PlayStation, do it!

Recently we took a look at Nintendo's SNES, one of the greatest video consoles of all time. If Nintendo started defining video games with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (AKA Famicom) first, and SNES later, Sony's PlayStation began the revolution of the modern video games era and changed the world.

But few people know that the story behind Sony's PlayStation is a betrayal and revenge tale. It's a well-known fact that back in the early 90s, Japan, and almost all the gamers all over the world, were divided in two. There was a war between the two biggest video games companies of Japan, the choice, Nintendo or Sega. After Nintendo's greatest hit, the SNES, Sega came out with the SEGA CD, a CD accessory for Sega's Sega Genesis. It was at this moment that Nintendo came to Sony searching for a partner to develop a new console able to face the threat of Sega's Sega CD.

The first idea was to develop an add-on CD player for the Super Nintendo, the name? PlayStation. At this point, Ken Kutaragi was sent by Sony to team up with the people of Nintendo. Ken Kutaragi, Sony's PlayStation father, was a Sony engineer who already wanted Sony to develop a video console, but when he explained his ideas to Sony's director, he got a straight response, "we are not a toy company and we're not gonna get in this business", anyway, the scenario was different this time.

The problem was that Nintendo began to have second thoughts. In this deal, Nintendo's rights over Sony's CD technology were zero, and this was supposed to say goodbye to a huge profit. Despite the deal with Sony going on, Nintendo went to Philips and asked them to start working on something for them. It was in the 1991 CES when Ken Kutaragi and Nintendo announced the Nintendo PlayStation, but at this point, Nintendo revealed their intentions to work with Philips on the CD technology. This was understood as a total betrayal for Sony. This time when Ken Kutaragi went back to his bosses and proposed to develop a game system, not just a CD-Rom but a whole system, he received another straight but totally different response, two simple words that changed the world forever, do it!

You know the rest of the story, due to this betrayal Nintendo's SNES-CD never came out, and Sony released their own game system known as PlayStation, the game system that changed the world forever. The original PlayStation was a huge success, 102.49 million sold all over the world. Today we bring you the chance to remember those days with a unique selection of the Japanese games that sent the original PlayStation to the Olympus of the console games, as you may know, these games work only in Japanese consoles, so you'll find a list of the best Japanese PlayStation console deals that we found just for you, do it!