In 2006 i was in college and i commuted a lot from my parents home to my home in the city i was studying and i played so many games, watched so many movies and listened to music on it constantly. I loved it, it was everyone the smartphone is today for entertainment and some more.
Literally just borrowed my friend’s PSP the other week to have my first experience with the console because I finally found the one NASCAR game they made for it. The racing library as a whole on the console actually seems quite strong and good.
20 years. Holy cow. I still remember buying my first like it was yesterday in 2006. And then buying the PSP 2000 at Yodobashi camera in Akihabara at launch day in September 2007. Great times. I have 4 fully working PSPs. And love them.
The PSP will also be special to me. I lost everything in Hurricane Katrina when I was 16. I remember my mom getting me a PSP for my birthday just weeks after the storm. I played that damn thing so much. We were living with my grandpa in the middle of nowhere so there wasn't much else to do. I played so much Midnight Club 3 Dub edition. Then my mom got me GTA:LCS for Christmas. I also remember the demo disc it came with. There were music videos on it and I would listen to them over and over. Also remember getting the UMB video disc. Watched Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Family Guy on my PSP all the time.
@@EyeamEJ I remember being about 12 and playing it during Hurricane Ike and during the aftermath when we didn't have power for about a week and half my dad would let me charge it in the car or plug it into the generator. I found that exact same PSP last month in a box and started playing with it again after doing a couple of mods to it. My nephew has been hooked to it playing Def Jam, Midnight Club 3 & DBZ Tenkaichi Tag. Its definitely a good console in its own right.
14:45 hell yeah we still watch bud. I'm glad you still have the PSP all these years later. Awesome video dude. Hope we can hang out when you visit Ontario again. Hit up Toyratt like old times.
Loved mmy PSP. Got mine from Sam Goody on launch week. Modded the hell out of it. If you want to play game on a larger screen you can mod the PSP to output video via USB. It's a great way to play it's games on original hardware on a larger screen. I'd say it's windy scene was more than little considering all the homebrew made for it.
I was a 1995 baby, so the PSP was announced when I was in 4th grade. By the time the PSP launched, everyone in school had a DS. But when a kid brought a PSP in, it was a big deal. It was basically doing iPod Touch stuff years before the iPod Touch released AND had an app store. However, the DS was a lot more ubiquitous. Still, 80 million units is nothing to sneeze at. People act like the PSP wasn't impressive sales-wise when it's one of the best-selling handhelds ever made.
It was great for JRPGs, because many developers realised they couldn’t afford to do HD development. So they kept making their lower-Budget games for PSP
I remember getting the ratchet and clank bundle for Christmas so long ago, had such a fun time and eventually did get the component cables to play on our living room tv. Such good times!
Yes you can play it with just the power cord, that's how I only played mine. Crisis Core was the game that made me buy the system. Sold all my PSP collection when I moved to my new house a year ago, and I don't miss it at all.
I was DEEP in the DS and GBA by the time I got a PSP. God of War Ghost of Sparta broke me into getting one. BIG fan of 1 and 2 at the time so no brainer.
Same here, my brother gave me his as a hand me down. Used it more as a mp3 player as my phone did not support mp3 at the time and did not have a working mp3 player as I broke them all skating. No gaming memories with it except for when it first came out... a class mate was showing his off and looked amazing for the time.
Interesting that the PSP used a small disc format (which I hated) for its games and Nintendo used game cards for the DS line. Kinda like how the N64 used cartridges, during a time where everyone was embracing CDs.
I remember wanting one so bad as a kid and being stuck with DS and looking back as an adult I don't feel I missed out on much and am very satisfied with the DS to this day
Even as a kid the games me and my brother played most was Tony Hawk underground, Hot Pursuit and SSX world tour. The games suited for the super fun short play sessions.
I got a PSP when DJMAX Fever came out. I had a lot of fun playing that and Rock Band Unplugged (which played like Amplitude). Some mildly interesting things: The PlayStation 3D Display had a special mode just for the PSP's weird output to keep the correct aspect ratio. The Go could also have a DualShock 3 paired with it via Bluetooth. A PSP Go + Dock + DualShock 3 + 3D Display is probably about the best way of making original hardware a console. The 16GB internal storage was handy on a hacked one, too.
