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About Us
The PlayStation Museum is the culmination of
years of research and dedication to the Sony PlayStation. It is intended
to provide images and information on all areas of the Sony PlayStation.
Mission
The mission of the
PlayStation Museum is to enrich people's lives by enhancing their
appreciation and understanding of the history, design, development, and
technology of the original PlayStation. The Museum provides
screenshots, movies, and other media for the education and enjoyment of
the public and the development community. In support of this, we are
committed to:
Recognition of the
Development Community
The Museum is
dedicated to the recognition and appreciation of the PlayStation
development community for their outstanding achievement and perseverance
in creating everlasting gaming experiences that have been enjoyed by
gamers around the world. The Museum acknowledges the hard work and sacrifice that
goes into designing and developing a PlayStation game even if the title
is never released.
Research
The Museum provides
screenshots and movies for the education and enjoyment of the
development community and the public. Each year the museum provides
experiences to thousands of website visitors. Through research via the
development community, many of these experiences would never be
understood by the average gamer.
Collecting and
Preserving
The PlayStation
Museum collects and preserves artifacts and records that illuminate the
history of the original PlayStation. The Museum owns and cares for
thousands of software, hardware, books, documents, and other materials.
These enable and support our educational activities and serve
developers, gamers, collectors, and others who study the PlayStation.
A Bit of Background
What
is the PlayStation Museum?
The PlayStation Museum is an online virtual museum. It
is intended to show hardware, games and videos and to inform the general
gaming community of artifacts that are deemed important to the history
of the PlayStation.
The PlayStation Museum website’s
thorough cataloguing of NTSC games was used as the basis for the game
material found in the book titled “PSX: The Guide to the Sony
PlayStation” A free downloadable version can be found
here.
How the PlayStation Museum got Started
The PlayStation Museum was originally intended to
pictorially showcase all PlayStation software and hardware in a simple
navigation-friendly website. In 2004 I initiated contact with a former
PlayStation games programmer who recently lost his job. He told his
story of the long hours that he invested in programming and the many
projects that were ultimately cancelled. He had been employed at two
different development studios both of which were purportedly mismanaged
and went out of business. His story of family stress due to extended
work hours, little pay, and no recognition had an adverse affect on me.
From that point forward I invested time to get to know more people
intimately involved with the PlayStation. I started to document
patterns of long hours and no recognition. I decided to officially
create a PlayStation Museum with the main mission to not only showcase
PlayStation software and hardware but to tell the story of the people
behind the game. The Museum is more about giving proper recognition to
those hardworking artists, designers, producers, and programmers who
created such wonderful works of art. With the support of the gaming
community, the Museum has been able to preserve and showcase cancelled
projects.
Industry Endorsements
"Things
move so fast in the game industry that developers are always in
danger of forgetting their roots. Thanks to the PlayStation Museum
and other indie efforts to preserve our history, new generations of
developers can learn from the experience of the ones who came
before... and old gamers can enjoy reminiscing, too. Good work,
guys."
- Ernest Adams, founder of the International Game Developers'
Association
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