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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of that. Audio cd's have been around for a while by then. And cd players weren't expensive. But I could be wrong. I was not really in to consoles at that point.

[โ€“] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I wasn't around then but i think the stories I heard was "kid wants his own cd player and gaming console so he buys a PS1"