10 Forgotten Pieces Of Gaming Tech

10. The Sony PocketStation

That’s right, we’re starting off with a PS1 accessory only ever released in Japan.

Released in 1999, the PocketStation was a weird half-PS1 memory card reader and half-handheld console with five buttons, four of which were the D-pad. Its function was simple. Insert a PS1 memory card with data from a select number of games and it would load up little minigames based on the PS1 game. Have you ever wanted to play the Boulder level from Crash Bandicoot on a tiny 32x32 monochrome LCD screen? Why? Do you not have better things to do?

Even though it was only released domestically, it still somehow managed to sell around 5 million units. And just a few years ago Sony added a PocketStation app to PS Vita, but it was also only released in Japan so no need to dust off your Vita yet.