Sell your PlayStation games for cash.

Sony got into games as a parts supplier, not a console maker: Ken Kutaragi designed the sound chip for Nintendo’s Super Famicom, and Sony later pitched Nintendo a CD-ROM add-on for its next system. Nintendo walked away from that partnership at CES in 1991 rather than share licensing control, and Sony built its own machine instead. The PlayStation launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, then in North America on September 9, 1995, priced at $299, undercutting Sega’s Saturn, which had launched at $399 just months earlier.

Sony marketed it to young adults as entertainment alongside music and film, not as a kids’ toy, and the games backed that up. Ridge Racer’s fast-tracked development gave the system an instant showcase at launch, and Final Fantasy VII’s jump from Nintendo to PlayStation became the moment the industry’s center of gravity shifted away from cartridges for good. Lifetime sales topped 102 million units, making the PS1 the first console in history to break the 100-million mark.

Disc-era packaging tells you a lot about what a copy is worth. Early "black label" prints, the tall longboxes some early titles shipped in before Sony standardized on jewel cases, and genuinely limited print runs all trade well above a later "Greatest Hits" reprint of the same game, so two copies of the same title can be worth very different amounts depending on which print you’re holding.