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“There was a sense that video games were toys. And Sony is not a toy company.” That’s how a new mini-oral history about PlayStation revolutionizing console gaming begins over at IGN. The words belong to former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden, and they ring true for anyone who grew up with an NES or SNES. The Nintendo consoles built for angular cartridges could take a beating like children’s building blocks, and the games often revolved around colorful wor...

The PS1 and PS2 were a beautiful nexus of new technology, experimentation, and risk-taking

Point taken - The Sensor Bar. Flimsy little plastic box with the worlds longest, spindliest cable. An irritation to every...

For a generation of players, these colourful cabinets house not just ailing electronics, but formative memories. Meet the people who save them from landfill

Some of the very best game developers the 90s had to offer.

Utterly huge Japanese videogame publisher/developer, responsible for many popular arcade games throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as well as ports of the...