playstationHow Sony's CD Gamble Made the PS1 a Collector's ConsoleAsk anyone who owned a launch-era PlayStation why it ended up sitting upside down on the carpet, and you'll get the same sheepish grin. The optical drive in early units wore with age, and flipping the console over was the folk remedy that kept your cutscenes from stuttering. That ritual tells you a lot about this machine: mass-market hardware, pushed hard, loved to death – which is exactly why genuinely clean examples are harder to find than the PlayStation's enormous install base suggests.
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