AlphaOmegaSin I hear that, so many good memories of that little gray system, from me to my brother, and my dad over endless hours of playing Tekken 2 or 3, and watching my sister play Final Fantasy 7 or 8 or even playing Megaman Legends or Parappa The Rapper, so many nostalgic memories. I need to make a video for this and make an update of my old PS2 Collection video. GOD how time flies. Jumping Flash was one of my first games I played on Playstation, even if it was a demo on the demo disc, till I rented it and my bro got WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.
It’s wild remembering watching this video nearly a decade ago for the first time during my retro game renaissance era and now we’re about to have to get a PlayStation 30 years old update video.
I was at a buddy's house day 1 here when he bought his and playing Ridge Racer made me want one. It was in late spring 1996 I got mine. and i got Ridge Racer for it.I was 24 going on 25 then. I had all the games you showed in the video too . To this day i will always be a Sony Playstation fan of the systems. Happy 20 years of greatness Sony.
My mom won me my PS1 with a copy of Parappa the Rapper from Much Music. She would always enter contests and finally she had won! So I was the only one in town with one for a while. Good times.
Replace the laser assembly on your PS1! It's a really cheap part to replace and will take you 5 minutes to refit. Then to kick back again with your original machine... it's worth it.
I got my PlayStation for Christmas, in 1997. I received games like: Final Fantasy VII, King's Field II and III, Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat: Sub Zero Mythologies, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Twisted Metal 2. I got the console at the perfect time, because 1998 was probably the best year for the PlayStation, for games like Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Parasite Eve, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man Legends, and the list goes on and on; still one of my favorite consoles and I still own mine from that Christmas.
Your stories and memories are so relatable. I wrote my comment after pausing this video a few seconds into it. And it turns out your experience of the Playstation's early days is very similar to mine. It must have just been part of the spirit of the times. I was a Nintendo and Sega guy too, and like you I have lots of nostalgia, though I'm positive and enjoy the present and look forward to the future. So when change comes about, it has to prove itself to me before I'm fully on board.
Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics,Grandia, Front Mission 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Klonoa, Um Jammer Lammy... Man I could go on forever listing off the great games on the Playstation. I always loved how focused the Playstation was on having such huge engrossing single player games. The N64 was great for multiplayer parties and the shorter Nintendo games and the Saturn had great arcade and fighting games, but when you wanted to get farther into your 40+ hour save in an rpg that is where the Playstation shined.
I was 14 and I was a Sega Saturn guy until late 1998 ! I watched my friends playing Porsche Challenge and Tekken I got my PS model 7002 when Castlevania SotN came in PS1 (it was already on Saturn but Japan only). So it became my 2nd favorite console of all time.
I got my PS1 one Christmas and got 4 *ahem* backups for it. I remember 1 was Doom and another was 3d Lemmings the other 2 I can't remember. Doom was just so good, my favorite FPS ever and I had it, so good, so many great memories and games, I could go on for ages talking about this console. Great video and great look back at a legendary console
My favorite system of all time is the Playstation. Some of my favorite series started there like Silent Hill and Resident Evil... those games defined my love of survival horror genre. :)
I think I've written this on some other video of yours, but the Playstation still is my favourite console of all time. When my dad bought it in 1997 when I was 7 years old, it blew my mind on every level. The first game I played was Tomb Raider and I actually remember my very first attempt at playing a game in the third dimension, after being used to games like Sonic on the Mega Drive. It was fascinating then and still is today. So many great games...Oddworld, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Driver, Street Skater, Alien Trilogy, Tekken...the list goes on and on...
I was a toddler when the ps1 came out (I'm in my early twenties) but I remember it being the cool thing.Nintendo was never even spoken of in my house,we went from sega to sony.My aunt's bf was the gamer and I'd watch him play for hours.Everything from Resident Evil to Rainbow Six.Then we he eventually actually let me touch the thing I played Metal gear and THPS2.Good memories.
So hard to believe its been 20 years. I remember buying my system, I was still in High School, and I was a Nintendo 64 owner and wasn't so sure about Sony. I bit the bullet and bought it on a Friday, along with my first game, Resident Evil. I immediately took it over to a friends house to play. We played Resident Evil for a few hours, thinking we could probably beat it in one sitting, mainly because we had learned that the Playstation was not like the N64, and every game was going to require a memory card, and I had not bought a memory card that day. After a few hours of playing, we finally gave up and returned to the store to get a memory card, before continuing any further into game. Thus beginning the cursed period of the external Memory Card. Happy Console Gamer, the first video I ever watched of your was the corrupted memory card episode, and have enjoyed every episode since. Keep up the awesome work.
I really believed for the longest time that the snes was my favorite system of all time, but when I think about the games that had left the greatest impact on me, I always go back to the original playstation games. The jrpg library for that system is so godly that I don't think any generation of the gaming and the systems associated to each specific generation can even remotely tough the amount of quality content that system had especially for the rpg genre. There are still so many jrpg's I need to play for that system, but when I think of the ps1 I think of pure quality.
Well,i'm still on the fence.i'm still thinking of the Super Nintendo as my favorite.Maybe it will change,i can't say.Both the PS1 and PS2 have amazing games.I can certainly understand what you're saying.
SirenoftheVoid I would say the SNES is my favorite and PS1 is my second favorite....mainly because of Mario, Zelda and StarFox.....I just couldn't get enough of those. Then throw in Donkey Kong Country games...oh and Killer Instinct....Chrono Trigger....yea, the SNES had an AWESOME library....PS1 did as well and its so cool that even to this day, they still offer PS1 games on the PlayStation Store. Tons of people still have PS3s which can play PS1 games.....there is no shortage of ways of playing those classics!! (Nintendo just re-releases them in different formats forcing you to buy them again. How many times is someone willing to buy Super Mario Bros??)
I actually think the PS2 trumps the PS1 in terms of JRPGs and everything else. The PS2 had a lot of titles for every genre and was at that breaking point where games still look pretty fine even today. I think back to persona 3, persona 4, ff10/10-2, ff12, SMT Nocturne, DDS1/DDS2, breath of fire dragon quarter, star ocean 3, valkyrie profile 2, shadow hearts 1/2/3, rogue galaxy, dark cloud 1/2, xenosaga 1/2/3, romancing saga, dragon quest 5/8, KH 1/2, Wild Arms 3/4/5/Alter code f and tons more great JRPG titles. PLUS all the great titles in other genres. Shadows of the Colossus, Okami, Burnout (any variation, gran turismo, jak and daxter, ratchet and clank, Vexx, disgaea 1/2, GTA 3/SA/VC, Devil May Cry 1/3, Onimusha 1/2/3, Killswitch, etc... People look back in nostalgia towards certain consoles, but I strongly believe that the PS2 out of all consoles just had the most quality titles. LOTS of sleeper hits that nobody played that were pretty good like Vexx, and then just tons of great games for every genre. God Devil May Cry was good and was such a revolution of a game, Shadows of the Colossus was just breathtaking and Okami is still one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. The PS2 literally just had everything you could want.
I only had the n64 during that generation, but going back I've played tons of great games like Crash, FF7, SotN, Xenogears, Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Suikoden II
Very cool video man... So many memories and for me, with games I've only played recently (Persona), so many new memories to come. One of my favorite consoles of all time.
