If you weren't there, you weren't there. There are no words that can properly describe how impressive the PS1 was. The emergence of 3D, the marketing, the arcade games finally being at home.
I'll never, ever forget turning the PS1 on for the first time on Christmas Day and hearing that iconic startup, then watching the opening fmv for Tekken with my dad and just losing my mind on the spot. Genuinely, changed my life forever.
My dad would be like "Turn this shit off and do your homework." My dad was very strict. Holidays meant nothing to him and everything was about working out and doing yard work. As soon as I turned 18 he made me get a job working for an 80-year-old workaholic in a warehouse located in a bad part of town with rampant crime. What were we talking about again?
Final Fantasy Tactics, Metal Gear Solid, Ape Escape, Bubble Bubble, Need for speed series, Twisted metal "Parapper the rapper" I remember getting this on a demo disc plus many more titles I've played
Still remember vividly getting our PlayStation for Christmas of '95. Hard to believe it's been 30 years. Watching my kids now play Astrobot on PS5 while I explain all the little references and easter eggs of PlayStation history has been a really cool full circle moment.
My PlayStation came with Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Tohshinden. This was the last time I was completely blown away because the generational leap was unbelievable and I wasn't prepared for the visuals and the audio (no Internet, only magazine screenshots).
it all started so quietly. I wasn't that aware of Sony until 1997 and when a friend showed me Tomb Raider at his house well that was it I wanted one so I started saving money. during the winter of '98 commercials for Resident Evil 2 got me even more juiced. finally in the spring I had enough cash so I went to the mall bought my first PS and Resident Evil 2 to start with. little did I know I had just bought greatness and for two weeks I just kept at it until I finished it. I was hooked and I never really recovered lol
You'd see the white Sony logo/sound come on, console was booting - you saw the black PlayStation logo come up - you KNEW that game was booting. You knew that disc wasn't scratched. Seeing the black logo come up was the most hype any of us could have had in the mid 90s. You were about to have a great time playing whatever game.
I had an N64 and knew I had the inferior machine. I bought a PS2 at launch and just used it to get caught up on PS1 games for the first year. I just remember being skeptical of the PS1 at launch only because there were so many consoles in that generation, but TV commercials for PS1 games always made me feel like, "Holy crap! Look at this game!" I was at someone's house in 1999 who had MGS and that was it. Metal Gear Solid was instant head-over-heels, love at first sight for me with the Playstation brand as a whole.
@@HugoGEDHugoGED Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time gave the world the blueprints for how to make 3D games. Everyone else would have gotten there eventually, but the world would have inarguably been a much more disgusting place without the N64.
I barely see people talk about it but I was more on the N64 side just because there was no load time's. I was in high school when both came out and having to wait for things to load to me seemed like a deal breaker that people would not get used too. Boy was I wrong
I was late to PlayStation. As a kid in the 90s, I was exclusively on Nintendo consoles. N64 and Gameboy. I didn't even play on a PlayStation console for the first time until the end of 2001 when the world was talking about an amazing new little game called Grand Theft Auto 3. I played it a friends house, then got a PS2 for Christmas. I've been playing PlayStation ever since.
I agree with Rich, WipEout was an inflection point that really flexed the power of the PSX. Absolutely lost my mind the first time I rented it from Blockbuster.
I was introduced to gaming in 1993 with a buddy who had super NES and Sega Genesis and I recall in 94/95 when he then got a PlayStation and the world suddenly changed, and those two previous systems were rarely looked at or played again except for Zelda and Sonic
Summer of 1999 was when me and my older brother first got the PS1. Tekken 2 and MK Trilogy were our first games. It also came with the demo disc (Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Spyro 1, etc). Great fucking memories 😎 Damn we're celebrating 30 years of PlayStation and this year made it 25 years for me 💯🔥
I was already in my 20’s when the PS1 released, but as it turned out, I was almost exactly the target market. In the UK at least, the console was heavily marketed to the older audience with demo units in nightclubs and “cool” more mature advertising. Before this, games consoles were very much kids toys, but the PlayStation became more like a lifestyle accessory.
Ditto mate, i was 21 and absolutely blown out of the water by Wipeout, destruction Derby and bizarrely Track and Field🤭 Yeah, i distinctly remember Wipeout especially in clubs (pretty mad if you think about it) Been a PS fan ever since.
I totally agree that the playstation generation was a time of unbridled creativity, and even though those risks didn't always pan out, it made that era so interesting and magical to experience as a child/teenager. On top of the cheapness of CD ROM and the lower budgets of games, another big factor was that the shift to 3D (at least on home consoles) was relatively new. The rules hadn't been written yet and nobody really knew what the hell they were doing, so developers would just try wildly creative stuff that nobody had done before. I remember buying gaming magazines at the time and being able to read them cover to cover and find something new and interesting about almost every game (with the exceptions being sports and sim games to a lesser degree). If gaming mags still existed today in any sort of palatable form, I'd probably be interested in maybe 1/5th of their content and that's being generous. I miss that era. The only times that've come close to that feeling of raw experimentation for me since then is the early indie scene and the early days of the VR resurgence in 2016.
Playstation was a beautiful box of pure gaming delight. At the time I couldn't afford one so you can imagine the joy I felt when I entered a magazine competition and won a Playstation with three games!
We were big into Amiga at the time. A mate of mine bought the PS1 on launch day and brought it around to my house. I went and bought one the day after and dumped my Amiga ASAP. This was the future, Wipeout was like nothing we had ever seen or heard. Amazing times, never again to be repeated.
How it went was that Commodore 64 was the ultimate computer platform for games and then we got Amiga. Best games in 80s were made in Commodore 64 and Amiga got ports from them. And the ports were often done different people and hardware was diffrent so game was actually made again and the games suffered from ports. Defender of the Crown was probably first game made first well known Amiga first title, and then ported other platforms but that didn't go well. They were in hurry so ports were actually better and best version of that game was made to Atari ST. But game development in late 80s to Commodore 64, very often involved IBM PC compatible. Because Commodore 64 had so little memory so it makes sense to use test algorithms and tools on IBM PC compatibles before writing to Commodore. They were also cross compiling back then. Then we got next generation of games, "16-bit computer games" and what happened was that best game developers moved from Commodore 64 to IBM PC compatibles. Then they were making games to 286/386 VGA and those games were ported to Amiga while Commodore 64 was dropped. There was for sure games made first in Amiga and some ports were best in Amiga (like Stunt Car Racer) but games made for Amiga first didn't aged well. They were way too much platformer and beat em up games, and consoles were better on those. There is excellent video in TH-cam that showed multiplatform arcade style gaming how it went to different platforms: "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles". NES was best, Commodore 64 port were more ugly but still playable and rest of the ports were garbage. Early 90s, gaming in Amiga suffered badly from piracy. Probably only time in history of gaming piracy was major problem. Some game distributors told that they are making more money on ancient Commodore 64. 32-bit games on computers and PS1 was then new era of gaming. PS1 did some good for gaming, but also it did harm. Good thing was that game industry matured more but games were not that good on that era. 16-bit era or early 32-bit on computers, not consoles were much more ambitious, hardcore gaming and also best era of those casual gaming point of click adventures.
