/vr/ - Retro Games

I hated the PS1 at first because I thought the load times were ridiculous. I couldn't believe people were accepting them.

The first year or so that the PSX was out, I couldn't care less. Then FF7 came along, and I literally bought one for that reason alone.

I have no regrets.

I bought one around FF7 time. My uncle lived in Hong Kong for a bit (I'm white as fuck) and would bring me back a shitload of knock off games (before CD burners were commonplace). My dad installed a modchip that had a fucking switch on it so I could turn it off for "real" games I actually owned. It was fucking the best years of gaming

When I first heard of it, I think my dad had mentioned seeing it at a buddies house. I remember the name and colorful logo for "Playstation" reminded me of some kind of fischer-price plastic toy made for children. He seemed enthusiastic about some driving game he'd seen on it but I didn't care, I had my heart set on n64 which I don't think was out yet.

The pre-PS1 consoles were nice, but nothing to really get excited over being a young PC-gamer at the time.

The PS1 did pique my interest. It had FULL REALTIME 3D GRFX and CD-ROM that were still covet-able features even on desktops.

My parents refused to buy me a current console, so my only experience was at friend's houses. It seemed like a swank little gaming machine. The PS1 was a big leap over the previous generation.

The other systems didn't catch my eye. The N64 was kind of crappy outside of Nintendo games and Nintendo expensive with the hefty markup on the system and cartridges. Not a whole lot of my friends gave Sega a second look since they had a lot of friends and friends of friends that were burned by the Saturn, 32X, some other hardware shovelware.

I was exclusively an N64 kid (had an SNES growing up) and so were most my friends. What I mostly remembered about the PSOne's I saw was how unreliable they all seem with discs getting easily scratched up and it in most cases requiring a fair bit of luck for the games to load up. The load times overall, and the tiny amount of memory on those memory sticks also struck me as being insufferable. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure that the reason I only had run-ins with such poorly functioning units was because they were all probably running poorly produced pirated copies of games.

I remember having pretty much identical opinions of the PS2 as well until only a few years back when I started discovering Sony's old library of games.

I was interested in the PSX purely for the Namco ports.

>>1577535
I was hyped before it came out. Got mine within a month of release and paid practically nothing for it. Back then Electronic Boutique ran a promo where ANY Genesis/SNES game was good for $10 off the price of a PS1.

I knew a kid with 30+ Genesis games that was looking for a SNES & MKII and a kid with a SNES that wanted a Genesis. I also owned MKII for SNES. So I acted as a middleman for these two kids and in return the one that had the Genesis gave me his entire library for bartering the deal & my copy of MKII.

I then took all of those games to Electronic Boutique and traded in 30 of them to get a system. I bought cash with, thinking that I'd still have to pay the tax off the original price, but I did not have to pay any.

One of the first, if not the first title I bought for it was Tekken. I didn't even have a memory card yet and left my system on for nearly a week, after unlocking Devil Kazuya. And finally bought one to save it.

I didn't know a single person who owned a PS1. All of my friends had N64s, so that's what I just defaulted to. I knew the PS1 existed but that was about it, I knew nothing about its games or anything.

I was a very sheltered kid. My parents didn't even let me watch Nightmare Before Christmas or James and the Giant Peach, and those are children's movies

Anyway, I was completely oblivious to the Playstation. I was raised on Nintendo. I played my NES forever, and then I played my SNES forever, then I played my N64 forever, then I played my Gameboy forever. I have ever Nintendo Power ever made from 1 -> (whenever the Wii came out)

We had a Sega for a hot minute, then my dad spilled coffee on it, and that was the last of that.

I think that I had a Dreamcast (bought it my 5th grade self!) before I had a Playstation. I think my parents thought it was the grown up console or something.

But man, when I did finally get one (don't remember when) I thought it was awesome. SNES RPGs were my jam, and I remember distinctly being disappointed by the lack of them on the N64, so I was very pleased when I found out that all the RPGs went to the PS... and then I was again disappointed when I found out that a lot of them had cuss words in them, not because I cared, but because if my parents saw then I couldn't play that game anymore. I owned FF7 like 2 or 3 different times before I was able to finally buy it myself and keep it. Games had to be played on the TV, and I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my room or to have the door closed, so there was no sneaking it either

Fuck my childhood, and sorry abou the rant

I thought it was a piece of shit and that opinion never changed for the whole course of that generation.

Had a megadrive as a kid, and remember really wanting a saturn. So I was kinda surprised to get a psx for my birthday in 1996. My dad was pretty into computers and decided it was a superior system.

I totally loved it. I used to get the official uk playstation magazine every month and read it cover to cover and spend hours playing the demos. On their advice I got a copy of ff7 which was the first game I became totally hooked on. My friends all had playstations too, except for this one lucky guy who had a psx AND an n64

>>1577701
We feel for you bro. I didn't have a PS1 at home either, but all of my friends had one, so I stayed at their places erryday.

Argentine.
I had a Super Nes and Nes as a kid.

The most popular consoles were Famiclones.
Nintendo products were seen as premium, as in, only high middle class or high class parents would pay 300 dollars for a Nintendo console. My parents were working class but they made a big effort to get me a SNES because I was a very nerdy kid bad at sports.
The average person had a famiclone (Family Game was called here)

The Playstation was the first original console that was popular, not only for the well off, at least in Argentina. The reason for that is a family could justify buying it because it also worked as a CD player, and because of Piracy, that means, you buy the console, and you get the games very cheaply, with the Super Nintendo you had to buy the console, and then pay 100 dollars for Killer Instinct or Donkey Kong country, the Playstation meant paying only once.

And that is the reason why most latin americans are Sony fans, the first playstation was their NES.

>>1577713

White Suburban Christians. The worst humans on the planet.

Born in '86 here, I remember them.

I was never impressed with the PlayStation. I played the system on demo units at stores and there was never anything worth getting the system for.

Felt the same about the N64.

>>1577770
>White Suburban Christians. The worst humans on the planet.
*tips fedora*

>>1577535
I'm old enough to remember it being commonly known as the PSX, unlike a lot of /vr/ babbys.

>>1577718
Oh dear.

>>1577828
Nobody argues that it wasn't commonly referred to as the PSX when it was new.

People argue that continuing to use the term PSX to refer to the PS1 when there was an ACTUAL PSX is wrong. PSX after all, was just a codename given to the PS1 before it was released, and it unfortunately stuck.