Very calm knowledgeable videos. Thank you for not screaming at us. Also yes psp!!! I remember wipeout pure on launch was awesome, also gold medals unlocked artwork! PSP!
PSP was the smart phone (for internet browsing and media consumption) before smart phones came out. In highschool years I used it for wifi and I ripped dvds like Chapelle's Show and would watch it in class! First time I ever gamed online was with Syphon Filter. Oh and we could play FULL Grand Theft Auto games. No one else was doin it back then, the big 16:9 screen was unusual for a portable mass consumer device at the time. I don't like his negative look at PSP, dude you were probably an adult when it came out haha it was not aimed at you. Too much of "well Nintendo sold more so therefore it was a failure and people didn't like it" nah it sold 80 million units and everyone I knew who had one absolutely loved it. PSP having an optional TV output "negates the whole point of the system" sorry that's an UNREAL take! It's a cool extra feature to have jeezus this guy criticizes the console to death. Most people still had standard definition CRT TVs back then, playing in a widescreen HD console with internet while on the couch or in my room was how I used it the most. I assume many people use portables at their house, hate when people act like portable devices need to only be played on a airplane or subway train, I assume 90% of portable gaming is done at home.
You expressed my feelings about the console almost verbatim. The hardware itself always seemed way more impressive than the DS and the ability to have portable media playback was enticing, but at the end of the day, most of the library was less-good versions of already existing PS2 games. UMD movies always seemed like a waste of money when you’d be much better off buying the DVD of a movie. I think Sony did a better job than other companies that tried to go up against Nintendo, but simply needed more PSP exclusive software.
I remember getting the PSP for my 11th birthday in 2006! I had a few UMD movies, like Bill & Ted, Beavis and Butthead, and Family Guy(which was my introduction to the show). I loved how some of the PS2 games like Sega Genesis Collection was ported to the PSP. Having Sonic 1 back then on the go that wasn't a Nomad was a big deal back in the mid 00s! Too bad the memory cards for it were expensive as fuck!
I remember getting the psp-2000 as a kid, playing Daxter, Midnight Club 3, and watching umd video copies of ice age 2 and Dodgeball. A wild bundle for sure haha It's a system I like to revist a lot, as there are a lot of gems on it.
I love how you talked about the awkward time when everyone graduates high school and enters adulthood. I graduated high school In 2013 and video game were a-lot more mainstream at that time. But I remember at around 2006 there was this weird stigma of video games being just for little kids and nerds and that was terrible. The stigma still existed in 2013 but video game were more accepted and mainstream at the time especially in high school.
The Sony PlayStation Portabe... So great, it's just a shame the PS VITA never enjoyed the success it should have gotten (because Sony barely tried). But yeah, hard to blieve it's been 20 years.
Great system I’m very fond of. Ridge Racer, Wipeout and Everybody’s Golf (aka Hot shots golf in the states) were 3 launch games for the ages. Put so much time into FF Tactics, Crisis core and Dissidia. MGS Peace Walker was absolutely incredible and the MGS Acid games were fun too. The Rondo of blood remake was great. I could go on and on…
On a side note, a Star Wars Battlefront 3 Xbox 360 prototype does exist (check Hiddenpalace) but it is VERY buggy and only works on a devkit or emulator as it uses the higher RAM in the devkit. I have tried to get it work on a retail RGH 360 with no luck.
My experience with the PSP was a little weird and doesn't go very far. My brother had one back when it was relevant but I barely used it, I stuck with my GBA and DS for portable stuff. No idea what happened to that PSP though, I feel like it vanished out of nowhere. Years later during my sophomore year of high school in 2017, I finally got one for myself and gave it a fair chance, and I was hooked on Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and MGS Peace Walker. Those two games made study hall awesome. UNTIL THAT CHRISTMAS WHEN I GOT THE SWITCH 💀 Still have a lot of love for the PSP, but I definitely haven't used it enough. Like GTA Liberty City Stories I have on there but anytime I wanna play it, yeah I always play it on PS2 instead lmao
Ah, I I remember buying my first PSP and they apparently charged me $50 lower than its MSRP. I played put so many hours in the PSP because I didn't own my own TV at the time. I would even use the PSP as a portable MP3 player! It was so usefull! I also had a NDS, but I didn't like it because the only thing you could do on it was game. I would only use that at home. When the PSP 2000 came out, I had to buy it because not being able to play on the television was the only problem I had with it. I didn't mind the memory card or the UMD technology. Now looking back on it, these were bad decisions by Sony. They didn't bother me at the time because it was so much more valuable to me.
