The PSP truly felt like the future when it first came out. From the first party games to lesser known niche JPN games not to mention wifi and the ability to watch videos and play music. For 2004-2007ish it truly felt like a one of a kind machine.
That PSP unboxing is nostalgic. I was 10 at the time. My dad bought it for me, just after launch. He couldn't wait until Christmas, he gave it to me early.
I got it for christmas the year it came out and oh man, was I excited!! My cousin and I took turns playing Daxter and it was incredible. Video games can create such great memories.
I bought a PS Vita at the beginning of the year from a girl I work with. She said it was having stick drift. Cleaned the sticks with rubbing alcohol and canned air and it works with no issues. Best part is I only paid $15 for it.
Same, we were poor but I somehow got a PSP. I watched Spiderman 2 so many times that summer. And Wipeout Pure was awesome, esp when I found out about the glitch that let you use the web browser 😉
Ah PSP, the console that made me a Sony fan after growing up with only Nintendo hardware. Crisis Core and Dissidia were just too tempting to me at the time, I had to have them. The PSP was also where I beat FF7 for the first time, still blew my mind all those years later from it's release.
I still have both of them, but the PSP still is my favorite handheld! Played it for so many hours that I had an extra battery to just replace and continue playing. It got even better after I was able to install homebrew and could play many emulators.
PSP was a fantastic handheld console.. I loved the untold legends game, Syphon filter, Ghost Rider, Resistance, God of War chains of Olympus etc. plenty of top notch gems on it.
God I love my PSP, had the 1000 and 3000 models with the 3000 model still currently using. It was my gateway to many great PSP games but it was also the system that got me into PS1 games. There was something magical about playing PS1 games on a handheld. It’s how I played Chrono Cross for the first time.
I loved the UMDs for the PSP....I thought (& still do) they were so futuristic, and just a cool form factor for physical media. I also, loved mini disk as well. My 2 favorite forms of physical media still to this day.
A little fun fact about the ps vita intro video: If you go into the welcome park app and after finishing each tutorial once, the stickfigure will be on the left of the screen. If you then click on it, it will drag down another bubble which allows you to watch the intro again
God the memories. I adored my PSP, and I still love it to this day. I got one for my 8th birthday in 2005, along with a Lego Star Wars set. I got the media pack version that came with the Spider-Man 2 UMD movie, having only seen the GBA before this, this thing blew my mind. The backlit screen was the best part to me.
The way you did this video really took me back! I still have pictures my parents took from the Christmas when I got my first PSP as a kid, with a huge grin on my face like it was the best day of my life. Back then, I think it was! My friends didn't believe me when I told them at school after winter break was over lol. Lots of great memories with that system, and I've still got it too! Lumines 2 was one of my favorites, which I'm pretty sure I got the next Christmas. Finally around Covid time I got around to playing Lumines 1, which I really enjoyed 100%ing.
The PSP was the first console I bought on launch day. It came out the day after my 13th birthday and I had a ton of target gift cards that I used to pay for it, and NFL Street 2 Unleashed. I was blown away with all the accessories that came in the value pack. Everything felt extremely high quality down to the leather wrist lanyard and neoprene sleeve. I distinctly remember being fascinated by the clear shoulder buttons and the clear “floating” face buttons that we wouldn’t see again until the dualsense. Such an amazing product experience at the time and thank you Ryan for the care you take with these retro unboxings.
I have a PSP 3000. While I enjoy the slimmer size, brighter/more colorful screen, increased RAM and battery life, and redesigned buttons, it feels so fragile. I’ve heard that’s one of the few things the 1000 has over the others is how premium and sturdy it feels; that and the UMD tray using a button to pop out instead of just being pulled open by hand. I kinda wish there was a 1000 model that preserved the size/sturdiness but otherwise had all the other improvements of the 3000. That would be the ultimate PSP in my opinion.
PSP. I was 13, and I remember I went on vacation to Paris. Randomly went into a game store looking for figures and saw a PSP from Japan. They got it 1 year before Euroope. I nearly lost my mind. I bought it and some Japanese mech game. I had to survive for 2 weeks with literally money, but I had the PSP. Before this, I only HEATD there. MAYBE some console, and here I am 1 year before with it in my hands. It was and still is a gorgeous system.