>>1577861
But people do argue about it. I can only assume they are people who weren't around at the time because, as you rightly pointed out, the term psx was widely used in the 90s

>>1577713
To think that this new generation will grow up on cellphones and mobile devices and will never know what was like.

i remember playing ridge racer and wipeout on demo kiosks and being very much hyped by this new 3D thing

i bought one 2 or 3 months after the launch, had to sold my megadrive and all the games i owned back then, which i still regret today (lost more that the few bucks they gave me for that) and got it chipped shortly after

I remember being as much impressed with the included dinosaur demo as i was when first trying Sonic the Hedgehog on MD after having only played the MS version

first games were pretty much impressive 3d demos but not very deep gameplay, destruction derby was very fun though

>>1577861
Honestly this never annoyed or confused anyone, we all know about the dvd player thing and no never cared about it.
This is just one of those 4chan fads, if they see you saying psx you're unhip and uncool and you get bullied, it's like using an email in the email field or posting a picture from tumblr. It doesn't make any sense, people just enjoy having group mentality and following the herd.

>>1577713
I had it the same, but instead of being restricted from those two movies, I wasn't allowed to watch most TV shows, like Fairly Odd Parents and Powerpuff Girls. I was only on occasion allowed to watch Spongebob. For the most part all I could watch was Disney stuff.

1990 baby, don't remember / wasn't old enough

believe the n64 was slightly more popular at launch because ps1 hype did not really take off until '97 with final fantasy 7 and going into '98 with metal gear solid

>>1577535
I was too busy having OoT blowing my damn mind and getting Banjo Kazooie notes and secrets

I think PlayStation was irrelevant to me until my dad found one in a vacant apartment and then I started getting games for it and even if the controls were weird with fucking circle and square buttons what the queer, it pleasantly surprised me and by the time I started playing the RPGs I was dedicating hours into the system

And eventually I got into pirating and burning discs and that shit was stupid annoying

PS2 was the real console I remember pining for one for years

Toys r us was having a "give us 10 games and we'll take $100 of a saturn or Playstation!"

At first I wanted a saturn because I loved my genesis, but I changed my mind to a playstation. That christmas getting it with the interactive demo vol 3 and mortal kombat trilogy was awesome. I remember watching a video demo for a star wars game and seeing real people in a video doing stuff like on a vhs or tv show was fucking awesome.

In my opinion I think the playstation is on the same level of greatness as the NES.

>>1577535
I was eleven when PS1 came out, and it absolutely blew my mind. I literally gave away all my previous condoles and games (a NES with about 20 games and a MegaDrive with about 40), because I just couldn't believe that old piece of crap can be enjoyed by anyone when there's goddamn Tomb Raider and Tekken and Crash. When FFVII came out, it was my first TPG ever and I swore to never play anything ever, and kept the promise for almost a year.

>>1577861
>it unfortunately stuck
it would only be unfortunate if the 'actual' PSX was a machine most people owned or even heard of. as it is, the only reason to get mad is if you're trying to show off your knowledge of the japan-only console.

>>1577815
come on man I think he just meant overprotective soccer moms type of parents

mines were the same I was that kid that had to throw away everything pokemon because satan was poisoning my childhood

you just dont know the dissapointment of throwing away a completed red version that was saturday morning grinds on a super gameboy, gone

I owned an NES, then SNES, so I jumped straight at the N64 at launch. No other systems were even on my radar.
I recall playing a ps1 at the Sony store, and hated it. Mind you the first game I tried was Battle Arena Toshinden, and I hate 3d fighters. Also, bad graphics compared to the n64, awful load times and an odd controller.
Then the games started showing up. Sony got Street Fighter, Nintendo didn't. Then Mega Man, which is my bread and butter from the previous gen. When Final Fantasy 7 came out, I jumped on board. I was rewarded with others like Redident Evil and Metal Gear.
I've never regretted the jump, and haven't owned a Nintendo system since the n64.

First time I paid attention to consoles for years. Megadrive and Nintendo had really subpar graphics and all the games were scrolling shooters or platformers.

>>1577949
>and an odd controller

Coming from an owner of a console that sold with a spaceship driving wheel, this is some bullshit going on here.

>>1577971
I lol'd

ps1

best times of my life.

The only thing i regret was getting the ps2 to late. I wanted to play SoulReaver2 while the steel was red.
Btw totally offtopic but i can't seem to make my controler work do you guys know why?

I have been considering getting a PS1 because I have read that a certain model is the cheapest excellent cd player you can get, has anybody heard that? is that true or is it just another delusion of audiophiles?

I have a PS2 that plays PS1 games btw

I remember reading all about the new SNES CD-ROM add-on called "Play Station".

Ha as if that would ever take off.

I was a bit indifferent about it at first, but it caught my interest once my brother ended up getting the PS1, I think the first game we got for it was Twisted Metal.

We were also subscribed to Playstation Underground, and I still have at least two of the discs from it still intact.

>>1578075
The first ps1 model SCPH1000 or something had a sound output in the back and apparently their sound chip was slightly more fancy than the later models. Pic related is an early model.

Some DJs saved money by using the psx as a sort of make shift poor man's amplifier. So it's a bit of a collector item.
Some autist will probably come here and explain it better than I ever could.

>>1578103
Here's a video of the thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcw0XOPxxUs

Also, no, there's an urban myth that the scph1000 is supposed to give better quality than expensive hifi equipment, that's completely false. It's only really useful because of its cost-benefit, it gives good sound at cheap prices.

had a n64, ps1 and pc
disliked the ps1 and especially its flagship titles. even as a wee lad I found crash to be a serious downgrade from snes platformers and n64 ones. it also cemented my hatred of jrpgs beyond a few exceptions
liked the demo discs though

>>1577535
it had MK3, which was enough for it to be the greatest thing ever to me, but it also had boatloads of awesome games, that were in a different league to my previous console.
I was only 8 when it came out so stuff like company names, and projecting success/failure were non-issues. The console was put in front of me by my parents, it was great fun, and that was all that mattered.

>>1577729
Pretty much my experience too.
Mega Drive kid, wanted one of the Mega Drive successors but got a Playstation for xmas '95 instead, fucking loved it, and bought OPSM every month if I had enough pocket money.

The CD add-on debacle had turned me off on video games completely, and I thought it was just because I was becoming an adult.

The Playstation came out when I was 18 and made me believe again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bqq38WZctA

>>1578141
You had to be over 30 now if you were 18 in 95.

>>1578165
it's more than just teenagers browsing on 4chan, you know, especially /vr/

>>1578110
It is easy to remove components, including all the video components from the board. So, after modification, the PS1 could be a formidable CD player in a hifi setup.

>>1578201
Yup I was born in 1984. I haven't seen any demographics but I imagine most /vr/ users are in this age-range right?

>>1578219
I don't know what you're getting but the urban legend said Sony fucked up and put a hidef sound chip in the ps1 by accident that gave sound equiparable to expensive professional equipment. Which is all a lie to scam retards.

>>1578220

Turned 40 yesterday. The PS1 was terrible when it came out with it's blocky graphics and atrocious load times. Thankfully I didn't have to endure it, because by then I had migrated to PC gaming. I feel for anyone who missed out on PC gaming in the mid-nineties, because it was in its prime back then.

>>1577535
I didn't even hear about the fucking thing until Sega made a commercial mocking it. "Fly, Play-thing. fly. you're not ready"

Thank you sega for spreading awareness of your competition.