As a consumer, you thought - Sega and Nintendo are game companies, and CD-ROM was new multimedia technology that was gonna be an opening for consumer electronics companies into gaming - and we'd seen 3DO, not be a threat to Sega and Nintendo, and we'd seen Philips CD-i not post much of a threat...so when you saw the Sony brand, and associated it with Panasonic and Philips as this consumer electronics brand - you thought it wasn't gonna be anything. Then the moment you saw Tekken versus Virtua Fighter, or Ridge Racer versus Daytona, it felt as is the Saturn was a generation behind what Sony had brought out. It wasn't until 1996/1997 when Sega Rally, Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter 2 came out that the Saturn looked good - and by then it was too little too late. The Nintendo 64 had launched, and the Saturn was in third place. The moral of the story was also an advertising slogan: Do not underestimate the power of PlayStation, =).
The Saturn's big 3 i.e. VF2, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally were all released in the West between November '95 - January '96. That was the Saturn's peak in the western market, after which it was mostly downhill.
All valid points but also don’t forget marketing of the brand too as Sony knew exactly who to go after: all the players that had outgrown the more kiddie and family friendly Nintendo and Sega. Nintendo couldn’t shake the ‘for kids’ image until the Wii, even in their product design, and Sega ended a tad stuck in the pre-teen/early teen market image they had established in the late 80’s/ early 90’s. Sony, on the other hand, came in aiming at the late teens/ young adult/adult crowd and killing it.
Yeah, I think it's kind of glossed over that Sony targeting a more adult audience was a significant part of it's success, especially early on. I remember even as a kid thinking the N64 was cool and had fun games, but the PS1 was the "adult machine". I certainly wanted the PS1 way more.
I remember when I was six and my aunt played RE3. Everyone should be pissing their pants but I loved it so much. This wa sin 2004 where the PS2 already existed! Together with my cousin we played alot of games on the PS1. Aladin, Tarzan, Gran Turismo, Need For Speed, Spyro, Disney games. There were so many good games on the 1. One weekend I visited my aunt as usual and they had the PS2 with Spiderman 2 on it. That was when I fell truly in love with the Playstation.
Rich was already covering games in 94?! Good sir time is very kind to you :D I remember playing the ps1 at a friend's place, who had brought it from a trip in US back to Brazil, before the console was officially sold there. It was such an amazing and different machine, and I was blown away by the 3D visuals.
The console and games that would define a generation! Man, so many great games, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Air Combat, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Alundra, Soul Reaver, Metal Gear Solid, Time Crisis, Crash Bandicoot, Medievil, Spyro the Dragon, Final Fantasy VII, Fear Effect, Ape Escape, Dino Crisis, Bushido Blade, PaRappa, Alone in the Dark, I could go on and on! I bought the PSX at launch going into college and playing these games were among my best gaming memories!
PlayStation was the greatest thing back then! I didn't even realize at first that this was its 30th anniversary year, maybe because it came out a year later in 1995 in the West. So, one of my latest videos kind of became my 30th celebration of PlayStation without that being in the intention. In that video, I tell my PlayStation story from back then.
I grew up as a kid in the early 80's and nothing comes close to the discovery of Nintendo. I remember having it in 1986 and the joy it brought me all those years ago. Truly incredible all those years later. My son now plays my original NES that still works perfectly. Toronto Canada
I was a bit too young at the time to know just how technically impressive it was but even as a little kid I realized that the PlayStation was a whole different beast to what came before when I saw the kind of games it could run, definitely the most noticeable generational leap ever.
Got mine in Xmas Day 1996 with Actual Soccer, Decent, Tekken 2, Ridge Racer Revolution and Resident Evil. I will never forget getting freaked out with 2 dogs smashing through the windows near the beginning of Resident Evil and seeing it all over again as I didn't get a memory card till the new year.
16:50 Exactly! PS2 is the most beautiful console ever made, with the aesthetics of the box itself and the user interface! The best library of games ever.
Rich is right about the PS1 building momentum already way before the launch. Edge magazine covered it well. I was an Edge reader at the time, so the PS1 beating the Saturn didn't surprise me that much. Saturn was the underdog from the beginning, which may seem counterintuitive to younger people, given Sega's big 16-bit success. Sega's mistakes with the Saturn in terms of hardware, software, development tools, the 32X and the Western launch gave the PS1 further momentum. Partnering with Sony was natural for Namco, as Sega was Namco's main rival in the arcade business. Capcom was hesitant to port Resident Evil to Saturn because they thought a Saturn port would take a long time due to its hardware. Capcom didn't predict RE would be a hit, as survival horror was still a new unproven genre. Early on Capcom just ported their 2D fighting games to the Saturn.
I was about 12 at PS1's launch and I've still fond memories of the magic it brought to the entire industry. Watching developers squeeze it each year for that miracle port had resulted in games that were just short of impossible, even almost eradicating the expected PS1 pop-in across multiple genres, such as Toy Story 2, F1 99, Hydro Thunder (those caustics), Metal Gear Solid and Quake 2. It was a great time to experience gaming, waiting for that next leap and to see how hard the console could be pushed in generational ways.
Witnessing the changes in graphics was a huge part of what made gaming exciting, the changes were huge and breathtaking and we witnessed the progress year by year. For me it would be a journey from nes mario graphics to what we have now, and boy is the progress huge.
Tekken 2, mgs, twisted metal 2, the jump to 3d in madden and live, the revolutionary controller.. I'll never forget how major of an impact this system had on my whole friend group.
