Nostalgic moment dedicated to Memory Cards for PS1, a plastic rectangle useful for saving progress since the console did not have an internal memory and it was not possible to write data on CDs, unlike what happened with cartridges. A phenomenon that lasted a decade, which marked all the players of the 90s.
Memory cards were born in the mid-90s with the spread of CD-ROM based consoles (such as PlayStation PS1 and SEGA Saturn), in the case of cartridge consoles the saves were managed directly in the internal memorywith the arrival of a new data support it was necessary to find a solution, and here it is: the Memory Card, small, practical and light, a small piece of plastic where to save the files of dozens of games.
Memory Cards proved to be indispensable from the outset and also useful for transferring saves to a console other than your own. In the case of Memory Cards for PS1, over time these have become increasingly capacious and aesthetically aggressive, with daring designs and color variations of all kinds (very coveted transparent ones)so much so that today they are a real collector’s item.
The Memory Card Phenomenon it gradually dies out in the mid-2000s after trying to change skin with the arrival of accessories such as the PocketStation or the VMU of the SEGA Dreamcast. With the arrival in 2005 (and 2006) of consoles such as PS3 and Xbox 360, equipped with internal hard drives, the Memory Card has become superfluous and today it is more than ever a historical artifact, which however has numerous communities of aficionados always on the hunt of the rare coloring or the Memory Card with particular saves still saved in its memory.
And you, how many Memory Cards have you had in your gaming career?