>>1578220
not all of us, I was born 1993 (I'm 21 in august). I've always preferred retro games to newer ones so I love it here. it's also great to hear recommendations for games from people who were born before me since I missed out on lots of good stuff being born in '93.

>>1578285
I missed out not because of age but because gaming PC's back in the mid-90's were so fucking expensive. In Brit-land you'd be looking at around £1000 in 90's money to play Quake at max-settings.

>>1578165
That's some serious math skill you got there, Son. My tax dollars at work.

But yes, by my last count I'm 37.

>>1577575
>>1577615
>>1577828
>>1577861
>PSX

>>1578305
Also 21 here. But being Brazilian, my first console was an SNES in 2001. Brazil was always behind, early 00's were basically the American 90's.

>>1578285
>Thinks 90s PC gaming was better than 90s console gaming because he paid 10x as much to do it.

>>1578306
No, it's not like that. I was always into strategy games ever since I played Shining Force, and the PC was king of strategy. I was in heaven with games like Master of Orion, Command & Conquer and X-com. First person shooters were also the hot new thing, and the PC was the place to be for those as well. I still played consoles for their exclusives and for games that didn't translate well to mouse & keyboard controls, such as Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid.

>>1578368
No, it's not like that. I was always into strategy games ever since I played Shining Force, and the PC was king of strategy. I was in heaven with games like Master of Orion, Command & Conquer and X-com. First person shooters were also the hot new thing, and the PC was the place to be for those as well. I still played consoles for their exclusives and for games that didn't translate well to mouse & keyboard controls, such as Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid.

>>1578334
who cares? go back to the autist containment board.
>>>/v/

>>1577861

THIS.

The nickname was fine up until the legit PSX came out. When that happened people should have switched over.

I was kinda young when it came out (I was born in mid '88), but I remember loving the early RE games. I guess I didn't make much in the way of judgments back then and wasn't into console wars or any of that crap, but I thought it was neat and I liked it. I believe I didn't own one until after I got an N64.

>>1578497
Okay if your primary genre is strategy games then you're excused for acting like a mustard race. Did you ever play Warcraft 2 on Playstation? Jesus Christ.

>>1578643
>Implying the SD PS2 DVR known as the PSX is, was, or ever will be relevant to anyone anywhere.

>>1578665
Especially since PSX is mostly a North American term, a region where the ps2 dvr was never available.

I grew up with a SNES and a PS1.

Needless to say, I had a shitload of games.

>>1578652
No, I did not. Why would I want to play it on inferior hardware? Did it even have mouse support?

>>1577615
Good man.

all I needed was Tekken and Ridge Racer

Although, I barely remember pre-N64. My brother got a PS1 in 1998 or 1999.

I grew up playing Genesis (Sonic 1-3 mostly) and SNES (mostly F-Zero). Bit of NES here and there, and we had an Atari 2600 that I'd occasionally play with the Genesis controllers because the Atari Joystick was awful.

When we got 32bit systems, my brothers (who were 10 and 13 years older than me) hogged them.

PS1 sucked so hard. Load times were a joke, every game was awful other than a few Capcom arcade ports (which were still heavily limited).

FF7, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, were all garbage. We didn't just get Engrish but characters that spoke plain gibberish and complete crap character design. FF6, FF4, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana were masterpieces in comparison. Oh and Actraiser?

Anyways, I won't be surprised if Square-Enix ends up going out of business in another decade with the garbage they continue to rehash. Real RPGs moved to the PC a long time ago.

Baldur's Gate > FF7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11+ 12 + 13 + 14 +15 + 16 + online + whatever crap Square Enix makes today

Symphony of the Night is not as good as the later games on Gameboy Advanced due to the inability to run or fight properly, but it was a good reinventing point for the series.

Res Evil has crappy auto aim, you turn around and shoot in the opposite direction and magically hit the closest zombie. There's not point in aiming--you can't even move when you shoot either (unless it's a wannabe FPS version). Scary? It wasn't half as scary as Doom, Quake, Unreal? Unreal was amazing.

This was the golden era of PC gaming and you didn't even need hardware acceleration to play a lot of the games like Diablo, Witchhaven, Myth TFL (I played on 16mb of physical ram despite the min req of 32 and it ran fine with 100's of enemies until a 3D rain stage which caused some lag), Warcraft (the original), Doom.

You could even play Unreal and Quake without hardware. I did. Was amazing.

Mario64, MarioKart64, and Goldeneye were more fun than 90% of the PS1 games, esp with 4 player co-op. Nintendo somehow managed to pull that off, even though I still think the N64 is a crappy system compared to the snes.

Most PS1 games involve prerendered backgrounds (that were really just a giant box) with annoying camera angles AND the friggen controls would also get screwed around sometimes. Poor design.

>>1578861
what would your parents think if they saw you get this angry towards video games?

>>>/v/

>>1578861
>>>/v/

>>1578916
>not webm

>>1578878

Sorry just having flashbacks haha, but mainly just wanted to cover my experience.

Pluses--there were quasi-good arcade ports, some cool looking games like Nightmare Creatures with ultra-crappy jump controls and platforming, Star Wars fighting game, Vampire Hunter D game, and of course FF Tactics (not made by Square-Enix).

But really the Dreamcast was what the PS1 should have been and what Microsoft should have emulated. Other than fanboyism PS1 was a bunch of ugly-clunk games. I mean a game like Serious Sam with giant free roaming stages and 100's of enemies everywhere VS Res Evil 2--open door, wait like a minute enter a prerendered box, go to the next prerendered box--oh wait got another load time. Look door's slowly opening... get in there go. Go to the next room... were' almost there the door is creaking. Okay we finally made it through. But were' still not in the next room. The screen's still faded black. Okay, okay its coming up--oh wait I forgot a key in the last room!

NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooOOOOoOOOoOooOOOOoooooOOOOoOoOOOooooooooooooooOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOOooooOOOoOOoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>1578989
>what Microsoft should have emulated

You know, the Xbox was pretty much the second coming of the Dreamcast. If Halo hadn't taken off the way it had, it truly honestly would have been.

>tfw Sega gets into talks with MS to add DC compatibility to the Xbox
>tfw those talks fall through because MS didn't care about DC online compatibility

>>1579007
don't reply seriously to him are you fucking stupid?

>>1577535
I can remember those days well but my understanding of the game industry and hardware was still pretty poor.

At first I considered it to be an outlier like the NeoGeo or the Jaguar because I was really convinced it was all about Sega and Nintendo. I'd read about it in Gamepro but I didn't really care about it. Then I got to play Crash Bandicoot at a kiosk and said to myself "Wow, a game where I can walk in a straight line" and that didn't help its case any. Later I'd see a trailer for FFVII at Software ETC. and, because my parents were never rich enough to buy me a Sega CD, I was really confused by the FMVs which seemed way too advanced for a console to produce. Having never bought a CD based console it wasn't until the GC era that I finally realized that FMVs weren't a big deal at all.

