The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console

The ornament requires three 1.5-volt coin batteries, which are included in the box. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStation logo if your console recognizes the disc. How badly I wanted my sorta-broken console to get to that second screen. My console's disc spindle came apart pretty early into me owning it. As an eight-year-old kid, fixing the spindle was the riskiest undertaking of my life yet. The internet wasn't really a haven for how-tos yet, so I superglued that … Read the full story at The Verge.

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