Love the channel!! I remember resisting the PS1.........then I could not resist anymore and ended up with the console, destruction derby, I honestly cannot remember the other game I got. I was still sitting on consoles at home and I will admit being a Sega fan boy so to give money to the competition again like I was Nintendo was soooo bad lol. However I simply love games toooooo much to stick with one brand, that's why over the years I tried to get them all :)
I remember when PS1 came out. A friend of mine at the time picked one up along with Battle Arena Toshinden and we played that game constantly for weeks with the whole neighborhood of friends we hung around with. I picked up my own PS1 probably about 5 months later along with MK3 and an Aura Interactor Vest. I also was a die hard Nintendo fan but when PS1 came out and I started getting into titles like Tomb Raider, D, Final Fantasy VII, Disruptor, (the list goes on) I pretty much ditched Nintendo consoles after that. When King's Field arrived in the states (King's Field II in Japan) that was pretty much it for me. I became a lifelong fan of From Software and I've played though all of their games since then. While I don't have the time or money to play and own games from all consoles, it has been pretty much Playstation consoles since PS1 for me.
I was still very much into my Saturn at the time of the PS1's release. It was Resident evil 2, and Medievil that made me switch over. Im so glad I did. As well as those two games, I have fond memories of Destruction Derby, MGS, WWF Warzone and Alien triliogy. Does anyone remember that demo disc with the manta-ray and the t-rex? Awesome.
Very great video man, always enjoy your videos. I was only one when this extraordinary console came out. I wish they would of used better cases these things break too easily. I really hope that you will continue too make videos for another 20 years.
yup I remember picking it up shortly after launch. I was like you all about nintendo as well. Boy I'm glad I branched out. So many amazing memories with my psx. 20 years man. Wow
One of my favorite consoles. I remember buying it in a bundle with Ridge Racer right around launch as it was all the store had left in stock. Hard to believe it has been 20 years.
Square was the one who got me to get interested in the PSX. With FF7. I was with SNES for quite awhile and debated on going with the N64. I am so glad I went with the Playstation. It was loaded with RPG's. One of my favorite genres.If I didn't, I wouldn't have found my new love. Xenogears. Still one of my best RPG on that system. Thank you Sony for the great memories and fun time during my teens. Loved every moment of it. Such a shame that magic is't really there with the newer consoles. Sure I have the PS4 now but I wasn't as thrilled as I was with the PSX. Happy Birthday Playstation!
I got a PlayStation in 1996. It was the first video game console I ever played, with Crash Bandicoot being my first game. So much nostalgia is tied up with the PS, with Crash, Spyro, and the Ridge Racer Type 4 demo providing me with hours of entertainment during my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play games very much back in those days, and so barely scratched the surface of its catalog. Still, I will always look back at the PS as a perfect introduction to the world of video games.
the first time i played playstation 1 what i remember the most was playing the first tekken game and what blew me away was the cd sound compared to cartrigde sound from snes and sega genesis and i also remember playing resident evil 1 and having to restart each time i played the game up till i figured out that i needed memory cards to save the game good old times and playstation 1 has the best boot up theme!!!
Awesome shirt! I used to make "want lists" too. I had a notebook full of games and their prices. For me Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil were the life changers for me. Those types of games like Parasite Eve and Dino Crisis were these new types of games where I was really immersed. Being a kid at the time ya know I had N64, but I was always aware I was playing a game. There was points and sparkly collectibles, and things were kinda cartoony, but these new type of Playstation games were so realistic to me at the time. That's when I became more invested in games than ever before.
Of course I remember its launch, I was in college and loved it!!! I just always hated the load times but have always loved the controller design and the huge library of games
Great vid as always Jonny. I too never payed too much attention to the PS1. Going through EGM and Gamepro magazines, it was a page turner for me, I didn't care, on to the next page. I assumed it was another 3DO, CDi or Amiga crap console. Then one day I was working at my local arcade, and my buddy came running in to find me. He was going OFF about the playstation and Battle Arena Toshinden, he wouldn’t shut up about it. So I played it, thought it was a slightly better version of Virtua Fighter 1, not 2. Then I found out that MK3 was a launch title, and that sealed the deal for me. I was already playing MK3 in the arcade, and now I can play a perfect arcade port at home to practice! Sold ever since.
time just flies by >_> i remember playing tony hawk 1+2, gta, sould reaver, final fantasy 7, need for speed, grand turismo, tekken and many other great games with my friend, everytime i came to his place :D
Definitely my all time favorite console! I remember going to Block Buster to play the demo station they had in the store. I bought my PS1/PSX a few months after it was released in the states. I saved all my Christmas money in '95 plus all my allowance and lunch money for a few months so I could finally buy one in Feb 1996. My first game was Ridge Racer. The first 6 games I had for the console were in the giant CD cases. Ridge Race, Destruction Derby, Resident Evil, Sim Theme Park, Need for Speed and Twisted Metal. Crazy the stuff you can remember but the console had a big impact on me.
I've had some of the best gaming memories with the PS1, Still remember playing FF7 all day, Re2, Metal Gear Solid, Xenogears, Silent Hill, the list goes on.
That console came to our house 22 years ago and it was love at the first sight. I was then 7 years old. Now being older (and finally in a situation which allows it) I started to collect the PS1 games which I've always wanted to own as a kid.
I remember seeing Battle Arena Toshinden playing on the then newly released PlayStation. I saw it playing in the window of a game shop in London and I could not get over how amazing the graphic's looked in comparison to the Snes and Mega Drive. Can't believe its been 20 year's since its release, where does the time go? Great video :)
Got mine the Fall of '97, First game I was hooked on was Project Overkill....Then I got a burner.....& got to play all the best games all the time! Who could forget the bootleg game Thrill Kill? Ahhhh such great memories....
The PSX was my first home console, and it still works today and I use it all the time. I also have a second one that still works that I picked up at a garage sale about 7 years ago for $5, which I think is one of the most amazing deals ever. I still haven't taken the price sicker off of it because I still think its so cool that I got one so cheaply
I was born in 94, but I still remember playing the PlayStation when I was really young. It was definitely my first foray into gaming. So many good memories, Spyro especially, Spyro 2 was actually the first game that I beat haha. You're right, it doesn't feel like that long ago. I can still remember these things vividly, like playing Crash Team Racing with my cousins or laughing at the absurdity that was Glover with my brother. Really good memories with the PS1.
Awesome retrospective Johnny! Yep, can't forget when the PS 1 came out. I was a Saturn fan boy, but eventually buckled and used my credit card to buy a PS 1. Die Hard Game Fan used to fuel so much of my 32-bit insanity back then. Final Fantasy moving to Sony was definitely a kingmaker for sure!
Playstation was such a good console although I never had one growing up. Got the sega saturn in 1996 when I was 9. Only 1 other person I knew had the saturn, everyone else was playstation. As much as the playstation had a better library of games I still love the nostalgia I get from the saturn. Great era of gaming.
Oooh… nice t-shirt! My first gaming moment for the PlayStation was the dinosaur demo (played with it for hours) and Pandemonium, Rayman and Tekken. Went on to become one of my favourite consoles.
My favourite console of all time. I remember getting one for xmas back in 1995. Such a great console and so many amazing games came from it. The golden age of gaming for me. 1995-2000 My teen years.
I look back at the PS1 days and just smile. Coming from the Colecovision/Nes/Snes days I felt (and still do) like the Playstation was the gaming console for adults. More emphasis on story, characters, violence, sex and such. I received my PS1 Christmas '97 and it was awesome. Crash 3, Syphon Filter, Bloody Roar 2, Resident Evil, FF7, Power Move Pro Wrestling, Tenchu, and many other awesome games. Pure nostalgia goodness.
