Before there was Aloy, Nathan Drake, or even Ratchet and Clank, PlayStation had a pair of mascots in Toro Inoue and Kuro. Today, Sony celebrates the adorable white cat’s birthday, which falls on ...

Toro Inoue, also known as the “Sony Cat,” first appeared as one of the Pokepi (short for Pocket People) in the first game of the Doko Demo Issyo game series, released in Japan in 1999.