AlphaOmegaSin I hear that, so many good memories of that little gray system, from me to my brother, and my dad over endless hours of playing Tekken 2 or 3, and watching my sister play Final Fantasy 7 or 8 or even playing Megaman Legends or Parappa The Rapper, so many nostalgic memories. I need to make a video for this and make an update of my old PS2 Collection video. GOD how time flies. Jumping Flash was one of my first games I played on Playstation, even if it was a demo on the demo disc, till I rented it and my bro got WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.
My mom won me my PS1 with a copy of Parappa the Rapper from Much Music. She would always enter contests and finally she had won! So I was the only one in town with one for a while. Good times.
Replace the laser assembly on your PS1! It's a really cheap part to replace and will take you 5 minutes to refit. Then to kick back again with your original machine... it's worth it.
Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics,Grandia, Front Mission 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Klonoa, Um Jammer Lammy... Man I could go on forever listing off the great games on the Playstation. I always loved how focused the Playstation was on having such huge engrossing single player games. The N64 was great for multiplayer parties and the shorter Nintendo games and the Saturn had great arcade and fighting games, but when you wanted to get farther into your 40+ hour save in an rpg that is where the Playstation shined.
I got my PlayStation for Christmas, in 1997. I received games like: Final Fantasy VII, King's Field II and III, Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat: Sub Zero Mythologies, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Twisted Metal 2. I got the console at the perfect time, because 1998 was probably the best year for the PlayStation, for games like Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Parasite Eve, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man Legends, and the list goes on and on; still one of my favorite consoles and I still own mine from that Christmas.
I was at a buddy's house day 1 here when he bought his and playing Ridge Racer made me want one. It was in late spring 1996 I got mine. and i got Ridge Racer for it.I was 24 going on 25 then. I had all the games you showed in the video too . To this day i will always be a Sony Playstation fan of the systems. Happy 20 years of greatness Sony.
I was a toddler when the ps1 came out (I'm in my early twenties) but I remember it being the cool thing.Nintendo was never even spoken of in my house,we went from sega to sony.My aunt's bf was the gamer and I'd watch him play for hours.Everything from Resident Evil to Rainbow Six.Then we he eventually actually let me touch the thing I played Metal gear and THPS2.Good memories.
I seriously can't believe that the PS has been around for 20 years! That's just mind blowing. And, I can't recall how I ever got one for the life of me. Or why. I just know that once I got one, I pretty much switched ships from everything Nintendo. Why, I just watched this video on a PS3. (And, it gets a ton of usage.) Got so many games for all four systems. And, can you believe it? My PS1 portable is still running to this day! Monitor upgrade and all. (Except for the battery packs. Wore those out a long time ago. But, I could so easily install fresh rechargeable cells.) I do recall how I kept my original gray box running so long. Remember how reviving an NES required blowing? I basically used a can of compressed air and blew on the lens. So easy to access, thanks to the clam shell design. A quick burst upon the exposed lens and that old system was good to go...for a little while longer. Doing that to the PS2 was a dis-assembly pain. And, somehow, the PS3/4 don't seem to suffer that issue...that I've known of, at least.
Your stories and memories are so relatable. I wrote my comment after pausing this video a few seconds into it. And it turns out your experience of the Playstation's early days is very similar to mine. It must have just been part of the spirit of the times. I was a Nintendo and Sega guy too, and like you I have lots of nostalgia, though I'm positive and enjoy the present and look forward to the future. So when change comes about, it has to prove itself to me before I'm fully on board.
I really believed for the longest time that the snes was my favorite system of all time, but when I think about the games that had left the greatest impact on me, I always go back to the original playstation games. The jrpg library for that system is so godly that I don't think any generation of the gaming and the systems associated to each specific generation can even remotely tough the amount of quality content that system had especially for the rpg genre. There are still so many jrpg's I need to play for that system, but when I think of the ps1 I think of pure quality.
Well,i'm still on the fence.i'm still thinking of the Super Nintendo as my favorite.Maybe it will change,i can't say.Both the PS1 and PS2 have amazing games.I can certainly understand what you're saying.
SirenoftheVoid I would say the SNES is my favorite and PS1 is my second favorite....mainly because of Mario, Zelda and StarFox.....I just couldn't get enough of those. Then throw in Donkey Kong Country games...oh and Killer Instinct....Chrono Trigger....yea, the SNES had an AWESOME library....PS1 did as well and its so cool that even to this day, they still offer PS1 games on the PlayStation Store. Tons of people still have PS3s which can play PS1 games.....there is no shortage of ways of playing those classics!! (Nintendo just re-releases them in different formats forcing you to buy them again. How many times is someone willing to buy Super Mario Bros??)
I actually think the PS2 trumps the PS1 in terms of JRPGs and everything else. The PS2 had a lot of titles for every genre and was at that breaking point where games still look pretty fine even today. I think back to persona 3, persona 4, ff10/10-2, ff12, SMT Nocturne, DDS1/DDS2, breath of fire dragon quarter, star ocean 3, valkyrie profile 2, shadow hearts 1/2/3, rogue galaxy, dark cloud 1/2, xenosaga 1/2/3, romancing saga, dragon quest 5/8, KH 1/2, Wild Arms 3/4/5/Alter code f and tons more great JRPG titles. PLUS all the great titles in other genres. Shadows of the Colossus, Okami, Burnout (any variation, gran turismo, jak and daxter, ratchet and clank, Vexx, disgaea 1/2, GTA 3/SA/VC, Devil May Cry 1/3, Onimusha 1/2/3, Killswitch, etc... People look back in nostalgia towards certain consoles, but I strongly believe that the PS2 out of all consoles just had the most quality titles. LOTS of sleeper hits that nobody played that were pretty good like Vexx, and then just tons of great games for every genre. God Devil May Cry was good and was such a revolution of a game, Shadows of the Colossus was just breathtaking and Okami is still one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. The PS2 literally just had everything you could want.