As someone who lived through the PS1 launch as a kid, what stood out most to me was the texture mapping. Full, uncompromised, texture mapped 3d polygonal graphics. Coming from Starfox and Virtua racing on 16-bit, Ridge Racer and Tekken were so fully realised in their frame rate, extent of texture mapping and draw distance that it was just mindblowing. Their was 3d stuff I'd seen on PC, Jaguar and Saturn (as well as 3DO in magazines) but this was just so much more... , I dunno...perfect, I'd say, like actual 3d, with texture mapping.
My first ever console was a replica of NES and after that I had a Sega Megadrive 2, I was 8 and enjoyed gaming! I was 10 years old in '96 when I first entered a SONY store with my mother, she was looking for q home appliance and me personally didn't knew of the existence of a SONY console. Roaming around the store, my eyes locked on it, there it was, the PLAYSTATION in that special display cabinet where you could've played on it. I don't remember what game was running but I was blown away by the graphics. Yes guys, I was THERE, it was trully a masterpiece, a console like no other! A month later after a great amount of negotiations, my mother bought it for me and I was in a different dimension! If you haven't been there to live those moments, it's difficult to trully understand what kind of evolution the playstation brought at the time, and as a kid at the time, to witness first hand games like Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, it's priceless!
I remember looking at screenshots of Wipeout and Demolition Derby in various Computer magazines and I just knew from that point on that the Playstation was the console for me, it was what I dreamed of playing growing up with Tabletop Grandstand games then a Sinclair Spectrum then a Mega Drive. Looking at pictures of Wipeout was for me the future and I did not feel disappointed. I still remember going to my local Currys and buying a Playstation on its UK release day. Yea I've been a Sony fan boy ever since but I am a video game fan boy first
I was 10 back then, and my brother bought it (he's like 19 at that time) with Fifa 96. It was mind blowing coming from a SNES with the virtual soccer stadium of Fifa and the T-Rex of Demo1.
I got mine Christmas 95. Came with Air combat and battle arena toshinden. 2 controllers and a memory card. Also came with a demo disc called Picks. Was the best Christmas ever. The PS1 was just amazing
6:00 which, let us all remember to thank Nintendo for Playstation even existing. If not for their huge fumble, we'd probably not be where we are today with gaming. Also without Playstation, I wonder how DVD and Blu-Ray would have faired since PS2 and PS3 were the cheapest ways to get into those formats at the time. Sega probably still wouldn't have survived though.
I remember the PS1 in 1995, had no clue it existed until my brother mentioned it. Maybe it was because I was young at the time, but the 3D graphics didn't blow me away, I was more interested in what the graphics did for gameplay than the graphics themselves. Sadly, didn't see the Saturn in action until a couple years later, and didn't see VF2 until 2002 when I finally got my own Saturn, which I still have to this day.
The implied audacity of saying Ridge Racer was *only* a 30 fps game made me laugh. Ocarina of Time was 20 fps. Goldeneye ran 10 fps in taxing situations, and it maxed at 15 fps. We hold these games in incredibly high regard. Ridge Racer looked and played phenomenally well - it really is hilarious to look back at what was passable then.
Wave Race run below 20 and it was an early game (later Sony had Rapid Racer for a 30fps water racing game). Maybe Mario Kart 64 run at 30. But it has such simplistic geometry and sprites for racers. It was nowhere near polygonal complexity of RR that came years before. I've got my PS1 later in 1997 and it had a demo of Porsche Challenge from Sony with great detailed track, cars, racers and smooth framerate.
Goldeneye maxed out at 60fps in very rare cases, and 20-30fps was fairly commonplace. But yeah, things would really bog down when you had too many enemies on screen.
@ it did not, and could not ever hit 60 fps - it had a hard cap at 30. Even the port to the Switch is only 20 fps. The Xbox one is 30 fps. DF has a video on the original game with their FPS performance overlay. F Zero and Smash were the only games to ever sniff 60 fps on the N64.
@@apferrando Try looking around the start of Cradle or the ends of the Frigate with your guns put away. EDIT: I've done this on real hardware, and it absolutely does hit 60fps for brief moments. Plus, emulation hits 60fps much more often, further proving that there was no 30fps cap until the Xbox port added one.
@ you absolutely have not done this on N64 hardware or emulation. There’s a *30 fps cap* on the game. It drops off 30 fps the second you move down to… wait for it… 15 fps. You’d need 1 very specific emulator to break the cap - 1964.
My friend had a Playstion, i still remember Playing Resident Evil 3 on it. He was scared to play the game alone, so i was playing the game and he was watching it. Then i borrowed that Playstation from him for some months, amazing memories indeed.
OMG i still remember christmas day opening the package of a PS1. OMG and then my first game driver. Such a good time and generation. it was a beast of a console. the games felt endless and unique. We had master pieces like Metal gear solid. Driver, colin mcrae and more.
If the deal between Sony and Nintendo, Panasonic, SEGA (allegedly) was going through, there won't be Playstation. I still find it funny that PS is basically made out of spite for being looked down upon, betrayed by their business partner, and literally leap of faith product to becoming black horse no one would expect to grow this big today. I kind of love to think PS cheeky image (their marketing and PR mostly) is pretty much rooted from the bitterness on how they looked down upon by other brand in the past who now piggyback their success, straight up defunct, or retire from console industry entirely and becoming their developer.
It's a shame to look back at how diverse their 1st party games were in terms of Genres from Ps1, 2 and 3; then to see 95% of them now 3rd person action adventure games now, such a step back.
Love DF Retro so much. Nothing was equivalent to DF at that time. The closest to me, would've been Next Generation Magazine. That pub was definitely ahead of the curve. As a kid reading it, I sometimes didn't always understand everything being talked about, but it, and GamePro were my 2 guilty gaming mag pleasures as a kid. I learned alot from NextGen Magazine back in the day. I'll never forget the issue comparing all 3 of the "next gen" consoles of the PS1, Saturn, and N64. To include teardowns and PCB pictures and descriptions. Absolute Nerd Candy. Cheers.
Very interesting discussion that didn't even mention Net Yaroze....the fact that pretty much any PS1 could be turned into a dev kit was (and still is) so groundbreaking.
Really looking forward to this.... And I don't know if you've done a similar video on N64, but you really should, as there were so many things about that system that were truly revolutionary. Including giving us the first ever instance of dual analogue control in an fps game as just one example.
I bought PS1 day one with Wipeout (UK), before that I had a SNES (and started with the Atari 2600) + Amiga... PS1 changed everything (then PC did a litter later) but now I'm all in on PS5 PRO + PSVR2. 90s were the best and Playstation was part of that!
My rich friend got one at launch while I was still playing with a SNES & Genesis. I got one a bit later on when Twisted Metal came out and Resident Evil.