Daxter, Syphon Filter Dark Mirror & Logan's Shadow, Spider-Man 2, GTA VCS & LCS, Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron, Marve Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects, Burnout Legends, ATV Offroad Fury Blazin' Trails & MX vs ATV On The Edge are all games I had fun playing PSP is definitely awesome I even mod it to play my favorite PS1 games
Its funny looking back how many PSP games kept cutting budgets by using cutscenes with portraits and dialog. This was just something perfectly normal on the Gba and DS with the low memory and lack of good 3d, yet very awkward on PSP.
Awesome video! Would you ever consider doing all the generation recaps for portables, maybe starting with Game & Watch and so on? I'm also really surprised there's no big video on the game gear considering you love Sega. And I love the game gear. 😅
Interesting timing just today the South Park episode about the PSP launch was airing on tv, love the PSP got mine in 2010 when i was 9, it was the WWE smackdown vs raw 2011 i still have it and it was my first console, i got Vicy City and Liberty city stories both in 2013 new from a store. I just love this system.
Biggest problem with PSP games was that the console only had one analog stick but for some reasons developers insisted on making 3D games with arkward workarounds to control the camera and most of the time makes it really annoyng to play, so the better PSP games are the 2D ones or the 3D that are sidescroller or over the head camera.
I worked during the tail end of GameCrazy's life cycle, and about one in 5-6 people who'd turn in these things for cash would leave their memory cards in. Sometimes people didn't care even after being told that they had their memory cards in. 100% of those memory card had someone's porn stash in them. Not a single person did not take out their porn. So yeah, I can say for sure that this was a portable porn device.
I had a Japanese psp before release in Japan in piano black I loved that thing to death ... and it did died on me. I used to take my psp everywhere with me, see I had a lot of music umd's house of blues 2pac used to get blasted in my car on the daily I have a charger and AUX code with a dock I made that would sit where most modern screens are in cars today. I didn't once think I want to play this on a tv. I loved and still love the portability if you wanna play psp games on a tv play a ps2 or a ps3.
You can actually use your PSP with only the charger port at the bottom, you could also use the usb port but it's not recommended with after market batteries iirc
I’m not a perv or sleazeball but enjoyed my psp enough to know the adult porno generation was exploding at the time beyond Atari’s classic taboo games I bought La blue girl for psp umd and found spicy Japanese content afterwards and now expensive as they are, psp is AWESOMELY BETTER NOW!
Hi this is a good opportunity for me to ask something I’ve not known for twenty years. When the PSP was not long out in shops I was in hospital and my Mum bought me a PSP with GTA VC Stories but the game had atrocious ghosting of the graphics that made it unplayable. So I barely used it. Was this because I never connected the console to the internet for updates? Or something else?
Adam, I have an original Sony PSP Go Black it’s the N1001 model….do you know how much it’s worth? I have all the cables, manuals and the original box (the box isn’t in too great of shape put it closes and keeps all the contents intact & safe.
i loved my psp. i used it for music, podcasts, gaming, browsing the web, making videos and photos. it was my smartphone before i had a smartphone and the "handy" i haf back then was just a piece of shit compared to the psp😅
Your points about the PSP not providing the handheld experience are exactly right - it was impressive but many of those games didn't work well as portable experiences. Also, for me, while I appreciate the hardware, I never liked the buttons on this thing, too squishy to be satisfying, at least for action heavy games. It was my RPG machine, tons of great RPGs on PSP.
Depends on the game. I had never played Ridge Racer until I got my PSP. It doesnt feel right playing it any other way but in a handheld plus its short races were perfect. There were plenty of games on the systemnthat offered something similar. Although I will admit I probably emulated Metal Slug on mine more than anything else.
