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Sony Playstation
SNES Sony CD
Never released
The
Sony PlayStation began life as the SNES PlayStation, an add-on peripheral
for the Nintendo SNES, but after a dispute between Sony and Nintendo
over control of licences, Sony was dropped from the project. In order
to use some of the technology developed during this period Sony Computer
Entertainment Division was formed. The result of which was the Playstation
One.
Sony Playstation
US on September 9, 1995
The original playstation
design.
Sony PS ONE
Exactly the same as playstation
one but in a new smaller white case. A monitor is also available for
this model, though without power its portability was limited.
Sony PS2
March 24, 2000 in Japan
The PS2 was the 1st mass
selling 128 bit system.
Sony Playstation 1 SPECIFICATIONS
CPU
CPU: 32-bit R3000A RISC
running at 33.8688 MHz, 30 MIPS, bus bandwidth 132 Mb/sec
Colour Palette: 16.7 million colours.
Resolution: 256x224 - 640 x 480.
Resolution: 256 x 224 - 740 x 480.
Geometry Engine: 3D Geometric Transfer Engine 1.5 million flat-shaded
polygons per second, 500 000 texture-mapped/light-sourced polygons
per second.
Sprites: 4,000 8 x 8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation
Near acade perfect Ridge Racer was
the first of many driving based games, and an early playstation success.
Eventually far surpassed by the Gran Turisimo series.
Tekken was for many the first decent
3D beat em up
Final Fantasy was for many the first
game to touch on deep emotion.
Tony hawks skateboarding, one of the
best games to come from the playstation era.
Sony Playstation Accessories
The dual shock controller
became pretty standard.
Multi-tap
Dance mats were popular
arcade spin-offs towards the end of the playstation shelf life.