/vr/ - Retro Games

Was like a more comfy SNES controller. It was the handles that did it. Then they started replacing the controllers with big ass handles for no reason which kind of made them way less comfortable. Still a legendary controller

Very, very strange when you've been playing Nintendo and Sega all your life and then this third company comes along. It had an aura all of its own, especially since the PlayStation was my first CD based system. It felt very "alt". Very mature and had a dark industrial aesthetic to the games.

>>10653723
>Was like a more comfy SNES controller.
Was the opposite for me.
The SCPH-1080 was super stiff out of the box and never really softened up. But I still played the crap out of Tekken 2 with it.

Pulling it out of the box and looking at those strange symbles it felt more like a piece of high end stereo equipment than a video game console, but I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and go with the flow.

It was a weird period, for sure. First time I've seen one was in 1996 at one of those gaming houses (I don't know how they're called in America, you pay by the hour). It only had Road Rash and a racing game - I think it was Rally Cross? Then only saw it again in 1997, and by then it already had a ton of games, some I didn't even know existed, like Street Fighter EX plus Alpha, the Crash Bandicoot series, Jet Moto and so on. It was a great time really, but sometimes it felt like loadings (in some games) detracted from the experience, like the King of Fighters (96 and 97).

There were also a ton of bad games, like Rascal and Excalibur AD 2555. I think the only game people really disliked here was Spawn Eternal, because it was really dark, you couldn't see very far and it was hard to understand how the fighting system worked.

Played a ton of Street Fighter Zero 2 and Zero 3.

>>10653713
"This 'teken' isn't as great as it's cracked up to be."

"This system has way better games than I thought and the N64 doesn't have them."

>>10653713
first time held that playing tekken 3 and it was pretty based

>>10653713
The d-pad hurts my thumb to this day

I was 7 and thought it was cool, played Overboard, Rapid Racer and Abe's Oddysee a lot on the Demo 1 disc.

In magazines in 1994 it looked sleek and modern and out of left field. Sega had already been around a bit with their 3D titles, but PS1 titles looked like they were coming from a different place creatively. There was a real sense of big-budget arcade experiences coming home, which was what a lot of people really wanted then.

>>10653713
The "shape" face buttons (instead of letters) were super weird, like it was half CD player or something. At first I wasn't sure if they were actual gameplay buttons. The double shoulder buttons also felt almost overwhelming, like "dude, there are way too many buttons on this controller".

Felt like something alongside the 3DO and CD-i rather than a successor to the SNES and Genesis marketplace-wise, and so did the Saturn to that end. Later on it truly was the next gen successor, but it felt like another high-end niche product at launch.

The games were super impressive, though. We had some full 3D on 3DO and Saturn and stuff, but PSX was the first to really push 3D at the forefront and it really felt like the future. Took awhile for the PSX to find its "voice" as many of the good early games were ports from PC or other high end consoles. Ironically, I feel like the best era for the Playstation was actually closer to its demise when Tony Hawk and Gran Turismo came into the picture, and also by then the Greatest Hits gave you a library of cheap games to quickly build up a library far cheaper than any cartridge console ever allowed.

ESPN Extreme Games was fun as fuck even though it didn't really push the system and had a lot of scaled 2D sprites. I still play it regularly.

>>10653713
Honestly: a lot of the games looked wonky and shitty. But it was more adult then Snes. Some games looked really cool like Wipeout 2097, Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil. The marketing campaign in the beginning was mysterious and had people talking. Some games had this unique graphical quality to them. But most looked very unstable. I didn't play Metal Gear Solid until years later and never got to play FF VII. Tekken 3 looked great and Gran Turismo was hipster garbage. I think my first game, not a demo, was Battle Arena Toshinden.

>>10653713
Felt like I was playing some cheap chink console. Glad I went with the Saturn.

What if we got this instead?

>>10653956
>Gran Turismo was hipster garbage

How in the fuck?

First off, it wasn't niche at all, it was the highest selling game on the system and the sequel is 3rd best slightly behind FF VII despite coming out after the Dreamcast debuted.

Second of all, it was by far the most advanced driving/racing simulator available at the time outside of some turbo nerd obscure clinical bullshit that may have been on PC.

The Gran Turismo generation is likely a big reason car culture got so big from about 99-07 alongside Fast and the Furious and a ton of TV shows centered around it. It was the first thing that got me interested in actual JDM cars (as in, Japanese market only).

The only people that didn't like Gran Turismo were spazzes that didn't have the patience to learn what was taught in the license tests and weren't willing to play a racing game that wasn't just "smash the gas and slam the turn button" like Mario Kart.

>>10653973
Damn, sitting on a pile of, what, 10 games?

>>10653978
Unironically would've preferred it.

