/vr/ - Retro Games

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>PSX
Don't think so champ.

>>2240312
This is how you can tell someone who wasn't around in the early days of the PSX.

>>2240296
I've never met anyone in real life that calls it a PSX; only on /vr/.

>>2240390
They call it a PSX when it says PlayStation right on the box? Good tip I'll keep that in mind as an easy way to spot noobs.

>4 unique posters
>There are actually 4 people on /vr/ still capable of being baited into one of these threads

>>2240296
>psx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(video_game_console)

not retro

/vr/ is full of children and retards too

>>2240408
During development the original Playstation was known as Playstation X (X standing for either eXperimental or eXpansion depending on your source) but for some reason Sony dropped the X before the system was released. However gaming journalists at the time (gaming magazines in particular) kept using the acronym PSX and most gamers also kept using it on internets all the way up to the time Playstation 2 and PSOne, the new resigned version of the original Playstation came out. At this point the acronyms and their meaning were crystal clear to everyone: PSX meant the original grey version of the original Playstation and the new smaller redesign of it was referred as PS1.
Yes, there was another box called PSX in Japan. No one bought it and it wasn't and still isn't anyway relevant to the rest of the world except for underage shitposters on internet forums.
tl;dr: Go fuck yourself, kid.

Also
http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/28/history-of-the-playstation
http://web.archive.org/web/19980121115052/http://www.gamepro.com/whatsnew.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206015609/http://www.gameinformer.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508132652/http://psxextreme.com/
Finally, go see Google Groups; do a web search of 'site:thegia.psy-q.ch/ psx'; and read back issues of magazines like those whose archived sites are linked above.

>>2243367
I don't see any X on the original gray PlayStation,

SO JOKE'S ON YOU, HA!!!

>>2243367
I use the PSX because google used to have issues when searching for 2 letter abbreviations.

>>2240390
>>2240393
Can confirm that a lot of mid-90s gaming magazines in the US referred to it as the PSX. Not sure if it was the same in Europe though.

>>2243367
Thing is that the first PlayStation is still not called PSX no mater what the history behind it is.

Sony made a device called PSX later on, so why make shit confusing and be all autistic about muh prototype names.

>>2243381
Because this is /vr/ and those of us that are old enough to remember the fifth gen know what people are referring to when they say PSX and so do the retards that always want to argue about it.

>>2243381
It's also a fact everyone called the Playstation PSX back in the day on internets no matter what you shitpost.

>>2243381
Omg, people are not calling things what i want them to. How horrible of them.

>>2243387
>Everyone calls it by the prototype name
>Even though the PS1 doesn't have an X,anywhere
>"THEY'RE STILL RIGHT, SO STFU RETARD"

>>2243394
Wow, PS1 doesnt have an X in its name? I never realized that. Thank god a smart person like you exists to educate me.

>>2243398
ur wlecome

>>2243386
I think everyone here is old enough to remember the 5th gen...

I still think however that it's unnecessary to confuse the fuck out of everyone just because one wishes to convey a sense of superiority feels by telling others that the right name is the wrong name. It's PlayStation. deal with it.

>>2243406
Why do oldfags have to change what they call it because of newfags?

>>2243412
>implying it's only newfags who find PSX wrong

how's it feel to be both old and wrong

>>2243417
Fine, I'll rephrase it.
Why does group A have to change what they call it because of group B?

>>2243412
Because those oldfags were wrong to begin with.
Also, although I agree that we should not change the "correct" way of naming things, if we do not educate newfags properly by guiding them to the right information they will only grow worse as they are not competent enough to use the internet.

Do you really want doublenewfags roaming the internet? Do you?

X is the coolest letter ever therefore PSX wins.
End of thread.

>>2243419
I'm an oldfag (bought my first PlayStation in '96 alongside the longbox version of Resident Evil) and I never understood why it's called the PSX in magazines. There's no X on the console's name and the logo is just a plain PS.

Are you faggots seriously still arguing about this?

>>2243434
Bought a modded Playstation in 97.
I Also had no idea until I finally got internet and was able to research it.

>>2243434
It just kind of stuck. I think it's because three letter acronyms just look better or something.

>>2243434
Being an oldfag means being for long on this site, it is totally unrelated to your age.

PSX is the actual prototype name for the first Playstation, a simple hex editor on the BIOS ROM and games' executable files reveals this.

I personally use PS1 when shortening the name, but I'm nobody to demonize another guy calling it "PSX", as it was its more established unofficial name.

>>2243437
No, just one diehard shitposter. Anyway, my first PS1 game was Resident Evil and it scared the complete shit out of me. I was not prepared for the graphical jump from the SNES.

>>2243437
You watch me, I WILL win this debate DAMMIT

>>2243447
My first game was Gran Turismo because I was really into racers then. I wore that game out, hours and hours in front of the tv, drinking beer and trying to pass those fucking license tests with all gold.

Those were the days.

I think the first PS1 game I played was Air Combat.

Nostalgia aside, I can't bear the sight of it.

>>2243394
>>Even though the PS1 doesn't have an X,anywhere
It doesn't have 1 anywhere in it's name either.

>>2243460
>I can't bear the sight of it

I always wonder if half of these posts are legitimate hyperboles just for the sake of sounding grand or people have been so corrupted by the actual gen that they seriously think dated graphics must suck period.

Please tell me you're in that first group.

>>2243462
PS1 is more of a convenient retronym to set it apart the original PS from its successors and the real PSX.

>>2243474
>retronym
kill yourself

>>2243437

these playstation threads are full of underage trolls and samefaggots.
Not sure where are they coming from.

Also I was around the time the "PSX" was revealed on game magazines and the like, but some time later people just called it the PS.