I think I've written this on some other video of yours, but the Playstation still is my favourite console of all time. When my dad bought it in 1997 when I was 7 years old, it blew my mind on every level. The first game I played was Tomb Raider and I actually remember my very first attempt at playing a game in the third dimension, after being used to games like Sonic on the Mega Drive. It was fascinating then and still is today. So many great games...Oddworld, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Driver, Street Skater, Alien Trilogy, Tekken...the list goes on and on...
So hard to believe its been 20 years. I remember buying my system, I was still in High School, and I was a Nintendo 64 owner and wasn't so sure about Sony. I bit the bullet and bought it on a Friday, along with my first game, Resident Evil. I immediately took it over to a friends house to play. We played Resident Evil for a few hours, thinking we could probably beat it in one sitting, mainly because we had learned that the Playstation was not like the N64, and every game was going to require a memory card, and I had not bought a memory card that day. After a few hours of playing, we finally gave up and returned to the store to get a memory card, before continuing any further into game. Thus beginning the cursed period of the external Memory Card. Happy Console Gamer, the first video I ever watched of your was the corrupted memory card episode, and have enjoyed every episode since. Keep up the awesome work.
My favorite system of all time is the Playstation. Some of my favorite series started there like Silent Hill and Resident Evil... those games defined my love of survival horror genre. :)
I remember when PS1 came out. A friend of mine at the time picked one up along with Battle Arena Toshinden and we played that game constantly for weeks with the whole neighborhood of friends we hung around with. I picked up my own PS1 probably about 5 months later along with MK3 and an Aura Interactor Vest. I also was a die hard Nintendo fan but when PS1 came out and I started getting into titles like Tomb Raider, D, Final Fantasy VII, Disruptor, (the list goes on) I pretty much ditched Nintendo consoles after that. When King's Field arrived in the states (King's Field II in Japan) that was pretty much it for me. I became a lifelong fan of From Software and I've played though all of their games since then. While I don't have the time or money to play and own games from all consoles, it has been pretty much Playstation consoles since PS1 for me.
Playstation was such a good console although I never had one growing up. Got the sega saturn in 1996 when I was 9. Only 1 other person I knew had the saturn, everyone else was playstation. As much as the playstation had a better library of games I still love the nostalgia I get from the saturn. Great era of gaming.
Very cool video man... So many memories and for me, with games I've only played recently (Persona), so many new memories to come. One of my favorite consoles of all time.
My Dad made a bargain with me. If I made straight As then I could get the Playstation. I being not that great at school was determined to make those marks. However, with all the mental strength I had at the time I could only pull off mostly As. He said oh well better luck next time. Later that day of report cards he told me he was proud of me and I did the best I could do at the time. He said if we trade all your Sega games and system in at EB games we would get the system. I selected Warhawk and of course got the Playstation one. What a amazing time it was. The smell of a new console the glory of Full Motion Video! It was amazing and the DEMO DISC it came with when it originally came out AMAZING! Never had so much fun in my life. I thank my Dad for that moment it was truly a great treat for trying so hard. 6th Grade 1995.
I got a PlayStation in 1996. It was the first video game console I ever played, with Crash Bandicoot being my first game. So much nostalgia is tied up with the PS, with Crash, Spyro, and the Ridge Racer Type 4 demo providing me with hours of entertainment during my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play games very much back in those days, and so barely scratched the surface of its catalog. Still, I will always look back at the PS as a perfect introduction to the world of video games.
Very great video man, always enjoy your videos. I was only one when this extraordinary console came out. I wish they would of used better cases these things break too easily. I really hope that you will continue too make videos for another 20 years.
I got my PS1 one Christmas and got 4 *ahem* backups for it. I remember 1 was Doom and another was 3d Lemmings the other 2 I can't remember. Doom was just so good, my favorite FPS ever and I had it, so good, so many great memories and games, I could go on for ages talking about this console. Great video and great look back at a legendary console
I was born in 94, but I still remember playing the PlayStation when I was really young. It was definitely my first foray into gaming. So many good memories, Spyro especially, Spyro 2 was actually the first game that I beat haha. You're right, it doesn't feel like that long ago. I can still remember these things vividly, like playing Crash Team Racing with my cousins or laughing at the absurdity that was Glover with my brother. Really good memories with the PS1.
Love the channel!! I remember resisting the PS1.........then I could not resist anymore and ended up with the console, destruction derby, I honestly cannot remember the other game I got. I was still sitting on consoles at home and I will admit being a Sega fan boy so to give money to the competition again like I was Nintendo was soooo bad lol. However I simply love games toooooo much to stick with one brand, that's why over the years I tried to get them all :)
I only had the n64 during that generation, but going back I've played tons of great games like Crash, FF7, SotN, Xenogears, Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Suikoden II
Awesome shirt! I used to make "want lists" too. I had a notebook full of games and their prices. For me Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil were the life changers for me. Those types of games like Parasite Eve and Dino Crisis were these new types of games where I was really immersed. Being a kid at the time ya know I had N64, but I was always aware I was playing a game. There was points and sparkly collectibles, and things were kinda cartoony, but these new type of Playstation games were so realistic to me at the time. That's when I became more invested in games than ever before.
