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Today's featured article The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in Japan on 3 December 1994, and most of the world in 1995. Sony began developing it after a failed venture with Nintendo to create a CD-ROM add-on in the early 1990s. The console was primarily designed by Ken Kutaragi and his team in Japan, while additional development was outsourced in the United Kingdom. An emphasis on 3D polygon graphics was placed at the forefront of the console's design. The PlayStation signalled Sony's rise to power in the video game industry. It received acclaim and sold strongly; in less than a decade, it became the first computer entertainment platform to ship more than 100 million units. Its use of compact discs heralded the game industry's transition from cartridges. The PlayStation's success led to a line of successors, beginning with the PlayStation 2 in 2000. (Full article...) Recently featured: Windswept Adan Benty Grange helmet January 1908 Irish representative peer election Did you know... Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia ... that water-filled pits (example pictured) left behind by tin mining activities in Indonesia have become tourist attractions? ... that a senior colonel with 30 years' experience in North Korean intelligence agencies defected to South Korea in 2014? ... that an underground tunnel between two houses in what is now Jugtown Historic District was used to hide fugitive slaves? ... that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War, his wife took command of the Breton army? ... that Sehome was an incorporated town for only three years? ... that five of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family? ... that Ornithoprion was studied primarily using X-rays of its fossils? ... that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian-American girls the name "Connie"? ... that the Campo Valdés Roman baths were rediscovered during the construction of a sewer system in 1903?

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