raider until 1996. However, I first played a friend's Japanese import PlayStation and then a university housemate's for a daily dose of Destruction Derby, Ridge Racer and WipEout when I should have been writing my third-year dissertation.
Without the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), there would be no PlayStation.
Sony's 32-bit console began life as an aborted SNES CD-ROM add-on in 1988. However, Nintendo shunned Sony at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and partnered with Philips in 1991. The rest is gaming history.
To celebrate this milestone anniversary, Sony brings back the original PlayStation boot screen with the PS5 anniversary update! No matter which generation of PlayStation you grew up on, that old-school PS1 boot screen just hits differently! I will turn my PS5 on and off throughout the holidays to remember what it felt like to play Tomb Raider for the first time!
What are your PlayStation memories? Let me know in the comments below.