Retro Device

In this blog post I will be writing about a retro games console, something that is around 15 years old, example consoles could be something like the original Playstation, Sega Saturn or even the Nintendo 64. But for this post I am choosing to write about the original Playstation. Some of the features that I will be writing about will be platform design, control device,

·         Platform Design – Considering the Playstation is around 18 years old the design of the console is very basic, as you can see from the picture to the right its design is pretty much a box, compared to consoles in the present day you can see how far technology has really come. Consoles now have the option for HDMI game-play and USB ports whereas the standard Playstation never had any of those, it only really had the basic requirements which were only 2 controller ports, 2 memory card slots, power button, a button to open the disc tray, restart button and then the slots at the back of the console for power cable and SCART lead.

·         Control Device – As I said before the original Playstation was very basic and the controller wasn’t any different, if you look at the picture  to the right even the controller colour is quite basic. You only had directional buttons on the left side of the controller but analog stick came into it in the next version. You had 2 sets of trigger buttons at the top of the controller   which were L1 % L2 for the left side and R1 % R2  for the right side, the start and select button in the middle but the select button was never really used, and then the 4 main buttons which were in the forms of shapes (triangle, square, circle and the X button)

Once Playstation introduced a controller with dual analog sticks this helped player massively as with analog sticks they could rotate 360 degrees easier and also could increase or decrease their speed of their character by moving the analog sticks slightly forward, backwards or side to side.