Here’s a heart-warming story to kickstart your Friday: a proud father has awarded a letter of congratulations, alongside a real-world PlayStation trophy, to a six-year-old who managed to complete Astro’s Playroom on PS5, presented from the perspective of the platform holder. The child in question had been struggling with the final boss fight, which features the PS1’s infamous T-Rex tech demo, for quite some time.
However, upon overcoming the feat – which had left her in tears on occasion – her Dad acknowledged the achievement with a personal note, which he pretended was signed by Sony. “We saw how hard you worked to master this incredibly difficult boss that is the T-Rex,” he said. “To honour this incredible victory, we are choosing to reward you with this Golden PlayStation Commemorative trophy. Let this serve as a reminder that hard work, persistence, and resilience will always propel you to greatness in life!”
Well done to the little girl for overcoming the boss, and beginning her PlayStation journey proper. She’ll be waltzing through Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time next…
[source twitter.com, via resetera.com]
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More of these stories please (Sony).
I’m generally quite a cynical guy… but I loved this!
Don't know what she'll find worse, discovering Santa isn't real, or 'Sony' was in fact daddy after some social media attention
Really like stories like this. They're heartwarming.
What a nice story and good on her.
Nice.
Not even a tag line to call Jim Ryan heartless for not appearing in person? Am I on the right site?
Bless her, that dino was tough! Nice to read some good news for a change.
Hopefully Sony do something for real for her if/when they see this. Really nice story, and kudos to her too 👍
@naruball my 4 and 6 year old also beat it, let me know if you want a pic of the for the story
Evil jim took the trophy and letter back from the kid once the photo was post lol 😈.
Finally some wholesome ****ing news.
That's really cute lol I can only hope that sony found their jackpot with astrobot as their new mascot now
Now let’s see her complete Elden Ring 😉
Well that’s just lovely! It’s always nice to see the kids enjoying these games, they’re ultimately the audience for a lot of it.
Look at that happy face! :')
@4kgk2
Nah he gave the gifts to her and then held his hand out demanding her to "pay something now"
This put such a huge smile on my face!
As a person that works in pediatrics and loves gaming (and Astro Playroom) this touched my heart
This is what gaming is about 😊😊😊
Not all this stuff and controversy we have had since the release of this new so called generation.
This by far has been THE best piece i have ever read on Push Square! It brings back memories of my eldest son gaming with me on my ps2. Thank you PS for bringing back happy memories with my son!
I still can't do it but I've beat the second boss in Returnal lol
@MatthewJP she will treasure that it was her dad more, in years to come
I need to take some notes for my 17 month old daughter. She already discovered my video game collection in the basement gaming room and likes pulling controllers and games out.
Reminds me of the way I always had to pass the controller to my dad to kill Bowser for me at the end of Super Mario World on the SNES. I never managed to kill that ***** dinosaur. Well done to this little girl. With my first on the way, I'm looking forward to playing games with her in a few years time.
I remember something similar happening with Nintendo.
A little girl in Brazil, who was blind in one eye, managed to complete Mario Odyssey. To celebrate, the girl made a paper mache Mario figurine while her father printed off a similar letter with Nintendo's logo on it and even wrote to Nintendo themselves.
Upon hearing the news, Nintendo knew they had to do something and one of their senior vice presidents personally flew out to Brazil to hand the father and her little girl a cease and desist letter.
@TrickyDicky99 Ok, you got me. XD
I guess it's a father daughter thing, when I platinum the game, I didn't get anything lol but it's cute that the girl enjoyed the game at least
Jim is getting ready to sue for copyright infringement, ka Ching more money lol
Such a nice story. Nice to see stuff like this
@KaijuKaiser LOL this comment is satire right??
I'm still in awe of my 9 year old who got the platinum for Fall Guys!
Thanks for sharing this nice story, put a smile on my face .
This is adorable.
There's a T Rex?!
@TrickyDicky99 Man, that was hilarious!
@Sequel Yup!
https://www.ign.com/wikis/astros-playroom/1994_Throwback
For people not familiar with child development, Astro is a difficult game for this age range. It requires a lot of hand-eye coordination, patience, and focus. So, she did really good.
Good job! Another future gamer!!
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