-Never really cared for the handle juts, don't feel like they add anything to the experience until they were necessary for Dual Shock motors
-6 face buttons would've made it a great stock fighter pad
-non-segmented d-pad would've been almost as good as the 6-button Genesis and Saturn d-pad
-Buttons appear to have a slightly longer press, which would've been nicer than the super short travel stiff buttons we got.

>>10653713
I remember my classmates dragging me to this shitty little "arcade" (some guy's garage) and going crazy over this wrestling game on PS1. I wasn't really that impressed, I was happy with my Mega Drive.

>>10653713
I felt that it looked like a fisher price toy, was comfy though.

>>10653980
Yeah, I know it was big. I was 10 or eleven at the time. We had a video store that let you play for an hour on the psx for 2.50 euros, 1.50 for the Snes. I paid for one hour of Gran Tourismo and I couldn't even play the game or figure out what to do. Sony owes me 2.50 and an apology.

>>10653994
I'm kinda butthurt nobody's made a replica DTL-H500C. I want to hold it in my hands and feel it.

>>10654040
>Sony owes me 2.50 and an apology.
You made me laugh.

>>10653713
For years, I only saw the dualshock ones around, so when I first saw the ones without sticks at a friend's house I was really surprised, it felt alien that they didn't have them.

>>10653840
Weird, it's my favorite dpad

>>10653713
it felt like I was holding something premium and high-tech. I don't really know though, I was like 9 when my Dad rented one from our local Rogers Video.

>>10654308
When I was a kid, I got the Dual Shock late re-release of the PS1 for Christmas of '99. I didn't even know of the original controller until years later, nobody I knew with a PlayStation had anything but a Dual Shock.

>>10653713
First impression was that it was a cheaper alternative to the n64 with worse graphics and load times.

>>10653713
First time I picked one up I held it like a machine gun and pretended to shoot it.

>>10653978
looks worse than the SNES dogbone

>>10653713
I loved it from the get go, it's no wonder that Sony essentially set the foundation for the modern controller, mostly with its DualShock, they knew what they had to do in this department, and they delivered.

>>10654019 ?
Why are there so many duplicate threads lately?

>>10655018
Don't even get me started on the list ones and Metroid Prime ones...

I thought it looked like some kind of edutainment device. I think it was mostly the colour scheme. Something about the light grey and pastels.

>>10653932
>Ark the Rad
That definitely would've been the name if they brought the games as they were released

>>10653713
wtf 3D cartoon character with incredible music and it's playing a game from this shiny disc how is that possible also it plays CDs this is amazing :D :D :D

>>10655262
Maybe the name "Playstation" too. it's like Playmobil or something.

>>10653713
I was confused and overwhelmed at first, since my controller before this one was a Genesis 3-Button controller, so it was a major jump... I got used to it pretty quickly though, amazing console.

I never go back to it though, if I play PS1 now I prefer the DualShock 4 or DualSense, they improved on the foundation set by it perfectly.

it was like 1997 or 1998 it changes everything after megadrive, pc, gameboy, masterstystem and snes.

>>10653713
First impression was like consoles weren't just toys for kids any more. They were breaking into the mainstream and owning a playstation was more like owning a discman. People wouldn't necessarily make fun of you for playing games and cds were a large part of that.

I really liked the controller especially the double triggers and the iconography of the buttons and ergonomics. The only thing I didn't like so much was the stiffness of the dpad, especially those that needed multiple/rapid rotation of directions. It was quite tiring after a while.

>>10653713
I hated Tekken but loved Toshinden

>>10656674
I like Tekken (1 & 2) but I love Toshinden, much respect to you, what's your favourite Toshinden game?

>>10653713
good stuff
crash, spyro, chrono cross etc all had incredible music and THPS got me into punkrock
it was also nice as it also meant i now had a CD player in my room

the controller was fine when i had baby hands but theyre a pain now

As someone who never even knew the digital controller existed until they were an adult, holding a digital controller when you're used to dualshocks doesn't feel like the analogs are missing, it makes you realize just how tacked on the analogs are on dualshocks.

It’s come along way from the original dualshock

>>10653713
I remember the D-pad actually being good on the original PS controllers, but with PS2 and PS3 they're fucking garbage.

>>10654438
SNES dogbone is dogshit. It at least looks as good as the Genesis 6-button IMO.

>>10653713
the shoulder buttons were everythv,ing

>>10653713

I'm gonna be totally honest. Playing the PS1 for the first time at a firends house, it felt very strange. The graphics looked high-end and were somthing I had never seen, the price was absurdly high (in the eyes of my younger self), and I though "who the hell is gonna pay so much for a game console, this company must be crazy". The controller felt good and shit at the same time. The ergonomics were great, but the d-pad felt super strange.

It took 2 years or so until I warmed up the PS1, but only because of price cuts and the emergence of truly great must-play games.

>>10657151
It holds up, I think it's an excellent D-Pad for fighters.