In japan it was always just PS, that's the official abreviation.

>>2243474
And there is no reason to use it on /vr/ since the original Playstation is the only Playstation console to talk about here. Maybe we could use PS?

>>2243478
But it is a retronym. Nobody called the original PlayStation a "PS1" until the PS2 came out. I'm convinced /vr/ is filled with more oversensitive babbies than /v/.

>>2243398

Why would they have called it PS1 back when there was no PS2?

Its like the VCS and Atari 2600

>>2243465
Let me say the same thing with different words, in two different variations for your easier comprehension:

1) Graphics sucks, which is why I can't stand it anymore

2) It's aged like shit, which is why I won't play it anymore.

Enough hyperbole for the sake of sounding grand on an anonymous board (lol?)

Is this enough "corruption by the actual gen", whatever that means in context to the game described?

Have you even played the game and/or have at least a tiny grasp of where not only its graphics but everything else too, stand in the franchise?

It's like Shitposting 101 all over again.

>>2243479
/v/. They come from /v/, anon.

Nobody ever brings up the "real" PSX nor is DVD+R support ever relevant to anything, so anyone getting offended by calling it that is just trying to stir shit up or being a fag.

>>2243367
plot twist, sony originally intended the ps2 dvr to be called the ps10, but were afraid they'd actually make it to 10 different playstations so they stuck with psx to give babbys something to argue about on a cantonese imagination board who were too young to actually live through the glorious psx days

Was the expansion port at the back of the older, bigger grey Playstation ever used for anything?

>>2243487
>caring about graphics

I saw some pics and it looks acceptable. You didn't bring no gameplay into the argument, I was only questioning your sight.

>games "aging"

Yes, you do look like you've been corrupted by the actual gen.

>>2243492
We need to post more about that PSX so hipsters and newfags will go out and buy them used from Japan. Massive keks

>>2243501
My sight is good and I've been gaming since the SNES days,

just stop questioning my taste, so I said I can't stand Air Combat, are you sure you want to argue about that?

You could have said anything to me when replying to my first but you had to be a jaded asshole because one anon hates one game.

One thing to make it clear: I started hating it back when 2 and 3 were released, retro material not current.

>>2243493
Sounds about right.

>>2243494
Action replays and similar devices.

>>2243501
Caring about graphics doesn't necessarily make you a graphics whore. I can see where he's coming from. It can be hard to get into games from that era because of how rough the graphics are in a lot of games.

>>2240296
SO much fucking shit posting on this board these days.

When it's not refugees from /v/ who think every board is for shit posting and arguing, it's either trolls from /v/ or butthurt (OCD riddled) regular old /vr/ posters being assholes because all they want to do is talk about Doom, old PC games in general, SNES and Saturn games all fucking day...

Well, fuck all of you. If you don't like the rules here, then go the fuck back to /v/ and lets see how long you last there!

Not you though OP. PSX was an amazing console, and still has the best games ever made of several genres.

The first PSX games I ever played were Nightmare Creatures and Jet Moto 2. Both still hold a place in my heart, though I feel like Jet Moto 2 aged a lot better. Mainly because nothing like it exists now.

Nightmare Creatures is a unique horror/hack n slash game, and I like the combo and upgrade systems. It's sort of herky-jerky to play (was then too, actually), but I feel like without it, every single hack n slash now would have been a brainless button masher like Onimusha.
Though for that mater, most of them are...
Oh well!

If I had to pick a top 10 list for the PSX, it would be:

>Resident Evil 2
>Parasite Eve
>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
>Crash Bandicoot 2
>Tekken 3
>Twisted Metal 2
>Brave Fencer Musashi
>Final Fantasy VII
>Tomb Raider (1)
>Megaman X4

Yes, I'm sort of casual, but whatever. That shit's still great. All still very playable today (unless you're a mustard "MUH FRAME RATE!!!!" faggot, or just too fucking stupid to use simple, PSX era "tank" controls)

Once again though: Fuck you to all the shit posters in this thread. You all deserve to die and I genuinely hope you all do.

>>2243506
>I've been gaming

Yeah ok, I'll stop.

>>2243501
Oh its me again, I forgot one thing

I know you're still learning English and therefore your reading comprehension and ability to discuss in said language is going to be stunted, resulting in weird ass posts like yours but here's a PROTIP so you won't shit this place up again (hopefully)

"actual gen" bad, "current gen" good

>>2243525
It's a term that native speakers use, to which I've never seen anyone even raise an eyebrow, but you're a shitposter who's grasp of English is shaky at best.

>>2243525
It's a term that native speakers use, to which I've never seen anyone even raise an eyebrow, but you're a shitposter whose grasp of English is shaky at best.

It's not just you, i've been noticing how a lot of shiposters here don't really know the main language of the board they're on. Figures

Here's what I did with mine when it broke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahaYAygMr0

>>2243372
Wow, you must have got a bootleg. Mine's got an X.

Does yours play Popstation games?

Namco Museum volume 5 was the best one
Prove me wrong
Best game too
http://youtu.be/S9LXRpm8IrI

>>2244301
Yes but it is not because of Valkyrie no Densetsu. Metro Cross and Baraduke are the best

>>2244285
But that's a PlayStation conturora, which has always had an X.

STEP IT UP M8

>>2244313
No, that's a PlayStation controller.
The X is literally spelled out for you on the button.

P.
S.
X.

LRN2READNIGGA

>>2244384
>But that's a PlayStation conturora
>No, that's a PlayStation controller.

Tomato, tomato

admit, your 3rd rate shenanigans can't beat my rock solid prose + based arguments

YOU'RE GOING DOWN