>>1578683
It was in UK too. Not sure about continental Europe though.

>>1577535
I didn't think Sony was going to get anywhere with polygons and a $600 price tag.

>>1577861
>>1578643
Just because of asshats like you people, I am now and forever calling the PSX the Yaroze.

Oh, and I'm calling the Gamecube the Q, and the Genesis/MD is now named the Wondermega. Because fuck you people and the horses you rode in on

>>1578923
>you in charge of webm

ffmpeg -i your_weeaboo_gif.gif -codec:v vp8 -an [output video].webm

Go to bed.

Oh I didn't mean technically 'emulate', but instead open up the platform and be real about competing/linking up with PCs. Consoles, tablets, and phones should be laying as close as possible with PC architecture since they require it to grow.

This idea of proprietary 'dummy' ware displays for the public and sophisticated machines for corporations and hardcore nerds is so passe. They lost that war but they keep trying to put the genie back in the bottle and inhibit their users from 'hacking', aka taking ownership and responsibility over the products they love and purchasing instead of just mindlessly 'consuming' as prescribed.

With televisions now functioning as monitors there is little reason a modular PC console by AMD, nVidia, Intel, or hell even Vizio with a little elbow grease can't be sold cheap running Linux other than there isn't a greedy corporation willing to gamble on a success that doesn't endgame with total proprietary enslavement.

A good example of this is the web and the ipad. I can't play a javascript NES emulator (in the ipad's Safari browser) even though I can watch it run and play chip tunes. Apple didn't hook in the keyboard for me to operate, separating it's tech from traditional PC architecture.

Their solution is, "Use our App store market where we regulate and control everything to death and won't digitally sign such copyright blablabla"and pull down secret emulators.

Android is nothing like Linux with it's 'faux' openness wrapped in patents and constantly closing-up pieces,attempting to force device 'rooting', and other nonsense.

>>1579735
I have no idea how any of this is related to the ps1 but that was a cool post, thanks /g/.

I was a huge Nintendofag growing up and absolutely despised Playstation because of their anti-Nintendo marketing. Same with Sega.

The first non-Nintendo system I owned was a Dreamcast, because I had grown up enough to stop being a retard and because that shit was the truth.

I was 11 when PS1 came out. Some friends had it. Played Tekken, Loaded, Road Rash and Need For Speed at their place. Had to buy our own that Christmas.

Also wanted a Saturn and N64 but we only had enough for PS1. N64 prices were crazy expensive in comparison. Picked one up a few years later during more Xmas sales. Regret not owning a Saturn to this day though.

I was busy playing my Sega Saturn. Then I had a chipped second hand console, with like a shit ton of games for christmas.

I am so old that I grew up with the NES. I never got a PS but got the N64 the year after it came since I hated the loading times of the PS and wanted a new console.

>>1577573
I was used to C64 (floppy drive) load speeds so it didn't irk me. Of course we acknowledged that cartridge-based systems were pretty much instant, but the technology went ahead in other respects, so they didn't feel long at all.

>>1577612
I too thought memory cards were kind of a cheap thing to pull. Can't save unless you buy them? But eventually I was glad I could save as much as I wanted if I had the cards. But couldn't help notice that some game developers didn't do jack to make the save file size as small as possible.

>>1577914
How old were you?

>>1578220
Born 86. There at least used to be posters here in their 30 or 40 fairly often here.

>>1578305
Same, 21 in November.
Most of my life I played older consoles, NES/PC/GBC until about 2006 or so with an xbox. Even then I still stuck with older games because they were cheaper.
Now I'm trying all the games I missed out on.

>>1577586
Why turn it off? Were their games that had blocking measures or something?

>>1579710
>turn gif in to webm
>Fuck it up so bad it only ends up at 3/4ths the file size and looks like shit

>>1577535
I was largely ambivalent until FF7 was released. After that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread because HOLY SHIT DEM BACKGROUNDS and HOLY SHIT DEM FMVS.

>>1578643
sure thing dick head because 99% of the population would actually know and care about some useless piece of shit that 6 people in Japan bought while it was on sale for like a year or something. please die of cancer.

>>1579694
you're my hero, if grill would ask to marry. keep spreading the good word.

>>1579907

no one cares

My first experiences with the PS1 were friends introducing me to Tekken 2, a franchise i still love and play to this day. Then i found the demo for Wipeout 2097 and was blown away yet again.

This was in Aus and we didn't see the Saturn in this country - to the point that as an avid gamer who played a lot of SNES and Megadrive i never knew the Saturn existed until years later, mb around thew time the PS3 was released. Not even sure it was released here.

The PS1 was truly next gen at the time, and some titles were just awesome.

If you were around you knew that outside of videogames, Sony made pretty much the best shit. (Radios, Walkmen, TVs). When it came out, I think people were still waiting for N64, so it was a rich kid toy but i dont think anyone thought it would tank like 3D0 or Jaguar.

I was up in the air until FF7 was announced. Then I saw the demo of Wild Arms and had to have one. I had heard some kids talk about how hard Resident Evil was and I remember renting Project Horned Owl a lot

My Gran offered to buy me a VHS for my 16th birthday, but I already had one so I suggested a PSX instead. At the time I was a massive Nintendo fan and my intention was to play it until the N64 came out, then sell it for cash to put towards buying one.

Didn't quite work that way though, I was having way too much fun with Resident Evil and Wipeout 2097 to trade it in when the N64 launched, plus the N64's library looked kinda dull compared to some of the stuff that was coming out for the PSX, so no matter how much I wanted to play Mario 64, I kept a hold of my PlayStation.

I did eventually end up getting an N64 when they dropped the price by £100 about a year after it came out and while it had some fantastic games, it always remained a distant second compared to my PSX, Mario 64 was great fun, GoldenEye (and later Perfect Dark) was always trotted out when friends were over and getting higher scores on Lylat wars occupied a fair bit of my time, but it was Grandia, Front Mission 3, the Resident Evils and the Final Fantasies that really kept me occupied during that generation.

I nearly got a Saturn too, but right about the time I was thinking of getting one, Sega dropped it and magazines started making noise about the Katana/Neptune/Dural.

>>1577535
I live in Poland. I was born before the first release of Playstation but didn't get mine until I was about 5-6 years old. That and a pegasus are the only consoles I ever owned. Absolutely noone I knew, except my uncle that I had spent a lot of time with, had a console of any kind and barely anyone had access to the internet. I didn't get a connection myself until the age of 10 so every piece of information I got came from magazines that I had bought for me.

Needless to say I was absolutely enamored with everything concerning the Playstation. I loved my Pegasus but it couldn't compare.

Didn't see the appeal then, don't see the appeal now either, besides being a poorfag console that is.