Yes, it does make me feel old, haha. I think I had a similar reaction to the Playstation, as you did. It was there, I didn't care much about it. I remember thinking four shoulder buttons was weird! It was the fact that Square went to Sony that caught my attention, for sure. I didn't actually get one, myself, until Metal Gear Solid, though. The ideas behind that game blew my mind, and I had to have a Playstation to play it. I've played so many incredible titles on the 'station, many of which you mentioned in this video, and it remains one of my favourite consoles of all time, without a doubt. Loved PS2, too. I wasn't a big fan of the PS3, though, and I haven't yet picked up a PS4. I think my last favourite console by Sony was the PSP! Great vid.
When I was 14 I was babysitting for some family friends, and they had just bought a Playstation. That was my first opportunity to try it out, hadn't seen one in person to that point. Ended up playing Toshinden Battle Arena, Crash Bandicoot, and a couple more games on a demo disc. I spent about 5 hours playing these games, and from that point on I was obsessed with the Playstation. I would buy magazines and read them over and over, and would rent a Playstation and games like Tekken, WWF In Your House, etc. from Blockbuster. Eventually I sold my SNES & Genesis with a ton of games and bought a Playstation with Power Move Wrestling and Final Fantasy VII. I had so much fun with my Playstation over the years. I still play on it regularly, so many great games......I once got a date with this girl that I was really in to, but cancelled the date to play Tomb Raider when it first came out. lol Never ended up getting another chance with her, but it was still worth it. Lara Croft was my true love. ;)
Great vid as always Jonny. I too never payed too much attention to the PS1. Going through EGM and Gamepro magazines, it was a page turner for me, I didn't care, on to the next page. I assumed it was another 3DO, CDi or Amiga crap console. Then one day I was working at my local arcade, and my buddy came running in to find me. He was going OFF about the playstation and Battle Arena Toshinden, he wouldn’t shut up about it. So I played it, thought it was a slightly better version of Virtua Fighter 1, not 2. Then I found out that MK3 was a launch title, and that sealed the deal for me. I was already playing MK3 in the arcade, and now I can play a perfect arcade port at home to practice! Sold ever since.
PS2 is close to gaining retro statues if you consider something retro to be 15 years old. Now that makes me feel old because it don't seem like long ago that I was getting excited for Smugglers Run or Time Splitters and Finishing games like X-Squad, Midnight Club and Shadow of Memories.
I remember seeing Battle Arena Toshinden playing on the then newly released PlayStation. I saw it playing in the window of a game shop in London and I could not get over how amazing the graphic's looked in comparison to the Snes and Mega Drive. Can't believe its been 20 year's since its release, where does the time go? Great video :)
Ow, who can say what any of us is doing in 20 years, if the youtube is still around or if we are able to still be operating a game controller. . . I'm 36 btw. BUT I will be expecting you doing a PS4 20 anniversary special! :) It would be awesome, can't wait!
Awesome retrospective Johnny! Yep, can't forget when the PS 1 came out. I was a Saturn fan boy, but eventually buckled and used my credit card to buy a PS 1. Die Hard Game Fan used to fuel so much of my 32-bit insanity back then. Final Fantasy moving to Sony was definitely a kingmaker for sure!
I got it for xmas, I was 7 and it came with a bundle of Broken Sword, Road Rash & Myst. My mum had also bought me Tomb Raider thinking it was Tekken. Broken Sword is now one of my favourite game series of all time :)
I look back at the PS1 days and just smile. Coming from the Colecovision/Nes/Snes days I felt (and still do) like the Playstation was the gaming console for adults. More emphasis on story, characters, violence, sex and such. I received my PS1 Christmas '97 and it was awesome. Crash 3, Syphon Filter, Bloody Roar 2, Resident Evil, FF7, Power Move Pro Wrestling, Tenchu, and many other awesome games. Pure nostalgia goodness.
I had just joined the Navy when the PS1 came out, and at that time I was a casual gamer. I had actually sold my Genesis before I left home. I would see guys playing it in the break rooms, mostly the sports titles, and didn't give it a second thought. Then one day, I saw a guy I knew playing Metal Gear Solid. My jaw hit the deck in amazement. The next payday, I was off to the mall to get my very own. I remember we had a ceremony for some admiral on our ship some later weekend. Since I was one of the wardroom cooks, I had to work. When it was over, my buddy and I snuck a keg of beer, and stashed some leftover food in our berthing. We spent the next 48 hours playing Metal Gear from start to finish. It was a great time.
Oooh… nice t-shirt! My first gaming moment for the PlayStation was the dinosaur demo (played with it for hours) and Pandemonium, Rayman and Tekken. Went on to become one of my favourite consoles.
Nice video, brings back some memories :) Had similar experience like you, when the PS was first announced - just thought ok, another DOA console. But one day i went to my local video game store to pick up some Mega Drive games and they hat the PS up and running. The game was Resident Evil and I couldn't believe what I just saw there. This totally sold me to the Playstation and then I did the biggest mistake in my hole collecting history (well from todays standpoint, back in the days it was ok) - I sold my SNES with many great games... But I got the Playstation and Resident Evil (other day one pickups were Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Toshinden and Wipeout). The PS was modded to play imports as RE was the NTSC version. Violent video games had a hard time back in the days in Germany, so I relied pretty much on Imports. So I went home and hug this thing up to the TV and then.... I realized that you need a TV capable of NTSC or RPG to get NTSC games in color :) So I spend one year playing RE in black and white before getting a new TV. But this didn't bother me - RE was just to great even without colors.
That console came to our house 22 years ago and it was love at the first sight. I was then 7 years old. Now being older (and finally in a situation which allows it) I started to collect the PS1 games which I've always wanted to own as a kid.
I miss the old days of gaming. Nothing beats the old systems and games. This console is what made me broaden my horizons and started playing RPG games.