Yes, it does make me feel old, haha. I think I had a similar reaction to the Playstation, as you did. It was there, I didn't care much about it. I remember thinking four shoulder buttons was weird! It was the fact that Square went to Sony that caught my attention, for sure. I didn't actually get one, myself, until Metal Gear Solid, though. The ideas behind that game blew my mind, and I had to have a Playstation to play it. I've played so many incredible titles on the 'station, many of which you mentioned in this video, and it remains one of my favourite consoles of all time, without a doubt. Loved PS2, too. I wasn't a big fan of the PS3, though, and I haven't yet picked up a PS4. I think my last favourite console by Sony was the PSP! Great vid.
I remember the launch. I was in college and, like you, was not sold on it at first. In fact, I wanted the Saturn more due to the amazing Sega Rally port, and that is what I bought first in the 32-bit era. However, my friends had PlayStations that I played regularly, and I eventually bought one in late 1997. Tomb Raider 2 was my first game (after playing 1 on Saturn). Wow, so many great games. When I look back at every system now, I have to agree that the PS1 is the best overall console of all time. There were just too many amazing franchises on the PS1, it was such a game changer, and it had a long lifespan. Happy 20th to the PS1!!
Man that brings back some memories. I got my PS1 in either 96 or 97 so I was like 11 or 12 years old at the time. FF7 was like one of my earliest memories for the system as well because I got it after the greatest hits version of the game came out. PS1 had so many good RPGs and I was glad because I had come off of playing the N64 and sad that it had like no RPGs but, the PS1 came along and it was like the skies opened and rainded down JRPGs galor and I was so happy. Two games I was kicking myself pretty hard over not picking up for the PS1 where Valkeyrie Profile and Breath of Fire 3 though I got a physical copy of Valkyrie Profile recently and need to play through it.
I remember renting both the Playstation and N64 from Blockbuster (back when you could rent consoles), but my brother and I were content with our Genesis + SNES combo, so we didn't end up getting either "next-gen" console until two or three years later. I can't remember when or why we went with Playstation, but it may directly correspond to the Final Fantasy VII TV trailer, which pretty much blew my mind back then. Other than Final Fantasy, I remember playing a ton of Madden 98, 2Extreme, Jet Moto, and a ton of amazing JRPGs. It remains my favorite console of all time.
Nice video, brings back some memories :) Had similar experience like you, when the PS was first announced - just thought ok, another DOA console. But one day i went to my local video game store to pick up some Mega Drive games and they hat the PS up and running. The game was Resident Evil and I couldn't believe what I just saw there. This totally sold me to the Playstation and then I did the biggest mistake in my hole collecting history (well from todays standpoint, back in the days it was ok) - I sold my SNES with many great games... But I got the Playstation and Resident Evil (other day one pickups were Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Toshinden and Wipeout). The PS was modded to play imports as RE was the NTSC version. Violent video games had a hard time back in the days in Germany, so I relied pretty much on Imports. So I went home and hug this thing up to the TV and then.... I realized that you need a TV capable of NTSC or RPG to get NTSC games in color :) So I spend one year playing RE in black and white before getting a new TV. But this didn't bother me - RE was just to great even without colors.
10 years old, first got to try out Toshinden in Toys R Us and remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics. That Christmas I went on to get a system with 7 games - FIFA 96, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, Worms, Toshinden, Tekken and Doom. Greatness.
I got to know about it back in '97 I think. My uncle brought over his newly purchased Playstation to my grandma and we played some good ones like Croc and Rayman. I don't remember when it came out, heck I'm only 21 now. But I do have a lot of awesome memories with it.
I was 11 when my household got a PS1 in the summer of 1997 here in NZ. The games we got were G-Police, some sort of futuristic helicopter game, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Those were the happiest days of my life being able to sit down with my brothers and just jam out. But we grew up, life happened and we grew apart.
I was 12 and it was my first console that was mine. I opened it on christmas '99 along side with it was Oddworld/Metal gear. Best memory of all time(27 years old now).
I seriously can't believe that the PS has been around for 20 years! That's just mind blowing. And, I can't recall how I ever got one for the life of me. Or why. I just know that once I got one, I pretty much switched ships from everything Nintendo. Why, I just watched this video on a PS3. (And, it gets a ton of usage.) Got so many games for all four systems. And, can you believe it? My PS1 portable is still running to this day! Monitor upgrade and all. (Except for the battery packs. Wore those out a long time ago. But, I could so easily install fresh rechargeable cells.) I do recall how I kept my original gray box running so long. Remember how reviving an NES required blowing? I basically used a can of compressed air and blew on the lens. So easy to access, thanks to the clam shell design. A quick burst upon the exposed lens and that old system was good to go...for a little while longer. Doing that to the PS2 was a dis-assembly pain. And, somehow, the PS3/4 don't seem to suffer that issue...that I've known of, at least.
My first PlayStation experience was 1996 when playing street fighter ex and alpha 1 and 2 with my cousins psx.I was more sega as well and got a saturn and dreamcast first.but when my older cousin got FFX,tobal no 1,and bushido blade. From then on I wanted one bad and i finally got one on my birthday w thps and tekken 3 i was hooked. Till this day i show love toy ps3 ps4, and think of play FFX REcv DmC and Smackdown on the ps2 HAPPY B DAY PlayStation rock on for 20 more years
This was when I was starting to drift away from videogames; partly because I had so much schoolwork, but also because the transition to 3D games felt a little clumsy to me (I still consider console generation 5 to be the awkward adolescence of the game industry). I remember being very frustrated because I felt that game developers were chasing technological milestones and the related marketing bullet-points instead of crafting interactive art the way that I had come to love. My initial reactions were pretty much in-line with yours, Johnny; "Phillips CD-I, 3DO, now another tech company thinks they can just jump into the game industry and be successful. I did eventually get one, and I think I spent most of my time in SotN, which is still one of my favorite games (I think I've bought it 4 times now).
I remember being like 6 years old after my nintendo wouldn't play games any more an I got tired of losing to every sega game I had at the time one day my grandfather brought me a brand new ps1 an I was amazed even just playing the demo disc that came with it I truly can't say I remember many other things from that point in my life but I remember being given that ps1 and I will always
The PS1 was one of my favorite consoles as a kid and I still play a lot of the classics on my PS3. The best part of the 20th anniversary though is that OG PS4. I need that in my life! Thank you Sony for some of my best video game memories and to another 20 years! Happy Birthday PlayStation
I got it for xmas, I was 7 and it came with a bundle of Broken Sword, Road Rash & Myst. My mum had also bought me Tomb Raider thinking it was Tekken. Broken Sword is now one of my favourite game series of all time :)
Got mine in the summer of 1997. First game was the Demo One disc which had Abe's Odyssey, Hercules, Lifeforce Tenka, Rapid Racer, Overboard, Rage Racer, Kurushi (Intelligent Qube) et cetera. Then I modified it to play foreign (and pirated) games such as Final Fantasy Tactics which was not available here in Europe.
I got a Playstation for Christmas, 1997. A bit late, but it was awesome! I had a subscription to Playstation Underground, too. Loved playing the demo discs they would release. I don't have the system anymore, unfortunately, but some of the first games I remember playing for it are Auto Destruct, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2. Awesome system!
