Absolutely vile, I can't believe you've said this. This is where we part ways. Others would be wise not to be lead astray by the poison you drip into their ears. Turn to the truth that is Sega and be at peace. But all right FF vii-ix were bangers and then then X on PS2, then you have socom, devil may cry, gran tursimo, spyro, and crash and maybe you have a point after all.
First gaming console I played on (but didn't own) was an Interton Video Computer 4000. I remember it could be tricked into mixing elements from one game into the other, resulting in messy but not quite crashy gameplay. I don't remember whether that was before or after a brief encounter with a VIC-20. First (co-)owned console was the NES, as I call it, due to its design, the Lamborghini Countach of gaming consoles. I still have some nostalgic desire to have one simply as a deco object. After that I joined the master race. 😎 I think the only time I played Playstation was a couple minutes of Tekken at a civil service job.
I completely agree. The PS2 box and marketing were fantastic. I do teally enjoy the grey of the PS1 because it screams old computer/tech to me and I love that
Playstation was such a huge jump up from the snes back in the day. Truly mind blowing coming from playing even the top games on snes like Chrono Trigger and FF3 to suddenly play Tekken, Ridge Racer, Twisted Metal and Resident Evil. Great time to have experienced. I loved the OG PS1 box. PS2 not so much.
Interesting thoughts on the colour wheel thing, but it's honestly just something to make the colour choice easier for designers/artists/what have you. The color combinations are not a hard-and-fast rule. Also, there is a colour wheel for reflected light, the so called subtractive model (i. e. paint, printed stuff, "not-on-monitor", so to speak, main colours are RYB) and a colour wheel for emitted light - the additive model (when a backlight is involved, main colours are RGB), and in the latter yellow and blue are, indeed, complimentary colors.
i ran mine vertically. it worked better with Greatest Hits PSX discs that way. some of them even had to have weight added, with clear tape, to work with the PS2, horizontally. painted discs are slightly heavier than the Greatest Hits discs.
I remember so many games on PS1 and PS2. Twisted Metal (Black is the best one), Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, SOCOM, Soul Reaver, Splinter Cell, Medal of Honor, etc. Those were the good old days, and IMO, the golden age of gaming. Back then, developers were creating innovative IPs, and they were really passionate. Now, it's mostly run by businessmen and doesn't understand gaming. That is why I stick to AA and indie gaming these days.
I played Metal Gear on the NES and it was such a quick learning experience due to the required stealth gameplay. Extremely frustrating the first hour but then great feeling of satisfaction from having figured it out. There are a couple such steps from one gameplay logic to a more advanced one. I remember my brother playing TIE Fighter for the first time, simply shooting anything that moves and then wondering why the mission failed.
I'd say the difference between Sega and PS1 in terms of marketing back then is that Sony went full on with a "mass media" strategy, whereas Sega was counting on the _serious gamers_ to remember it. I can't fathom how they expected them (myself included) to go for it when they had no big franchise at launch, but Virtua Fighter. People didn't care for Clockwork Knight: they wanted Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, sports games (football, handegg, nba, etc...). And people didn't care all that much for Virtua Fighter outside of Japan. Perhaps that's due to it being a long time ago now, but I can't remember any significant TV campaign for either console or a game before what was, in France, the C.A.P. (Comité Anti-Playstation; SAPS in the UK). Maybe NES with Duck Hunt & SMB 1, in the late 1980s, but that's that. And don't get me started on the price tag, even though the PS1 was a bit of scam: 2099FF + 199FF Memory card + 199FF SCART cable + 199FF 2nd Controller, no games, ~2700FF => 634€ in 2024) vs 3690FF(868€) for a Saturn with 2 games & 2nd controller and no immediate need for a memory cartridge.
I just had this thought that our time of free/cheap game flooding has a bad influence regarding persistence. Back then it was much better when you had to spend big money to get one new game for a while, were stuck with it, and that really helped to not give up but to learn to grow, improve. E.g. people say NES Mission Impossible is one of the hardest games in existence, but I totally don't remember it that way, just as being briefly challenging here and there.
I still remember how bad things were for SEGA during that age. The stores that did sell the Saturn never stocked any games aside from its launch titles, and they were on the shelf for YEARS. Alas, things didn't really improve with the Dreamcast, but I still regard that as the greatest console to ever exist. Loved its presentation, including the box art. Fortunately for me I was old enough to know how to acquire games for it, too, though the original Soul Calibur sure was one heck of a launch title. Still remember how excited I was when I booted it up for the first time.
Do you remember which game it came paired with? I have a semi-serious theory about how one's whole life is being steered into one distinct direction depending on whether they got their NES with Zelda, Mario or Ice Climber. (IC for me - great with sibling for training teamplay.) Now I am wondering whether it came paired with any other games.
@@Dowlphin Pretty sure ours came with Zelda, though I was only 2-3 when we got it so I didn't really have the hand eye coordination to play so I mostly watched my brother play. It was only with the SNES that I was old enough to play most of the games.