The PS1 was one of my favorite consoles as a kid and I still play a lot of the classics on my PS3. The best part of the 20th anniversary though is that OG PS4. I need that in my life! Thank you Sony for some of my best video game memories and to another 20 years! Happy Birthday PlayStation
I remember when it first came out in the USA. I was really young back then, but I loved my video games. I remember asking my mom for the Playstation, but she said no "that the games were too adult" and it made me sad. Instead, she had gotten me the Sega Saturn. I never did get into the Sega Saturn, but that's probably because I only ever had two games for it and no memory card so I couldn't even save. It wouldn't be until the smaller model of the Playstation, the PS1, came out in 2000 that I would actually get the system. I remember always looking at the PS1 games every time we went shopping, wishing how I had one and which games looked cool. When I finally got it, my first game was Digimon World 2. I loved it soooo much! It was from then forward that I would get more and more great games and fall in love with the system, ultimately becoming my favorite system of all time.
I was playing Tales of Destiny on my PS1 yesterday! The PS1 is my favorite console of all time. I still play PS1 games on a regular basis. I cannot believe it turned 20 years old. FF7, FF8, Brave Fencer Musashi, Star Ocean 2, Suikoden 1, Suikoden 2, Tales of Destiny 1, Tales of Destiny 2(Eternia), Parasite Eve, Gekido, Ehrgeiz, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot 2, Xenogears, Pac-Man World, Tomba 1, Tomba 2, Bomberman.....the list can go on and on. The library of the PS1 is amazing.
Loved this console still true to Playsation in 2017. FF7 First game I ever bought. My sis was the one who got the Console for Christmas. I was in 7th grade. Many sleepless nights I miss the old days. Were did the time go??? Next Christmas PS2 for me.
I've had some of the best gaming memories with the PS1, Still remember playing FF7 all day, Re2, Metal Gear Solid, Xenogears, Silent Hill, the list goes on.
I was 11 when my household got a PS1 in the summer of 1997 here in NZ. The games we got were G-Police, some sort of futuristic helicopter game, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Those were the happiest days of my life being able to sit down with my brothers and just jam out. But we grew up, life happened and we grew apart.
Man that brings back some memories. I got my PS1 in either 96 or 97 so I was like 11 or 12 years old at the time. FF7 was like one of my earliest memories for the system as well because I got it after the greatest hits version of the game came out. PS1 had so many good RPGs and I was glad because I had come off of playing the N64 and sad that it had like no RPGs but, the PS1 came along and it was like the skies opened and rainded down JRPGs galor and I was so happy. Two games I was kicking myself pretty hard over not picking up for the PS1 where Valkeyrie Profile and Breath of Fire 3 though I got a physical copy of Valkyrie Profile recently and need to play through it.
Definitely my all time favorite console! I remember going to Block Buster to play the demo station they had in the store. I bought my PS1/PSX a few months after it was released in the states. I saved all my Christmas money in '95 plus all my allowance and lunch money for a few months so I could finally buy one in Feb 1996. My first game was Ridge Racer. The first 6 games I had for the console were in the giant CD cases. Ridge Race, Destruction Derby, Resident Evil, Sim Theme Park, Need for Speed and Twisted Metal. Crazy the stuff you can remember but the console had a big impact on me.
The first time I played one was 1996, I was 12 years old. I'm from a small town and I didn't know anybody that had one yet. Every one was still playing SNES at that time, I had only seen it in magazines. Anyway I went over to his house and his olde brother had bought one and was away for the night. He had Jet Moto, and Ridge Racer. I remember we played until like 5 or 6 in the morning with the volume super low so his parents wouldn't hear us. Man I was blown away! Then the following year Final Fantasy 7 came out and I remember I became obsessed with getting one, unfortunately my parent only bought me one in 1998, but the first game I got was FF7. So many great games on it too! My favorite was obviously FF7, but the other greats for me were FF Tactics, FF9, Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, Bushido Blade, Gran Turismo 1 and 2, Crash Bandicoot series, Twisted Metal 2 and 3, The Mega Man X games, Driver, Tenchu Stealth assassins 1 and 2. Lots more but those are the ones I played the most and can come back to anytime and have as much fun with them as back then.
The leap between Genesis/SNES to PS1 was so huge i don't think we will ever see it again, probably games look way better now but they can be done somehow on this 20 yo machine And it's library is so big,i still find interesting Japanese only titles every single week
My dad comes home with Street Fighter collection on ps1 and says "we can play it in a cd player, right?" I was so bummed, until he pulls out a brand new Playstation. Then my school called snow days every day that week. It was amazing.
I was 14-years-old when I got my PS1 for Christmas in 1995. I was really huge into fighting games back then and would waste quarters playing MK3, Tekken 1, Street Fighter Alpha 1, etc. When I saw that one of the release games for the system was Tekken 1, I immediately begged my parents for it! I played the hell out of Tekken, Ridge Racer, and Mortal Kombat 3 that winter. The next year when Resident Evil 1 / Biohazard, Street Fighter Alpha 1 & 2, Darkstalkers, and Tekken 2 were released, I was already fully hooked by Sony.
I was too young to remember the PS1's launch, but I do remember the console itself very fondly. When I was in primary school it was the console everyone owned and talked about. It really is a symbol of my childhood and the 90's in general for me. It is my personal favourite console of all time :)
I got a Playstation for Christmas, 1997. A bit late, but it was awesome! I had a subscription to Playstation Underground, too. Loved playing the demo discs they would release. I don't have the system anymore, unfortunately, but some of the first games I remember playing for it are Auto Destruct, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2. Awesome system!