When it released i also wasn't into consoles. I was a pc gamer. Then i went to england for half a year and played a lot of ridge racer in the arcades. When i got back to the netherlands it took me an other half year before i bought the playstation. At that time i was getting annoyed to having to upgrade my pc again to play the latest games, and finally bought a playstation, with ridge racer and croc, and a memory card. Had a great time with it, but eventually i got back to pc gaming, since i was finished with school and starting to work and got me some cash to spend.
I am a still a little partial to the N64, but PS1 is an awesome console and it´s library of games is perhaps the best of all. Such classics! Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Gear Solid, FF VI-IX, Crash Bandicoot, Tomba, Klonoa etc... I still buy and play these games today and they hold up really well! Great video!
The leap between Genesis/SNES to PS1 was so huge i don't think we will ever see it again, probably games look way better now but they can be done somehow on this 20 yo machine And it's library is so big,i still find interesting Japanese only titles every single week
I remember the most vivid I have of the ps1 was the jam pack demos , with fighting force,parappa the rapper , and soul reaver. It's so crazy to think that was 20yrs ago.
I was 15 when the ps1 came out. I remember back in September of 1995, I was ready to go to the local kb toy store in the mall and buy myself a sega saturn. Sega had this great promo at the time when you bought the saturn, you'd get virtual fighters remix, virtual cop, and I think daytona usa. As I entered the store I saw this demo they had for the playstation, with battle arena toshinden, and I knew I had to have the ps1. Amazing memories I had with this system
I remember kay bee toys near my house had a ps1 demo kioske and id go in there every day to play mortal kombat 3, ridge racer, and twisted metal. It took me a while to bear down and pick one up but it was an awsome system. Allot of games havent aged very well but i still fire mine up once in a while.
I remember when this came out in the UK, there used to be queue's in Dixons to play on the demo console, it was months before I finally got to have a go. I got to play destruction derby and I remember thinking at the time how awesome the graphics and physics were. It was years before I could afford to buy one though but loved it! Great system and probably my biggest collection is the PS1. Mine broke as well, surface mounted fuses went and the controller ports packed up, managed to fix it but the rumble never worked again :p
I remember opening my ps1 on Christmas morning and being blown away by the jump that graphics had made from the 16-bit era. I played Driver and was astounded by how realistic the graphics looked.
FF7 was the very reason why i got mine(1st ever console i ever bought with my own money$$...). before this, i've always relied on my mom for my NES and SNES...lol. almost all those games you got there Johnny i also owned, sooo cool. another great HCG video. keep these vids coming. love you and Rob"man"...and your wife rocks.
My first console was Genesis, but the first i fell in love with was PS1. My cousin gave me her old system, and i remember loving it. I spent days in south park rally.
Damn I cant believe its been 20 years,the first system I had bought with my own money.So many great memories with the playstation.MGS,Silent Hill,Crash Bandicoot,Final fantasy 7,8,9,the list goes on and on.One of my favorites right there
The PlayStation was my first video game console I remember getting on xmas morning as a 6 year old kid and I loved it from gameday, ff7 and the crash bandicoot series and I been hocked to video games ever since
I got one in 98 and I got a bunch of so-so games but when I got Tekken 3 and WWF War Zone. not to mention some really good sport games at the time. Happy 20th anniversary, PS1!
I remember the launch of PlayStation very clear. One of my friends bought it with Ridge Racer..oh man we used to play it relentlessly and unlocking all the cars. Then he got Resident Evil...man those were great days for gaming, every game was something new, adding something new to the genre!
Ow, who can say what any of us is doing in 20 years, if the youtube is still around or if we are able to still be operating a game controller. . . I'm 36 btw. BUT I will be expecting you doing a PS4 20 anniversary special! :) It would be awesome, can't wait!
I was playing Tales of Destiny on my PS1 yesterday! The PS1 is my favorite console of all time. I still play PS1 games on a regular basis. I cannot believe it turned 20 years old. FF7, FF8, Brave Fencer Musashi, Star Ocean 2, Suikoden 1, Suikoden 2, Tales of Destiny 1, Tales of Destiny 2(Eternia), Parasite Eve, Gekido, Ehrgeiz, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot 2, Xenogears, Pac-Man World, Tomba 1, Tomba 2, Bomberman.....the list can go on and on. The library of the PS1 is amazing.
So many awesome games.. What i'll never forget though is the hype and excitement and anticipation I had for Metal Gear Solid! I remember going to different stores every month to look at the new game magazine articles for screenshots, getting so pumped up. Then, finally, OPM released an issue with MGS on the demo disk (along with Legacy of Kain Soul Rever too!) Man, I played the shit out of that demo. And when the game finally came out it completely lived up to the hype
hello Mr.johnny this David the happy gamer I remember when the playstation was released in the year 1997 I was eight years old at the time and my brother was about thirteen years old and we excited about the debut of the console now we never really bought it but our cousin's mom who was our aunt purchased it for him so when we learned that he got it we went straight to his house. We came to an understanding that we all would share it .
Loved this console still true to Playsation in 2017. FF7 First game I ever bought. My sis was the one who got the Console for Christmas. I was in 7th grade. Many sleepless nights I miss the old days. Were did the time go??? Next Christmas PS2 for me.
So many of my best gaming memories are from the time I was playing Playstation, doing console linked battles on Command and Conquer, watching my brother and cousin try to completely finish a rented copy of Final Fantasy Tactics in one setting without a memory card , Medieval , Crash, Spyro, Resident Evil 2, Castlevania SoTN some of my favorite games of all time are on the PS1
Awesome! Those were the best times, playing with a good friend, spending the night. Back then it would of been junk food and soda, all night gaming, and you were living. lol
First time I ever played a Playstation game was back in pre-school. I didn't have a console (only a Gameboy - which still works, to this day, 20 years later) but my neighbour had a PSone so I'd go to his place every single day. I still remember playing Bomberman and just watching him play Spyro. By now, I only own a handful of PSone games (FFVII and VIII, Alien Trilogy, Soul Reaver, Wrecking Crew, Heart of Darkness and Fear Effect 2) that I play on PS2, but do I love those old polygon graphics.
My all time favorite console right there
It really had some shining gems on it! such great memories!
AlphaOmegaSin I hear that, so many good memories of that little gray system, from me to my brother, and my dad over endless hours of playing Tekken 2 or 3, and watching my sister play Final Fantasy 7 or 8 or even playing Megaman Legends or Parappa The Rapper, so many nostalgic memories. I need to make a video for this and make an update of my old PS2 Collection video. GOD how time flies. Jumping Flash was one of my first games I played on Playstation, even if it was a demo on the demo disc, till I rented it and my bro got WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.
Yep
Interesting, and it makes me want to see you do a video telling us why.
It would be mine as well, if it wasn't for the fact that the PS2 was backwards compatible :p So PS2 for me!
It’s wild remembering watching this video nearly a decade ago for the first time during my retro game renaissance era and now we’re about to have to get a PlayStation 30 years old update video.
I was at a buddy's house day 1 here when he bought his and playing Ridge Racer made me want one. It was in late spring 1996 I got mine. and i got Ridge Racer for it.I was 24 going on 25 then. I had all the games you showed in the video too . To this day i will always be a Sony Playstation fan of the systems. Happy 20 years of greatness Sony.
My mom won me my PS1 with a copy of Parappa the Rapper from Much Music. She would always enter contests and finally she had won! So I was the only one in town with one for a while. Good times.
THat's really cool :)
Did she send in a VHS of her doing the macarena to win it?
wow!! veryy coool!!!
Hey I like your avatar!! Vahn!!!!