I was a late NES and N64 kid, so didn’t get a chance to join the fun until 98 or so. a classmate’s big brother had one and it felt mythical by that point
I still have some PSXs working around at home. I remember all the classics: FFVII, SOTN, MGS, and so on. A great time to be a gamer on console. I put insane hours on the demo disc and on Street Fighter Alpha 3 on world tour mode.
Still clearly remember seeing Destruction Derby and Doom on the PlayStation at Xmas '95 in my neighbour's house. I was still on a Megadrive at that stage and didnt get my own PS til '97. After playing isometric Megadrive FIFA '94 and '95, FIFA '96 on Sony's console with Motty and Andy Gray felt like you were controlling a live match! Fantastic time to be a kid into gaming.
I was old enough to remember the PlayStation, it was amazing for the time. Would be like a new supercar brand coming in and out selling Ferrari at the first attempt. And man do I miss the demo disc!
Frustrated with how the Commodore Amiga was so badly mismanaged into failure after the Amiga CD32 launched, eventually started looking around for a new gaming platform with CD games software. I walked into a GAME store and watched a rolling demo of a game that sold me a platform. Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee, that I found fascinating with its artwork, sound, and CGI cut scenes merged in with the gameplay graphics. The machine this demo was playing on? A PlayStation - sold ! Then came Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, etc … have stayed with PlayStation ever since.
You forgot to mention the NeoGeo at the time in the mix of all the others, which was exactly the arcade at home (even though it wasn't a 3D capable machine).
I got a PS1 on Christmas day 1995 as a 13 year old but didnt actually have a SCART TV (only an RF port) so I couldn't sctually play it on the 25th. My dad went to get a scart lead on boxing day and I played Discworld and Wipeout for the rest of Christmas
Everyone needs to do their kids a favour and as they grow up release a new retro console into their life and give them a turbo version of our console journey compressed into 3 of 4 years as opposed. They will realise the amazing journey we have been on instead of jumping to the ps5 or whatever console (PC in a stupidly shaped box!) we are at now.
I was a staunch Sega enthusiast, and yes, in retrospect, the PlayStation utterly dominated the Saturn. It was a clear and decisive victory, and even Saturn’s impressive 2D capabilities were rendered irrelevant. The PlayStation boasted exceptional versions of SF: Alpha too.
I was born one year before the original PlayStation was released in Japan, so I was a litle kid during the original PS heyday, my my older relatives had one and I remember playing games like the Spyro the Dragon, Bloody Roar, Metal Gear Solid and Tony Hawk's Pro Skate. I myself started gaming with a Famiclone, which where very popular here in Argentina, I played the SEGA Genesis in one my friend's house but another friend got a PSOne model and we played a lot of THPS 2. Interestingly, despite the popularity of the PlayStation, very few people played games like Final Fantasy, probably because there was no official game distribution, most people played pirated games and very few of them were translated, most people liked playing more arcadey games or that that didn't have a lot of text, I even heard stories about people playing with a English to Spanish dictionary on hand
I was the perfect age when PlayStation came out. It was so sweet playing twisted metal 2 and jet Moto back in the day and seemed so much better than Sega and SNES.
90s was the last truly great era of gaming. Tons of games, people took risks, it was about the games and creativity. Now its all MBAs, shareholders, and money. This gen of gaming really is awful.
Before tekken 3 came out and blow everything else out of the water Zero divide 2 was an impressive fighting game in its own right. robots fighting and knocking off the armor piece by piece. It was unreal at the time, running at 60 fps.
Then, now, and forever: PS1 > N64. Had both. Good games on both and to be sure, local multiplayer on N64 was wonderful. But I always knew the graphics on the 64 were mostly fugly and that’s only gotten worse with age. PS1 games by contrast hold up incredibly well visually/upscale so much better, there are so many more I still enjoy playing, and they scratch a way better nostalgic itch
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If you weren't there, you weren't there. There are no words that can properly describe how impressive the PS1 was. The emergence of 3D, the marketing, the arcade games finally being at home.
And now, a fucking toaster is more powerful.
@@adriantrusca1245hahahahah so true
@@adriantrusca1245But does your toaster have Time Crisis?
I was there !!! 😅
It was an incredible time
I'll never, ever forget turning the PS1 on for the first time on Christmas Day and hearing that iconic startup, then watching the opening fmv for Tekken with my dad and just losing my mind on the spot. Genuinely, changed my life forever.
My dad would be like "Turn this shit off and do your homework." My dad was very strict. Holidays meant nothing to him and everything was about working out and doing yard work. As soon as I turned 18 he made me get a job working for an 80-year-old workaholic in a warehouse located in a bad part of town with rampant crime.
What were we talking about again?
Tekken 3 music and sound effects became a core memory for me.
genuinely lol
Tekken, Ridge Racer, Final Fantasy 7, GTA, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo.
Great memories
And mgs1
Final Fantasy Tactics, Metal Gear Solid, Ape Escape, Bubble Bubble, Need for speed series, Twisted metal "Parapper the rapper" I remember getting this on a demo disc plus many more titles I've played
Jet Moto 2, Tombi, Need for Speed.
awesome
Spyro,crash bandicoot,soul reaver,medievil my childhood🤗
Still remember vividly getting our PlayStation for Christmas of '95. Hard to believe it's been 30 years.
Watching my kids now play Astrobot on PS5 while I explain all the little references and easter eggs of PlayStation history has been a really cool full circle moment.
Great dad, that game is so full of references to Super Mario that it is good that you explain them. 👍🏻
Same man! Has been a blast! Especially pulling games off of the shelf to show them where all of the bots got their start.
Got mine in 1999 i was in highschool. I'll forever cherish the memories playing w/ family and classmates
As a 48 year old gamer. I remember. It was amazing. First time seeing it in Dixons. I got one same day. Good times.
I remember going to my uncle's house in 1995, he showed me the PS1 in his living room with Tekken and i lost my mind immediately!
My PlayStation came with Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Tohshinden. This was the last time I was completely blown away because the generational leap was unbelievable and I wasn't prepared for the visuals and the audio (no Internet, only magazine screenshots).
