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00:00Loss. Terror. Sorrow.
00:08In the wake of World War II, Japan was broken.
00:12The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, signifying a conclusion to the
00:17conflict.
00:18It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe.
00:23There were two options.
00:25The first was to give up.
00:27To fall behind.
00:29The second was to rebuild.
00:40The first PlayStation console, the PlayStation 1, came into a market that was starting to
00:44really boom.
00:45At the time, the Nintendo consoles were really leading the way.
00:48I mean, PlayStation was a very different console from everything that Nintendo had produced.
00:55Japan really wanted to corner the market for cool gaming.
00:58Sony PlayStation 2 is the most sought after electronic consumer item of the year.
01:04The Sony PlayStation was high performance, low cost, simple to use, and they used really
01:10clever advertising to get people to buy into it.
01:14Games are derived for adults, and that was what Sony and PlayStation brought to the mix.
01:22You really can change the landscape and what people thought could count as a video game.