Kick ! Punch ! It’s all in the mind ! 😂
Replace the laser assembly on your PS1! It's a really cheap part to replace and will take you 5 minutes to refit. Then to kick back again with your original machine... it's worth it.
Give us a extended version where you go threw all your favorite ps games and talk about them, that would be awesome PLEASE!!
PlayStation Rocks video it will happen!
Thanxz you ROCK!!
@@HappyConsoleGamer still waiting!
Still waiting....
I will never forget the warm fuzzies i would get from the Playstations boot up sound.
I love it when you share your memories with us!
I got my PlayStation for Christmas, in 1997. I received games like: Final Fantasy VII, King's Field II and III, Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat: Sub Zero Mythologies, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Twisted Metal 2. I got the console at the perfect time, because 1998 was probably the best year for the PlayStation, for games like Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Parasite Eve, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man Legends, and the list goes on and on; still one of my favorite consoles and I still own mine from that Christmas.
Your stories and memories are so relatable. I wrote my comment after pausing this video a few seconds into it. And it turns out your experience of the Playstation's early days is very similar to mine. It must have just been part of the spirit of the times. I was a Nintendo and Sega guy too, and like you I have lots of nostalgia, though I'm positive and enjoy the present and look forward to the future. So when change comes about, it has to prove itself to me before I'm fully on board.
I wonder if you're going to do a video for the 30th anniversary Johnny 😁
Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics,Grandia, Front Mission 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Klonoa, Um Jammer Lammy... Man I could go on forever listing off the great games on the Playstation. I always loved how focused the Playstation was on having such huge engrossing single player games. The N64 was great for multiplayer parties and the shorter Nintendo games and the Saturn had great arcade and fighting games, but when you wanted to get farther into your 40+ hour save in an rpg that is where the Playstation shined.
I'll never forget the PS1. It was my first true console. I love it to this day, and mine still works haha.
I was 14 and I was a Sega Saturn guy until late 1998 !
I watched my friends playing Porsche Challenge and Tekken
I got my PS model 7002 when Castlevania SotN came in PS1 (it was already on Saturn but Japan only).
So it became my 2nd favorite console of all time.
I got my PS1 one Christmas and got 4 *ahem* backups for it. I remember 1 was Doom and another was 3d Lemmings the other 2 I can't remember. Doom was just so good, my favorite FPS ever and I had it, so good, so many great memories and games, I could go on for ages talking about this console. Great video and great look back at a legendary console
My favorite system of all time is the Playstation. Some of my favorite series started there like Silent Hill and Resident Evil... those games defined my love of survival horror genre. :)
Good Grief! You encompass what it is to be a nostalgic gamer. So many good memories from this system. Love the Xenogears music in the background
I think I've written this on some other video of yours, but the Playstation still is my favourite console of all time. When my dad bought it in 1997 when I was 7 years old, it blew my mind on every level. The first game I played was Tomb Raider and I actually remember my very first attempt at playing a game in the third dimension, after being used to games like Sonic on the Mega Drive. It was fascinating then and still is today. So many great games...Oddworld, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Driver, Street Skater, Alien Trilogy, Tekken...the list goes on and on...
I was a toddler when the ps1 came out (I'm in my early twenties) but I remember it being the cool thing.Nintendo was never even spoken of in my house,we went from sega to sony.My aunt's bf was the gamer and I'd watch him play for hours.Everything from Resident Evil to Rainbow Six.Then we he eventually actually let me touch the thing I played Metal gear and THPS2.Good memories.
So hard to believe its been 20 years. I remember buying my system, I was still in High School, and I was a Nintendo 64 owner and wasn't so sure about Sony. I bit the bullet and bought it on a Friday, along with my first game, Resident Evil. I immediately took it over to a friends house to play. We played Resident Evil for a few hours, thinking we could probably beat it in one sitting, mainly because we had learned that the Playstation was not like the N64, and every game was going to require a memory card, and I had not bought a memory card that day. After a few hours of playing, we finally gave up and returned to the store to get a memory card, before continuing any further into game. Thus beginning the cursed period of the external Memory Card.
Happy Console Gamer, the first video I ever watched of your was the corrupted memory card episode, and have enjoyed every episode since. Keep up the awesome work.
I really believed for the longest time that the snes was my favorite system of all time, but when I think about the games that had left the greatest impact on me, I always go back to the original playstation games. The jrpg library for that system is so godly that I don't think any generation of the gaming and the systems associated to each specific generation can even remotely tough the amount of quality content that system had especially for the rpg genre. There are still so many jrpg's I need to play for that system, but when I think of the ps1 I think of pure quality.
Well,i'm still on the fence.i'm still thinking of the Super Nintendo as my favorite.Maybe it will change,i can't say.Both the PS1 and PS2 have amazing games.I can certainly understand what you're saying.
the PS1 is like a JRPG machine.
SirenoftheVoid I would say the SNES is my favorite and PS1 is my second favorite....mainly because of Mario, Zelda and StarFox.....I just couldn't get enough of those. Then throw in Donkey Kong Country games...oh and Killer Instinct....Chrono Trigger....yea, the SNES had an AWESOME library....PS1 did as well and its so cool that even to this day, they still offer PS1 games on the PlayStation Store. Tons of people still have PS3s which can play PS1 games.....there is no shortage of ways of playing those classics!! (Nintendo just re-releases them in different formats forcing you to buy them again. How many times is someone willing to buy Super Mario Bros??)
I actually think the PS2 trumps the PS1 in terms of JRPGs and everything else. The PS2 had a lot of titles for every genre and was at that breaking point where games still look pretty fine even today.
I think back to persona 3, persona 4, ff10/10-2, ff12, SMT Nocturne, DDS1/DDS2, breath of fire dragon quarter, star ocean 3, valkyrie profile 2, shadow hearts 1/2/3, rogue galaxy, dark cloud 1/2, xenosaga 1/2/3, romancing saga, dragon quest 5/8, KH 1/2, Wild Arms 3/4/5/Alter code f and tons more great JRPG titles.
PLUS all the great titles in other genres. Shadows of the Colossus, Okami, Burnout (any variation, gran turismo, jak and daxter, ratchet and clank, Vexx, disgaea 1/2, GTA 3/SA/VC, Devil May Cry 1/3, Onimusha 1/2/3, Killswitch, etc...
People look back in nostalgia towards certain consoles, but I strongly believe that the PS2 out of all consoles just had the most quality titles. LOTS of sleeper hits that nobody played that were pretty good like Vexx, and then just tons of great games for every genre. God Devil May Cry was good and was such a revolution of a game, Shadows of the Colossus was just breathtaking and Okami is still one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. The PS2 literally just had everything you could want.
SNES would still be my favorite, but PS1's 5th IMO.
I only had the n64 during that generation, but going back I've played tons of great games like Crash, FF7, SotN, Xenogears, Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Suikoden II
So many great games for the system.
This system was a pure rpg power house and is still to this day my favorite console! So many good memories and still a lot of fun to this day!
Very cool video man... So many memories and for me, with games I've only played recently (Persona), so many new memories to come. One of my favorite consoles of all time.