I love the Vita so much I have four!. My original black European 1000 and 2000 and a Japanese 1000 Cosmic red and a Japanese 1000 Glacier white. I rotate them so I play them all equally!
Still have both of mine. It was an event when I went to Best Buy on launch day and bought myself a PSP with my saved up allowance money. I bought it with Untold Legends.
Nice! It’s the “Walkman of the Future” and PlayStation’s biggest gaffe ever. ☝🏻 I love the PSP and own four in various colors, complete and in box. I also own two launch model US Vitas complete and in box. 🔥
Psp got me back into gaming. I had Atari, Nintendo, ect when i was younger, but gave it all up as an adult. Then i got a psp as a gift and that's all it took, now i game almost every day on ps5, psvr, psvr2
Still have my psp 1000 model i still play it to this day great games like pursuit force, dragonball,naruto, jak & daxter, kill zone liberation, tekken, nfs carbon
Sigh I always kick myself for selling my ps vita… again like I always say… Mystic your videos make me appreciate and love PlayStation even more. Makes me want to collect them again..
I have my psp at work with me just now, just gave it a clean but need to replace the front shell or the complete shell. Just ordered Daxter and Ridge Racer.
The first silent hill game I ever experienced was on the PSP and that was silent hill: origins which was one of the games that sprung me into my love for the horror game genre
one day when I'm able to afford international shipping, I'm so getting these 2 handhelds at least brand new or rarely used, just for the sake of nostalgia
It’s not happening. The business model of having to support a separate handheld and home console with a different games library is untenable. Even Nintendo, the handheld king, unified their home and handheld consoles into hybrid for this reason.
Man I remember getting the PS Vita super bundle with like 11 games for 99€ back in the day. I literally couldn't believe my luck. Got Freedom Wars as an extra game and loved it, and later on fell in love with Person 4 Golden. The Vita is such a great platform, too bad it died too early.
As I posted in another video that opened one of these psps a few days ago... I have a psp 1000 that came with a bundle from back then. The box which I still have has ATV Off Road Fury and Lords of Dogtown on them. It was a nice little bundle and I have a lot of memories with that psp. I have a limited edition white PS Vita. Still have the box and all, it was an Assassin Creed Liberation special edition. I didn't care for the game, but moreso that the console was white and looked realllly good. I still play it to this day and the battery holds up well.
Me too, but I don't think it'll ever happen. I don't want to play PS5 on the go, but a range of handheld specific games like Vita, PSP and Gameboys had.
I loved playing on the PSP back a long time ago when I was a kid, my favourite games that I really enjoyed playing were Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Medal of Honor Heroes 2, Prince of Persia Rival Swords, Gran Turismo and also Assassin's Creed Bloodlines! 🙂✌️
man, really surprised to see the vita powering on and even holding a charge, the thing about buying brand-new old stock hardware (with a battery inside) is that the battery is just often dead out of the box, so it's better to buy a used handheld/controller because of this.
Had the Vita been named PSP2, it would've sold wwaayy better. i recalled so many people at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc mistaking it for a revision of the original PSP instead of the next gen PSP.
reminds me of my good ol' first psp, all black playing without a memory stick lmao Then some time later got a new silver one with memory stick and it was the best times.
This was amazing to see unboxings of sealed PSP and PSVita. I love the Sony PSP and still have the one I had years ago and opened brand new. I had two brand new at one point. I love the Sony PSP and hope Sony gets back into handheld gaming in the future. The PSP was a everything handheld gaming console and outdid Nintendo that generation due to the amount of things that gaming console can do. I also love and have Nintendo DS games and got a Nintendo 3DSXL brand new a few years ago and had fun with those games but the Sony PSP wins overall compared to other handheld gaming consoles at the time. Now I never got a Sony PSVita so I can't speak so much on that but from what I see and have heard I think Sony would make a amazing handheld gaming console If they ever went hard on handheld gaming again. 4:57 PSP just hits differently than modern handheld gaming consoles. Cool video. ^_^
I bought a like new, not even a scratch or shell swapped PSP 1000 from Japan on eBay for 150, best money spent. Got one of those memory stick micro SD upgrades, and was able to play all my old umd childhood games again, but my movies weren’t playable since it’s a Japan model and they were region locked. I’m looking for a 2000 model Star Wars series now, that was my first psp I ever owned
Just bought a used like new psp from amazon. Gonna get some good games for the psp. I didn't play that many games for it. Always good to see Mystic take us through some much gaming goodness! 😁
I got my psp in 2005 I lost it in my moms house I’ve been looking for it since 2011 but the psp was insane at the time we had game boys but the psp had console quality games like midnight club 3 and gta lcs and you could browse the internet with WiFi it felt magical
I don't know if you've mentioned it in previous videos but when it comes to your display cabinet, what do you do about dust and how do you maintain its pristine condition?
