{"id":1096,"date":"2014-12-09T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:17:09","slug":"benjs-oddities-series-returns-with-playstation-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1096\/benjs-oddities-series-returns-with-playstation-oddities","title":{"rendered":"Benj&#8217;s Oddities Series Returns with &#8220;PlayStation Oddities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3039258\/10-playstation-oddities\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/playstation_oddities.jpg' alt='PlayStation Oddities' class=\"centered shadow\" width=\"420\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the Sony PlayStation&#8217;s release in Japan.  To celebrate, my old friend Harry McCracken (who now works at FastCompany) asked me if I wanted to bring my long-running Oddities series out of retirement.  In short, I said &#8220;heck yes,&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3039258\/10-playstation-oddities\" target=\"_blank\">the result can be seen<\/a> over on the FastCompany website.<\/p>\n<p>This latest entry marks a change in format for the series: it is the first that is not a page-by-page slideshow.  I made a bajillion slideshows between 2007 and 2012, and while they were fun to make, I am thankful that I have moved on.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a fan of the PlayStation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3039258\/10-playstation-oddities\" target=\"_blank\">click through<\/a> and check out some weird variations, accessories, and tributes to one of the most successful game consoles of all time.<\/p>\n<h3>All Entries in Benj&#8217;s Oddities Series:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3039258\/10-playstation-oddities\">10 PlayStation Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2012\/02\/12\/atari-oddities\/\">Atari Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/10\/23\/ipod-anniversary\/\">iPod Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/08\/11\/ibm-pc-oddities\/\">IBM PC Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/07\/10\/donkey-kong\/\">Donkey Kong Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/06\/22\/sonic-the-hedgehog-oddities\/\">Sonic the Hedgehog Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/02\/21\/legend-of-zelda\/\">Legend of Zelda Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/11\/17\/windows-anniversary\/\">Windows Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/10\/18\/nes\/\">Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/09\/12\/super-mario\/\">Super Mario Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/04\/13\/game-boy-oddities\/\">Game Boy Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the Sony PlayStation&#8217;s release in Japan. To celebrate, my old friend Harry McCracken (who now works at FastCompany) asked me if I wanted to bring my long-running Oddities series out of retirement. In short, I said &#8220;heck yes,&#8221; and the result can be seen over on the FastCompany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[83,979,88,788,348,359,548,245],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","tag-anniversaries","tag-fastcompany","tag-freelance-work","tag-harry-mccracken","tag-oddities","tag-playstation","tag-sony","tag-technologizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}