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Condition & GradingHow to Grade a PS1 Disc Before You Buy or SellHold the disc under a lamp and tilt it. If the underside glows that deep, smoky black, you're holding the real thing – Sony pressed original PlayStation discs with black-tinted polycarbonate on the read side, and nearly thirty years on it's still the fastest authentication check in retro collecting. If it's silver, put it down. Everything else about grading a PS1 copy comes down to two honest questions: will it still play, and is it actually complete? Sellers blur both all the time. Here's how
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. Th
GamesWhy Ape Escape Is the PS1 Black Label Worth HuntingApe Escape wouldn't even start without a DualShock. Sony's Japan Studio shipped it in 1999 as the first PlayStation game to require both analog sticks – left stick steers Spike, right stick swings the Stun Club and the Time Net – and the original digital pad got politely told to sit down. That gamble is what makes it the defining late-era PS1 game to collect: a first-party title that only makes sense on Sony's own hardware, released in the console's victory-lap years. If you're going to own one