/vr/ - Retro Games

>PSX Encyclopedia Book
If you can't even get the name right I don't have much hope for this book.

give it a go. it`s free, so you can always delete it if it sucks

>>2337202
PSX was what the original playstation was commonly referred to way back in the latter half of the nineties. (Not OP)

>>2337214
When I got mine shortly after the launch it said PlaySation on the box.

>>2337195

See, the problem is that in this day and age, virtually anyone can go and write a book about something and publish it online.
The fact is that in many cases the author itself doesn't really know what he's talking about, and many of his resources comes from the internet and questionable sources, people that want to know something about the ps1 and have no prior knowledge of it or experience with it, can be damaged by this kind of thing.

>>2337220
That doesn't mean it wasn't referred to as PSX.

>>2337225
Nope. Never heard it called PSX till the 2000s.

>>2337202
I agree
Honestly if I saw that just out of the blue I'd think it was a little thing about the PSX rather than the PS1.
On that I'd love to see a little background and thought of what went into the creation and the release of the PSX.

>>2337227
If you didn't hear of it, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I also cover the PSX in the box, the dvd recorder/PS2 PSX i mean. The playstation had the codename PSX in the beginning.

>>2337229
I'm sure some people referred to the N64 as the Ultra 64 too.

>>2337195

so what's it's just one or two paragraphs about the games? Yawn.

>>2337230
Thank you, Christ you'd have to be living under a rock at the time to not know the original PlayStation was sometimes referred to as the PSX. Even after it was out you could read EGM and they were abbreviating it to PSX.>>2337232

Yes, it is only around two paragraphs on each games, though it does cover every game.

All I want is for someone to say more than a few words about Falcata.

Come on OP, we all know this is advertisement and that you are samefagging in here.
You say that there's a free version, but you really want at least to get one anon to buy the 20$ one.

>>2337236
IIRC, I had a couple cheat books that called it "PSX"

Well it is advertisement, or else no one would know. The crackhead price are lulu, i make maybe 3$ each on the books. I don`t plan to make money on this. Total I have made under 5$ on every book i have on that shitty site of mine. I just want to share.

>>2337250
Yeah there was even a magazine that exclusively covered the PlayStation called PSX. It's not even the same as calling a Nintendo an Ultra-64. People rarely called the N64 that while PSX was a very common moniker for the PlayStation.

>>2337254

You would make more moneys if you made just a pdf version for 2$
Or just free with donations, nowadays people prefer to donate than to pay for something.

/r/ing someone please post text or a scan of what was written about NBA Jam Tournament Edition please and thank you

i had a n64/saturn growing up, so this will be helpful. downloadan

But it is free. The zip file include everything.

>>2337195

Thanks for the effort of putting it together, will look at it later.

>>2337272
breastexpansion.wem

TROJAAAAN!

>>2337195

You have spelling and grammar errors in the fucking introduction. Are you 12 years old?

haha. no i`m Norwegian.

these things are wayyy too simply designed to be several-hundred-meg PDFs. compress that shit nigger

>The first conceptions of the PlayStation date back to 1986 between a joint venture between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo had been attempting to work with disc-based technology since the Famicom; their product was known as the ‘CD-ROM/XA’ - which acted as an extension of CD-ROMs that allowed for simultaneous access to compressed audio and video data on the discs, however the medium had problems.

ummm

>>2337329
>I made this book because I had time off work, cause anxiety, and I had to do something to not go mental. So i made a book, calling it The Complete NES Guide, consisting of every NES game ever released among other things. Pretty much the same as this book. After that i made several other book in the same vein, from TMNT toys to Point and Click games. I like to catalog and categorize stuff, like all the comic I buy, I put in excel lists and every game I own I do the same. I always wanted to make a book consisting of every PSX games released, but was a little taken back cause the scale of the PSX library. But, I thought if I just made the book in several smaller, it would be more manageable. So, the book grew and grew into this monstrosity.

