/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10797013
It really was a great time to get a PS1, my dad got us this exact version in the early 2000's, used, after our Genesis broke for good and we spent some time with a Famicom clone, a "PolyStation" that I loved, but broke quickly as it was cheap, and man... the PS1 was in a whole new league, and by the early 2000's there was so much to play on this thing. I was a happy kid back then.

>>10471547
It did everything NES, SNES and Genesis had done right, while the companies behind them failed to replicate their own success.

It came out early, like the Genesis did, it was a cheaper console than the Saturn, had the full multiplatform support like NES/SNES did, all genres were well represented, including sports, so once again it did SEGA's strategy better than them, and it got JRPGs from Nintendo.

It just did everything right while Nintendo and SEGA did a bunch of things wrong.

>>10337893
In the short run, sure.
In the long run they make for iconography.
"ABXY" are just video game buttons, but those shapes are the shapes that mean the playstation