I know you’re a nerd Adam but I remember being jealous of friends in the school bus playing madden and fifa on the go.i had a ds and if i played fifa or any sports fans on it on the bus I would get made fun of.eventually i would just bring my iPod instead of my ds cause my friends would have movies on the bus
now I want a psp now I should of never sold mine I'm sad now I paid a buddy 100$ for it and then I took it to GameStop why idk lol and I got rip off for it when I gave it to them
Yea people thinking that the Switch wasn't unique "because the PSP did it first", forgot that remote play with the PSP wasn't the same thing as what the Switch does with a docking station lol.
Never been the biggest fan of the PSP. It was definitely very ambitious for it's time though. But for me there are 2 major reasons why I won't be putting the PSP in any all-time great lists: 1) I find the library to be a little bit lackluster. Sure there are the GTA games and other good games like Burnout Legends, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (basically Symphony of the Night on PSP), Tekken and a handful of other games. But that's about it. I find the library is FILLED with JRPGS and I'm not the biggest fans of those. And many of the game franchises that found it's way to the PSP were stripped down inferior versions. The sports games for instance would always have fewer modes and features, and often feel inferior and clunkier to their home console counterparts. Same with shooters and other games. To the point that you would question "Why am I playing this on here instead of on my PS2 or PS3?". 2) I never liked the "feel" of the console while I'm playing it. The PSP always felt very brittle and cheap to me. While Nintendo handhelds felt sturdy. You knew you could button mash on the Gameboy if the game required it and that it would survive and not crap out on you. With the PSP I always felt like I had to be extra careful and baby it. And therefore couldn't play the same way I did with a an actual PS2 or PS3 controller. If a PS2 controller goes to crap you could replace it for $40 at worst case. But the PSP is a console and controller all in one, so if you break the controller, you essentially break the console itself! The left thumbstick in particular was very flimsy and felt brittle. It always felt that if you play as you normally would on a home console it will crap out in no time lol Same with the shoulder trigger buttons. And as time has gone on the modding aspect is less and less of a novelty and selling factor as well. Given how people can basically mod any console now from modern consoles to GameCubes and in between. Not to mention all the emulation consoles like Ambernic, Steam Decks, etc. The PSP is the definition of a mediocre gaming experience imo. And as far as handhelds go I'd rather play literally any Nintendo handhelds rather than PSP. But to each their own.
Loved the PSP really felt ahead of its time. I was blown away playing a fully 3d gta game on it.
same here.
In 2006 i was in college and i commuted a lot from my parents home to my home in the city i was studying and i played so many games, watched so many movies and listened to music on it constantly. I loved it, it was everyone the smartphone is today for entertainment and some more.
Literally just borrowed my friend’s PSP the other week to have my first experience with the console because I finally found the one NASCAR game they made for it. The racing library as a whole on the console actually seems quite strong and good.
20 years. Holy cow. I still remember buying my first like it was yesterday in 2006. And then buying the PSP 2000 at Yodobashi camera in Akihabara at launch day in September 2007. Great times. I have 4 fully working PSPs. And love them.
Ahh the pandora battery.. I still have it! The memories
The PSP will also be special to me. I lost everything in Hurricane Katrina when I was 16. I remember my mom getting me a PSP for my birthday just weeks after the storm. I played that damn thing so much. We were living with my grandpa in the middle of nowhere so there wasn't much else to do. I played so much Midnight Club 3 Dub edition. Then my mom got me GTA:LCS for Christmas. I also remember the demo disc it came with. There were music videos on it and I would listen to them over and over. Also remember getting the UMB video disc. Watched Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Family Guy on my PSP all the time.
@@EyeamEJ I remember being about 12 and playing it during Hurricane Ike and during the aftermath when we didn't have power for about a week and half my dad would let me charge it in the car or plug it into the generator. I found that exact same PSP last month in a box and started playing with it again after doing a couple of mods to it. My nephew has been hooked to it playing Def Jam, Midnight Club 3 & DBZ Tenkaichi Tag. Its definitely a good console in its own right.
14:45 hell yeah we still watch bud.
I'm glad you still have the PSP all these years later. Awesome video dude. Hope we can hang out when you visit Ontario again. Hit up Toyratt like old times.
Glad to hear it son!
