Until not that long ago, I didn’t know that PlayStation was turning 30 years this year!

A week ago, to be precise on December 3rd, 2024.

30 years ago, on December 3rd, 1994, Sony dropped the PlayStation.

The first console with more of a 3-dimensional look to it, targeting a whole new audience who wasn’t interested in the 2D looks anymore. And PlayStation blew up.

With something like two years before Nintendo managed to bring a challenger to the party, giving Sony a massive head start over the competition. PlayStation dropped and the world changed.

The second PlayStation was so popular it broke all the console records of the time when it dropped. It was wild!

Also, fun fact, did you know that the original PlayStation controllers had no joysticks?

The joystick wasn’t invented yet!

It was actually created by a Nintendo employee for the N64. PlayStation later copied that and added it to their controllers becoming the icon we all know and love today.

Can you believe that?

It’s weird. A fact I didn’t know, until I was gifted a PlayStation One to complete my collection, so I had at least one of all the Sony systems, and the controller that came with it had no joysticks. But the ones I had as a kid growing up that we found did.

It was strange because I didn’t know the controllers came any other way!

I’ve been a PlayStation kid my whole life.

They’re a favorite console of mine.

I’ve had ever version, not all new. But I’ve had them all and I’ve loved each one for different reasons.

Like the one, was the first video game system I ever truly knew. I could turn it on and operate it without adult help, but loved watching my dad play for hours on end.

I remember getting the PS2 and being wildly impressed that it played DVDs. We watched a movie on it soon after we got it, like that weekend during our weekly movie nights. I don’t even think we had a game with it yet.

I remember playing video games or watching my dad play while I was sick. It was how he kept me occupied and in a seat to rest while I was sick.

I remember purchasing the PS3 with a bunch of birthday and Christmas and allowance money I saved up. At Toys R Us, no less.

It was my favorite system to date given it came as a Blu-Ray Player, and the games were so much better. I loved the games on the three like no other. I played them for hours on end for the first time without my dad and it was the first console I purchased myself and was in my room. Not a family living room thing.

I bought the PS3 new and used it until I burnt out the laser.

I later bought a replacement PS3 because I loved the system so much. I recently got Dragon Age: Origins for PS3 and played it and I’m so surprised by how well it holds up after gaming on the PS4 and PS5 for years now.

Then I bought myself a PS4. I was working and had no real bills at the time. So I purchased it as part of a Black Friday deal.

But could never get it to work.

The PS4 would literally never connect to Wi-Fi or update to play.

For years, this thing sat like a lump on my TV stand as I was pissed that the supposed update that Sony promised was little more than an expensive paperweight to me.

I turned to Nintendo for gaming for a while after that since I had a Wii and I was in love with the idea of being able to take my Nintendo games with me again like Gameboys and DS’s before that. How could I pass up the Switch? Especially at a fraction of the price?

I bought a Switch. And I was content for a long while.

Except, games no longer went across all the systems, and all you had to do was purchase the one you needed for your system. I don’t know if this is truly a thing, but I never remembered having problems finding a game I wanted for a system I had over years before I got just a Switch as my main console.

Eventually, I wanted more gaming power. Something more serious. Something for when I’m stuck in bed due to my chronic illness.

So I went to the game store, contemplating purchasing another PS4, because this was a time of PS5 scalpers and I was not going to spend more than $500 on a PlayStation, nor did I care to have the latest. I never had before, why start now?

I bought a PS4. I remember giving in and hoping it would be different, but if it wasn’t, so help me I’d return it, and buy an Xbox if I absolutely had to.

A sentence I never thought I’d utter.

As I was buying the PS4, the guy was playing trailers for Spider-Man Miles Morales in the background. He said it was one of the best games he ever played and suggested it. I asked if they had it and he had the first one, Spider-Man. So I bought it and later purchased Miles’ game that week.

I played Spider-Man and the game combined with the perfectly working system unsoured my opinion.

Because I was soured, I’d never struggled so much with set-up before or felt let down by PlayStation.

I fell in love with the system and rapidly started purchasing other games, finding some gems, and some I didn’t care for. But overall, in love with the PS4. And I knew something important by the time I made it to 2023.

I wanted the new Spider-Man 2 game. At launch. Something I’ve never done before.

Except it was only for the PS5.

So I caved and bought a PS5. Reluctantly. Because I rarely purchase new consoles and usually if I do, they’re on sale or with money I was given. Not my own. And the one time I did use my own money, I was scorned.

But I caved.

I found one I wanted. Disc version please because I’m not for digital media.

And I love it. Sooooo damn much.

I have the remastered PS5 Spider-Man game. I have several others including Astro’s new PlayStation game and I couldn’t be happier.

I love these systems and I’m forever grateful I gave the four another chance instead of heading to Xbox.

And I don’t count Nintendo as a competitor as I’ve always had both Nintendo and PlayStation stuff my whole life. Plus Nintendo is the weirdo doing whatever they want in the corner of gaming, not really bothering to worry about Sony or Microsoft and whatever they’re up to.

I kind of love that about them.

But for serious gaming, I love the PlayStation so much and I hope that Sony keeps up the good work!

Also, one last thing, I love that they’re numbered correctly too.

Like Nintendo creates a new system, so it gets a new name. Makes sense to me.

PlayStation. PlayStation 2. PlayStation 3 and so on.

The numbers go in order!

Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One or Black? Like what freaking order are we going in here? Which is first? Who named these things? Why???

It’s confusing to someone from the outside who has no idea what on Earth the order is. Just watching from the sidelines all confused by the weird numbers.

Just no.

Thank you, Sony, for all the wonderful childhood memories and the many more I’m sure are yet to be created!

Thanks for reading! Spread the love and game on!