The original Sony PlayStation is 30 years old but its success was not an accident, as the PS1 became the console to take video games mainstream.
30 years of gaming For the 30th anniversary of PlayStation, GameCentral looks back at the launch of the PS1 and how it revolutionised the world of video games. The original PlayStation arrived in the UK on September 29, 1995. As was common at the time, that was almost a year after it first launched in Japan, on December 3, 1994. That means the console, and the entire PlayStation brand, is now 30 years old.
Ridge Racer’s 3D graphics were amazing, but the game itself was nowhere near as cool as WipEout, with its artwork by The Designers Republic and music from Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. Then there was the drug reference in its name: Whip E Out. Whether that was intentional or not has never been clear but print ads for WipEout also courted controversy by appearing to show two players that had suffered a drug overdose.
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