The leading family of games conSOles, from SOny Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the procesSOr and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, SOckets for two game controllers, and a SOcket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 alSO has USBSOckets. The PS2 can run PS1 SOftware because the PS2' s I/O procesSOr is the same as the PS1' s CPU. Start . {FAQ (http://www.flex.net/users/cjayc/vgfa/system/SOny_psx.txt)}. [Dates? Features?] (2003-07-29)