I was ten years old and Wipeout blew my mind , I seen the new movie Hackers the same week I first played it , what a week , good times
Love the channel!! I remember resisting the PS1.........then I could not resist anymore and ended up with the console, destruction derby, I honestly cannot remember the other game I got. I was still sitting on consoles at home and I will admit being a Sega fan boy so to give money to the competition again like I was Nintendo was soooo bad lol. However I simply love games toooooo much to stick with one brand, that's why over the years I tried to get them all :)
I remember when PS1 came out. A friend of mine at the time picked one up along with Battle Arena Toshinden and we played that game constantly for weeks with the whole neighborhood of friends we hung around with. I picked up my own PS1 probably about 5 months later along with MK3 and an Aura Interactor Vest. I also was a die hard Nintendo fan but when PS1 came out and I started getting into titles like Tomb Raider, D, Final Fantasy VII, Disruptor, (the list goes on) I pretty much ditched Nintendo consoles after that. When King's Field arrived in the states (King's Field II in Japan) that was pretty much it for me. I became a lifelong fan of From Software and I've played though all of their games since then. While I don't have the time or money to play and own games from all consoles, it has been pretty much Playstation consoles since PS1 for me.
Great nostalgic video Johnny, Thx for sharing your thoughts
I was still very much into my Saturn at the time of the PS1's release.
It was Resident evil 2, and Medievil that made me switch over. Im so glad I did.
As well as those two games, I have fond memories of Destruction Derby, MGS, WWF Warzone and Alien triliogy.
Does anyone remember that demo disc with the manta-ray and the t-rex? Awesome.
TWISTED METAL 1 & 2 !!! Great memories!
Very great video man, always enjoy your videos. I was only one when this extraordinary console came out. I wish they would of used better cases these things break too easily. I really hope that you will continue too make videos for another 20 years.
yup I remember picking it up shortly after launch. I was like you all about nintendo as well. Boy I'm glad I branched out. So many amazing memories with my psx.
20 years man. Wow
One of my favorite consoles. I remember buying it in a bundle with Ridge Racer right around launch as it was all the store had left in stock. Hard to believe it has been 20 years.
Square was the one who got me to get interested in the PSX. With FF7. I was with SNES for quite awhile and debated on going with the N64. I am so glad I went with the Playstation. It was loaded with RPG's. One of my favorite genres.If I didn't, I wouldn't have found my new love. Xenogears. Still one of my best RPG on that system. Thank you Sony for the great memories and fun time during my teens. Loved every moment of it. Such a shame that magic is't really there with the newer consoles. Sure I have the PS4 now but I wasn't as thrilled as I was with the PSX. Happy Birthday Playstation!
I got a PlayStation in 1996. It was the first video game console I ever played, with Crash Bandicoot being my first game. So much nostalgia is tied up with the PS, with Crash, Spyro, and the Ridge Racer Type 4 demo providing me with hours of entertainment during my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play games very much back in those days, and so barely scratched the surface of its catalog. Still, I will always look back at the PS as a perfect introduction to the world of video games.
the first time i played playstation 1 what i remember the most was playing the first tekken game and what blew me away was the cd sound compared to cartrigde sound from snes and sega genesis and i also remember playing resident evil 1 and having to restart each time i played the game up till i figured out that i needed memory cards to save the game good old times and playstation 1 has the best boot up theme!!!
Awesome shirt!
I used to make "want lists" too. I had a notebook full of games and their prices.
For me Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil were the life changers for me. Those types of games like Parasite Eve and Dino Crisis were these new types of games where I was really immersed. Being a kid at the time ya know I had N64, but I was always aware I was playing a game. There was points and sparkly collectibles, and things were kinda cartoony, but these new type of Playstation games were so realistic to me at the time. That's when I became more invested in games than ever before.
Of course I remember its launch, I was in college and loved it!!! I just always hated the load times but have always loved the controller design and the huge library of games
Great vid as always Jonny. I too never payed too much attention to the PS1. Going through EGM and Gamepro magazines, it was a page turner for me, I didn't care, on to the next page. I assumed it was another 3DO, CDi or Amiga crap console. Then one day I was working at my local arcade, and my buddy came running in to find me. He was going OFF about the playstation and Battle Arena Toshinden, he wouldn’t shut up about it. So I played it, thought it was a slightly better version of Virtua Fighter 1, not 2. Then I found out that MK3 was a launch title, and that sealed the deal for me. I was already playing MK3 in the arcade, and now I can play a perfect arcade port at home to practice! Sold ever since.
time just flies by >_> i remember playing tony hawk 1+2, gta, sould reaver, final fantasy 7, need for speed, grand turismo, tekken and many other great games with my friend, everytime i came to his place :D
My first ever console! The first game I ever played on the PS1 was Tekken 2. The intro music and cinematic brings back so many memories
Definitely my all time favorite console! I remember going to Block Buster to play the demo station they had in the store. I bought my PS1/PSX a few months after it was released in the states. I saved all my Christmas money in '95 plus all my allowance and lunch money for a few months so I could finally buy one in Feb 1996. My first game was Ridge Racer. The first 6 games I had for the console were in the giant CD cases. Ridge Race, Destruction Derby, Resident Evil, Sim Theme Park, Need for Speed and Twisted Metal. Crazy the stuff you can remember but the console had a big impact on me.
Happy 20th guys!
I've had some of the best gaming memories with the PS1, Still remember playing FF7 all day, Re2, Metal Gear Solid, Xenogears, Silent Hill, the list goes on.
That console came to our house 22 years ago and it was love at the first sight. I was then 7 years old. Now being older (and finally in a situation which allows it) I started to collect the PS1 games which I've always wanted to own as a kid.
I remember seeing Battle Arena Toshinden playing on the then newly released PlayStation.
I saw it playing in the window of a game shop in London and I could not get over how amazing the graphic's looked in comparison to the Snes and Mega Drive.
Can't believe its been 20 year's since its release, where does the time go?
Great video :)
Got mine the Fall of '97, First game I was hooked on was Project Overkill....Then I got a burner.....& got to play all the best games all the time! Who could forget the bootleg game Thrill Kill? Ahhhh such great memories....
The PSX was my first home console, and it still works today and I use it all the time. I also have a second one that still works that I picked up at a garage sale about 7 years ago for $5, which I think is one of the most amazing deals ever. I still haven't taken the price sicker off of it because I still think its so cool that I got one so cheaply
I was born in 94, but I still remember playing the PlayStation when I was really young. It was definitely my first foray into gaming. So many good memories, Spyro especially, Spyro 2 was actually the first game that I beat haha. You're right, it doesn't feel like that long ago. I can still remember these things vividly, like playing Crash Team Racing with my cousins or laughing at the absurdity that was Glover with my brother. Really good memories with the PS1.
Awesome retrospective Johnny! Yep, can't forget when the PS 1 came out. I was a Saturn fan boy, but eventually buckled and used my credit card to buy a PS 1. Die Hard Game Fan used to fuel so much of my 32-bit insanity back then. Final Fantasy moving to Sony was definitely a kingmaker for sure!
Playstation was such a good console although I never had one growing up. Got the sega saturn in 1996 when I was 9. Only 1 other person I knew had the saturn, everyone else was playstation. As much as the playstation had a better library of games I still love the nostalgia I get from the saturn. Great era of gaming.
Oooh… nice t-shirt! My first gaming moment for the PlayStation was the dinosaur demo (played with it for hours) and Pandemonium, Rayman and Tekken. Went on to become one of my favourite consoles.
My favourite console of all time. I remember getting one for xmas back in 1995. Such a great console and so many amazing games came from it. The golden age of gaming for me. 1995-2000 My teen years.
I look back at the PS1 days and just smile. Coming from the Colecovision/Nes/Snes days I felt (and still do) like the Playstation was the gaming console for adults. More emphasis on story, characters, violence, sex and such. I received my PS1 Christmas '97 and it was awesome. Crash 3, Syphon Filter, Bloody Roar 2, Resident Evil, FF7, Power Move Pro Wrestling, Tenchu, and many other awesome games. Pure nostalgia goodness.
