{"id":67596,"date":"2014-08-10T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67596"},"modified":"2014-08-10T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:53:04","slug":"do-you-know-all-of-these-playstation-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67596-do-you-know-all-of-these-playstation-facts","title":{"rendered":"Do you know all of these PlayStation facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation brand has been around for 20 years now (makes you feel old, right?) but there are still so many things most gamers don&#8217;t know about it.<\/p>\n<p>For example: why were the PS1 discs black? Why did the PS2&#8217;s boot screen have those block towers? And why did the designers choose shapes for button differentiation?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here are the answers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Black Discs<\/h3>\n<p>One of the most noticeable features of the PlayStation 1 was its black game discs. No one else had it, and seeing one for the first time left you mesmerised. Why were they black though?<\/p>\n<p>According to my research, there was no reason, it was just a design feature.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PlayStation 2 Boot Screen<\/h3>\n<p>Remember all those blocks that appeared on the boot screen before you launched a game? Well, the number of blocks that appeared were linked to how many save games you had on your memory card at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could go back and take notice of this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYJsVLq5WkU?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">What do the PlayStation controller symbols mean?<\/h3>\n<p>When the designers sat down to put the original PlayStation controller together,\u00a0Sony\u2019s Teiyu Goto decided that he wanted the symbols on the buttons to mean something.<\/p>\n<p>The circle and X button were meant to represent yes and no, the square button a document or a map, and the triangle button to be seen as a symbol for a point of view.<\/p>\n<p>These initial concepts still have an influence on how PlayStation products are designed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCSXGq67mas?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The only 5 disc PS1 game was RIVEN<\/h3>\n<p>Back in the days of the PS1, three discs for a single title was pretty common. Some games, like Final Fantasy 8, had four discs. Five discs, though, was very rare, and only ever happened once in the case of RIVEN.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for this was\u00a0to accommodate the videos that played after you finished every area. Today, the game could probably fit on your iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kRpSl48RH-A?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Spider-Man Font?<\/h3>\n<p>The original design of the PS3 was influenced by the Spider-Man movies that were popular at the time. Sony used the same font used in the movie titles to design the PlayStation 3 logo (Ed&#8217;s note: I knew it looked familiar), but dropped it in 2009 with the introduction of the PS3 Slim.<\/p>\n<p>This was due to the box art and marketing requirements, which were affected by the new console&#8217;s smaller size.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67654\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/playstation3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67654\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67654\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/playstation3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/playstation3-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/playstation3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PlayStation 3<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The PlayStation Mascot died before he was born<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Polygon man was the first PlayStation mascot. A purple headed, evil-looking creature, it\u00a0did not impress Sony&#8217;s Ken Kutaragi at all when he saw it for the first time. The mascot was promptly scrapped and it never saw the light of day in the US.<\/p>\n<p>You can, however, battle against him as the final boss in the PlayStation Battle Royale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67656\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/polygon-man-playstation-all-stars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67656\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67656\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/polygon-man-playstation-all-stars-600x333.png\" alt=\"Polygon Man\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/polygon-man-playstation-all-stars-600x333.png 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/polygon-man-playstation-all-stars.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polygon Man<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How many of these PlayStation facts did you know? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67692-huge-discount-on-playstation-4-at-pick-n-pay-online.html\">Huge discount on PlayStation 4 at Pick n Pay Online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/67496-are-handhelds-dying-do-we-even-care.html\">Are handhelds dying? Do we even care?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67712-do-you-still-pre-order-games-activision-says-not-so-much.html\">Do you still pre-order games? Activision says \u201cnot so much\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t call yourself a Sony fanboi unless you know all of these PlayStation facts &#8211; it&#8217;s learning time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":67650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5551,21,1870,71],"class_list":["post-67596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-gaming-facts","tag-headline","tag-playstation","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67752,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67596\/revisions\/67752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}