In 1985, a small team of Sony engineers came together to launch one of the most daring and unconventional chapters in the company’s computing history. It had nothing to do with music, movies, or gaming at the time. But the decisions made during this quiet internal effort would ripple through Sony’s future, shaping the mindset, architecture, and engineering approach that would eventually help make the PlayStation possible.In the early 1980s, Japan was investing heavily in its technological future...