>I made this book for myself as as a fan of the Sony Playstation. I have tried to make the book well presented and easy to look through. Although spelling errors are present, try to look past it and don`t get to hung up on them. I suck at grammar, i know:(

>If you are happy with the book then please look at some of the web-sites on the “Reference Guide” page. Find a site that you like and give them some spending money. Or give cash to something you belive in. A kickstarter project or something, i don`t know?

>If you are annoyed, or the owner of some of the content i took from you, send an email to me: sennep@hotmail.com
from: Daniel aka DaddaRuleKonge

>I hope you will get some use of this book, and maybe help you in your quest on collecting, or just having fun with this great system.

>>2337195
A 1gb pdf? That's funny, Anon-kun.

If you really wanted to make this info useful, you'd make a website. This seems like a huge OCD project for you rather than anything actually worth reading, though.

hey op

1GB for 1750pages?

Something's REALLY wrong here.

>>2337362
>Something's REALLY wrong here.

>>2337349
>>2337349
>>2337349
>>2337349

>>2337370

Nope, read this post already, that's not it.

>>2337272
>not including this one
Not only is it the best PS1 controller but the PS4 controller takes the longer legs and divot sticks from it.

you are all fucking morons, stop responding to this thread and report it instead, dear god

its a virus

>everyone being so bitter over a free pdf

>>2337412
>hey guys look, I just crapped on my hand, want some?
>it was just for me at first but I thought maybe you guys would have fun with it

yeah. it`s weird. I`m no wizard, just look at my sucky web-site. I can`t code for shit. And the size of the PDF is cause it`s not compressed as stated earlier.

>>2337416

>>2337418
Literally "I Like Shit: The Fag"

>>2337423
I'd rather like shit than nothing at all :^)
Better than being mad and bitter at everything always.

>>2337427
>I'd rather like shit than nothing at all :^)

>>2337429
>being this upset
kek
keep bumping the thread that you dislike so much

>>2337434

>>2337214
Nobody called it PSX until playstation 2 came out and people needed to differentiate the two.

Before that people just said "Playstation" or 'PS'

>>2337683
Also because PSOne*

>>2337683
Nobody except loads of people for nearly half a decade before.

This isn't /v/ you don't need to pretend your a cool kid down with the retro games for cred.

>>2337362
>freebook.exe

>>2337694
Nice sources you have kid.
Did you're granpappy tell you about the days of people calling the playstation the "PSX" for no reason at all?

>>2337705
Your*

Also, I'll check back in 1 hour to see if you posted sources of more than one person calling it the PSX before PSone and PS2 came out.

>>2337683
That's actually the exact opposite.
When the Ps2 was announced that's when people STOPPED using PSX and started using PS1

>>2337708
This is true, I started seeing "PSone" when the slim variant came out, then "PS1" around the PS2 reveal. PSX was in magazines way before that but verbally everyone said "Playstation".

>>2337705
Oh, really?
Nice sources?

What's this 1995 faq that mentions it?
http://cd.textfiles.com/arcadebbs/vid/ULTRA64.TXT

1998 faq that disagrees with you.
http://www.cheatcc.com/psx/sg/soul_edge_secrets.txt

1999 faq that disagrees with you.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/916392-playstation/faqs/4705

1997 faq
http://www.capcorphq.com/files/DBFAQ.txt

1999 slashdot comment
http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/11/24/0912234/slashdots-top-10-hacks-of-all-time

1995 faq
ftp://ftp.vernet.lv/pub/msdos/games/FAQs/discwfaq.txt

1999 usenet comment
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video.sony/xoBYr1HfyN4

There's also a good reason why psx is the term used for emulators and you can find it all around. So relax and let your nuts drop kiddo.

>>2337714
Fucking told.

Playstation?