I have some strong memories to the PS, more so because of the people I were with, but better memories to PS2 games more than thinking about the console itself. It sounds really strange to have to word it that way, so I hope that made sense. I had the PS2 Slim, and preferred it more since it was like an upgrade to the bigger model, even if I never got to use the modem. But for my favorite console boxes, maybe my Jungle Green N64 box. I wish more of my SNES boxes survived over time, but I have no room as it is really.
PlayStation 2 box looks the best. I wish I still had the box. I have PS2 slim box sealed I bought at store, never opened it. PS2 is my favourite console, it was released on my teenage years so I was really into gaming and GTA III.
PS2 is still the most sold console, although with the caveat, many just used it as DVD player. Never owned a PS1. The only console close to PS2 success is the Switch, which will likely finish with around 150m units
I'd somewhat disagree on the whole "blue subconsciously conveys intelligence" idea. This colour psychology thing is pet peeve of mine. Even though I agree that there are psychological associactions with the colors, I'd still say it's a more abstract thing and blue was the "high tech color", because all the cool high tech kids of the 90s did it (the same way all throughout the 50s and 60s there was a lot of mint green in all of that era high-tech stuff). It was simply the only option left to Sony in that era of continuing prevalence of neon colors, since, as you say, Nintendo already had the dibs on red, and the yellow-greeen-ish part of the spectrum was super lame, because those were the favoured colours of the the potential buyers' parents and grandparents. An old-fashioned old fart palette, so to say. You can observe the same nowadays - the generation that grew up with that neon aesthetic around them spurned it so much that now we have the "millennial grey" phenomenon, so I guess if Sony was a newcomer these days they'd pick grey or silver for their brand.
I first heard of the SEGA Saturn when it was "to old" and I only played on the SEGA Megadrive, Masterdrive and NES! I still prefer PC games! new Console Game controllers have the joysticks that I don't like! I prefer Keyboard and Mouse!
Looks like that channel got banned for a hooked cross picture. Funny that the comment and the profile picture is still there. Anyone finding it odd that this is not done with symbols of other genocidal entities but partially with symbols of people resisting them?
Absolutely vile, I can't believe you've said this. This is where we part ways. Others would be wise not to be lead astray by the poison you drip into their ears. Turn to the truth that is Sega and be at peace. But all right FF vii-ix were bangers and then then X on PS2, then you have socom, devil may cry, gran tursimo, spyro, and crash and maybe you have a point after all.
Ahah
First gaming console I played on (but didn't own) was an Interton Video Computer 4000. I remember it could be tricked into mixing elements from one game into the other, resulting in messy but not quite crashy gameplay.
I don't remember whether that was before or after a brief encounter with a VIC-20.
First (co-)owned console was the NES, as I call it, due to its design, the Lamborghini Countach of gaming consoles. I still have some nostalgic desire to have one simply as a deco object.
After that I joined the master race. 😎 I think the only time I played Playstation was a couple minutes of Tekken at a civil service job.
I completely agree. The PS2 box and marketing were fantastic. I do teally enjoy the grey of the PS1 because it screams old computer/tech to me and I love that
Playstation was such a huge jump up from the snes back in the day. Truly mind blowing coming from playing even the top games on snes like Chrono Trigger and FF3 to suddenly play Tekken, Ridge Racer, Twisted Metal and Resident Evil. Great time to have experienced.
I loved the OG PS1 box. PS2 not so much.
Interesting thoughts on the colour wheel thing, but it's honestly just something to make the colour choice easier for designers/artists/what have you. The color combinations are not a hard-and-fast rule. Also, there is a colour wheel for reflected light, the so called subtractive model (i. e. paint, printed stuff, "not-on-monitor", so to speak, main colours are RYB) and a colour wheel for emitted light - the additive model (when a backlight is involved, main colours are RGB), and in the latter yellow and blue are, indeed, complimentary colors.
i ran mine vertically. it worked better with Greatest Hits PSX discs that way. some of them even had to have weight added, with clear tape, to work with the PS2, horizontally. painted discs are slightly heavier than the Greatest Hits discs.
I remember so many games on PS1 and PS2. Twisted Metal (Black is the best one), Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, SOCOM, Soul Reaver, Splinter Cell, Medal of Honor, etc. Those were the good old days, and IMO, the golden age of gaming. Back then, developers were creating innovative IPs, and they were really passionate. Now, it's mostly run by businessmen and doesn't understand gaming. That is why I stick to AA and indie gaming these days.
I played Metal Gear on the NES and it was such a quick learning experience due to the required stealth gameplay. Extremely frustrating the first hour but then great feeling of satisfaction from having figured it out. There are a couple such steps from one gameplay logic to a more advanced one. I remember my brother playing TIE Fighter for the first time, simply shooting anything that moves and then wondering why the mission failed.
I'd say the difference between Sega and PS1 in terms of marketing back then is that Sony went full on with a "mass media" strategy, whereas Sega was counting on the _serious gamers_ to remember it. I can't fathom how they expected them (myself included) to go for it when they had no big franchise at launch, but Virtua Fighter. People didn't care for Clockwork Knight: they wanted Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, sports games (football, handegg, nba, etc...). And people didn't care all that much for Virtua Fighter outside of Japan.