I don't recall the year but I was at Toys R Us with my mum with the intent to buy the system and forego an allowance until it was payed off. Standing in front of the systems, my mum asks "Are you sure you want to get this?". Looking back at her I say "Yes." I was shocked to hear, "Good, your dad is setting it up at home now". I went back home to find the system set up with 2Xtreme (90's rollerblading kid here) and bam, I was racing on skateboards, rollerblades and bicycles with some kick ass 90's cheese rock.
time just flies by >_> i remember playing tony hawk 1+2, gta, sould reaver, final fantasy 7, need for speed, grand turismo, tekken and many other great games with my friend, everytime i came to his place :D
One of my favorite consoles. I remember buying it in a bundle with Ridge Racer right around launch as it was all the store had left in stock. Hard to believe it has been 20 years.
I played it for the first time because a friend from school had it. We played Twisted Metal 2 all night and I remember being mostly blown away by the environments. I couldn't believe you could go wherever you wanted on the level. So I went home and begged my parents to buy me one but they made me save my allowance (I was 9), and after going through the five stages of grief I finally settled on accepting it and I saved ten dollars per week until I finally got it at the beginning of my third grade summer (couldn't have been a better time). I remember my mom telling the guy at the the local game store that I saved for six months and he told her how good the system was, that it played music CDs, and he recommended some games like Resident Evil. The first games I bought were WCW vs. the World, Crash Bandicoot, Marvel Super Heroes, and a demo disc that had Cool Boarders 2 on it. It was unbelievable going from Sega Genesis to Playstation overnight. I couldn't have even conceived of a game like Metal Gear Solid or Gran Turismo before that. We won't experience the wonder of a revolutionary technology like that again until virtual reality becomes affordable, hopefully soon!
HappyConsoleGamer I remember when it came out back in the day. I was in middle school and I was a Sega fan. Nobody had one right away. My first experiences with the system was the demo stations they had set up at Kay-Bee Toys when it still existed. The first games I saw was Crash Bandicoot and Bubsy 3D. I was amazed at the 3D graphics of Crash and repulsed by the 3D graphics of Bubsy. I said "That doesn't look as good as my Bubsy on Genesis." Anyway Playstation stayed out of my mind for awhile but when my friends started getting them and my exposure grew I wanted them more and more. We couldn't afford new game consoles like that back in the day, if I remember right it was 199$ when I really started to want it. This wasn't the type of thing I could just ask my parents for like some kids might have been able to. So I worked over the summer saving up 10$ at a time doing lawn mowing. Around my birthday I still didn't have enough. I really wanted it but even the most spending of my relatives would not get me one. So I asked EVERYONE for money as a gift. I took my lawn mowing earnings and my birthday money, but sadly I was still short. I pretty much gave up hope. Then my dad told me to give him all the money I saved and he did it in the tone of a bully. It freaked me out and upset me. He took the money from me and I was mad. Then on my birthday I was woken up by my dad yelling at me to come eat because I slept in till like noon. Sitting there hooked up to the TV was my very own Sony Playstation with two controllers. I only had a Playstation demo-disc to play but I didn't care, I was immediately on board with this. I played the Crash Demo, Tekken, Ridge Racer, and Spyro as well as Parappa the Rappa. Turns out my dad bridged the gap in the money I had saved and did it the way he did to maintain the surprise. It was pretty awesome. Beyond the Beyond was one of the first RPGs I saw on the system. It looked so awesome and that was part of the reason I really started wanting it. I later picked up that game at a pawn-shop. Over the years my PS1 collection grew and grew and while it's actually kind of small compared to my PS3 collection (as I had the finances of a kid with no job back then) I feel like I've gotten the most milage out of the PS1 than any console I've personally owned. My PS1 fell victim to my old dog however. He pissed on the thing, it didn't run anymore. Eventually I took it apart and cleaned it out (just with straight water.) As if by magic it worked again. Couple years later he pissed on it again! That dirty dog! This time I couldn't save it because when I opened it up the ribbon cable to the eye snapped, his piss had corroded it all the way through. It was that, and the desire to switch from collecting Dragon Ball Z & Slayers VHSes to DVDs that caused me to buy a Sony PS2 (which still functions to this day.) Rest in peace PS1 my old gray friend. And rest in peace as well you dirty fucking dog.
My first PlayStation experience was 1996 when playing street fighter ex and alpha 1 and 2 with my cousins psx.I was more sega as well and got a saturn and dreamcast first.but when my older cousin got FFX,tobal no 1,and bushido blade. From then on I wanted one bad and i finally got one on my birthday w thps and tekken 3 i was hooked. Till this day i show love toy ps3 ps4, and think of play FFX REcv DmC and Smackdown on the ps2 HAPPY B DAY PlayStation rock on for 20 more years
I remember renting both the Playstation and N64 from Blockbuster (back when you could rent consoles), but my brother and I were content with our Genesis + SNES combo, so we didn't end up getting either "next-gen" console until two or three years later. I can't remember when or why we went with Playstation, but it may directly correspond to the Final Fantasy VII TV trailer, which pretty much blew my mind back then. Other than Final Fantasy, I remember playing a ton of Madden 98, 2Extreme, Jet Moto, and a ton of amazing JRPGs. It remains my favorite console of all time.
When it released i also wasn't into consoles. I was a pc gamer. Then i went to england for half a year and played a lot of ridge racer in the arcades. When i got back to the netherlands it took me an other half year before i bought the playstation. At that time i was getting annoyed to having to upgrade my pc again to play the latest games, and finally bought a playstation, with ridge racer and croc, and a memory card. Had a great time with it, but eventually i got back to pc gaming, since i was finished with school and starting to work and got me some cash to spend.
hello Mr.johnny this David the happy gamer I remember when the playstation was released in the year 1997 I was eight years old at the time and my brother was about thirteen years old and we excited about the debut of the console now we never really bought it but our cousin's mom who was our aunt purchased it for him so when we learned that he got it we went straight to his house. We came to an understanding that we all would share it .