The PSP truly felt like the future when it first came out. From the first party games to lesser known niche JPN games not to mention wifi and the ability to watch videos and play music. For 2004-2007ish it truly felt like a one of a kind machine.
That PSP unboxing is nostalgic. I was 10 at the time. My dad bought it for me, just after launch. He couldn't wait until Christmas, he gave it to me early.
Some Dads are brilliant!
I got it for christmas the year it came out and oh man, was I excited!! My cousin and I took turns playing Daxter and it was incredible. Video games can create such great memories.
@@nothezzaI LOVED daxter, vice city stories. It’s almost making me sad
You know a console is good when your parents are impatient to wait for Christmas
Good news I'm Getting PS Vita for Christmas
“Jazzed up downstairs” had me weak
I bought a PS Vita at the beginning of the year from a girl I work with. She said it was having stick drift. Cleaned the sticks with rubbing alcohol and canned air and it works with no issues. Best part is I only paid $15 for it.
damnnnnnnn bro good deal 😅 😮 is it the slim or oled model
@@GloryboyquanOLED model. I don't think she knew what it was really worth even if the sticks were drifting. Such an easy thing to fix.
Got a psp in 2006. That was crazy because we were quite poor. Still remember that day!
at least u had a great childhood ) i never had psp growing up
Same, we were poor but I somehow got a PSP. I watched Spiderman 2 so many times that summer. And Wipeout Pure was awesome, esp when I found out about the glitch that let you use the web browser 😉
I’m so mad I got into the Vita handheld so late. It’s one of my favorite handhelds now of all time.
@@Gloryboyquanjrpgs
@@Pikmin3388 me also
I'm Getting PS Vita for Christmas
Heck yeah, I loved unboxing the OG PSP when I got it back then
In 05 good memories man
Was In middle school
@@michaelmyersplays4992wow! I was just 5 years old.
@@FezCaliph damn lol young
I was 14 lol
"I'm again getting jazzed up, possibly downstairs"
Ayoo 😂😂😂
I was like PAUSEEE😂
@@MiyaMam948 XD
Ah PSP, the console that made me a Sony fan after growing up with only Nintendo hardware. Crisis Core and Dissidia were just too tempting to me at the time, I had to have them. The PSP was also where I beat FF7 for the first time, still blew my mind all those years later from it's release.
The display is coming together. Pretty slick. I have never even played a PSP, but I do have a Vita.
Same here. I did really like the PSP Go, but when I went to the store to buy one I realised it was digital only, so didn't get one!
I still have both of them, but the PSP still is my favorite handheld! Played it for so many hours that I had an extra battery to just replace and continue playing. It got even better after I was able to install homebrew and could play many emulators.
PSP was a fantastic handheld console.. I loved the untold legends game, Syphon filter, Ghost Rider, Resistance, God of War chains of Olympus etc. plenty of top notch gems on it.
God I love my PSP, had the 1000 and 3000 models with the 3000 model still currently using. It was my gateway to many great PSP games but it was also the system that got me into PS1 games. There was something magical about playing PS1 games on a handheld. It’s how I played Chrono Cross for the first time.
psp also special to my heart bro I still play but on my modded vita
I loved the UMDs for the PSP....I thought (& still do) they were so futuristic, and just a cool form factor for physical media. I also, loved mini disk as well. My 2 favorite forms of physical media still to this day.