Perhaps that's due to it being a long time ago now, but I can't remember any significant TV campaign for either console or a game before what was, in France, the C.A.P. (Comité Anti-Playstation; SAPS in the UK). Maybe NES with Duck Hunt & SMB 1, in the late 1980s, but that's that.
And don't get me started on the price tag, even though the PS1 was a bit of scam: 2099FF + 199FF Memory card + 199FF SCART cable + 199FF 2nd Controller, no games, ~2700FF => 634€ in 2024) vs 3690FF(868€) for a Saturn with 2 games & 2nd controller and no immediate need for a memory cartridge.
I just had this thought that our time of free/cheap game flooding has a bad influence regarding persistence. Back then it was much better when you had to spend big money to get one new game for a while, were stuck with it, and that really helped to not give up but to learn to grow, improve. E.g. people say NES Mission Impossible is one of the hardest games in existence, but I totally don't remember it that way, just as being briefly challenging here and there.
I still remember how bad things were for SEGA during that age. The stores that did sell the Saturn never stocked any games aside from its launch titles, and they were on the shelf for YEARS.
Alas, things didn't really improve with the Dreamcast, but I still regard that as the greatest console to ever exist. Loved its presentation, including the box art. Fortunately for me I was old enough to know how to acquire games for it, too, though the original Soul Calibur sure was one heck of a launch title. Still remember how excited I was when I booted it up for the first time.
I never grew up with a Play Station in my house. We were a Nintendo house. But I gotta say, that that PS2 box is GOATed.
Do you remember which game it came paired with? I have a semi-serious theory about how one's whole life is being steered into one distinct direction depending on whether they got their NES with Zelda, Mario or Ice Climber. (IC for me - great with sibling for training teamplay.)
Now I am wondering whether it came paired with any other games.
@@Dowlphin Pretty sure ours came with Zelda, though I was only 2-3 when we got it so I didn't really have the hand eye coordination to play so I mostly watched my brother play. It was only with the SNES that I was old enough to play most of the games.
@@Dowlphinours in Germany was with SMB1. Didn't know there were ones with Zelda. Our SNES came with SF2
The ps2 was the golden age of gaming everything on disk no dlc no micro transactions, just simple games made by gamers for gamers.
360 not adopting a Blu-ray drive ment full games couldn't fit on the dvd...DLC was introduced
Nice, I’m still amazed about original PlayStation. And I had a Sega Saturn as a kid in 90s.
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
I have some strong memories to the PS, more so because of the people I were with, but better memories to PS2 games more than thinking about the console itself. It sounds really strange to have to word it that way, so I hope that made sense. I had the PS2 Slim, and preferred it more since it was like an upgrade to the bigger model, even if I never got to use the modem. But for my favorite console boxes, maybe my Jungle Green N64 box. I wish more of my SNES boxes survived over time, but I have no room as it is really.
more videos about random stuff like this would be awesome
PlayStation 2 box looks the best. I wish I still had the box. I have PS2 slim box sealed I bought at store, never opened it. PS2 is my favourite console, it was released on my teenage years so I was really into gaming and GTA III.
PS2 is still the most sold console, although with the caveat, many just used it as DVD player. Never owned a PS1. The only console close to PS2 success is the Switch, which will likely finish with around 150m units
Fun Fact: the last PS2 game was released in 2013, the same year that PS4 was released in.
About standard-sized consoles, do you have a PS5, Metatron? Don't you think it's way too big and non-aesthetic?
I was today years old when I found out this guy has a gaming channel too.
I think my ps2 stood standing for only 1 day of it's 20 year old carear, which is still going.
I have my ps2 vertical, although that is because I need to make room for my other consoles.
I'd somewhat disagree on the whole "blue subconsciously conveys intelligence" idea. This colour psychology thing is pet peeve of mine. Even though I agree that there are psychological associactions with the colors, I'd still say it's a more abstract thing and blue was the "high tech color", because all the cool high tech kids of the 90s did it (the same way all throughout the 50s and 60s there was a lot of mint green in all of that era high-tech stuff). It was simply the only option left to Sony in that era of continuing prevalence of neon colors, since, as you say, Nintendo already had the dibs on red, and the yellow-greeen-ish part of the spectrum was super lame, because those were the favoured colours of the the potential buyers' parents and grandparents. An old-fashioned old fart palette, so to say. You can observe the same nowadays - the generation that grew up with that neon aesthetic around them spurned it so much that now we have the "millennial grey" phenomenon, so I guess if Sony was a newcomer these days they'd pick grey or silver for their brand.
I like the original Playstation box more
I had my ps2 standing
I first heard of the SEGA Saturn when it was "to old" and I only played on the SEGA Megadrive, Masterdrive and NES!
I still prefer PC games! new Console Game controllers have the joysticks that I don't like! I prefer Keyboard and Mouse!
original ps3 is amazing
Looks like that channel got banned for a hooked cross picture. Funny that the comment and the profile picture is still there.
Anyone finding it odd that this is not done with symbols of other genocidal entities but partially with symbols of people resisting them?