My PlayStation came with a demo disc with multiple demos.(1997)
Mine too! And the pick's demo. 2 controllers. Best Christmas ever!
the good ol days when you got something good with a console. now all you get is the power cord lol
Battle Arena Toshinden was so good, oh my god…
I'm still remember playing Wipeout for the first time....the graphics, the music, the atmosphere, all blew my mind, I was living in the future
Wipeout and GT was my main reasons to get a PS1! They were my first games bought!
it all started so quietly. I wasn't that aware of Sony until 1997 and when a friend showed me Tomb Raider at his house well that was it I wanted one so I started saving money. during the winter of '98 commercials for Resident Evil 2 got me even more juiced. finally in the spring I had enough cash so I went to the mall bought my first PS and Resident Evil 2 to start with. little did I know I had just bought greatness and for two weeks I just kept at it until I finished it. I was hooked and I never really recovered lol
I finally bought a PlayStation after years of not having one and it’s now in my collection of PlayStations mounted next to my tv.
Ridge racers
Gran turismo
Resident evil
Parasite eve
Tenchu
Metal gear
Silent hill
I love and miss the 90s
Don’t forget bushido blade!!
@sethross7217 yus!!!!!!
Syphon Filter.... ah childhood memories
You'd see the white Sony logo/sound come on, console was booting - you saw the black PlayStation logo come up - you KNEW that game was booting. You knew that disc wasn't scratched. Seeing the black logo come up was the most hype any of us could have had in the mid 90s. You were about to have a great time playing whatever game.
My first introduction was Tekken 2, then Crash Bandicoot and Destruction Derby 2 at a sleepover around '95/96. What was yours?
Very true. That transition to the black screen felt like your gameplay session was being legitimized.
I had an N64 and knew I had the inferior machine. I bought a PS2 at launch and just used it to get caught up on PS1 games for the first year.
I just remember being skeptical of the PS1 at launch only because there were so many consoles in that generation, but TV commercials for PS1 games always made me feel like, "Holy crap! Look at this game!" I was at someone's house in 1999 who had MGS and that was it. Metal Gear Solid was instant head-over-heels, love at first sight for me with the Playstation brand as a whole.
Nah, N64 is better.
In my opinion MGS is the best game ever released on PS1 ! A true masterpiece everyone needs to play at least once.
@@HugoGEDHugoGED Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time gave the world the blueprints for how to make 3D games. Everyone else would have gotten there eventually, but the world would have inarguably been a much more disgusting place without the N64.
@spursdynasty7378 MGS2 is my favorite game of all time, but if I think of "home" in terms of gaming, my heart will always live in Shadow Moses.
I barely see people talk about it but I was more on the N64 side just because there was no load time's.
I was in high school when both came out and having to wait for things to load to me seemed
like a deal breaker that people would not get used too. Boy was I wrong
I was late to PlayStation. As a kid in the 90s, I was exclusively on Nintendo consoles. N64 and Gameboy. I didn't even play on a PlayStation console for the first time until the end of 2001 when the world was talking about an amazing new little game called Grand Theft Auto 3. I played it a friends house, then got a PS2 for Christmas. I've been playing PlayStation ever since.
I agree with Rich, WipEout was an inflection point that really flexed the power of the PSX. Absolutely lost my mind the first time I rented it from Blockbuster.
I was introduced to gaming in 1993 with a buddy who had super NES and Sega Genesis and I recall in 94/95 when he then got a PlayStation and the world suddenly changed, and those two previous systems were rarely looked at or played again except for Zelda and Sonic
Summer of 1999 was when me and my older brother first got the PS1. Tekken 2 and MK Trilogy were our first games. It also came with the demo disc (Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Spyro 1, etc). Great fucking memories 😎
Damn we're celebrating 30 years of PlayStation and this year made it 25 years for me 💯🔥
I was already in my 20’s when the PS1 released, but as it turned out, I was almost exactly the target market. In the UK at least, the console was heavily marketed to the older audience with demo units in nightclubs and “cool” more mature advertising. Before this, games consoles were very much kids toys, but the PlayStation became more like a lifestyle accessory.
Ditto mate, i was 21 and absolutely blown out of the water by Wipeout, destruction Derby and bizarrely Track and Field🤭 Yeah, i distinctly remember Wipeout especially in clubs (pretty mad if you think about it) Been a PS fan ever since.
I totally agree that the playstation generation was a time of unbridled creativity, and even though those risks didn't always pan out, it made that era so interesting and magical to experience as a child/teenager. On top of the cheapness of CD ROM and the lower budgets of games, another big factor was that the shift to 3D (at least on home consoles) was relatively new. The rules hadn't been written yet and nobody really knew what the hell they were doing, so developers would just try wildly creative stuff that nobody had done before.
I remember buying gaming magazines at the time and being able to read them cover to cover and find something new and interesting about almost every game (with the exceptions being sports and sim games to a lesser degree). If gaming mags still existed today in any sort of palatable form, I'd probably be interested in maybe 1/5th of their content and that's being generous.
I miss that era. The only times that've come close to that feeling of raw experimentation for me since then is the early indie scene and the early days of the VR resurgence in 2016.
Playstation was a beautiful box of pure gaming delight. At the time I couldn't afford one so you can imagine the joy I felt when I entered a magazine competition and won a Playstation with three games!
We were big into Amiga at the time. A mate of mine bought the PS1 on launch day and brought it around to my house. I went and bought one the day after and dumped my Amiga ASAP. This was the future, Wipeout was like nothing we had ever seen or heard. Amazing times, never again to be repeated.
These days more fault of devs, than hardware.
How it went was that Commodore 64 was the ultimate computer platform for games and then we got Amiga. Best games in 80s were made in Commodore 64 and Amiga got ports from them. And the ports were often done different people and hardware was diffrent so game was actually made again and the games suffered from ports. Defender of the Crown was probably first game made first well known Amiga first title, and then ported other platforms but that didn't go well. They were in hurry so ports were actually better and best version of that game was made to Atari ST.
But game development in late 80s to Commodore 64, very often involved IBM PC compatible. Because Commodore 64 had so little memory so it makes sense to use test algorithms and tools on IBM PC compatibles before writing to Commodore. They were also cross compiling back then.
Then we got next generation of games, "16-bit computer games" and what happened was that best game developers moved from Commodore 64 to IBM PC compatibles. Then they were making games to 286/386 VGA and those games were ported to Amiga while Commodore 64 was dropped.
There was for sure games made first in Amiga and some ports were best in Amiga (like Stunt Car Racer) but games made for Amiga first didn't aged well. They were way too much platformer and beat em up games, and consoles were better on those. There is excellent video in TH-cam that showed multiplatform arcade style gaming how it went to different platforms: "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles". NES was best, Commodore 64 port were more ugly but still playable and rest of the ports were garbage.
