Take a look inside the original PlayStation on its 25th anniversary

If you’re a gamer of a certain age (cough), you’re about to feel very old. Sony released the original PlayStation 25 years ago on December 3rd, 1994, and iFixit has marked the occasion by tearing down the very first, Japan-only model that never officially made it to other countries. To say it’s a throwback to another era would be an understatement. It’s not just the inclusion of now-quaint technology like a CD-only disc drive, a modest 32-bit MIPS CPU (the base PS4 is roughly 50 times faster), an S-Video port and slots for 128KB memory cards — the post mortem highlights a fundamentally different approach to electronics design.