You never know, the history of the Playstation may appear in a textbook soon! The first inklings of the Sony Playstation were first planted way back in 1988. Back then, Sony and Nintendo were actually working together to create a video game system that was tentatively called the Super-Disc. The main feature of the Super-Disc would be that it could play both games that were formatted on CDs, as well as standard Nintendo gaming cartridges.

However, both Sony and Nintendo decided to part ways and not pursue the creation of the Super-Disc. While Nintento went on to release the Super Nintendo, Sony continued working on creating games that were stored on CDs. And in actuality, Sony did manage to create the Super-Disc system that could play both CD games and classic Nintento cartridges. However, only 200 of these units were ever produced. So, if you have one, you better hang on to it! That's an important aspect in the history of the Playstation.

While the original Playstation design was to be able to play CDs, computer games, cartridges and more, Sony decided to abandon this design altogether. Instead, they focused on creating a home video game platform that only played video games that were on discs. In the history of the Playstation,  after much trial and error, Sony finally released the original Playstation back in 1994 - and it became a critical and media darling.

Now, today it would appear that having one video game console that could play a variety of formats would be a coveted item. However, back in the day, it really was every company for themselves, even though Sony & Nintendo originally worked together. But, Sony's decision to go strictly CD-ROM paid off handsomely, as the Playstation became one of the biggest selling video game systems of all time. And it would appear that the Playstation set a trend, as systems such as the PS2 and Gamecube now all use CDs for their games! And that is a brief history of the Playstation!