Early 90s, gaming in Amiga suffered badly from piracy. Probably only time in history of gaming piracy was major problem. Some game distributors told that they are making more money on ancient Commodore 64.
32-bit games on computers and PS1 was then new era of gaming. PS1 did some good for gaming, but also it did harm. Good thing was that game industry matured more but games were not that good on that era. 16-bit era or early 32-bit on computers, not consoles were much more ambitious, hardcore gaming and also best era of those casual gaming point of click adventures.
As a consumer, you thought - Sega and Nintendo are game companies, and CD-ROM was new multimedia technology that was gonna be an opening for consumer electronics companies into gaming - and we'd seen 3DO, not be a threat to Sega and Nintendo, and we'd seen Philips CD-i not post much of a threat...so when you saw the Sony brand, and associated it with Panasonic and Philips as this consumer electronics brand - you thought it wasn't gonna be anything. Then the moment you saw Tekken versus Virtua Fighter, or Ridge Racer versus Daytona, it felt as is the Saturn was a generation behind what Sony had brought out. It wasn't until 1996/1997 when Sega Rally, Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter 2 came out that the Saturn looked good - and by then it was too little too late. The Nintendo 64 had launched, and the Saturn was in third place. The moral of the story was also an advertising slogan: Do not underestimate the power of PlayStation, =).
The Saturn's big 3 i.e. VF2, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally were all released in the West between November '95 - January '96. That was the Saturn's peak in the western market, after which it was mostly downhill.
All valid points but also don’t forget marketing of the brand too as Sony knew exactly who to go after: all the players that had outgrown the more kiddie and family friendly Nintendo and Sega.
Nintendo couldn’t shake the ‘for kids’ image until the Wii, even in their product design, and Sega ended a tad stuck in the pre-teen/early teen market image they had established in the late 80’s/ early 90’s. Sony, on the other hand, came in aiming at the late teens/ young adult/adult crowd and killing it.
Yeah, I think it's kind of glossed over that Sony targeting a more adult audience was a significant part of it's success, especially early on. I remember even as a kid thinking the N64 was cool and had fun games, but the PS1 was the "adult machine". I certainly wanted the PS1 way more.
I remember when I was six and my aunt played RE3. Everyone should be pissing their pants but I loved it so much. This wa sin 2004 where the PS2 already existed! Together with my cousin we played alot of games on the PS1. Aladin, Tarzan, Gran Turismo, Need For Speed, Spyro, Disney games. There were so many good games on the 1. One weekend I visited my aunt as usual and they had the PS2 with Spiderman 2 on it. That was when I fell truly in love with the Playstation.
Rich was already covering games in 94?! Good sir time is very kind to you :D
I remember playing the ps1 at a friend's place, who had brought it from a trip in US back to Brazil, before the console was officially sold there. It was such an amazing and different machine, and I was blown away by the 3D visuals.
I believe Richard was a staff writer at a magazine called Computer and Video games back in the early 90’s.
The console and games that would define a generation! Man, so many great games, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Air Combat, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Alundra, Soul Reaver, Metal Gear Solid, Time Crisis, Crash Bandicoot, Medievil, Spyro the Dragon, Final Fantasy VII, Fear Effect, Ape Escape, Dino Crisis, Bushido Blade, PaRappa, Alone in the Dark, I could go on and on! I bought the PSX at launch going into college and playing these games were among my best gaming memories!
PlayStation was the greatest thing back then! I didn't even realize at first that this was its 30th anniversary year, maybe because it came out a year later in 1995 in the West. So, one of my latest videos kind of became my 30th celebration of PlayStation without that being in the intention. In that video, I tell my PlayStation story from back then.
PSX is my favourite console, on top of my beloved neo geo
I grew up as a kid in the early 80's and nothing comes close to the discovery of Nintendo. I remember having it in 1986 and the joy it brought me all those years ago. Truly incredible all those years later. My son now plays my original NES that still works perfectly. Toronto Canada
I was a bit too young at the time to know just how technically impressive it was but even as a little kid I realized that the PlayStation was a whole different beast to what came before when I saw the kind of games it could run, definitely the most noticeable generational leap ever.
Got mine in Xmas Day 1996 with Actual Soccer, Decent, Tekken 2, Ridge Racer Revolution and Resident Evil. I will never forget getting freaked out with 2 dogs smashing through the windows near the beginning of Resident Evil and seeing it all over again as I didn't get a memory card till the new year.
PlayStation is legendary
The first time I played PlayStation, I played metal gear solid, dude it was like freaking magic, total and complete jaw drop
16:50 Exactly! PS2 is the most beautiful console ever made, with the aesthetics of the box itself and the user interface! The best library of games ever.
Rich is right about the PS1 building momentum already way before the launch. Edge magazine covered it well. I was an Edge reader at the time, so the PS1 beating the Saturn didn't surprise me that much. Saturn was the underdog from the beginning, which may seem counterintuitive to younger people, given Sega's big 16-bit success. Sega's mistakes with the Saturn in terms of hardware, software, development tools, the 32X and the Western launch gave the PS1 further momentum. Partnering with Sony was natural for Namco, as Sega was Namco's main rival in the arcade business. Capcom was hesitant to port Resident Evil to Saturn because they thought a Saturn port would take a long time due to its hardware. Capcom didn't predict RE would be a hit, as survival horror was still a new unproven genre. Early on Capcom just ported their 2D fighting games to the Saturn.
I was about 12 at PS1's launch and I've still fond memories of the magic it brought to the entire industry. Watching developers squeeze it each year for that miracle port had resulted in games that were just short of impossible, even almost eradicating the expected PS1 pop-in across multiple genres, such as Toy Story 2, F1 99, Hydro Thunder (those caustics), Metal Gear Solid and Quake 2. It was a great time to experience gaming, waiting for that next leap and to see how hard the console could be pushed in generational ways.
Witnessing the changes in graphics was a huge part of what made gaming exciting, the changes were huge and breathtaking and we witnessed the progress year by year. For me it would be a journey from nes mario graphics to what we have now, and boy is the progress huge.
Amazing video, i thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you Digital Foundry.
Tekken 2, mgs, twisted metal 2, the jump to 3d in madden and live, the revolutionary controller.. I'll never forget how major of an impact this system had on my whole friend group.