More like GAYstation

#shotsfired
#rekt
pwned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States
/thread

>>2337714
>every single one a txt file that could have been made at any time

top kek

fuck off

>>2337716
samefag

>>2337723
>being so buttblasted you go into denial
most jej

>>2337716
This guy >>2337708
is also correct, PS1 was the term gained after the release of PS2 and gained more usage with the release of the mini PSOne console.

Also more telling.
A 1998 article from IGN.
http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/28/history-of-the-playstation

Posts from playstation forums dated 1999
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-2-PSOne/what-does-the-psx-x-stand-for/td-p/7721554

>>2337723
The internet itself disagrees with you. I don't mean the people on it. I mean the fucking archival nature of the internet. Look it the fuck up.

But yeah, people went all the back to 1995 faqs that were last modified in 1995 to replace that to route you.
Someone even hacked slashdot and IGN just to make a point.

Maybe go fuck yourself you fucking twat nose prick.

The real question, is it "pea ess cross" or "pea ess ecks"? I'd assume it's cross since that's what they call the ✖.

/vr/ would be a crystal-spired utopia if 5th gen were banned

it would get five posts a week but i don't give a damn

>>2337732
It's was called the PS No Pizza

>>2337723
Also here's about a bajillion usenet posts
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.games.video.sony-playstation/psx$201994
Of varying dates

You're a fucking troll and you should feel bad.

>>2337737
A likely story.

>>2337736
I didn't realize I was on twitter, thanks for the update though.

Here are posts from arstechnica back in 1999.
But why are so many people saying PSX back in 1999 before the PS2 came out. I wonder why... It must be because they realized the PS2 was coming out and people would look shit up on the internet so instead of naturally saying a common and natural phrase identified with the playstation, they'd say PSX so future generations of asshole could be right that no one actually said. Thereby proving themselves masters of time as well proving that they were hipsters using the term long before it came into general usage, because it wasn't ever used in before the PS2 was released, ever.

>>2337770
nice undoctored png there m8, seems totally legit ;^)

>>2337774
OH NOES U COT ME!
It's a conspiracy. I even went back and photoshopped and replaced this particular page of Maximum PC August 1999 magazine to say PSX. How fucking crazy cool am I? Do I know how to do conspiracies or what? Man when I'm done people will think that Germany actually murdered millions of jews.

>>2337779
>continues posting pictures like that is a real source

www.learn2link.com

>>2337782
Oh you're right.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Maximum+PC+August+1999

There YA GO! HUCK HUCK.

Also I photoshopped every edition of billboard magazine, may 1999 as well.

>>2337793
>>2337779
>>2337770

Autism

>>2337793
Uh oh... found another shitty book I hacked!
IMA MANIAC!

When I'm done you won't even remember that people used to call the playstation SPES, you'll think the world was calling it PSX all this time.

>>2337801
Oh man! I'm almost finished with replacing every reference to the playstation's secret code word only twelve year olds know with PSX just because I'm an old fuck with wrinkly fucking balls that are smarter some fucks around here!

>>2337801
Wow nice source bro! another picture with no link!
I hope you don't edit wikipedia.

Anon gets btfo: the thread

>>2337808
>still no sources
>btfo

keep samefagging

>>2337804
OH GOD, YOUR WRITE! HOW WILL U EVAR NO WHERE DAT CUM FRUM?

Oh yeah... words. You have learned to fucking read right? Oh, no? Well, at least you'll have all these pretty fucking pictures of your ass being wrong as fuck to look at.

>>2337812
I bet you're the OP and you're doing this just to keep the thread up.

>>2337813

>>2337812
Don't you ever get tired of being so fucking wrong all the fucking time?

>>2337816
>look mom I can use paint.exe!
>look at me "btfO' this kid mommy!!!!

>>2337815
Everyone knows that Gabe even under his pseudonym Game Newel is a fagget who ruined PC gaming and can't be trusted. But what edition of Gabe was that anyway? Oh right, not an actual publication.

What do you know, someone's assmad that can't use the internet correctly yet.

