Save Point: A Short Emotional History of PlayStation

Before the world was wireless, it was wondrous.

Save Point is a digital zine for anyone who grew up praying to a glowing red LED.

It’s part love letter, part existential sermon - a short emotional history of the PlayStation era told through memory, melancholy, and pixels that never stopped humming.

Each page is a quiet artifact:

• The blue light of the PS2 as modern stained glass.

• Memory cards as shrines.

• The DualShock controller as scripture.

• Loading screens as lessons in patience and faith.

It’s not a manual. It’s a eulogy.

A 9-page, minimalist digital zine rendered in grayscale reverence, designed to feel like a relic discovered on a forgotten demo disc.

“All games end. All data fades.
But somewhere, a red light still blinks - waiting, infinite.”

Features:

• 10-page illustrated PDF mini-zine

• Vaporwave-religious PlayStation aesthetic

• Designed for display, printing, or existential reflection

• Perfect for fans of nostalgia, melancholy, and loading bars that never hit 100%

Developer’s Note

This project began as an act of mourning - for my childhood, for the weight of startup sounds that meant safety, and for the strange intimacy between human memory and corrupted data. I wrote it during a week when the world felt like a loading screen that would never finish.
The PlayStation didn’t just teach us how to play. It taught us how to wait, to lose, to save, to start over.
This zine is what happens when you realize the console outlasted the person who owned it.