PSX Nation
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PSX Nation was a popular website dedicated to Sony's enormously popular PlayStation format. The original site first appeared in late 1995, just months after the release of the PlayStation in America. It's first URL was hosted on http://users.pipeline.com/~toenail and the original name of the site was PlayStation Nation.
Founded by brothers Brian and Joey Gray, PSX Nation quickly found popularity with readers with a daily readership nearing 50 readers per-day by June 1996. That same month witnessed an internal hard drive crash at Pipeline which resulted in a complete loss of the entire site content which unfortunately was not backed up anywhere else. Frustrated, the brothers decided the hobby was over until Brian randomly purchased a July 1996 The Net magazine at Wal-Mart one night discovering an entire half-page treatment dedicated to the site, and naming it Gaming Site of the Month. Encouraged by this discovery, the site was reborn and moved to http://www.hot1.net/shroom in September of 1996 where it remained until the purchase of the domain http://www.psxnation.com on February 15, 1997.
[[http://web.archive.org/web/19980117181745/http://web.archive.org/web/19980117181745/http://www.psxnation.com/small_logo.JPG]] The first logo seen here for PlayStation Nation.
Sony Notices And A Name Change Occurs
As the site entered its phase of owning its own domain name, Imagine Publishing, owner of the The Net magazine and many other computer and video game based print magazines approached PlayStation Nation about entering into an agreement for a network of websites which would become known as the Imagine Games Network. Brothers, Brian and Joey, considered the offer and agreed to become one of eight initial sites which would form the first videogame dedicated network on the web. Along with websites such as Gamefaqs.com, Sega
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