can you believe we got a Playstation and
we're at the front of the line at
Circuit City we totally scored
yeah totally except I had to babysit so
many Rugrats to pay $2.99 for this thing
so can we just put it back together and
actually play with it not to mention
it's been two hours since I've listened
to Kurt and I lay down withdrawals chill
out and on that note let's get this
teardown started alrighty now it looks
like we've got six screws on the bottom
of the PlayStation so we'll take those
out and then lift up the top case you
this thing is like brand new and there's
like 25 years of dust in there
weird and there's a cd-rom drive we'll
just remove a couple cables and lift it
right out booyah
not only are CD's cheaper than
cartridges but they can hold way more
storage so the graphics on these games
are so much cooler than Super Nintendo
plus the PlayStation reads each game
with frickin lasers so tight okay now I
really want to play so let's take off
the last few screws to free up the
memory card controller ports and with
that out of the way we can disconnect
the power supply and lift up the inner
case holy motherboard it looks like a
city a really dirty city yeah this is
kind of disgusting but the motherboard
is home to a 32-bit 33.9 megahertz CPU
two megabytes of RAM and one megabyte of
the RAM who's the nerd nail that's a
crazy amount of processing power in a
home system like have you seen the
graphics on Ridge Racer it's almost like
real life great real life not what I
want to skip in the video game land at
all and all that's left is the mega
power supply which takes up a whopping
21 percent of the Playstations footprint
what about the controllers they look
like quite the upgrade from our tank it
works totally no more d-pad and this is
the first time we've seen a controller
with four directional buttons but the
cord is still kind of short helps you
think we'll ever get wireless
controllers I hope so because I keep
getting grounded for sitting too close
to the TV in the dark playing games
and this seems like a good time to talk
about repairability the PlayStation got
a stellar eight out of ten on our
repairability scale and here's why
on the upside there are very few
components involved and everything is
straightforward to remove and replace
you only need a Philips number one
screwdriver and a spudger to take the
console completely apart and the optical
drive is very easy to replace but on the
downside all of the i/o ports on the
back of the console are soldered to the
motherboard boom if you love gaming as
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