As someone who lived through the PS1 launch as a kid, what stood out most to me was the texture mapping. Full, uncompromised, texture mapped 3d polygonal graphics. Coming from Starfox and Virtua racing on 16-bit, Ridge Racer and Tekken were so fully realised in their frame rate, extent of texture mapping and draw distance that it was just mindblowing. Their was 3d stuff I'd seen on PC, Jaguar and Saturn (as well as 3DO in magazines) but this was just so much more... , I dunno...perfect, I'd say, like actual 3d, with texture mapping.
My first ever console was a replica of NES and after that I had a Sega Megadrive 2, I was 8 and enjoyed gaming!
I was 10 years old in '96 when I first entered a SONY store with my mother, she was looking for q home appliance and me personally didn't knew of the existence of a SONY console.
Roaming around the store, my eyes locked on it, there it was, the PLAYSTATION in that special display cabinet where you could've played on it.
I don't remember what game was running but I was blown away by the graphics.
Yes guys, I was THERE, it was trully a masterpiece, a console like no other!
A month later after a great amount of negotiations, my mother bought it for me and I was in a different dimension!
If you haven't been there to live those moments, it's difficult to trully understand what kind of evolution the playstation brought at the time, and as a kid at the time, to witness first hand games like Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, it's priceless!
I remember looking at screenshots of Wipeout and Demolition Derby in various Computer magazines and I just knew from that point on that the Playstation was the console for me, it was what I dreamed of playing growing up with Tabletop Grandstand games then a Sinclair Spectrum then a Mega Drive. Looking at pictures of Wipeout was for me the future and I did not feel disappointed. I still remember going to my local Currys and buying a Playstation on its UK release day. Yea I've been a Sony fan boy ever since but I am a video game fan boy first
I will never forget the jaw drop the child me had when I first saw Gran Turismo after strictly seeing Famicom and Super Famicom games.
I was 10 back then, and my brother bought it (he's like 19 at that time) with Fifa 96. It was mind blowing coming from a SNES with the virtual soccer stadium of Fifa and the T-Rex of Demo1.
I got mine Christmas 95. Came with Air combat and battle arena toshinden. 2 controllers and a memory card. Also came with a demo disc called Picks. Was the best Christmas ever. The PS1 was just amazing
MGS changed everything for me. It felt like a cinematic masterpiece. It was mind blowing.
6:00 which, let us all remember to thank Nintendo for Playstation even existing. If not for their huge fumble, we'd probably not be where we are today with gaming. Also without Playstation, I wonder how DVD and Blu-Ray would have faired since PS2 and PS3 were the cheapest ways to get into those formats at the time. Sega probably still wouldn't have survived though.
I remember the PS1 in 1995, had no clue it existed until my brother mentioned it. Maybe it was because I was young at the time, but the 3D graphics didn't blow me away, I was more interested in what the graphics did for gameplay than the graphics themselves. Sadly, didn't see the Saturn in action until a couple years later, and didn't see VF2 until 2002 when I finally got my own Saturn, which I still have to this day.
The implied audacity of saying Ridge Racer was *only* a 30 fps game made me laugh. Ocarina of Time was 20 fps. Goldeneye ran 10 fps in taxing situations, and it maxed at 15 fps. We hold these games in incredibly high regard. Ridge Racer looked and played phenomenally well - it really is hilarious to look back at what was passable then.
Wave Race run below 20 and it was an early game (later Sony had Rapid Racer for a 30fps water racing game).
Maybe Mario Kart 64 run at 30. But it has such simplistic geometry and sprites for racers. It was nowhere near polygonal complexity of RR that came years before.
I've got my PS1 later in 1997 and it had a demo of Porsche Challenge from Sony with great detailed track, cars, racers and smooth framerate.
Goldeneye maxed out at 60fps in very rare cases, and 20-30fps was fairly commonplace. But yeah, things would really bog down when you had too many enemies on screen.
@ it did not, and could not ever hit 60 fps - it had a hard cap at 30. Even the port to the Switch is only 20 fps. The Xbox one is 30 fps. DF has a video on the original game with their FPS performance overlay. F Zero and Smash were the only games to ever sniff 60 fps on the N64.
@@apferrando Try looking around the start of Cradle or the ends of the Frigate with your guns put away.
EDIT: I've done this on real hardware, and it absolutely does hit 60fps for brief moments. Plus, emulation hits 60fps much more often, further proving that there was no 30fps cap until the Xbox port added one.
@ you absolutely have not done this on N64 hardware or emulation. There’s a *30 fps cap* on the game. It drops off 30 fps the second you move down to… wait for it… 15 fps. You’d need 1 very specific emulator to break the cap - 1964.
PlayStation1 guys!!!!!!
Soul Reaver remaster release soon
My friend had a Playstion, i still remember Playing Resident Evil 3 on it. He was scared to play the game alone, so i was playing the game and he was watching it. Then i borrowed that Playstation from him for some months, amazing memories indeed.
Got mine in 1998 when I was 6 years old. Still remember playing crash bandicoot for the first time.
OMG i still remember christmas day opening the package of a PS1. OMG and then my first game driver. Such a good time and generation. it was a beast of a console. the games felt endless and unique. We had master pieces like Metal gear solid. Driver, colin mcrae and more.
I got mine in 1998. I got crash bandicoot and nba live. I used chore money to buy tomb raider and resident evil later. So many good memories
If the deal between Sony and Nintendo, Panasonic, SEGA (allegedly) was going through, there won't be Playstation. I still find it funny that PS is basically made out of spite for being looked down upon, betrayed by their business partner, and literally leap of faith product to becoming black horse no one would expect to grow this big today. I kind of love to think PS cheeky image (their marketing and PR mostly) is pretty much rooted from the bitterness on how they looked down upon by other brand in the past who now piggyback their success, straight up defunct, or retire from console industry entirely and becoming their developer.
It's a shame to look back at how diverse their 1st party games were in terms of Genres from Ps1, 2 and 3; then to see 95% of them now 3rd person action adventure games now, such a step back.
I like how John is like the jack of all trades.
Love DF Retro so much. Nothing was equivalent to DF at that time. The closest to me, would've been Next Generation Magazine. That pub was definitely ahead of the curve. As a kid reading it, I sometimes didn't always understand everything being talked about, but it, and GamePro were my 2 guilty gaming mag pleasures as a kid. I learned alot from NextGen Magazine back in the day. I'll never forget the issue comparing all 3 of the "next gen" consoles of the PS1, Saturn, and N64. To include teardowns and PCB pictures and descriptions. Absolute Nerd Candy. Cheers.