Great review, I remember RE 2, that game changed my life and is one of my most favorite games ever along with RRT 4. By the way, are you sure your console is dead beyond repair? I thought you just had to replace the optical drive for a new one.
My favourite console of all time. I remember getting one for xmas back in 1995. Such a great console and so many amazing games came from it. The golden age of gaming for me. 1995-2000 My teen years.
such an awesome system. i grew up playing crash bandicoot and tecmo's deception infact i did a memories video on it but anyways great video as always :D
I am a still a little partial to the N64, but PS1 is an awesome console and it´s library of games is perhaps the best of all. Such classics! Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Gear Solid, FF VI-IX, Crash Bandicoot, Tomba, Klonoa etc... I still buy and play these games today and they hold up really well! Great video!
Can't say I'm really feeling old at the age of 18, but I can definetly feel that beard growing over my chin as I watch this. 1st console I ever had. Got it as a christmas present waaay way back. I can't remember the exact time when I got it, but I remember the 1st game ever playing on that thing was Mickey's wild adventure. Or Mickey mania to many others growing up with the 16-bit version. Such a difficult game to start off with. Wasn't all that good at it as a kid, only getting to like level 2 & never got past it. Other than that, my PS1 collection as a kid was lopsided to put it lightly. We did own all the Crash games as a kid, we had Spyro 2; Ripto's rage, Rayman 1, Digimon world 1 & Final fantasy VIII among others. Everything else was burned disks. Yeah, we had a hacked PS1 that was just able to read those things naturally & had a couple more more games to add with that. The 3D Gex games & Tekken 3 being the most important to me. Tekken 3 is propably the #1 game of my childhood. Spent so many hours on it & in my eyes, hasn't aged a bit (barring the 32-bit graphics, which are still charming to me anyway). Most of my collection on the PS1 was demos. Medievil, Tomba, Spyro 1, Oddworld; Abe's oddysee, Overboard, Kurushi final, Kula world, Devil dice, etc. It was sad, really. We rarely got any of those games for real & I've just recently had to begin climbing that mountain to obtain them all. At this point in time, it's like my great quest as a collector of video games to acquire all the games that I loved as demos as full versions. It's a quest that's surprisingly coming to an end. All that I have left is the Disney Hercules games & Devil dice, actually... huh. I just noticed that.
Of course I remember its launch, I was in college and loved it!!! I just always hated the load times but have always loved the controller design and the huge library of games
The original PlayStation is the last console I bought when it was new. Really. I had to sell my NES with all the games to buy me a Dual Shock pack. And I LOVED it. MGS, Crash Team Racing, Castlevania SOTN, Front Mission 3... So many many great games. I still plug it now and then to play some Bishi Bashi with friends. Some games haven't aged well at all, but those early polygons where amazing back then. It was something new, something special. And a year ago I bought my NES back, but that's another story...
Still have my original PS1 and it still works. Such great memories with that system. While I loved video games before, I really think PS1 was the one to turn me into the gamer I am now. Hard to believe it came out so long ago now. Man has time flown by.
I was 15 when the ps1 came out. I remember back in September of 1995, I was ready to go to the local kb toy store in the mall and buy myself a sega saturn. Sega had this great promo at the time when you bought the saturn, you'd get virtual fighters remix, virtual cop, and I think daytona usa. As I entered the store I saw this demo they had for the playstation, with battle arena toshinden, and I knew I had to have the ps1. Amazing memories I had with this system
FF7 was the very reason why i got mine(1st ever console i ever bought with my own money$$...). before this, i've always relied on my mom for my NES and SNES...lol. almost all those games you got there Johnny i also owned, sooo cool. another great HCG video. keep these vids coming. love you and Rob"man"...and your wife rocks.
Got my PS1 in 1998, I believe. It's always been the "RPG" console to me, even more so than the SNES. Legend of Dragoon and Legend of Legaia changed my life, seriously.
Being from the UK the snes hasn't got a patch on the ps1 since we got none of the RPGs over there that Americans talk so fondly about.. no chrono trigger final fantasy not even mario RPG Thanks to final fantasy 7 we got an abundance of JRPGS over here on the PlayStation 1
Got mine the Fall of '97, First game I was hooked on was Project Overkill....Then I got a burner.....& got to play all the best games all the time! Who could forget the bootleg game Thrill Kill? Ahhhh such great memories....
I was living in the UK at the time when the PS1 was released in Japan. I remember being wowed by it and ended up importing one which cost me 550 pound at the time with a choice of one of two games... Tekken or Ridge Racer. that was quite a lot to put down on a console for me but it was during my carefree unmarried with no children times!! I went for Ridge Racer as I was a fan of the arcade game. I will never forget the day it arrived and when ridge racer first came up on my 29" Sony Trinitron TV I was just in shock.... I had the arcade game right here in my house. it looked identical, up until now I only had a megadrive and snes and was used to playing pretty good but not arcade perfect conversions. soon after that I imported Tekken and Parodius. To this day the parodius series is my favourite series of shoot em ups. Thanks for the memories. =)
10 years old, first got to try out Toshinden in Toys R Us and remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics. That Christmas I went on to get a system with 7 games - FIFA 96, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, Worms, Toshinden, Tekken and Doom. Greatness.
I was too young to remember when it came out. But I do remember the day I got it. It was 97 or 98 so I was around 7 years old and I used to play soccer. I was never very enthusiastic about playing. So my dad told me if I made a goal he would buy me a Playstation knowing I had been wanting one for Crash Bandicoot which I played at my cousins house. Within minutes of the game starting I ended up making the goal you should have seen the look on my dads fave. So after the game we went to Toy's R Us and I got my Playstation with Crash 2, Gex and Tomb Raider 2. Such a great memory. Happy 20th Playstation!