>>2337814
you're right :^)

>>2337818
Plz... anyone can tell that's a shop. See this is the original clearly.

> notice this shit thread last night
> man is still here on page 1 this morning we
> take a look in thread

Oh is a PSX denial thread. If it hasn't started on such a bizarre note I'd suspect volunteers of making these threads when /vr/ is getting too slow and it needs fired up.

Daily reminder that all PSX deniers are trolls or idiot children who don't know how to history.

>>2337838
It's fun to mess with people like that, they don't realize half the time that they're keeping the thread alive by "trolling" so despite them disliking the topic they perpetuate its existence. Shooting themselves in the foot.

>>2337816

>>2337849
Which would be relevant if shops were involved.

Also, screenshots take more like three seconds and are quicker than editing elements anyway. Also, writing on highlighting is done pretty much instantly too.

>>2337863
i actually haven't even read the thread nor do i know what was the initial accusation of samefaggery.

i just do that every time i see someone call out samefaggin'.
because i think it's funny when anons start calling me out for something i have no part in

>>2337901
I really don't know why people even make the samefag claim, they know it's a moot issue anyway since they will deny any "proof" that it's more than 1 person. To me it's an instant sign of denial if someone even makes the claim at all, it's only reinforced when they claim edit, that's my perspective on it at least, obviously you shouldn't automatically assert that the screencaps are proof either but still.

>>2337714
I forgot 6th genners think internet was popular in 1995.

Holy shit I posted hours ago here, this thread was on its way to deletation, come back and

wow, COMPLETE. AUTISTIC. SATURATION.

:>)

>>2337706

Bah... silly kids. It was Psx because it was hyped as PlayStation X. The X was only removed closely before the release and to be honest Ps1 still makes me feel uneasy, it refers to the white, small thing that can play Psx games but it's design is a visual disgrace compared to the original, that white thing looks like some gay phone meant to be used in public bathrooms.

>>2338645
No other consoles gets called by it's codename over the release name.
Besides I never heard anyone call it PSX prior to PS2.

>>2337705
>>2337683

Fucking idiot.

>>2338670
Looks like it says PS-X.

>>2338673

>>2338680
Well is it PSX or PS-X?

>>2338687
Neither

PSOne, stupid

>>2338716
Ok I'll stick to what I've called it since the release. PlayStation.

guys stop

>>2338728
>it's was abreviated PSX in the western world, Play-Sta-X, X=tion, so PS-X can be accepted

only the n00bs get confused...

>then came the PS2, and in Japan there was a PlayStation X which got called PSX

the n00bs got their jimmies rustled

>they started calling the first console PS1

so the n00bs got more confused than before...

>but then came the PSOne, so there was a confusion on which one was PS1 when you typed that

n00bs are raging hard now

[spoilers]and are currently discussing it ITT[/spoilers]

Thank me later guize...

>it's was abreviated PSX in the western world, Play-Sta-X, X=tion, so PS-X can be accepted

only the n00bs get confused...

>then came the PS2, and in Japan there was a PlayStation X which got called PSX

the n00bs got their jimmies rustled

>they started calling the first console PS1

so the n00bs got more confused than before...

>but then came the PSOne, so there was a confusion on which one was PS1 when you typed that

n00bs are raging hard now

and are currently discussing it ITT

Thank me later guize...

>>2338645
the PSOne is a very 1998/1999/2000 era design, and it shows, it fits solidly with what was in style at the time

I personally like it, but it's easy to dislike, and it's definitely not up to par with the original PlayStation design.
That was an odd time for product design in general, not sleek like after it and not bold like before it, it was this awkward transitional period. Even great designs like the Dreamcast from that period have a certain odd sort of rounding to it.

Can we just fucking ban ps1 and N64 threads already? They aren't goddamn retro at all

PS1 games look amazing on PS3. I was playing the original Medal of Honor it was practically like CoD

>>2338771
I love that design much more than the original, and i think i would even if they were the same size.