Loved mmy PSP. Got mine from Sam Goody on launch week. Modded the hell out of it. If you want to play game on a larger screen you can mod the PSP to output video via USB. It's a great way to play it's games on original hardware on a larger screen. I'd say it's windy scene was more than little considering all the homebrew made for it.
I gotta love Grand Theft Auto “Liberty City Stories” and “Vice City Stories” on PSP. Great games from 2005 and 2006.
I was a 1995 baby, so the PSP was announced when I was in 4th grade.
By the time the PSP launched, everyone in school had a DS. But when a kid brought a PSP in, it was a big deal.
It was basically doing iPod Touch stuff years before the iPod Touch released AND had an app store.
However, the DS was a lot more ubiquitous.
Still, 80 million units is nothing to sneeze at. People act like the PSP wasn't impressive sales-wise when it's one of the best-selling handhelds ever made.
Man, I was obsessed with the PSP. Even I loved it back in Christmas of 2006.
It was great for JRPGs, because many developers realised they couldn’t afford to do HD development. So they kept making their lower-Budget games for PSP
Yeah man 20 years..who would have thought that we would play any psp game on a average Smartphone nowadays
20 years omg
The tv out option was put on the PSP 2000 in 2007.
I remember when the PSP came out. Takes me back
LittleBigPlanet was my favorite PSP game , also PSP games were not 60, they were 40
I remember getting the ratchet and clank bundle for Christmas so long ago, had such a fun time and eventually did get the component cables to play on our living room tv. Such good times!
Wow, 20 years! I can't believe it 😮
Adam if you haven't already, please dispose those batteries before they potentially cause some serious damage. Love these type of videos you do!
I was really impressed back then when the PSP got its own version of Gran Turismo. Looked great, and ran at 60fps, on the PSP!
Yes you can play it with just the power cord, that's how I only played mine. Crisis Core was the game that made me buy the system. Sold all my PSP collection when I moved to my new house a year ago, and I don't miss it at all.
I was DEEP in the DS and GBA by the time I got a PSP. God of War Ghost of Sparta broke me into getting one. BIG fan of 1 and 2 at the time so no brainer.
Same here, my brother gave me his as a hand me down. Used it more as a mp3 player as my phone did not support mp3 at the time and did not have a working mp3 player as I broke them all skating. No gaming memories with it except for when it first came out... a class mate was showing his off and looked amazing for the time.
20 year Later Legend!
Interesting that the PSP used a small disc format (which I hated) for its games and Nintendo used game cards for the DS line.
Kinda like how the N64 used cartridges, during a time where everyone was embracing CDs.
I remember wanting one so bad as a kid and being stuck with DS and looking back as an adult I don't feel I missed out on much and am very satisfied with the DS to this day
Even as a kid the games me and my brother played most was Tony Hawk underground, Hot Pursuit and SSX world tour. The games suited for the super fun short play sessions.
Great video Adam. I love the PSP, it’s a great little system. Yes I am also one of the weirdos that like watching Films on it. The library is huge.
I got a PSP when DJMAX Fever came out. I had a lot of fun playing that and Rock Band Unplugged (which played like Amplitude). Some mildly interesting things: The PlayStation 3D Display had a special mode just for the PSP's weird output to keep the correct aspect ratio. The Go could also have a DualShock 3 paired with it via Bluetooth. A PSP Go + Dock + DualShock 3 + 3D Display is probably about the best way of making original hardware a console. The 16GB internal storage was handy on a hacked one, too.
Very calm knowledgeable videos. Thank you for not screaming at us. Also yes psp!!! I remember wipeout pure on launch was awesome, also gold medals unlocked artwork! PSP!