It was kind of hard going from making triple jumps in SM64 to something like Crash. IMO the playstation was the first casual machine targeted for casuals

I remember seeing a PS1 as early as 1995 on game shops, I remember reading about it in magazines but to me, it was another of those failure consoles by electronic companies, I already had a 3DO and I didn't use it, I kept playing my SNES and Mega Drive instead, and occassionally PC for games like Doom. Basically, the PS1 was an expensive console with no games that interested me, everything I saw on magazines covering PS1 games was sports games, ports of PC games (like, RTS or sim games) and little more. Then in 1996, I wanted a N64 because Mario 64 looked incredible (I don't think I was as surprised again with vidya grafixx as the first time I saw Mario 64 running on a store, it was jaw droppinlgy amazing), but I ended up getting a PS1 per the game clerk's suggestion: more games, and more importantly, CHEAPER (it was modded, and there was plenty of bootleg games to buy for like less than a quarter of the price of a N64 game. I bought a PS1 with Jumping Flash 2 (actually awesome platformer in first person), Alien Trilogy, Tekken 2, Ridge Racer Revolution... I enjoyed it to be honest, surpassed my expectatives, but I hated the loading times and how sometimes games wouldn't load. I always thought it was due to the modchip and the laser getting fucked but then I learned a lot of these early PS1 models had some issues like that with the lens.

Shortly after, I could get the N64 and the Saturn, and I must say I enjoyed the N64 more the first years and retained my interest as the "main" console, however games were too expensive, so I had more PS1/Saturn games, the thing is that it was harder to find good PS1 games, I ended up with a lot of junk, and Saturn games were hard to get by default, either bootleg or original. Still, I could get a hold of some essentials like VF2 or Panzer Dragoon, so I enjoyed all the systems in the end.

>>1580039
>what are RPGs?
>I've never heard of an RPG.
>I'm so blissfully ignorant about RPGs
>PSX sucks so bad.
This is exactly what you sound like
Sheesh.

>>1580057
>>1580039
He is baiting, don't reply.

>>1578723
Just for the experience, to make you appreciate PC resolutions. That's the biggest problem, is reading the text on SD screens.

>>1578683
>>1579679
I had no idea the PS2 DVR was released outside of Japan but yes, PSX is mainly an American term. Sony of America was really uncomfortable with how poorly the name "Playstation" tested with their key demo and pretty much consistently referred to it as PSX or PS-X all the way up to its release. Q.v. the napkin story.

>>1578861
>You could even play Unreal and Quake without hardware
...I should have stopped reading this post long before I got to this point.

>>1579735
I think this is the same person and I think they're stoned.

I wasn't all that surprised when Sony put out a console back then. Unlike other companies who were just starting to get into the console market a little too late, Sony was (and still technically is) a multi-media powerhouse. They knew damn well how to market their console properly, and failure to do so could have been financially swept under the rug thanks to their then-flourishing music, movies and electronics divisions. Funny how much things have changed over the years.

As for the console itself, load times were the deal-killer for me ever wanting own one at the time. They're still enough to make me reach for a different console when I sit down to play something these days. Plus, the 3D games I've seen on that system tend to look shittier than the N64 (which doesn't look good either, but at least it's less shitty). I have yet to find a PlayStation game that ever made me regret not owning one as a kid.

>>1578220

I assumed most were 18 to 26

>Those teenage nights smoking weed and drinking beers with my buddy who worked at Babbages, chasing his Mister Grimm around as Darkside
>Getting that job at Babbage's, being each others wingmen at Babbage's/Comic Shop parties back when the nerd birds were available and hot counter-culture types
>Moving into my first place, bringing home the new PSX, N64 and Saturn games on day 0
>Nerds flocking every time, watching them enjoy my setup with my hot ass nerd girlfriend sitting on my lap until one or both of us got drunk enough to go in another room and fuck

Yeah... Nerds of today enjoy a more or less normalized level of acceptance because of we nerd gods playing M:TG on ESPN.

Superman fucking died. Anything was possible.

I wasn't born yet when it came out but my uncle, who is ten years older than me, was. He had a SNES and seemed to all but drop it for the PS1. It's a shame since the SNES he gave me only has three must-haves; Super Mario World, All-Stars, and Mega Man X

>>1580103
>Superman fucking died.

The happiest moment of my early 90s. I actually even swallowed the bullshit that he'd stay dead.

>>1580113
The Return of Superman is cool though. Too bad they completely dropped the ball afterward with that red/blue electric supermen storyline

No one gave a fuck about the PSX until FFVII and Tomb Rider came out.

And then piracy happened.

>>1580176
Don't forget Residual Evil

>>1580176
>And then piracy happened.
PSX modchips have been around since 1995. They originated in Hong Kong, but a weeaboo from Chicago reverse-engineered them and posted the code online because he wanted to play Tokimemo.
http://www.oldcrows.net/mcc.html

>>1580182

how common was this though

>>1580184
Getting a mod chip was easy. Buying a CD burner and media was quite expensive.

>>1580184
Well, from 1996 on, it was incredibly common because anyone could order a PIC and trivially make their own mod chip. You needed somewhere to get the pirate games, though, because downloading ISO images on dial-up is not fun.

>>1580185
>>1580186
People here bought pirated PSX games for 1/10 of their retail price and like 1/12 of N64 carts.
No wonder the N64 bombed.

>>1580185
>>1580186

common as in, a significant proportion of the install base for the console

don't think kids had access to these things

>>1580194
It's very regional. Mod chips were never common in North America or Japan, but they were all over Europe/Australia.

>>1580196
It was no problem for me to get my Playstation modded in 1997 at Games on Main in Reynoldsburg, Ohio a Columbus suburb.

I didn't get my CD burner until 98 (still $300) but I played a lot of imports with that chip in the mean time.

>>1577713
they did you a favor not letting your watch nightmare before christmas

>n64 hype is in effect
>parents buy me a ps1 because going to toys r us and dealing with christmas crazies isn't their game
>get metal gear solid
>rest of friends are playing waverace and thinking it's the best
>they will never know what they missed

>>1580291
Wave Race was two years old at that point

>>1580271
The mere fact that 15 year old sluts are still buying its merchandise at Hot Topic to this very day is tectonic proof of its atomic bomb effect on culture in the 90s. Don't let what it's become ruin what it was.

First exposure to the PSX was seeing the games at the local rental place when I'd pick up SNES stuff in early 96. Loved the cool longboxes and thought it was cool that it had PC ports like Doom and Descent that the SNES couldn't handle (yes, I know about SNES Doom). Seemed like a serious console with serious, mature games.

It never really had anything that made me really want one, though. I played FF7 on PC a few years after its console release and liked it and picked up a few of the PSX classics when I got my PS2.

I thought Tomb Raider 1 wasn't fun nor interesting, the shop owner that played it thought I was a madman to not be in awe in front of it
(I got into Tomb Raiders with the 2 once I got it on my PC, never liked Tomb Raider 1 ever since, not even today)
Crash Bandicoot looked okay but very simplist and not very fun
Turok looked amazing fun
Also we had already had 3D with arcade cop simulator where you holded a gun I believe
tl;dr: 3D games were pure shit except in Arcade where they were jaw droppers (House of The Dead, Daytona...)

