{"id":4135,"date":"2026-07-21T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:30:09","slug":"hallmark-keepsake-playstation-ornament-hands-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">You probably know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=otZbXxRRtzw\">signature PlayStation boot sound<\/a>. Did you know that it\u2019s technically a multi-part chime? There\u2019s the synthy section where \u201cSony Computer Entertainment\u201d 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 <em>badly <\/em>I wanted my sorta-broken console to get to that second screen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">My console\u2019s 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\u2019t 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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">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 my gaming time more precious, and it made Hallmark\u2019s new Keepsake ornament of the console hit harder than I expected it to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The company\u2019s running series of console replicas is great, and its previous one was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/805554\/i-bought-hallmarks-light-and-sound-xbox-360-christmas-ornament-and-here-it-is\">Xbox 360 replica<\/a> last year. It\u2019s cool to see one made for a console with an even bigger legacy (one that\u2019s not tainted by a widespread hardware issue). The PlayStation changed my relationship with gaming, as well as my relationship with tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">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 \u2014 both parts. There are a few little imperfections that I noticed on my unit out of the box, and the power button\u2019s font is a little crooked, but nothing that\u2019s easy to notice at a couple feet away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">$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\u2019ve always been the kind of gamer who likes what I like without having to be loud about it. The ornament, like Hallmark\u2019s other Keepsake models, is elegant and not too flashy. It\u2019s just a PlayStation that can chill in a tree come time for the holidays. It\u2019s also a fun memento that represents a great console that I played to pieces that I can display whenever and wherever I want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/967989\/hallmark-keepsake-playstation-ornament-hands-on\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it\u2019s technically a multi-part chime? There\u2019s the synthy section where \u201cSony Computer Entertainment\u201d 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. 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