PlayStation

* Original
* Slim

**PS one**

* JP: July 7, 2000
* NA: September 19, 2000
* EU: September 29, 2000

The **PlayStation** (プレイステーション, *Pureisutēshon*?) (officially abbreviated to **PS**, and commonly known as the **PS1** or **PSX**) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The console was released on 3 December Template:Vgy in Japan, 9 September 1995 in North America, 29 September 1995 in Europe, 15 November 1995 in Australia, and for Korea in 1996. The console was the first of the **PlayStation** lineup of home video game consoles. It primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn as part of the fifth generation of video game consoles.

The PlayStation is the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it had reached 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch. Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, preferred Sony's console over the competition from Sega's Saturn, saying "our game designer likes the Sony machine". In 2000, a redesigned, *slim* version called the **PSone** was released, replacing the original grey console and named appropriately to avoid confusion with its successor, the PlayStation 2.

In 1999, Sony announced the successor to the PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, which is backwards compatible with the PlayStation's DualShock controller and games, and launched the console in 2000. The last PSone units were sold in winter 2004 before it was officially discontinued in March 2005, for a total of 102 million units shipped since its launch 10 years earlier. Games for the PlayStation continued to sell until Sony ceased production of PlayStation games on 23 March 2006 – over 11 years after it had been released, and less than a year before the debut of the PlayStation 3.

## *Mitchell* game list

### Mitchell games

* *Mitchell Van Morgan Legends*
* *Mitchell Van Morgan Legends 2*
* *Mitchell Van Morgan Legends 3*
* *Mitchell Kart*
* *Mitchell Party*
* *Super Mitchell*
* *Paper Mitchell*
* *Mitchell Van Morgan RPG: The Legend of the Seven Power Stones*

### Games featuring Mitchell

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* **Nicktoons Super Splash Bros.**
* **Nicktoons Super Splash Bros. Melee**

## Characters Introduced

*Main article: List of characters in the Mitchell series*
## Box artwork gallery

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## Trivia

* The PlayStation's life-cycle was a total of twenty-two years (1995-2013).
* The PSOne has over 1,850 games available.
* This is the first video game console that Sony to have a CD-Rom drive.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 PlayStation Cumulative Production Shipments of Hardware. Sony Computer Entertainment. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved on 12 December 2012.
2. ↑ Template:Cite press release
3. ↑ 'Gran Turismo' Series Software Title List. Polyphony Digital (March 2010). Retrieved on 24 October 2010.
4. ↑ Business Development/Japan. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Retrieved on 19 December 2007.
5. ↑ Template:Cite press release
6. ↑ The Story Behind the Xbox. *PCMAG*. Retrieved on 16 November 2015.
7. ↑ Sinclair, Brendan (24 March 2006). Sony stops making original PS. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2 October 2015.

## External links

* PlayStation.comPSX
* PlayStation (console) at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 **Video game consoles**