Very interesting discussion that didn't even mention Net Yaroze....the fact that pretty much any PS1 could be turned into a dev kit was (and still is) so groundbreaking.
I actually owned a Jaguar 😂
Really looking forward to this....
And I don't know if you've done a similar video on N64, but you really should, as there were so many things about that system that were truly revolutionary. Including giving us the first ever instance of dual analogue control in an fps game as just one example.
I bought PS1 day one with Wipeout (UK), before that I had a SNES (and started with the Atari 2600) + Amiga... PS1 changed everything (then PC did a litter later) but now I'm all in on PS5 PRO + PSVR2. 90s were the best and Playstation was part of that!
My rich friend got one at launch while I was still playing with a SNES & Genesis. I got one a bit later on when Twisted Metal came out and Resident Evil.
I was a late NES and N64 kid, so didn’t get a chance to join the fun until 98 or so. a classmate’s big brother had one and it felt mythical by that point
Man, I remember booting the *Demo one* cd with the Manta ray and Trex. My beloved snes felt like a relic right then and there.
My mate bought his ps1 into our science class in October 1995. Couldn’t believe it.
Got onboard at the ps3, been a fan ever since, can’t see me going elsewhere anytime soon.
I still have some PSXs working around at home. I remember all the classics: FFVII, SOTN, MGS, and so on. A great time to be a gamer on console. I put insane hours on the demo disc and on Street Fighter Alpha 3 on world tour mode.
Enjoying what you guys have got going on at DF. It's a decent format. Interesting and easy to consume.
Still clearly remember seeing Destruction Derby and Doom on the PlayStation at Xmas '95 in my neighbour's house. I was still on a Megadrive at that stage and didnt get my own PS til '97. After playing isometric Megadrive FIFA '94 and '95, FIFA '96 on Sony's console with Motty and Andy Gray felt like you were controlling a live match! Fantastic time to be a kid into gaming.
I was old enough to remember the PlayStation, it was amazing for the time.
Would be like a new supercar brand coming in and out selling Ferrari at the first attempt.
And man do I miss the demo disc!
I got mine in january 98 after making the poor choice of getting a saturn in 96. Even in 98 PS1 had so many great games to choose from.
Frustrated with how the Commodore Amiga was so badly mismanaged into failure after the Amiga CD32 launched, eventually started looking around for a new gaming platform with CD games software. I walked into a GAME store and watched a rolling demo of a game that sold me a platform. Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee, that I found fascinating with its artwork, sound, and CGI cut scenes merged in with the gameplay graphics. The machine this demo was playing on? A PlayStation - sold ! Then came Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, etc … have stayed with PlayStation ever since.
You forgot to mention the NeoGeo at the time in the mix of all the others, which was exactly the arcade at home (even though it wasn't a 3D capable machine).
Still have my original PS1, as well as a PS2, 3, 4, and a 5.
Playstation has such a rich history in gaming. Playstation will always be my place to go for playing games.
I got a PS1 on Christmas day 1995 as a 13 year old but didnt actually have a SCART TV (only an RF port) so I couldn't sctually play it on the 25th. My dad went to get a scart lead on boxing day and I played Discworld and Wipeout for the rest of Christmas
Success of the PS? The price, The Brand, Ease and cost effectiveness of developing games, The Ads.
Battle Arena Toshinden and Beyond the Beyond was my 1st PS1 games. Ridge Racer was next.
Got mine in Fall 1998. But i actually wanted an N64. But my life took a different turn. And I think I was better off for it.
Playstation has been a part of my life for its entire existence. It's in my blood at this point.
Final Fantasy going to Sony is what sold me on it.
Everyone needs to do their kids a favour and as they grow up release a new retro console into their life and give them a turbo version of our console journey compressed into 3 of 4 years as opposed. They will realise the amazing journey we have been on instead of jumping to the ps5 or whatever console (PC in a stupidly shaped box!) we are at now.
I was a staunch Sega enthusiast, and yes, in retrospect, the PlayStation utterly dominated the Saturn. It was a clear and decisive victory, and even Saturn’s impressive 2D capabilities were rendered irrelevant. The PlayStation boasted exceptional versions of SF: Alpha too.
Ps1 , always has a apecial place in my heart... And im a pc gamer from youth
I was born one year before the original PlayStation was released in Japan, so I was a litle kid during the original PS heyday, my my older relatives had one and I remember playing games like the Spyro the Dragon, Bloody Roar, Metal Gear Solid and Tony Hawk's Pro Skate. I myself started gaming with a Famiclone, which where very popular here in Argentina, I played the SEGA Genesis in one my friend's house but another friend got a PSOne model and we played a lot of THPS 2. Interestingly, despite the popularity of the PlayStation, very few people played games like Final Fantasy, probably because there was no official game distribution, most people played pirated games and very few of them were translated, most people liked playing more arcadey games or that that didn't have a lot of text, I even heard stories about people playing with a English to Spanish dictionary on hand
Never underestimate the power of Playstation
I was the perfect age when PlayStation came out. It was so sweet playing twisted metal 2 and jet Moto back in the day and seemed so much better than Sega and SNES.
Hey everybody. Let's get John that Anniversary Edition PS5 Pro. Let's make this happen.
@@EmblemParade no
Fuck that. I want it.
No, pal.
90s was the last truly great era of gaming. Tons of games, people took risks, it was about the games and creativity. Now its all MBAs, shareholders, and money. This gen of gaming really is awful.
I was 18 in 95 when I first got the PS. Sony had the best version of Mortal Kombat 3.
Before tekken 3 came out and blow everything else out of the water
Zero divide 2 was an impressive fighting game in its own right. robots fighting and knocking off the armor piece by piece. It was unreal at the time, running at 60 fps.
Had lots of fun with Vigilante 8
Then, now, and forever:
PS1 > N64.
Had both. Good games on both and to be sure, local multiplayer on N64 was wonderful. But I always knew the graphics on the 64 were mostly fugly and that’s only gotten worse with age. PS1 games by contrast hold up incredibly well visually/upscale so much better, there are so many more I still enjoy playing, and they scratch a way better nostalgic itch
i was there! i never bought a ps1 though. But i still have my original nintendo, with the duck hunt gun, and sega w/32x
I fix consoles for a small business. I currently have a backwards compatible ps3 that needs reballing. Sucks.
I think Sony just gave developers better profit margins with the CD and the rest is history
As a Nintendo fan, Sony had won me over with the PS1
Crazy to think PS is 30 years old already.