PSP was the smart phone (for internet browsing and media consumption) before smart phones came out. In highschool years I used it for wifi and I ripped dvds like Chapelle's Show and would watch it in class! First time I ever gamed online was with Syphon Filter. Oh and we could play FULL Grand Theft Auto games. No one else was doin it back then, the big 16:9 screen was unusual for a portable mass consumer device at the time. I don't like his negative look at PSP, dude you were probably an adult when it came out haha it was not aimed at you. Too much of "well Nintendo sold more so therefore it was a failure and people didn't like it" nah it sold 80 million units and everyone I knew who had one absolutely loved it. PSP having an optional TV output "negates the whole point of the system" sorry that's an UNREAL take! It's a cool extra feature to have jeezus this guy criticizes the console to death. Most people still had standard definition CRT TVs back then, playing in a widescreen HD console with internet while on the couch or in my room was how I used it the most. I assume many people use portables at their house, hate when people act like portable devices need to only be played on a airplane or subway train, I assume 90% of portable gaming is done at home.
yes i used a lot for internet browsing
You expressed my feelings about the console almost verbatim. The hardware itself always seemed way more impressive than the DS and the ability to have portable media playback was enticing, but at the end of the day, most of the library was less-good versions of already existing PS2 games. UMD movies always seemed like a waste of money when you’d be much better off buying the DVD of a movie. I think Sony did a better job than other companies that tried to go up against Nintendo, but simply needed more PSP exclusive software.
I remember getting the PSP for my 11th birthday in 2006! I had a few UMD movies, like Bill & Ted, Beavis and Butthead, and Family Guy(which was my introduction to the show). I loved how some of the PS2 games like Sega Genesis Collection was ported to the PSP. Having Sonic 1 back then on the go that wasn't a Nomad was a big deal back in the mid 00s! Too bad the memory cards for it were expensive as fuck!
I remember getting the psp-2000 as a kid, playing Daxter, Midnight Club 3, and watching umd video copies of ice age 2 and Dodgeball. A wild bundle for sure haha
It's a system I like to revist a lot, as there are a lot of gems on it.
Greatest handheld ever it felt special having one of these back then
Can’t believe the PSP is 20 years old! That means it came out when I was 29….great just made me feel my age even more.🤨😠
I remember a Sony representative showing this off in a Walmart when I was 14
I love how you talked about the awkward time when everyone graduates high school and enters adulthood. I graduated high school In 2013 and video game were a-lot more mainstream at that time. But I remember at around 2006 there was this weird stigma of video games being just for little kids and nerds and that was terrible. The stigma still existed in 2013 but video game were more accepted and mainstream at the time especially in high school.
Great video as always!! Def gonna check on my PSP battery when I get home lol
Definitely an underplayed device for me. Games still look and play pretty well to me, so that’s something I’ll rectify eventually.
my god all these 20+ anniversaries are making me feel like a fossil 💀💀
I've never owned a PSP, but it seems like it was a cool system for its time.
The Sony PlayStation Portabe... So great, it's just a shame the PS VITA never enjoyed the success it should have gotten (because Sony barely tried). But yeah, hard to blieve it's been 20 years.
Great system I’m very fond of. Ridge Racer, Wipeout and Everybody’s Golf (aka Hot shots golf in the states) were 3 launch games for the ages. Put so much time into FF Tactics, Crisis core and Dissidia. MGS Peace Walker was absolutely incredible and the MGS Acid games were fun too. The Rondo of blood remake was great. I could go on and on…
Adam and the PSP
On a side note, a Star Wars Battlefront 3 Xbox 360 prototype does exist (check Hiddenpalace) but it is VERY buggy and only works on a devkit or emulator as it uses the higher RAM in the devkit. I have tried to get it work on a retail RGH 360 with no luck.
My experience with the PSP was a little weird and doesn't go very far. My brother had one back when it was relevant but I barely used it, I stuck with my GBA and DS for portable stuff. No idea what happened to that PSP though, I feel like it vanished out of nowhere. Years later during my sophomore year of high school in 2017, I finally got one for myself and gave it a fair chance, and I was hooked on Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and MGS Peace Walker. Those two games made study hall awesome. UNTIL THAT CHRISTMAS WHEN I GOT THE SWITCH 💀 Still have a lot of love for the PSP, but I definitely haven't used it enough. Like GTA Liberty City Stories I have on there but anytime I wanna play it, yeah I always play it on PS2 instead lmao
Ahead of its time
Ah, I I remember buying my first PSP and they apparently charged me $50 lower than its MSRP.
I played put so many hours in the PSP because I didn't own my own TV at the time.
I would even use the PSP as a portable MP3 player!
It was so usefull!
I also had a NDS, but I didn't like it because the only thing you could do on it was game. I would only use that at home.
