Originally Posted by Wiki

PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who had just finished managing one of the company's hardware engineering divisions at that time and would later be dubbed as "The Father of the PlayStation".

The console's origins date back to 1988 where it was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony to create a CD-ROM for the Super Famicom. Although Nintendo denied the existence of the Sony deal as late as March 1991, Sony revealed a Super Famicom with a built-in CD-ROM drive, that incorporated Green Book technology or CD-i, called "Play Station" (also known as SNES-CD) at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991. However, a day after the announcement at CES, Nintendo announced that it would be breaking its partnership with Sony, opting to go with Philips instead but using the same technology. The deal was broken by Nintendo after they were unable to come to an agreement on how revenue would be split between the two companies. The breaking of the partnership infuriated Sony President Norio Ohga, who responded by appointing Kutaragi with the responsibility of developing the PlayStation project to rival Nintendo.

Originally Posted by jwb

A middle class job sounds like a boring menu option at a brothel

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

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Originally Posted by Plankton

♫ It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight. Somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right. ♫

Every time I hear that name... I'm like Cartman with 'Come Sail Away', but I'm not as fat and I don't want any Cheesy Poofs. Ok, I'll have a Cheesy Poof.

Originally Posted by Plankton

♫ It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight. Somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right. ♫

Every time I hear that name... I'm like Cartman with 'Come Sail Away', but I'm not as fat and I don't want any Cheesy Poofs. Ok, I'll have a Cheesy Poof.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Great song. Where'd you get the icons like music notes??

Originally Posted by Plankton

The obvious snark would be 'the internet', but if you Google "ascii music notes", or "ascii..." any other number of things, you're gonna get what you're looking for.

Originally Posted by Oriphiel

So Nintendo ****ed Sony over, creating one of their biggest rivals in the world of video game hardware, all so they could partner with Philips, the jackasses who ended up giving the world this:

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.