A little fun fact about the ps vita intro video: If you go into the welcome park app and after finishing each tutorial once, the stickfigure will be on the left of the screen. If you then click on it, it will drag down another bubble which allows you to watch the intro again
That really is a fun fact thank you
Props on your collecting! I personally could never be a collector, my ocd would drive me insane. I'm happy being a user/consumer.
God the memories. I adored my PSP, and I still love it to this day. I got one for my 8th birthday in 2005, along with a Lego Star Wars set. I got the media pack version that came with the Spider-Man 2 UMD movie, having only seen the GBA before this, this thing blew my mind. The backlit screen was the best part to me.
The way you did this video really took me back! I still have pictures my parents took from the Christmas when I got my first PSP as a kid, with a huge grin on my face like it was the best day of my life. Back then, I think it was! My friends didn't believe me when I told them at school after winter break was over lol. Lots of great memories with that system, and I've still got it too! Lumines 2 was one of my favorites, which I'm pretty sure I got the next Christmas. Finally around Covid time I got around to playing Lumines 1, which I really enjoyed 100%ing.
The PSP was the first console I bought on launch day. It came out the day after my 13th birthday and I had a ton of target gift cards that I used to pay for it, and NFL Street 2 Unleashed.
I was blown away with all the accessories that came in the value pack. Everything felt extremely high quality down to the leather wrist lanyard and neoprene sleeve.
I distinctly remember being fascinated by the clear shoulder buttons and the clear “floating” face buttons that we wouldn’t see again until the dualsense.
Such an amazing product experience at the time and thank you Ryan for the care you take with these retro unboxings.
I very clearly remember taking off the protective peel from the PSP, Christmas morning 2005, wow.
I have a PSP 3000. While I enjoy the slimmer size, brighter/more colorful screen, increased RAM and battery life, and redesigned buttons, it feels so fragile. I’ve heard that’s one of the few things the 1000 has over the others is how premium and sturdy it feels; that and the UMD tray using a button to pop out instead of just being pulled open by hand.
I kinda wish there was a 1000 model that preserved the size/sturdiness but otherwise had all the other improvements of the 3000. That would be the ultimate PSP in my opinion.
Man I remember getting my PlayStation portable during Christmas of 05. I got both Rachet and clank and Tekken 5 DR man good times
Man, I hadn't heard that PSP boot up sound in over a decade. Hooo boy. Nostalgia.
I find it fascinating that updating the firmware is pretty much undesirable with these older systems.
it's undesirable but doesn't matter at this point in time they're completely hacked
I absolutely love this series!!! Can’t wait for ps1 and ps2
PSP. I was 13, and I remember I went on vacation to Paris. Randomly went into a game store looking for figures and saw a PSP from Japan. They got it 1 year before Euroope. I nearly lost my mind. I bought it and some Japanese mech game. I had to survive for 2 weeks with literally money, but I had the PSP. Before this, I only HEATD there. MAYBE some console, and here I am 1 year before with it in my hands. It was and still is a gorgeous system.
Those Vita memory cards still anger me. Sony dropped the ball on that big time.
A ps vita successor is dead. Playstation portable streaming devices is all you get
Ok
I still remember playing Persona 4 Golden for the very first time. The Vita introduced me to one of the best video game franchises of all time ❣
PS VITA was ahead of its time
It really was
I love the Vita so much I have four!. My original black European 1000 and 2000 and a Japanese 1000 Cosmic red and a Japanese 1000 Glacier white. I rotate them so I play them all equally!
Dmannn that glass case is looking fire!!
Still have both of mine. It was an event when I went to Best Buy on launch day and bought myself a PSP with my saved up allowance money. I bought it with Untold Legends.
Hope I can see you unboxing PS Vita 2 soon!!!
Everyone is saying how this makes them nostalgic, but I enjoyed this as a lifelong Playstation fan who actually never had a PSP or a Vita lol
Nice! It’s the “Walkman of the Future” and PlayStation’s biggest gaffe ever. ☝🏻
I love the PSP and own four in various colors, complete and in box. I also own two launch model US Vitas complete and in box. 🔥
Psp got me back into gaming. I had Atari, Nintendo, ect when i was younger, but gave it all up as an adult. Then i got a psp as a gift and that's all it took, now i game almost every day on ps5, psvr, psvr2
these two portable playstations are just such a gem! had the psp & recently just got a vita modded woah so nostalgic
I swear to God if someone ever dares to break into your house they can leave with a small fortune lmao
A Vita from WHAT year?! Sounds like I'm on my way to the retirement home.