When the PSP 2000 came out, I had to buy it because not being able to play on the television was the only problem I had with it. I didn't mind the memory card or the UMD technology. Now looking back on it, these were bad decisions by Sony. They didn't bother me at the time because it was so much more valuable to me.
Daxter, Syphon Filter Dark Mirror & Logan's Shadow, Spider-Man 2, GTA VCS & LCS, Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron, Marve Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects, Burnout Legends, ATV Offroad Fury Blazin' Trails & MX vs ATV On The Edge are all games I had fun playing PSP is definitely awesome I even mod it to play my favorite PS1 games
Its funny looking back how many PSP games kept cutting budgets by using cutscenes with portraits and dialog. This was just something perfectly normal on the Gba and DS with the low memory and lack of good 3d, yet very awkward on PSP.
Awesome video! Would you ever consider doing all the generation recaps for portables, maybe starting with Game & Watch and so on? I'm also really surprised there's no big video on the game gear considering you love Sega. And I love the game gear. 😅
Interesting timing just today the South Park episode about the PSP launch was airing on tv, love the PSP got mine in 2010 when i was 9, it was the WWE smackdown vs raw 2011 i still have it and it was my first console, i got Vicy City and Liberty city stories both in 2013 new from a store. I just love this system.
Biggest problem with PSP games was that the console only had one analog stick but for some reasons developers insisted on making 3D games with arkward workarounds to control the camera and most of the time makes it really annoyng to play, so the better PSP games are the 2D ones or the 3D that are sidescroller or over the head camera.
I worked during the tail end of GameCrazy's life cycle, and about one in 5-6 people who'd turn in these things for cash would leave their memory cards in. Sometimes people didn't care even after being told that they had their memory cards in. 100% of those memory card had someone's porn stash in them. Not a single person did not take out their porn. So yeah, I can say for sure that this was a portable porn device.
It was i mean it even had a couple of adult umd movies
Seems like a common story with PSPs
I had a Japanese psp before release in Japan in piano black I loved that thing to death ... and it did died on me. I used to take my psp everywhere with me, see I had a lot of music umd's house of blues 2pac used to get blasted in my car on the daily I have a charger and AUX code with a dock I made that would sit where most modern screens are in cars today. I didn't once think I want to play this on a tv. I loved and still love the portability if you wanna play psp games on a tv play a ps2 or a ps3.
dont forget psp have wifi and yo can play music on the go , i really use the psp a lot back then when smartphones wasn’t around
Wait.
I was 8 years old when I got the PSP!?
oh no
There was no cross buy with the psp and ps3…that was the vita
You can actually use your PSP with only the charger port at the bottom, you could also use the usb port but it's not recommended with after market batteries iirc
Couldn't The swelling on the PSP batteries cause a fire hazard? Or at least cause the battery to explode?
Yeah they do that's why I disposed the battery
For me it was the Yugioh GX Tag Force series 💪🏽 I even own the PS2 port of TF1 (Evolution) and I much prefer playing those games portably
All i want for xmas is a PSP
7:25 you must live in the same neighborhood as Brian Paul from Without Parole.
No idea what you're talking about sir.
Brian is a cool dude, watch without Parole all the time best VR podcast .
The psp shouldve had twin sticks. I got mine late and some good cheap games probably my favorite was Jeanne D'Arc
Good review, great times. But I really wanted to see it in a TV...
Didn't we all?
playing my psp go on break rn 😂💯
I really liked valkyrie profile lenneth on psp.
I’m not a perv or sleazeball but enjoyed my psp enough to know the adult porno generation was exploding at the time beyond Atari’s classic taboo games I bought La blue girl for psp umd and found spicy Japanese content afterwards and now expensive as they are, psp is AWESOMELY BETTER NOW!
Hi this is a good opportunity for me to ask something I’ve not known for twenty years. When the PSP was not long out in shops I was in hospital and my Mum bought me a PSP with GTA VC Stories but the game had atrocious ghosting of the graphics that made it unplayable. So I barely used it. Was this because I never connected the console to the internet for updates? Or something else?
No idea.
Probably the 1000 model, they improved the screens in later ones
I feel really old i still got my day one release psp it needs to be re-shell tho.
You got the Magic Stick? What what?
