My gaming didn’t start with PlayStation, but I do consider the 1995 release of the original PlayStation console to be a major turning point in my world. I had friends with old Nintendos and I played a myriad of cheap computer games I’d pick up at the dollar store on floppy disks. I spent hours upon hours on Myst’s strange island, one of my first CD-ROM games. Then, in 1995, Sony changed the gaming world.
The PlayStation Anthology book actually starts 50 years before the release of that first PlayStation console, with the creation of Sony in 1945. I didn’t expect to start out reading a book about PlayStation only to find myself entrenched in the history of post-WWII Japan, but it’s details like these that make PlayStation Anthology such a special read. Everything in its 380+ pages delves into the kind of details that I didn’t even know I wanted, but I am more than happy to have. The History of PlayStation
The first third of the PlayStation Anthology book covers the history of the console, from the inception of Sony to the end of production in 2006. As this does overlap with the release of the PS2 and PlayStation Portable, the book covers how the PlayStation’s success springboarded Sony forward as a company. It doesn’t simply end with the release of the PS2, as the original grey console continued to make a massive impact on gaming. Writing the history in this way also makes this a great standalone volume that doesn’t feel...