Still have my psp 1000 model i still play it to this day great games like pursuit force, dragonball,naruto, jak & daxter, kill zone liberation, tekken, nfs carbon
MONSTER HUNTER
I honestly miss umds and slotting them into the PSP 1000 to hear that thick fkn latch close on the umd tray - good times.
I had a psp, used to play it in high school while everyone else was doing their work.
Sigh I always kick myself for selling my ps vita… again like I always say… Mystic your videos make me appreciate and love PlayStation even more. Makes me want to collect them again..
Two consoles that were wayyyy ahead of their time. Such a shame we will likely never get another proper Playstation handheld again.
Will join you on this journey to fill up that display case! Can’t wait to see all the consoles in there!
I have my psp at work with me just now, just gave it a clean but need to replace the front shell or the complete shell. Just ordered Daxter and Ridge Racer.
What an excellent video. Your passion really comes through, and the hardware is immaculate.
PsVita Memories are back! Miss those days
The first silent hill game I ever experienced was on the PSP and that was silent hill: origins which was one of the games that sprung me into my love for the horror game genre
psp was perfect. Even had replaceable battery
one day when I'm able to afford international shipping, I'm so getting these 2 handhelds at least brand new or rarely used, just for the sake of nostalgia
I still have my vita with the box 📦 from launch 🚀
Vita was ahead of its time
Hopefully we get a vita 2 in the future
Sony won't make a dedicated handheld sorry. Lol
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer bro said trust me bro lmao 🤣
@@michaelmyersplays4992 🤣
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer 😂😂
It’s not happening.
The business model of having to support a separate handheld and home console with a different games library is untenable.
Even Nintendo, the handheld king, unified their home and handheld consoles into hybrid for this reason.
Mystic’s bank account after buying 4brand new consoles: 👁️👄👁️
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A GOOD NEW PSP 1000 UNBOXING FOR AGES THANK YOU
Christmas 2005 was the most memorable. I was so hyped for the PSP I lost sleep over it 😂
Man I remember getting the PS Vita super bundle with like 11 games for 99€ back in the day. I literally couldn't believe my luck. Got Freedom Wars as an extra game and loved it, and later on fell in love with Person 4 Golden. The Vita is such a great platform, too bad it died too early.
Had a launch PS Vita. Was I the only one who had to replace the charging cable because it didn't work?
PSP the best and most underrated handheld of all time.
As I posted in another video that opened one of these psps a few days ago...
I have a psp 1000 that came with a bundle from back then. The box which I still have has ATV Off Road Fury and Lords of Dogtown on them. It was a nice little bundle and I have a lot of memories with that psp.
I have a limited edition white PS Vita. Still have the box and all, it was an Assassin Creed Liberation special edition. I didn't care for the game, but moreso that the console was white and looked realllly good. I still play it to this day and the battery holds up well.
Wow I'd love a new Vita machine which can play PS4 games or something. Access to PS plus etc would be great from here.
Me too, but I don't think it'll ever happen. I don't want to play PS5 on the go, but a range of handheld specific games like Vita, PSP and Gameboys had.
I missed that entire era of handhelds, so now trying to catch up. They are awesome!
I loved playing on the PSP back a long time ago when I was a kid, my favourite games that I really enjoyed playing were Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Medal of Honor Heroes 2, Prince of Persia Rival Swords, Gran Turismo and also Assassin's Creed Bloodlines! 🙂✌️
God of War monster hunter 😊
Kaiba approves this unboxing.
you should show us everything in you display case
That new clean PS Vita is up there like p*rn.
man, really surprised to see the vita powering on and even holding a charge, the thing about buying brand-new old stock hardware (with a battery inside) is that the battery is just often dead out of the box, so it's better to buy a used handheld/controller because of this.
I hope one day we’ll get a proper PSP successor.
Had the Vita been named PSP2, it would've sold wwaayy better. i recalled so many people at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc mistaking it for a revision of the original PSP instead of the next gen PSP.