Yes, it does make me feel old, haha. I think I had a similar reaction to the Playstation, as you did. It was there, I didn't care much about it. I remember thinking four shoulder buttons was weird! It was the fact that Square went to Sony that caught my attention, for sure. I didn't actually get one, myself, until Metal Gear Solid, though. The ideas behind that game blew my mind, and I had to have a Playstation to play it.
I've played so many incredible titles on the 'station, many of which you mentioned in this video, and it remains one of my favourite consoles of all time, without a doubt. Loved PS2, too. I wasn't a big fan of the PS3, though, and I haven't yet picked up a PS4. I think my last favourite console by Sony was the PSP!
Great vid.
I remember the launch. I was in college and, like you, was not sold on it at first. In fact, I wanted the Saturn more due to the amazing Sega Rally port, and that is what I bought first in the 32-bit era. However, my friends had PlayStations that I played regularly, and I eventually bought one in late 1997. Tomb Raider 2 was my first game (after playing 1 on Saturn). Wow, so many great games. When I look back at every system now, I have to agree that the PS1 is the best overall console of all time. There were just too many amazing franchises on the PS1, it was such a game changer, and it had a long lifespan. Happy 20th to the PS1!!
Man that brings back some memories. I got my PS1 in either 96 or 97 so I was like 11 or 12 years old at the time. FF7 was like one of my earliest memories for the system as well because I got it after the greatest hits version of the game came out. PS1 had so many good RPGs and I was glad because I had come off of playing the N64 and sad that it had like no RPGs but, the PS1 came along and it was like the skies opened and rainded down JRPGs galor and I was so happy. Two games I was kicking myself pretty hard over not picking up for the PS1 where Valkeyrie Profile and Breath of Fire 3 though I got a physical copy of Valkyrie Profile recently and need to play through it.
I am slowy collecting the good RPGs for the PS1 but, not any of the insanly priced one.
I remember renting both the Playstation and N64 from Blockbuster (back when you could rent consoles), but my brother and I were content with our Genesis + SNES combo, so we didn't end up getting either "next-gen" console until two or three years later. I can't remember when or why we went with Playstation, but it may directly correspond to the Final Fantasy VII TV trailer, which pretty much blew my mind back then. Other than Final Fantasy, I remember playing a ton of Madden 98, 2Extreme, Jet Moto, and a ton of amazing JRPGs. It remains my favorite console of all time.
Nice video, brings back some memories :)
Had similar experience like you, when the PS was first announced - just thought ok, another DOA console. But one day i went to my local video game store to pick up some Mega Drive games and they hat the PS up and running. The game was Resident Evil and I couldn't believe what I just saw there. This totally sold me to the Playstation and then I did the biggest mistake in my hole collecting history (well from todays standpoint, back in the days it was ok) - I sold my SNES with many great games...
But I got the Playstation and Resident Evil (other day one pickups were Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Toshinden and Wipeout). The PS was modded to play imports as RE was the NTSC version. Violent video games had a hard time back in the days in Germany, so I relied pretty much on Imports.
So I went home and hug this thing up to the TV and then.... I realized that you need a TV capable of NTSC or RPG to get NTSC games in color :) So I spend one year playing RE in black and white before getting a new TV. But this didn't bother me - RE was just to great even without colors.
10 years old, first got to try out Toshinden in Toys R Us and remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics. That Christmas I went on to get a system with 7 games - FIFA 96, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, Worms, Toshinden, Tekken and Doom. Greatness.
I got to know about it back in '97 I think. My uncle brought over his newly purchased Playstation to my grandma and we played some good ones like Croc and Rayman.
I don't remember when it came out, heck I'm only 21 now. But I do have a lot of awesome memories with it.
I remember the demo1 demo disc that shipped with the system, that was a great disc!
I was 11 when my household got a PS1 in the summer of 1997 here in NZ. The games we got were G-Police, some sort of futuristic helicopter game, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Those were the happiest days of my life being able to sit down with my brothers and just jam out. But we grew up, life happened and we grew apart.
I was 12 and it was my first console that was mine. I opened it on christmas '99 along side with it was Oddworld/Metal gear. Best memory of all time(27 years old now).
I seriously can't believe that the PS has been around for 20 years! That's just mind blowing. And, I can't recall how I ever got one for the life of me. Or why. I just know that once I got one, I pretty much switched ships from everything Nintendo. Why, I just watched this video on a PS3. (And, it gets a ton of usage.)
Got so many games for all four systems. And, can you believe it? My PS1 portable is still running to this day! Monitor upgrade and all. (Except for the battery packs. Wore those out a long time ago. But, I could so easily install fresh rechargeable cells.)
I do recall how I kept my original gray box running so long. Remember how reviving an NES required blowing? I basically used a can of compressed air and blew on the lens. So easy to access, thanks to the clam shell design. A quick burst upon the exposed lens and that old system was good to go...for a little while longer. Doing that to the PS2 was a dis-assembly pain. And, somehow, the PS3/4 don't seem to suffer that issue...that I've known of, at least.
My first PlayStation experience was 1996 when playing street fighter ex and alpha 1 and 2 with my cousins psx.I was more sega as well and got a saturn and dreamcast first.but when my older cousin got FFX,tobal no 1,and bushido blade. From then on I wanted one bad and i finally got one on my birthday w thps and tekken 3 i was hooked. Till this day i show love toy ps3 ps4, and think of play FFX REcv DmC and Smackdown on the ps2 HAPPY B DAY PlayStation rock on for 20 more years
This was when I was starting to drift away from videogames; partly because I had so much schoolwork, but also because the transition to 3D games felt a little clumsy to me (I still consider console generation 5 to be the awkward adolescence of the game industry).
I remember being very frustrated because I felt that game developers were chasing technological milestones and the related marketing bullet-points instead of crafting interactive art the way that I had come to love.
My initial reactions were pretty much in-line with yours, Johnny; "Phillips CD-I, 3DO, now another tech company thinks they can just jump into the game industry and be successful.
I did eventually get one, and I think I spent most of my time in SotN, which is still one of my favorite games (I think I've bought it 4 times now).
I remember being like 6 years old after my nintendo wouldn't play games any more an I got tired of losing to every sega game I had at the time one day my grandfather brought me a brand new ps1 an I was amazed even just playing the demo disc that came with it I truly can't say I remember many other things from that point in my life but I remember being given that ps1 and I will always
My first games for ps1 were castlevania SotN and resident evil 2 the dual shock version. God damn the memories
The PS1 was one of my favorite consoles as a kid and I still play a lot of the classics on my PS3. The best part of the 20th anniversary though is that OG PS4. I need that in my life! Thank you Sony for some of my best video game memories and to another 20 years! Happy Birthday PlayStation
I got it for xmas, I was 7 and it came with a bundle of Broken Sword, Road Rash & Myst. My mum had also bought me Tomb Raider thinking it was Tekken. Broken Sword is now one of my favourite game series of all time :)
Got mine in the summer of 1997. First game was the Demo One disc which had Abe's Odyssey, Hercules, Lifeforce Tenka, Rapid Racer, Overboard, Rage Racer, Kurushi (Intelligent Qube) et cetera. Then I modified it to play foreign (and pirated) games such as Final Fantasy Tactics which was not available here in Europe.
Ahh, good 'ole Intelligent Qube. I still consider it my favorite puzzle game.