>>2338779
Surely you jest

we might as well include 6th gen because all we talk about are 4th and 5th gen anyways

To all you babies complaining about these threads
http://4chan.org/feedback
Stop shitposting and use that, I hate meta posting more than anything else and you're all driving me to do it right now. Complaining here isn't going to make any change and I hope complaining via feedback won't either, what you should do instead is learn how to ignore threads and posts you don't like and instead create threads/post of high quality if you actually want discussion. Don't you realize how dumb it is to post "nobody posts about what I want to talk about" when you obviously have the freedom to start the discussion yourself somewhere.
>but even when I do nobody goes in my thread!
Oh well, what do you want me to do about it? Ruining other peoples threads by complaining about what you want is not cool.

>>2337272
>not including the dual analog

you had one job.

>>2338838

Retrofags are the worst of this section anon.

>>2338771

the monitor was pretty tits though

so, for those of you who collect Playstation games, is it alright to replace the jewel case? I can't see any serial numbers on them. reason I'm asking is because I have a few games that are in fine shape, but the plastic is fucked in places. the artwork is fine, too.

>>2339053
>create threads/post of high quality if you actually want discussion
I wish people understood this.

>>2338757

or it could have just been PS for PLAY STATION. I don't see the need for the X.

>>2337227
IGN Dec 3 1998
https://web.archive.org/web/19981203161444/http://www.ign.com/

GameSpot Dec 22 1996
https://web.archive.org/web/19961222024924/http://www.gamespot.com/

Sony themselves.
https://tcrf.net/PlayStation

>>2339339
Because three letter acronyms are more elegant.
How come nobody used SPS for Sony PlayStation though?
And why make a big fuzz about it nowadays when PS1 is the perfect option.

>>2339363
>Because three letter acronyms are more elegant.

>>2339330

I don't think content is ever etched onto a jewel case.. I've certainly never seen it, neither on music CDs nor on video games. Yes, you can easily gut another better conditioned jewel case of its contents and replace your worn out jewel case. Either that or you can buy a bunch of blank jewel cases. I've done this many times (you can do it with double CD games, too).

Ex-Sony Developer here. (1994-2002).
We used to call the nerds in media that called the Playstation "PSX", "shitenny okinawa" which roughly translates to: "Faggots"

If you call the Playstation "PSX", you're a retard.

>>2339372
So you called yourselves faggots?

>>2339372
>Ex-Sony Developer

>>2339373
We never called the PS "PSX".
The leaked project name was fake that the media picked up on and we didn't care what people thought the prototype was called so we didn't correct them.

>>2339380
>We never called the PS "PSX".
see
>>2339360
It's in the bios, "ex-dev".

>>2339385
>a wiki type site that anyone can edit is your source

When will you kids learn?

>>2339363

Because... Ps1 is the small white thing while Psx is the original grey box.

>>2339409
They run the same software so why bother distinguishing between them? How do you call all the other hardware variations?
The redesign was called PSOne.

REALLY

Ex-Sony founder here. (1908-1997)
Internally we called it the PSX, this was due to the fact we had a roadmap, if the product was successful we were to release several iterations and revisions of the home console. It went well enough to warrant another revision and development had started on the model 2 (PS2), I'm not really sure what happened to that version though.

>>2339435
Holy shit dude, for a jap geezer, your English is actually pretty damn good!

We are not worthy of your excellence!!!

>>2339438
There nothing to do except talk in the afterlife, they don't even have PlayStation® here.

>>2339439
Fret not Sir, the Vita is coming soon, to a heavenly cloud near you!

>>2339420
>run the same software

This also goes for NES clones like pegasus and different versions of SNES called Super Nintendo or Super Famicom etc.. the external design DO matter. The PSone was also released when the console was in decline, like a last attempt to milk the cash cow, and it's design does in no way represent the culture of the PlayStation era, when the battle between Nintendo and SEGA was suddenly ended by Sony beating them both. The grey box design was what united gamers of both camps, the white slim one represents something else.

