The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console

PlayStation 复制版装饰品：向一台伟大却脆弱的游戏机致敬

The $28.99 replica plays the signature boot sound, and reminds me of my first-ever DIY tech repair. 这款售价 28.99 美元的复制品不仅能播放标志性的开机音效，还让我回想起自己第一次进行科技产品 DIY 维修的经历。

You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it’s technically a multi-part chime? There’s the synthy section where “Sony Computer Entertainment” shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStation logo if your console recognizes the disc. How badly I wanted my sorta-broken console to get to that second screen. 你可能很熟悉 PlayStation 标志性的开机音效。但你知道吗？从技术上讲，它是由多个部分组成的。首先是屏幕显示白色背景并出现“Sony Computer Entertainment”字样的合成音效部分。只有当主机成功识别光盘后，你才会进入下一个带有回声效果和彩色 PlayStation 标志的画面。当时，我是多么渴望我那台半坏的主机能顺利进入第二个画面啊。

My console’s disc spindle came apart pretty early into me owning it. As an eight-year-old kid, fixing the spindle was the riskiest undertaking of my life yet. The internet wasn’t really a haven for how-tos yet, so I superglued that thing, and it worked, sort of. But the spindle is supposed to be flexible to let the disc on and off (it had a rubber ring with small ball bearings in there, too — the mechanisms were blowing my mind at the time). So, pieces came off regularly, and I would just glue them back on and keep gaming. 我那台主机的光盘主轴在买回来没多久就散架了。作为一个八岁的孩子，修理主轴是我当时人生中最冒险的举动。那时候互联网还没成为教程的宝库，所以我用强力胶把它粘了起来，居然勉强能用。但主轴本应是灵活的，以便装卸光盘（里面还有一个带有小滚珠的橡胶圈——当时的机械结构让我大开眼界）。因此，零件经常脱落，我就不断地把它们粘回去，继续玩游戏。

The “Power” button is a little crooked, but small cosmetic issues like these are tough to notice from a distance. The wait for the second part of the boot chime to activate on my console was agonizing. It would sometimes take close to 10 seconds, or not happen at all. The upside is that it made my gaming time more precious, and it made Hallmark’s new Keepsake ornament of the console hit harder than I expected it to. “电源”按钮有点歪，但这种细小的外观瑕疵在远处很难察觉。等待主机激活开机音效的第二部分过程是极其痛苦的。有时需要近 10 秒，甚至根本没反应。好的一面是，这让我的游戏时间变得更加珍贵，也让 Hallmark 推出的这款全新纪念版主机装饰品带给我的触动比预想中更深。

The company’s running series of console replicas is great, and its previous one was the Xbox 360 replica last year. It’s cool to see one made for a console with an even bigger legacy (one that’s not tainted by a widespread hardware issue). The PlayStation changed my relationship with gaming, as well as my relationship with tech. 该公司推出的系列游戏机复制品非常棒，去年他们还推出了 Xbox 360 复制品。很高兴看到他们为一款拥有更伟大传承（且没有受到大规模硬件故障影响）的主机制作了模型。PlayStation 不仅改变了我与游戏的关系，也改变了我与科技的关系。

The ornament celebrates the pre-DualShock version of the console. There are a lot of lovely details, like the ridged sides, the power plug, and the A/V port that Sony stuck with through the PlayStation 3. The controller is glued to the disc lid of the console, and its flexible cable is partially glued to its side. Upon pressing the power button, a green LED lights up, and the PlayStation chime plays in full — both parts. There are a few little imperfections that I noticed on my unit out of the box, and the power button’s font is a little crooked, but nothing that’s easy to notice at a couple feet away. 这款装饰品致敬的是 DualShock 手柄推出前的初代主机版本。它有很多可爱的细节，比如侧面的纹路、电源插头，以及索尼一直沿用到 PlayStation 3 的 A/V 接口。手柄被粘在主机的光盘盖上，其柔性线缆部分粘在侧面。按下电源键时，绿色 LED 灯会亮起，并完整播放两段式的 PlayStation 开机音效。我注意到我手头的这个产品开箱时有一些小瑕疵，比如电源键的字体有点歪，但在几英尺外几乎看不出来。

$28.99 for the ornament will either seem a bit steep, or totally acceptable, depending on how nostalgia-addled you are for this era of gaming. I’ve always been the kind of gamer who likes what I like without having to be loud about it. The ornament, like Hallmark’s other Keepsake models, is elegant and not too flashy. It’s just a PlayStation that can chill in a tree come time for the holidays. It’s also a fun memento that represents a great console that I played to pieces that I can display whenever and wherever I want. 对于这款装饰品，28.99 美元的价格是显得有些昂贵还是完全可以接受，取决于你对那个游戏时代有多么怀旧。我一直是一个喜欢自己所爱之物，而不必大肆宣扬的玩家。这款装饰品和 Hallmark 的其他纪念系列一样，优雅而不浮夸。它只是一台可以在节日期间挂在树上的 PlayStation。它也是一个有趣的纪念品，代表了一台我曾玩到散架的伟大主机，现在我可以随时随地展示它。