Adam, I have an original Sony PSP Go Black it’s the N1001 model….do you know how much it’s worth? I have all the cables, manuals and the original box (the box isn’t in too great of shape put it closes and keeps all the contents intact & safe.
No clue.
Does he mention the Vita?
Yes, briefly, but this is about the PSP.
i loved my psp. i used it for music, podcasts, gaming, browsing the web, making videos and photos. it was my smartphone before i had a smartphone and the "handy" i haf back then was just a piece of shit compared to the psp😅
Still playing mines believe it or not lol
I have a hacked psp and like 24 physicals games
I've been trying to beat mgs peacewalker for like 10 years almost there lol 😅 on ch4 I think
Your points about the PSP not providing the handheld experience are exactly right - it was impressive but many of those games didn't work well as portable experiences. Also, for me, while I appreciate the hardware, I never liked the buttons on this thing, too squishy to be satisfying, at least for action heavy games. It was my RPG machine, tons of great RPGs on PSP.
Depends on the game. I had never played Ridge Racer until I got my PSP. It doesnt feel right playing it any other way but in a handheld plus its short races were perfect. There were plenty of games on the systemnthat offered something similar. Although I will admit I probably emulated Metal Slug on mine more than anything else.
I know you’re a nerd Adam but I remember being jealous of friends in the school bus playing madden and fifa on the go.i had a ds and if i played fifa or any sports fans on it on the bus I would get made fun of.eventually i would just bring my iPod instead of my ds cause my friends would have movies on the bus
I remember Playing GTA and need for speed on my cousins
It's a very successful but doesn't feel like it
The DS completely left it in the dust
i got the ds first and psp after the gta games came out
now I want a psp now I should of never sold mine I'm sad now I paid a buddy 100$ for it and then I took it to GameStop why idk lol and I got rip off for it when I gave it to them
Yea people thinking that the Switch wasn't unique "because the PSP did it first", forgot that remote play with the PSP wasn't the same thing as what the Switch does with a docking station lol.
DO atari lynx AND sega game gear?
Their anniversaries are well over.
Idk why you call it a ps vita tv….your old man language should call it ps vita television lol
Never liked the psp, long loading times, terrible battery life and not very comfortable to hold.
As someone who loves portables, seeing them hit 20 hits harder than home consoles for me, we old lol. Also, BRASIL! 🇧🇷🗣️🔥🫦💚🔥🇧🇷
PSP was so big thanks to Dark_AleX
Never been the biggest fan of the PSP. It was definitely very ambitious for it's time though. But for me there are 2 major reasons why I won't be putting the PSP in any all-time great lists:
1) I find the library to be a little bit lackluster. Sure there are the GTA games and other good games like Burnout Legends, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (basically Symphony of the Night on PSP), Tekken and a handful of other games. But that's about it. I find the library is FILLED with JRPGS and I'm not the biggest fans of those. And many of the game franchises that found it's way to the PSP were stripped down inferior versions. The sports games for instance would always have fewer modes and features, and often feel inferior and clunkier to their home console counterparts. Same with shooters and other games. To the point that you would question "Why am I playing this on here instead of on my PS2 or PS3?".
2) I never liked the "feel" of the console while I'm playing it. The PSP always felt very brittle and cheap to me. While Nintendo handhelds felt sturdy. You knew you could button mash on the Gameboy if the game required it and that it would survive and not crap out on you. With the PSP I always felt like I had to be extra careful and baby it. And therefore couldn't play the same way I did with a an actual PS2 or PS3 controller. If a PS2 controller goes to crap you could replace it for $40 at worst case. But the PSP is a console and controller all in one, so if you break the controller, you essentially break the console itself! The left thumbstick in particular was very flimsy and felt brittle. It always felt that if you play as you normally would on a home console it will crap out in no time lol Same with the shoulder trigger buttons.
And as time has gone on the modding aspect is less and less of a novelty and selling factor as well. Given how people can basically mod any console now from modern consoles to GameCubes and in between. Not to mention all the emulation consoles like Ambernic, Steam Decks, etc. The PSP is the definition of a mediocre gaming experience imo. And as far as handhelds go I'd rather play literally any Nintendo handhelds rather than PSP. But to each their own.