>still arguing about something when we could all chat with the ghost of the founder of the PS1

It is never too late, /vr/!

>>2339519
I already did that when he was alive. Apparently, the real falling out between Nintendo and Sony was nothing to do with Nintendo's lack of faith in the CD format, it was because Miyamoto had sex with Ibuka's childhood friend. The rest was just a coverup, Nintendo didn't even want to use cartridges for the N64, but they were forced to because Ibuka refused to licence out CDs to them, back when Sony basically controlled the market.

>>2339517
I've never seen somebody throw such a hissyfit over FC vs NES, SFC vs SNES, MD vs Genesis, 2600 vs VCS or whatnot. Only about PSX vs PS vs PS1 and how to pronounce SNES.

I'll give it a read. I'd have a lot of these books (like the ones from the hardcoregaming101 guys) in my shelves if it wasn't because I'd get raped in shipping and customs fees.

>>2340263
>YOUR GUIDE TO THE PLAYSTATION

>>2340002
S-N-E-S

and everyone called Playstation "PSX" back in the day, if you're not 12, you'd know this

>>2340442
Literally noone besides obscure publications and wizards that had mid-90's internet called it that,

>>2340468
This is why casuals have ruined things. A lot of gamers were using the Internet in the 90s. Usenet was the best place to discuss vidya and get information, not to mention deals on games way before ebay.

>>2340468

>>2340442

>Owned a PS1 from nearly launch day PS2 era
>Didn't hear a single person call it a PSX

I didn't know there were people in this world autistic enough to get mad about this.

>>2340475
this is true. i used to buy psx silvers from christian nutt through rec.games.video.marketplace all the time.

yes, I said psx

no, i wasnt a wizard. I didn't even own a computer at home for a very long time, I used to access usenet and web (via lynx) through a library catalog terminal

>>2340520
>being surprised that people felt the need to clarify 1 or 2 when referring to playstation after 2 was released

But we're not talking about THAT point in time, we're talking about 1995-2000, when it was absolutely referred to, on an ongoing basis for years, as PSX. There's mountains of physical and anecdotal evidence to support this, how can anyone even argue otherwise?

Just like people USED to call the original Xbox the Xbox 1 when the term "Xbox" became shorthand for Xbox 360. Then a later product fucks that all up just like the actual factual PSX came along and fucked up pre-existing shorthand.

>>2340849
>There's mountains of physical and anecdotal evidence to support this, how can anyone even argue otherwise?
I agree. I mean it says PlayStation right on the fucking box. How much of an idiot would someone have to be to call it a PSX? How do you even get PSX out pf PlayStation?

>>2340857
Ah, the "NUH UH THAT NEVER HAPPENED!" defense.

Yes, it did happen. I don't give a shit what you want to call it these days, PS1 is probably now the clearest shorthand for it, but when it was still the current gen, a lot of people called it the PSX way before the PS2 was even a notion and there's obviously evidence of this. No amount of No True Scotsman fallacies are going to undo something that happened.

On an anecdotal tack, a number of people I spoke to back in the day referred to it as PSX so as not to confuse it with PS (for post-script). In those days (and a little still), it was fairly common for people to say shit like "PS Spice Girls suck ass" at the end of an argument, in reference to the actual group and not pic related (which could be "PSX Spice Girls sucks ass.")

>>2340905

>Yes, it did happen

this
I grew up reading Playstation magazines in the U.K. and the console was constantly referred to as the PSX, well before PS2 was a thing

>>2340905
>>2340912

Never heard anyone ever call it a PSX pre ps2.

I don't lived in 3rd world either so.

>>2340857
because the code name before release was PSX, you dumb piece of shit -_-

>>2340929
>so.

