PlayStation

Type: Console
Publisher: Sony
Firstly released in: Japan
First release: 02 Dec 1994
Release and compatibility details: After Japan, released in US in 1995-09-09 and in Europe in 1995. Some PlayStations were packaged with the game ''Ridge Racer.''. In 2000-09-19 was release "PSOne", smaller version of original PlayStation.

Success and unsuccess:

Most popular years: 1995-1999
Most popular countries: Japan, Europe, USA
Amount of games in database: 5117 (list)
Amount of music records in database: 394 (list)
Amount of downloadable MOD tunes: 23 (list)
Amount of downloadable MIDI tunes: 132 (list)
Importance on the market in the most popular years: Very high

Characteristics:

CPU: R3000A 32-bit RISC processor, 33.8688 MHz
RAM: 2MB
VRAM: 1MB
Sound: 24 channels
Colors: 16.7 million possible, 16,777,216 simultaneous
Resolution: 256 x 240 - 640 x 480

More info: http://www.gamerland.com/systems/cgi-bin/showsystem.cgi?id=70

Games and music info:

Most common media for storing games: CD
Average packed game size: 650MB (size of one CD)
Music formats: PSF / PSF2

Emulation info:

There are variety of PSX emulators, I have not tested them yet (I have a real PSX, hehe :) ), but I think this one should be best:
ePSXe - best one (at least surely from freeware ones), has a PSEmuPro plugin support, try it!

This emulation info was written on 18.December 2002. (This time is very important, because emulation info very depends on the time it was written - emulators can improve a lot after this time..).