>>1580304
it was still tim Burton trash in the 90s that doesn't change anything. I know it had an impact but that doesn't change the fact that it sucks only recently with all his other trash people are finding out Burton has always been shit.

>>1580324
Never liked him. Batman Returns was depressing, scary, and unpleasant and that is the movie I will always associate with him.

>>1580328
>turning the penguin into an actual penguin
yeah that movie was shit haha

Ah. The good old days! My parents were both born in the mid 60's, going through the college bar/arcade hangout era. Mom loved Pong when Atari was still a thing and dad always shot high score on Asteroids with his buddies. Meeting in their late teens and already taking care of my brother by 1986, my dad decided to buy a NES. Fast forward to 1989, the original GameBoy came out. I was born a day or two later. Growing up I got a little bit of Super Mario, Tetris and TMNT; mostly seeing my dad play. Fast forward a few years, and my brother had gotten a Sega Genesis. To this day, I still remember my mom freaking out over how violent Mortal Kombat was! Most of my friends had the Super Nintendo so what I didn't have I played at their house. Fast forward a few years and my mom was talking about Sony being the next big thing and how excited she was. I had no idea what she was going on about though. I was probably too distracted by Power Rangers or DragonBallZ, both of which ruled my universe back then. But I'll never forget the excitement when my brother and I found that big gray box under our Christmas tree. The following years would be some of my best memorable moments becoming an avid gamer. Playing Jampack Demo Discs, reading and subscribing to Playstation Magazine, tuning into TechTV to watch Extended Play to see which new games to get, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Resident Evil, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and let's not forget Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX to name a few of the games that defined my childhood. Friends had the Nintendo 64 and playing Smash Bros was fun, but I just felt it didn't offer the same things the PSone did. Thanks to the Genesis and the PSone, Nintendo was like a visitor in my life from time to time. I'll never forget when that changed though a year or two later when I got my first GameBoy Color and Pokemon was becoming a household name!

TLDNR; best years of my life. I feel bad for kids these days who won't get to experience games the same way

>>1580336
He wasn't a penguin he was just deformed. If you can't appreciate grimdark shit why are you even posting in a Playstation thread?

>>1580343
I love grimdark shit that is why I think tim burton is a mall goth faggot who doesn't know the first thing about edge

Weird
First it use CD, i never use CD before
2. Memory card! can i get my frinde game and put it there
3. Why there no Mario or sonic
4. why Rockman call Megaman
5. 3D , i hate 3D (I just don't like 3D now)

>>1580368
>First it use CD, i never use CD before

*First, it used CD, I never used CD before

>Why there no Mario or sonic

*Why is there no Mario or Sonic?

>why Rockman call Megaman

*Why is Rockman called Mega Man?

>>1580368
>2. Memory card! can i get my frinde game and put it there

*Memory Card! Can I get my friend's game and put it there?

>>1580365
Do you listen to Bauhaus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY

I grew up with Nintendo consoles in the house, and pretty solidly believed in the inferiority of the Sega brand. When Nintendo 64 came out there was no question about which console would enter our home. As I entered my teen years and my friends and I discovered RPGs, I was disappointed to find that no good ones ever came out for the N64 (minus Ogre Battle). I eventually relented and purchased a Dreamcast in its twilight days, then finally a PS2, which is the most recently manufactured console I've purchased.

I still feel pretty strong loyalty to the Nintendo brand, and honestly believe they've been the best overall developer of actual video game software since they entered the business. My only real interest in new games is what's happening with the classic Nintendo franchises.

>>1578285
>windows 95
>windows 98
>anyone missed out

no thanks man

>>1578989
>But really the Dreamcast was what the PS1 should have been and what Microsoft should have emulated

Are you not aware that Microsoft made the dreamcast?

SEGA paid Microsoft to manufacture it. After that they decided to just make their own, since they knew how to do it. why make it for SEGA when they could have their own.

Did you notice the similarities in the controllers of the Xbox and the Dreamcast? With the joystick in top of the Dpad

>>1580385
if this is some macro you're memeforcing, please stop it.

>>1580403
Microsoft did not make the Dreamcast.

>>1580403
>Did you notice the similarities in the controllers of the Xbox and the Dreamcast? With the joystick in top of the Dpad

I guess that means Microsoft made the Gamceube, since the analog stick is above the dpad

WTF AM I READING

>>1580448
The Xbox controller was heavily influenced by that of the Dreamcast, as was the console's development. At one point, the Xbox was to be backwards compatible with DC games, and as it stands, a lot of DC games got sequels on Xbox.

>>1580445
Microsoft doesn't even make the Xbox. Microsoft is a software company.

>>1580476
That has nothing to do with the claim that Microsoft made the Dreamcast.

Microsoft collaborated with Sega to allow a modified version of Windows CE to be used as an optional operating system for the DC, and Sega put the logo on the DC to help promote it, but had no hand in developing the console.

>>1580491
That has nothing to do with the claim that the GameCube must be made by Microsoft due to the controller.

My cousin called to ask if he could come over, because he had rented something called a playstation, and wanted to show it to me. I got super excited, but I had no idea what it was...in my mind I envisioned some playset or battlestation to use with action figures. He showed up to my house with a hard plastic briefcase, I clearly remember thinking to myself 'OH DUH! You have to build it yourself like k'nex or an erector set, you can make it however you want! It must have a lot of pieces'
Then he opened it up and it was a videogame console that took...CDs? What the hell, could you play any CD as a game? It was so mysterious to me then.
We ended up playing Loaded and Prohect Overkill for hours...damn those were fun games.

>>1580495
You...really aren't good at interpreting sarcasm, obviously.

I made that post to indicate that, just because the controller has the same analog/dpad layout, that doesn't mean MS made it.

Work on your reading comprehension.

>>1580501
I guess you were new to gaming back then.

>>1580503
I was 7-8 years old, my first memories are playing my older sisters' Atari, then NES when smb3 blew up and even my rural area got the NES.
Even at that time I had an SNES and Genesis, but there wasn't internet and I didn't read casually for 2 more years or so, my spoiled ass cousin getting to rent a console was pretty much first contact with this alien tech.

Chinese NES: didn't know it existed before i got one. It's special ability was wireless video transmission.
Got so excited i slept with it that night.
Beaten contra many times. It was nice.

>>1580636
"Its" is the possessive of "it".
"It's" is a contraction of "it is".

>>1580648
everybody please report this shit poster.

My dad was telling me about the Saturn, I remember it seeming like the most incredible thing but it was a long way away from release. Then he mentioned that after that there was something else coming out. Something called a PlayStation. I think he told me it was 9 months away.