This is really cute how everyone has to add their own personal anecdote to this plainly factual topic.

>>2340930
Must be why peaple cal the N64 Ultra 64
>>2340932
What's factual about it? The name is right on the box?

>>2340857
Maybe you should ask Sony, they're the ones who came up with it. It's coded right into the console's kernel: https://tcrf.net/PlayStation

The magazines ran with the abbreviation before Sony officially announced the Playstation for US release.

I realize of course you're either a complete idiot or a troll because this information has been widely available, including in this thread.

>>2340942
I'll make sure to refer to consoles by their codenames from now on.

>>2340940
No one has ever argued what the box says. If you don't think it shouldn't be abbreviated as PSX, great. If you don't think it was ever called PSX in the 90's, all the evidence to the contrary is sitting right in front of you. Don't be a little shit.

>>2340949
I think I already said this but damn is it funny that you 6th genners think the internet was popular in the 90s.

>>2340951
What does the internet have to do with it? It was written on the cover of practically every gaming magazine.

why the fuck does this stupid fucking spam post have over 100 replies, let alone is still here?

>>2340951
I think it's funny that you kids that are trying to pretend you aren't kids think the internet WASN'T popular in the 90s.
also I disagree with him, but I hardly see what the internet has to do with anything.

>>2340964
So was Ultra 64.

>>2341000
Only for a short period in 1995. "PSX" continued well into 1999, presumably because "PS" looked to much like "post script" in a printed magazine, so the old abbreviation was kept. The only magazine I can recall that referred to it as "PS" instead of "PSX" was EGM.

>>2339529
Source on this?

>>2339529
>it was because Miyamoto had sex with Ibuka's childhood friend.
this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read, I hope this is a joke or troll post and no one actually believes this.

>>2340475
>This is why casuals have ruined things.
>casuals
fuck off back to /v/, I don't care that the rest of that statement is pretty much true, casuals vs hardcore mentality shit has no place here.

>>2341006
who the fuck even used the term post script in gaming magazines though?

I remember in 2007, while i was downloading isos that some pages called PSX too.

It's likely that you can still find websites that use PSX.

I don't understand why some vocal minority always want to spout shit like "You shouldn't call it like that" or "I never heard of it". Also internet was popular in the 90's.

>>2341071
I dunno, like I said, I'm just presuming that's the reason because I can't think of any other reason "PSX" caught on for so long like it did. After all, it's what comes to mind when I see PS in writing. I don't think I've even seen Sony refer to the PlayStation brand as PS beyond the logo which took me years to even realize was supposed to be a P and S.

>>2341076
but no one argues that it shouldn't be called the PSX even called it the PS, they used PS1, I used to be on the GRRRR DON'T CALL IT THE PSX side, but now I think the entire argument is silly, call it wtf you want, people can tell what you mean either way, why the hell should it even mater.
in other news, captcha thinks a 70s looking fish dish is bread...

>>2341071
PostScript (the language) was used in a lot in magazine production since the 80's. It's possible this could have been misinterpreted by a technical editor who was ignorant to the magazine topic, thinking it was a placeholder value or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

Post script is usually written P.S. while PostScript is usually written PS.

>>2341086
yeah, but no one here is arguing it should be called the PS, anyhow this argument is fucking stupid on both sides

>>2341087
Nobody's arguing, though, we're just trying to figure out why PSX caught on like it did. I still call the damn thing PSX and I'm not stopping any time soon, but that doesn't mean I'm not legitimate curious as to what started the trend of keeping the codename.

>>2341087
I didn't say they were, that person was asking who uses the term PostScript in magazines, a lot of people working in magazine production should know that term even today.

>>2340468
Reminder that mid 90's internet was cable and DSL which is still prevalent in the USA today. I'm still on my DSL connection that I got in 1996. I had dial up before then and it was perfectly fine for posting text and IRC.

>>2341093
umm.. if you actually read the thread you would see that it was an argument, there was a bunch of "dur hur only children use the term psx" style posts...