It's ok... even I got a bit BRICKED! 😂
Love the PSP 1000, but the Vita is so crispy. Probably the finest looking hand held
I'm happily enjoying some Gran Turismo with my PSP. I need to get back and collect the Go and Street just to have every PSP version.
Wow, your display is really coming along! Looks great!!
reminds me of my good ol' first psp, all black playing without a memory stick lmao
Then some time later got a new silver one with memory stick and it was the best times.
I will pick up a pre-owned PS Vita this Christmas, I'm a big Sony Playstation Fan. My PSP Slim and Lite is still fine since 2008 all good!
Those look stunning for real!
You should have the shammy cloth like at a Jewlery store laid out. lol
This was amazing to see unboxings of sealed PSP and PSVita. I love the Sony PSP and still have the one I had years ago and opened brand new. I had two brand new at one point. I love the Sony PSP and hope Sony gets back into handheld gaming in the future. The PSP was a everything handheld gaming console and outdid Nintendo that generation due to the amount of things that gaming console can do. I also love and have Nintendo DS games and got a Nintendo 3DSXL brand new a few years ago and had fun with those games but the Sony PSP wins overall compared to other handheld gaming consoles at the time. Now I never got a Sony PSVita so I can't speak so much on that but from what I see and have heard I think Sony would make a amazing handheld gaming console If they ever went hard on handheld gaming again. 4:57 PSP just hits differently than modern handheld gaming consoles. Cool video. ^_^
I didn't get my PSP till my Freshman year of College. I'm really regretting not owning one earlier.
A suggestion: Get little rotating displays for those, it would be nice to show off the front and back of them
I bought a like new, not even a scratch or shell swapped PSP 1000 from Japan on eBay for 150, best money spent. Got one of those memory stick micro SD upgrades, and was able to play all my old umd childhood games again, but my movies weren’t playable since it’s a Japan model and they were region locked. I’m looking for a 2000 model Star Wars series now, that was my first psp I ever owned
I always imagined the psp as a PS3 but in a portable way, and Vita as a Portable PS4
God, what a time.. I wish we'd get a PSVita 2
I got the vita for Christmas when it first came out loved playing uncharted on it
Phenomenal content Mystic, thank you.
I love this stuff!!! I love my home-brew Vita!
Still have my launch PSP especially since Jack Tretton sold it to me at the Sony Metreon's Playstation Store in SF!
I’ll never forget my first time getting a PSP
Man I remember buying my psp from toys r us, Thanks mom.
We all had that 1 friend who had a ton of p*rn on their psp 🤣 ah the memories lmao
Just bought a used like new psp from amazon. Gonna get some good games for the psp. I didn't play that many games for it. Always good to see Mystic take us through some much gaming goodness! 😁
Both God of Wars were good. Also Criss Core and MGS peace walker are amazing on it. I miss my PSP😢.
@@Throbingkcoc They have them on Amazon used like new ranging from $100 - $279.
@@etherealdreamerart I got the god of war edition psp ftw
@@michaelmyersplays4992 That's great to hear. PSP was a hidden gem.
@@etherealdreamerartI bought a Vita not to long ago. I don't think the girl knew what she had because she sold it to me for $15.
I do miss the spinning disc sounds of the psp
Those consoles are looking really clean. Speaking of which, are you planning to get a brand new PSTV for that display shelf as well?
damn i got jazzed up too during the psp1000 segment
I got my psp in 2005 I lost it in my moms house I’ve been looking for it since 2011 but the psp was insane at the time we had game boys but the psp had console quality games like midnight club 3 and gta lcs and you could browse the internet with WiFi it felt magical
how come the Vita alredy has a bit of a burn-in on the screen?
I had a lot of consoles like ps3 wii ps4 switch psp xbox 360 and one but the vita is a masterpiece❤
This display looks like belongs the "PlaystationMan Cave"
Man i still remember when i got both good times truly love them both but psp was just a little bit extra special for me
Jazzed up downstairs
I don't know if you've mentioned it in previous videos but when it comes to your display cabinet, what do you do about dust and how do you maintain its pristine condition?
Are you getting these on eBay or directly from a Japanese retailer?