I got mine the same time and had the Crash Bandicoot demo, as well as the Tekken 2 demo and I played the crap out of them.
Matthew J. Boone PERRRFECT!!!
Joorum, I loved the game so much, that I imported the soundtrack :)
IQube,Vibribbon ..... and the list of awesome (Japan Studio) titles,were the polished indie games before indie was a thing.
I got a Playstation for Christmas, 1997. A bit late, but it was awesome! I had a subscription to Playstation Underground, too. Loved playing the demo discs they would release. I don't have the system anymore, unfortunately, but some of the first games I remember playing for it are Auto Destruct, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2. Awesome system!
Bought mine in 1997 second hand with Alien triology, tomb raider, and Wipeout 2097 "firestarter" - great stuff!
When it released i also wasn't into consoles. I was a pc gamer. Then i went to england for half a year and played a lot of ridge racer in the arcades. When i got back to the netherlands it took me an other half year before i bought the playstation. At that time i was getting annoyed to having to upgrade my pc again to play the latest games, and finally bought a playstation, with ridge racer and croc, and a memory card. Had a great time with it, but eventually i got back to pc gaming, since i was finished with school and starting to work and got me some cash to spend.
I am a still a little partial to the N64, but PS1 is an awesome console and it´s library of games is perhaps the best of all. Such classics! Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Gear Solid, FF VI-IX, Crash Bandicoot, Tomba, Klonoa etc... I still buy and play these games today and they hold up really well! Great video!
The leap between Genesis/SNES to PS1 was so huge i don't think we will ever see it again,
probably games look way better now but they can be done somehow on this 20 yo machine
And it's library is so big,i still find interesting Japanese only titles every single week
I was totally amazed !! One of the 1st things I got when I got a job !!! Resident evil was my first ever game on ps1
Brave Fencer Musashi...great memories with that game
I remember the most vivid I have of the ps1 was the jam pack demos , with fighting force,parappa the rapper , and soul reaver. It's so crazy to think that was 20yrs ago.
I was 15 when the ps1 came out. I remember back in September of 1995, I was ready to go to the local kb toy store in the mall and buy myself a sega saturn. Sega had this great promo at the time when you bought the saturn, you'd get virtual fighters remix, virtual cop, and I think daytona usa. As I entered the store I saw this demo they had for the playstation, with battle arena toshinden, and I knew I had to have the ps1. Amazing memories I had with this system
I remember kay bee toys near my house had a ps1 demo kioske and id go in there every day to play mortal kombat 3, ridge racer, and twisted metal. It took me a while to bear down and pick one up but it was an awsome system. Allot of games havent aged very well but i still fire mine up once in a while.
I remember when this came out in the UK, there used to be queue's in Dixons to play on the demo console, it was months before I finally got to have a go. I got to play destruction derby and I remember thinking at the time how awesome the graphics and physics were. It was years before I could afford to buy one though but loved it! Great system and probably my biggest collection is the PS1. Mine broke as well, surface mounted fuses went and the controller ports packed up, managed to fix it but the rumble never worked again :p
I remember opening my ps1 on Christmas morning and being blown away by the jump that graphics had made from the 16-bit era. I played Driver and was astounded by how realistic the graphics looked.
FF7 was the very reason why i got mine(1st ever console i ever bought with my own money$$...). before this, i've always relied on my mom for my NES and SNES...lol. almost all those games you got there Johnny i also owned, sooo cool. another great HCG video. keep these vids coming. love you and Rob"man"...and your wife rocks.
My first console was Genesis, but the first i fell in love with was PS1. My cousin gave me her old system, and i remember loving it. I spent days in south park rally.
Damn I cant believe its been 20 years,the first system I had bought with my own money.So many great memories with the playstation.MGS,Silent Hill,Crash Bandicoot,Final fantasy 7,8,9,the list goes on and on.One of my favorites right there
I don't think any channel on UA-cam has done Square's transition to PlayStation any justice except this one. Props.
The PlayStation was my first video game console I remember getting on xmas morning as a 6 year old kid and I loved it from gameday, ff7 and the crash bandicoot series and I been hocked to video games ever since
I got one in 98 and I got a bunch of so-so games but when I got Tekken 3 and WWF War Zone. not to mention some really good sport games at the time. Happy 20th anniversary, PS1!
I bought mine on launch day in 1995,, bought it with ridge racer and espn extreme games. my brother and i played it for almost 24 hours straight!
I remember the launch of PlayStation very clear. One of my friends bought it with Ridge Racer..oh man we used to play it relentlessly and unlocking all the cars. Then he got Resident Evil...man those were great days for gaming, every game was something new, adding something new to the genre!
Ow, who can say what any of us is doing in 20 years, if the youtube is still around or if we are able to still be operating a game controller. . . I'm 36 btw. BUT I will be expecting you doing a PS4 20 anniversary special! :) It would be awesome, can't wait!
I was playing Tales of Destiny on my PS1 yesterday! The PS1 is my favorite console of all time. I still play PS1 games on a regular basis. I cannot believe it turned 20 years old.
FF7, FF8, Brave Fencer Musashi, Star Ocean 2, Suikoden 1, Suikoden 2, Tales of Destiny 1, Tales of Destiny 2(Eternia), Parasite Eve, Gekido, Ehrgeiz, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot 2, Xenogears, Pac-Man World, Tomba 1, Tomba 2, Bomberman.....the list can go on and on. The library of the PS1 is amazing.
So many awesome games.. What i'll never forget though is the hype and excitement and anticipation I had for Metal Gear Solid! I remember going to different stores every month to look at the new game magazine articles for screenshots, getting so pumped up. Then, finally, OPM released an issue with MGS on the demo disk (along with Legacy of Kain Soul Rever too!) Man, I played the shit out of that demo. And when the game finally came out it completely lived up to the hype
hello Mr.johnny this David the happy gamer I remember when the playstation was released in the year 1997 I was eight years old at the time and my brother was about thirteen years old and we excited about the debut of the console now we never really bought it but our cousin's mom who was our aunt purchased it for him so when we learned that he got it we went straight to his house. We came to an understanding that we all would share it .
Loved this console still true to Playsation in 2017. FF7 First game I ever bought. My sis was the one who got the Console for Christmas. I was in 7th grade. Many sleepless nights I miss the old days. Were did the time go??? Next Christmas PS2 for me.
So many of my best gaming memories are from the time I was playing Playstation, doing console linked battles on Command and Conquer, watching my brother and cousin try to completely finish a rented copy of Final Fantasy Tactics in one setting without a memory card , Medieval , Crash, Spyro, Resident Evil 2, Castlevania SoTN some of my favorite games of all time are on the PS1
Did they beat FFT? lol
Yes they did, they were up for WAY TOO long and never turned it off the whole time but they did beat the game lol
Awesome! Those were the best times, playing with a good friend, spending the night. Back then it would of been junk food and soda, all night gaming, and you were living. lol
Hell yeah exactly it was a great time definitely!
I remember playing battle arena and the demo disc with extreme games on it
First time I ever played a Playstation game was back in pre-school. I didn't have a console (only a Gameboy - which still works, to this day, 20 years later) but my neighbour had a PSone so I'd go to his place every single day. I still remember playing Bomberman and just watching him play Spyro. By now, I only own a handful of PSone games (FFVII and VIII, Alien Trilogy, Soul Reaver, Wrecking Crew, Heart of Darkness and Fear Effect 2) that I play on PS2, but do I love those old polygon graphics.