>>2341102
"Nobody" was a bit of a stretch, I'm just saying in the string of posts from "I think magazines used PSX because bla bla bla" there wasn't much of an argument, just
>I think they used it because they were worried they'd confuse it with PS
>Why?
>Who uses that in magazines?
>I dunno that's all I can think of
>That's stupid
>I know

>>2341093
>what started the trend of keeping the codename.
Considering it was called that first internally then leaked out slowly it only makes sense that the name would remain considering how close it is to "PS" and "PS" by itself is a little ambiguous.

Things like Ultra64 didn't catch on because N64 is not ambiguous, Ultra64 is not shorter to type and U64 makes no sense, not to mention it's highly likely that Nintendo demanded people call it the N64 in publications post release, they also had their own line of magazines and advertisements which would use the official name.

The PlayStation was always the PlayStation. PS, PSX, and PS1 are just abbreviations for that and not a separate name entirely.

>>2341102
>wanting to argue over the fact people were or were not arguing
Anon please.

>>2341112
well this entire thread is shit and shouldn't even exist so who the fuck cares

>>2341064
Are you retarded? You think I actually talked to the co-founder of Sony when he was still alive?

Well I did, we were best buds. The guy loved to drink, that's probably what killed him.

>>2341584
>trolls vs. trolls: the post

>>2340468
>obscure publications and wizards that had mid-90's internet

There was literally one swedish gaming magazine at the time that wrote reviews for PlayStation. They called it PSX at first then went for PS in late 90s. It was never PS1, because the name of the console didn't have a number in it. Calling it PS1 only makes sense if you need to differentiate it from later PlayStation consoles when talking to kids who never had one, because they can't accept there was gaming before PlayStation 2 and have to relate it to that console.

...and guess I am a wizard then.

>>2341597
>one swedish gaming magazine

Who gives a FUCK about Switzerland? You're ice people.

>>2341605

More computers per capita, faster internet, earlier. Always been better with technical stuff. The US is a 3rd world country compared.

>>2341609
>per capita
I swear this is some statistic smaller countries use to try to seem important compared to bigger ones.

When there are two of you living in an igloo in the entire country, and you both have computers, you have more computers per capita than any country in the world.

>>2341609

Anon any sane mane in europe was reading "official playstation magazine" at the time, especially for the demo cd.

>When there are two of you living in an igloo in the entire country, and you both have computers, you have more computers per capita than any country in the world.

Ice people and their one magazine have no say or impact on the PS1/PSX discussion.

Americans and Japanese remain the most relevant in this discussion because they're not made entirely of ice.

So ice people, please go.

>>2341630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Official_Magazine

And yet the best selling magazine was european, and in general during the 90's and early 2000 all the best ones where from there.
And i'm not saying this to shit on americans or the like, let's keep the tone polite.

>>2341635
>And yet the best selling magazine was european, and in general during the 90's and early 2000 all the best ones where from there.
I forgot Nintendo power was made in the EU. Oh...

>>2341637
I'm pretty sure Nintendo Power was not the best-selling PlayStation magazine.

>>2341647
Maybe not in Ice Land

>>2341647
Maybe read his entire comment, champ.

Maybe you all shut the fuck up and read my wonderful 1GB free shit

>>2337779
>>2337793
>>2337770

Listen, man. PSX was definitely used back in those days. However never in an official fashion by Sony after the release of the console. It's always been PlayStation, or PSOne in every official Sony advertisement, or documentation regarding the commercially released product known as "PlayStation"

>>2341758
Dude, didn't you hear: Sweden's one and only mag called it the PSX.

The X won, end of story.

>>2341763

I have no idea how people can have this argument. It was called PSX by every single unofficial source back in the 90s, but OPM and Sony never did.

>>2341765
Sweden is the key to all this.

>>2341772

Fucking Sweden.

>>2337195
autism: the website