I've always have doubts about the accuracy of 9 month memory though. In England, before the internet ofc... what kind of exposure did the PlayStation have 9 months before release?

>>1580804
But he's just being helpful. Unlike your post.

>>1577535
When the PSX first came out, I was pretty excited, although I bought a Saturn (some pride, some regret there). Friend of mine bought a PSX, and though I remember fondly playing Road Rash on it, I pretty quickly came to loathe it (and pretty much all consoles from then on) because it really brought the era of crappy 3D upon us. Those Contra games, ugh.

>>1578220
Another over-30 person here.

>>1578643
Christ, you people are annoying.

>>1580849

He's really not.

My gaming history (I was like 3 years old for the first two, but got them as hand me downs):

Telestar arcade
Atari VCS
Colecovision
NES
Genesis
SNES
Sega CD (Buyers remorse)

Then a pause when the dedicated CD game systems came out. I was a dedicated PC gamer at this point and "outgrew consoles". 3DO/PS/Saturn/CDI were all high risk as far as I was concerned and their launch titles were shit. Also still bitter over the sega CD and FMV games they shoveled on us.

Finally bought PS1 in January 1998 and returned to console gaming. FF7 was the deciding factor.

>>1580849
actually ur not same fag

I MEAN YOU'RE PLEASE DON'T SPERG OUT ON ME. Seriously though I am fucking sick of seeing this shitiot try to correct people. Sometimes it's just a typo sometimes it is just laziness. Either way nobody fuckin cares

>>1580894
Your post says otherwise

>>1580897
I care because I am sick of it and that retard won't adopt a trip so I can filter him

>>1577535
I kinda bought it by "accident": I had settled on a saturn (had played VF2 at Eurodisney on a pretty big screen and was impressed as fuck), but it was too expensive so I got a PSX with Tekken instead. Then FFVII was announced so I was ecstatic of my "choice" (FFVI was-is my all-time favourite game). The two years that passed before its release were pretty boring tho, except for a resident evil or an Ace Combat 2... But when Square started releasing all those great games was when I really started enjoying that generation, culminating for me with the original MGS, Chrono Cross, and Star Ocean 2.

I hail from the c64 era. My first encounter with the PS1 was decidedly positive. I mostly played on the MegaDrive II until then. Didn't really enjoy what Nintendo had to offer at the time. The first few games I played were Soviet Strike, Crash Bandicoot and Jet moto I believe.
But yeah, the console did seem to come out of nowhere. And quickly became a favorite of the local gaming community. I imagine the sentiment was universal worldwide. It was well deserved.

>>1580984
>But yeah, the console did seem to come out of nowhere. And quickly became a favorite of the local gaming community. I imagine the sentiment was universal worldwide. It was well deserved.

It was hated here in it's first year. "Wow, non-mainstream fighting games and sports games. It's fucking nothing!"

>That ESPN roller blading game
>Some driving game
>Street fighter: The Movie: The Game
>some 3DO & Jaguar ports

It was possibly the weakest system launch of the 1990s (next to the philips CDI). It would be at least 2 years before the system had enough games to be worth owning.

>>1578643
no

I'm going to play some crash bandicoot on my psx now. The original grey psx from 1995

>>1577861
>>1578643
get the fuck out underage nobody gives 2 fucks about the "actual psx"

'87 here.

I was immersed in snes those days and when the ps came I came. The jump tp 3d was just too much. Obviously the fact that everyone was getting one was a big influence, you did not exist if you didnt own one.

>>1578219
>HiFi setup
>no SPDIF out
>analog output
toppest of kek

Next you'll be telling vinylfags their lossless recordings are not super to CD quality sound.

And ALL PS1 systems used shit tier lasers, which were well known for dying prematurely. If you think Sony is going to place a ridiculously highend sound chip in a game console, while cutting corners on mechanical parts, you're an idiot.

>>1580057

RPGs is a shit genre, nothing good came out of it

>>1581118
Shadow over mystara came out of it.

I have never understood the PSX drama on /v/ and /vr/.

The only video game magazines I read in the 1990s just called it the "play station".

I never heard a human ever say "PSX" until well into the 21st century after the PS2 came out. I was active on IRC from 1995-1999 and I never heard the PSX mentioned once. If people abbreviated it, they just used "PS".

Years later the emulator community started using "PSX", so I always assumed "that is what kids these days call it". I never gave it a lot of thought.

>>1581125
People here think sitting through loading screens add a lot to the experience, that scanlines are not a shortcoming and rgb cables somehow make games look as good as they did back when you were a kid and that flashcarts are somehow totally much much better than emulating because of invisible authenticity.

Don't give it much thought, just follow with the herd.

>>1581108
the DAC sony used in the early playstation models is one of their own high quality parts though

>>1581125
I've seen the term used since back then

>>1578141
Damn I love that ad.

29 reporting in. 1985 best year to be born.

>>1577535
40yo here.
I thought it was amazing long before the system was out.
I had a 3do before a PS1 and I was blown away by all the things the system could do that the 3do couldn't. The first games out for the system were mindblowing at the time.

remember the adverts 'don't underestimate the power of playstation' and the pale colours of the games when on the projection screens in stores- it seemed so much more towards the adult apeal but struck me how a dead cd could play games compared to a realtime connecting cartridge. its grey looks just said sophistication gaming, those sharp lines shapes were beatifull. but i opted for the graphic power of the n64 as, though a sega fan, the 32x my dad got me was a piece of shit and saturn looked cool but zelda was my new wannabe place. my bro got the ps1 (having had the snez prior, was pissed as it seemed logical he should have- but i saved up and bought it) it was always hard to get a go on his ps1- he just loved to hold out even when he wasn't playing. i never did that- and multiplay 64 was awsome. ps1 was where i shit my pant playing rez evil or ff. even now ps1 is sexy to look at but n64 is like a squished jabba the hutt.

>>1577535
After using my SNES and a DOS computer for most of the 90's, I got an N64 in 1998. I respected the Playstation, but I wasn't into JRPGs or anything like that, so I didn't feel like I was missing too much. I was one of the few kids who had an N64, so I usually played some Playstation at a friend's house. It was pretty much the same situation with the Gamecube and PS2 later.

Nowadays, I fire up my PSX just as much as I do with my N64.

>>1580103
The shit you're saying reminds me of something I read a few weeks ago.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages-store-no-9/

>>1581702
Yeah that should have been me except my bullshit manager didn't think a 20 year old ought to be the keyholder so he went and brought back some bitch who had worked there before I ever got hired (over a year before) who didn't know how to do her fucking job and I had to constantly do it for her, then one day I rung up my own employee discount using her login that she just left logged in all the time so I could do all her shit and she reported it and I got fired. Usually the assistant manager always had my back but she was pregnant at the time and I'd been giving her grief for sitting on her ass constantly so she didn't cover for me.