This was when I was starting to drift away from videogames; partly because I had so much schoolwork, but also because the transition to 3D games felt a little clumsy to me (I still consider console generation 5 to be the awkward adolescence of the game industry). I remember being very frustrated because I felt that game developers were chasing technological milestones and the related marketing bullet-points instead of crafting interactive art the way that I had come to love. My initial reactions were pretty much in-line with yours, Johnny; "Phillips CD-I, 3DO, now another tech company thinks they can just jump into the game industry and be successful. I did eventually get one, and I think I spent most of my time in SotN, which is still one of my favorite games (I think I've bought it 4 times now).
I remember when this came out in the UK, there used to be queue's in Dixons to play on the demo console, it was months before I finally got to have a go. I got to play destruction derby and I remember thinking at the time how awesome the graphics and physics were. It was years before I could afford to buy one though but loved it! Great system and probably my biggest collection is the PS1. Mine broke as well, surface mounted fuses went and the controller ports packed up, managed to fix it but the rumble never worked again :p
Sony's first console was a game changer. The super Nintendo and Megadrive conquered alot of consumers but the Playstation made "ordinary people" talk about videogames. Resident Evil 2, Gran Turismo, Symphony of the Night are just a few of the great games I played on the console. I'm 39 but I remember very well when I bought it. Just like you my expectations weren't much, but... Best console ever in my opinion, great specs and the game library just got better and better as time passed by... Greetings from Portugal :)
First time I ever played a Playstation game was back in pre-school. I didn't have a console (only a Gameboy - which still works, to this day, 20 years later) but my neighbour had a PSone so I'd go to his place every single day. I still remember playing Bomberman and just watching him play Spyro. By now, I only own a handful of PSone games (FFVII and VIII, Alien Trilogy, Soul Reaver, Wrecking Crew, Heart of Darkness and Fear Effect 2) that I play on PS2, but do I love those old polygon graphics.
I remember opening my ps1 on Christmas morning and being blown away by the jump that graphics had made from the 16-bit era. I played Driver and was astounded by how realistic the graphics looked.
My all time favorite console right there
It really had some shining gems on it! such great memories!
AlphaOmegaSin I hear that, so many good memories of that little gray system, from me to my brother, and my dad over endless hours of playing Tekken 2 or 3, and watching my sister play Final Fantasy 7 or 8 or even playing Megaman Legends or Parappa The Rapper, so many nostalgic memories. I need to make a video for this and make an update of my old PS2 Collection video. GOD how time flies. Jumping Flash was one of my first games I played on Playstation, even if it was a demo on the demo disc, till I rented it and my bro got WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.
Yep
Interesting, and it makes me want to see you do a video telling us why.
It would be mine as well, if it wasn't for the fact that the PS2 was backwards compatible :p So PS2 for me!
My mom won me my PS1 with a copy of Parappa the Rapper from Much Music. She would always enter contests and finally she had won! So I was the only one in town with one for a while. Good times.
THat's really cool :)
Did she send in a VHS of her doing the macarena to win it?
wow!! veryy coool!!!
Hey I like your avatar!! Vahn!!!!
Kick ! Punch ! It’s all in the mind ! 😂
Replace the laser assembly on your PS1! It's a really cheap part to replace and will take you 5 minutes to refit. Then to kick back again with your original machine... it's worth it.
Give us a extended version where you go threw all your favorite ps games and talk about them, that would be awesome PLEASE!!
PlayStation Rocks video it will happen!
Thanxz you ROCK!!
@@HappyConsoleGamer still waiting!
Still waiting....
Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics,Grandia, Front Mission 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Klonoa, Um Jammer Lammy... Man I could go on forever listing off the great games on the Playstation. I always loved how focused the Playstation was on having such huge engrossing single player games. The N64 was great for multiplayer parties and the shorter Nintendo games and the Saturn had great arcade and fighting games, but when you wanted to get farther into your 40+ hour save in an rpg that is where the Playstation shined.
I will never forget the warm fuzzies i would get from the Playstations boot up sound.
I got my PlayStation for Christmas, in 1997. I received games like: Final Fantasy VII, King's Field II and III, Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat: Sub Zero Mythologies, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Twisted Metal 2. I got the console at the perfect time, because 1998 was probably the best year for the PlayStation, for games like Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Parasite Eve, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man Legends, and the list goes on and on; still one of my favorite consoles and I still own mine from that Christmas.
I was at a buddy's house day 1 here when he bought his and playing Ridge Racer made me want one. It was in late spring 1996 I got mine. and i got Ridge Racer for it.I was 24 going on 25 then. I had all the games you showed in the video too . To this day i will always be a Sony Playstation fan of the systems. Happy 20 years of greatness Sony.
I was a toddler when the ps1 came out (I'm in my early twenties) but I remember it being the cool thing.Nintendo was never even spoken of in my house,we went from sega to sony.My aunt's bf was the gamer and I'd watch him play for hours.Everything from Resident Evil to Rainbow Six.Then we he eventually actually let me touch the thing I played Metal gear and THPS2.Good memories.
I'll never forget the PS1. It was my first true console. I love it to this day, and mine still works haha.
I seriously can't believe that the PS has been around for 20 years! That's just mind blowing. And, I can't recall how I ever got one for the life of me. Or why. I just know that once I got one, I pretty much switched ships from everything Nintendo. Why, I just watched this video on a PS3. (And, it gets a ton of usage.)
Got so many games for all four systems. And, can you believe it? My PS1 portable is still running to this day! Monitor upgrade and all. (Except for the battery packs. Wore those out a long time ago. But, I could so easily install fresh rechargeable cells.)
