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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

"PSX" also. That was another magazine, wasn't it?

Speaking of PSX, anyone else notice a kind of communal amnesia about that? For years everyone called the PS1 the "PSX." Magazines did, online and all. It was the official abbreviation.

For preference reasons? That or the systems had modified formats for different countries and it was to avoid confusion for the gamers that needed to buy the NTSC / PAL versions of their favorite games.

The Genesis was called The Megadrive overseas. The NES and SNES were called The Famicom / Super Famicom in Japan. The PS1 was probably called The PSX for the same reason(s).

I know that later on Sony made a kind of "super" PS2 that was called the PSX, which further muddied the waters.

I didn't know about that.