It was basically all bullshit though because that guy I wrote about who got me the job to start with got screwed over too, he was the one who vacated that keyholder position because they "promoted" him to assistant manager at a nearby store that ended up closing down and his job just disappeared. The whole shopping center that store was in is now just a huge flat crumbling expanse of concrete.

That's the '00s for you though.

>>1580104
>People who weren't even born when the PlayStation came out are adults now
I didn't believe it one bit until I did the math

>>1580291
Wave Race is way more fun that Metal Gear Solid though.

IMHO it's the most underrated N64 game

>>1579798
The PSX was region locked, that might be what he's talking about

>>1581125
>Years later the emulator community started using "PSX", so I always assumed "that is what kids these days call it". I never gave it a lot of thought.
The emulator community called it the PSX because that's how developers referred to it. Developers and Internet nerds (how few we were, back then) called it the PSX from before its release, and hence so did warez groups, all of which lead to emulators using the (correct) term PSX.

>>1583595

I'm pretty sure that if you'd ask for a PSX in an electronics store 15 years ago they wouldn't know what it is.

>>1582863
I keep forgetting it came out back in 1995.

What was it like at launch? Were there any good 3D games for it?

>>1582863
>snes
>that tv
what a little wanna be retro hipster lel

For me, it was down to two choices: PlayStation or Nintendo 64.

The choice hinged on Zelda 64, and Earthbound 64 vs Final Fantasy 7, and Final Fantasy Tactics.

Earthbound 64 kept being delayed and was vaporware.
Zelda 64 was delayed until 1998, and became Ocarina of Time, which was a -vast- departure from the early information led me to believe it would turn out. I was raised on NES and later SNES Zelda. OoT was too out there for me, and both FF7 and FFT beat it to the punch, so I went with the PlayStation. However! That is not to say that I do not like Ocarina of Time. I was emulating that thing as soon as PJ64 was capable of doing so, even if it meant playing with my resolution set to 640x480, and everything set to minimum just to get it to run, and using a keyboard to play it on.

I just grabbed a Nintendo 64 off of eBay, and I'm hunting down copies of the games for the Nintendo 64 that I always really loved playing at friends houses, and I want them for myself. I always loved the Nintendo 64, despite all its very many flaws, but chance led me to the PlayStation, and I do not regret it. The 90s were so magical for video games, and it didn't matter what system you had. SNES, or Genesis. PlayStation or Nintendo 64. You had a blast.

>>1583613
No way, bro, everybody in the know called it the PSX years before the dev team even came up with the name. Just like we all call the Gamecube the Dolphin.

>>1583636
Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider.

>>1584149
Those were both in 1996.

>>1583636
Jumping Flash was probably the most impressive-looking 3D game at launch.

>>1583636
>>1584552
The release game that sold consoles was Ridge Racer.

>>1578262
It wasn't by accident, they did it because the needed to get more of them out for the first holiday season or some shit.

And the only ones that it applies to are the original model Japanese one, which also has an S-Video port on the back.

>>1584592
Also, Battle Arena Toshinden was apparently pretty popular.

>>1584592
I was abot to say Mortal Kombat 3, but that was after launch

>>1584721
Toshinden was the US pack-in game but it wasn't a launch game in Japan.

Is it really that hard for you to say psx consoles instead of pre ps1 consoles? How underage are you

>>1578262
>equiparable

>>1577535
I loved the original NES. What I remember about Playstation is that it was pretty cool, but I didn't like all the darn buttons on the controllers...kinda too much. I considered buying one off and on due to the DVD player functionality, so that probably helped sales at the time. I ultimately ended up finding a Genesis for $30 at some toy store around that same time and bought that instead...lots of fun games I never got to play on my NES and 16-bit was an upgrade.

>>1579872
>blaming me for using the official webm script
>blaming me for shitty webm technology from shitty gif technology

It's time you sat down and learned the facts of transcoding.

>>1577535
Most people thought it was rad, the graphics and sound were amazing (especially the FMV cutscenes) and it had a great library.

>>1583613
Of course not. (Obligatory "filthy casuals" line here) Are we discussing this in Radio Shack right now?

>>1577535
I remember that I got one for Christmas when they first came out.
I would have been ~8 or so.

I practically shit my pants.

>>1587372
>DVD player
You're thinking of the PS2. PS1 played CDs.

>>1587467
Mine came from Sun TV & Appliance

>>1584592
Ridge Racer looked pretty nice too, but there was a lot of color and variety to Jumping Flash's visuals, it also had some neat effects that weren't common for the time and is a polygon-based, full-3D FPS-platformer hybrid that pre-dated Quake (on a FUCKING CONSOLE, no less!) as well as Super Mario 64.

The game would have been a fucking huge hit if it had more hype and if not for the lack of an appealing mascot and its short length and lack of content.

>>1587546
>full-3D FPS-platformer hybrid that pre-dated Quake (on a FUCKING CONSOLE, no less!)

>1987
>Atari ST

>1992
>Ported to SNES
>Renamed Faceball 2000
>no network capability
>split-screen deathmatch added instead

I was such a Nintendo fan I didn't even realize v the PS1 was coming out until about 2 weeks before it's release. When my friend told me about it I thought it was another Sega CD/3DO/CD-I do I didn't think much of it. Then I saw it and instantly fell in love. Even better was through it I learned about the import scene. That opened a whole new world of gaming to me.

>>1587565
It was on Gameboy too - played it a bit on the bus in link cable mode.

>>1587565
>8 frame per second non texured walls that uses 1/4 the screen max
swingin fps... yeah

>>1587628
>it's shit therefore it doesn't count

Sorry, but it predates quake by about a decade. Commentary on quality doesn't change content.

>>1587638
Starpath Supercharger 2600 mustard race reporting in. Suck it.

>>1587690
The qualifier was fully rendered 3D. That's clearly a sprite.

>>1587694
Your mom's a sprite

>>1587696
You know it.

>hardcore nintendofag up to that point
>n64 and ps1 come out
>ff7 vs shittiest, clunkiest controller I've ever used
>witnessed many simultaneous releases that where always somehow inferior on the n64(often censorship of blood like resident evil or pastel-washing down of jokes like gex64 or for duke nukem games both) and insultingly crappy extra content to make up for these changes
>kept nintendo power subscription purely for handheld stuff and felt bad when nintendo power sent me a letter practically begging for my renewal when I finally scrapped it for OPM

>>1577535
I am old enough to have felt bad for anyone who got the PS One because that meant that they had to wait for a long time.

>>1577535
>oh, there's more gamez on this thing?
>never had one
>kids talk about it in school
>only ever play it at a friends house or demos at the store until mom peels me off

Still cool though

>>1587787
Finally, someone who shares my disgust toward the N64.

>>1587808
yeah, i don't care how well made goldeneye was fuck that retarded giant controller.

>>1587787
Those N64 releases weren't simultaneous they were usually months or even over a year delayed.

>>1587854
oh yeah, forgot about that bit.

>>1587850
>hot using a hori controller