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{{Emulation|[[emulation:PlayStation emulators|PlayStation emulators]]}}
{{Template:Infobox console
|image = [[Image:PSX-Console-wController.png|230px]]
|Input Controller = PlayStation Controller, Dual Analog Controller, DualShock
|Successor = [[PlayStation 2]]}}
The '''PlayStation''' <span style="font-weight: normal">(Japanese: プレイステーション, officially abbreviated as '''PS'''; sometimes referred to as '''PS1''' or unofficially as the '''PSX''' to maintain the three-character identifier common to the PS2, PS3 , PS4 and PSP)</span> is a 32-bit [http[://retroconsoles.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Console |video game console]] first released by [[Sony|Sony Computer Entertainment]] in Japan on December 3, 1994, with Western releases from September 1995. The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices.
The Sony Playstation has many differing models, with 31 differing consumer versions, and 14 special models for creating games, usually given to developers to make games with.
==PSone==
The '''PSone '''is a different, more compact model of the original Playstation, and went on the consumer market on July 7th, 2000. This model had lost the original parallel I/O ports, and changed the internal layout to nullify existing modchips.
==Hardware==
See [[Sony Playstation Hardware]]
*[[Dualshock]]
*[[Playstation Memory Card|Memory Card]]
==Guides==
* [[Playstation Lid]]: If you took apart the lid of an original Playstation, and you're having trouble putting it back together, this should help.
==Add-ons==
