5 Conspicuously Awkward PlayStation One Peripherals

When Sony launched its PlayStation back in the ’90s, the company was then mostly known as a trusted
maker of stuff like iPod forefather the Walkman and other consumer electronics, not to mention as one
half of a famous failed partnership with Nintendo on a previous system. With such a pedigree, it was
easy to wonder how they could compete with established companies that focused purely on gaming.
Compete, though, they did. Sony’s original PlayStation caught on and became an unmistakeable
presence in the console wars, managing to secure its own market share between Nintendo and Sega’s
offerings of the era.

The first PlayStation’s success wasn’t lost on third party peripheral developers; as is still the case
with today’s popular gadgets, all sorts of stuff was being produced to be plugged into/worn near the
ascendent game machine, and, also like today, not all of them were terribly necessary, or free of shame.
Of these questionable add-ons, here are our picks for the most awkward.

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