If you are a Mac user, you already own an iPod, and you need a excuse to buy a PSP (or to claim it as “business expenses” in your next tax return), go read the article over at AppleMatters about the possibility for the PSP to be the “next great Apple peripheral”.

The cool thing about growing up in the 80’s is that my generation saw a lot of tech things be born and grow to become the huge complex things they are today. Sounds corny but I can’t help to feel that you can enjoy a PSP better when you started playing on an Atari 2400. We spent hours in front of Pitfall! and Donkey Kong, and I believe we appreciate the graphics of the PSP much more than a kid who never played on anything else than a PS2. And it doesn’t only apply to the hardware, the games too have evolved, but more often than not you can’t beat the fun brought by the simplicity of classic games.

Sony seems to agree with me on those two points. They released a set of classic games for the PSP, and they were clever enough to make it attractive both for the old timers like me, and for the kids. The disk contains the original versions of Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Rally-X, New Rally-X, and Dig Dug. The real original version like you used to play in smoky coffee shop on those tables that were also arcade games. And they made new versions of these games so that if fills the screen nicely (original games were vertical, remember?), and so that colors and sound use the PSP capabilities a bit more. But they kept the new games close enough to the original ones, so that it is fun to play even if you’re a purist.

PSPworld.com has published a simple but comprehensive first guide to the PSP called “PSP 101: Everything you need to know about the PlayStation Portable“.

From history to specs and measurements, to what you can do with the PSP. They cover what comes with the PSP, PSP accessories, available games, and they describe screen specs, explain WiFi capabilities, and talk about battery life. You will also read about the accessories you need for your PSP, and most importantly learn where you can get one.

Ready or not, here comes the PSP: Sony has switched on aggressive marketing mode and exposes fully-working models of the PlayStation Portable on billboards…

Four of them are currently displayed in Shinjuku, the busiest train station in Tokyo, where 2 million daily commuters are sure to notice them. And if it isn’t enough to count on the crowd passing through everyday, the four bold Playstation colors on the billboards (yellow, blue, red, gree) are very hard to miss and they should do the trick.

Meanwhile, Sony wanted to make sure the audience understand the value of these little marvels of technology, so the PSP consoles are protected behind a plexiglas frame of course, and three guards in uniform are asking people to step back a little, when someone simply comes closer than 20 centimeters to the billboard, to take a picture for instance.

In case you were not completely sure about the release date, it is also written in big bold digits. No mistake possible on that either…