I do recall how I kept my original gray box running so long. Remember how reviving an NES required blowing? I basically used a can of compressed air and blew on the lens. So easy to access, thanks to the clam shell design. A quick burst upon the exposed lens and that old system was good to go...for a little while longer. Doing that to the PS2 was a dis-assembly pain. And, somehow, the PS3/4 don't seem to suffer that issue...that I've known of, at least.
I love it when you share your memories with us!
Your stories and memories are so relatable. I wrote my comment after pausing this video a few seconds into it. And it turns out your experience of the Playstation's early days is very similar to mine. It must have just been part of the spirit of the times. I was a Nintendo and Sega guy too, and like you I have lots of nostalgia, though I'm positive and enjoy the present and look forward to the future. So when change comes about, it has to prove itself to me before I'm fully on board.
I really believed for the longest time that the snes was my favorite system of all time, but when I think about the games that had left the greatest impact on me, I always go back to the original playstation games. The jrpg library for that system is so godly that I don't think any generation of the gaming and the systems associated to each specific generation can even remotely tough the amount of quality content that system had especially for the rpg genre. There are still so many jrpg's I need to play for that system, but when I think of the ps1 I think of pure quality.
Well,i'm still on the fence.i'm still thinking of the Super Nintendo as my favorite.Maybe it will change,i can't say.Both the PS1 and PS2 have amazing games.I can certainly understand what you're saying.
the PS1 is like a JRPG machine.
SirenoftheVoid I would say the SNES is my favorite and PS1 is my second favorite....mainly because of Mario, Zelda and StarFox.....I just couldn't get enough of those. Then throw in Donkey Kong Country games...oh and Killer Instinct....Chrono Trigger....yea, the SNES had an AWESOME library....PS1 did as well and its so cool that even to this day, they still offer PS1 games on the PlayStation Store. Tons of people still have PS3s which can play PS1 games.....there is no shortage of ways of playing those classics!! (Nintendo just re-releases them in different formats forcing you to buy them again. How many times is someone willing to buy Super Mario Bros??)
I actually think the PS2 trumps the PS1 in terms of JRPGs and everything else. The PS2 had a lot of titles for every genre and was at that breaking point where games still look pretty fine even today.
I think back to persona 3, persona 4, ff10/10-2, ff12, SMT Nocturne, DDS1/DDS2, breath of fire dragon quarter, star ocean 3, valkyrie profile 2, shadow hearts 1/2/3, rogue galaxy, dark cloud 1/2, xenosaga 1/2/3, romancing saga, dragon quest 5/8, KH 1/2, Wild Arms 3/4/5/Alter code f and tons more great JRPG titles.
PLUS all the great titles in other genres. Shadows of the Colossus, Okami, Burnout (any variation, gran turismo, jak and daxter, ratchet and clank, Vexx, disgaea 1/2, GTA 3/SA/VC, Devil May Cry 1/3, Onimusha 1/2/3, Killswitch, etc...
People look back in nostalgia towards certain consoles, but I strongly believe that the PS2 out of all consoles just had the most quality titles. LOTS of sleeper hits that nobody played that were pretty good like Vexx, and then just tons of great games for every genre. God Devil May Cry was good and was such a revolution of a game, Shadows of the Colossus was just breathtaking and Okami is still one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. The PS2 literally just had everything you could want.
SNES would still be my favorite, but PS1's 5th IMO.
I think I've written this on some other video of yours, but the Playstation still is my favourite console of all time. When my dad bought it in 1997 when I was 7 years old, it blew my mind on every level. The first game I played was Tomb Raider and I actually remember my very first attempt at playing a game in the third dimension, after being used to games like Sonic on the Mega Drive. It was fascinating then and still is today. So many great games...Oddworld, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Driver, Street Skater, Alien Trilogy, Tekken...the list goes on and on...
So hard to believe its been 20 years. I remember buying my system, I was still in High School, and I was a Nintendo 64 owner and wasn't so sure about Sony. I bit the bullet and bought it on a Friday, along with my first game, Resident Evil. I immediately took it over to a friends house to play. We played Resident Evil for a few hours, thinking we could probably beat it in one sitting, mainly because we had learned that the Playstation was not like the N64, and every game was going to require a memory card, and I had not bought a memory card that day. After a few hours of playing, we finally gave up and returned to the store to get a memory card, before continuing any further into game. Thus beginning the cursed period of the external Memory Card.
Happy Console Gamer, the first video I ever watched of your was the corrupted memory card episode, and have enjoyed every episode since. Keep up the awesome work.
My favorite system of all time is the Playstation. Some of my favorite series started there like Silent Hill and Resident Evil... those games defined my love of survival horror genre. :)
I remember when PS1 came out. A friend of mine at the time picked one up along with Battle Arena Toshinden and we played that game constantly for weeks with the whole neighborhood of friends we hung around with. I picked up my own PS1 probably about 5 months later along with MK3 and an Aura Interactor Vest. I also was a die hard Nintendo fan but when PS1 came out and I started getting into titles like Tomb Raider, D, Final Fantasy VII, Disruptor, (the list goes on) I pretty much ditched Nintendo consoles after that. When King's Field arrived in the states (King's Field II in Japan) that was pretty much it for me. I became a lifelong fan of From Software and I've played though all of their games since then. While I don't have the time or money to play and own games from all consoles, it has been pretty much Playstation consoles since PS1 for me.
Playstation was such a good console although I never had one growing up. Got the sega saturn in 1996 when I was 9. Only 1 other person I knew had the saturn, everyone else was playstation. As much as the playstation had a better library of games I still love the nostalgia I get from the saturn. Great era of gaming.
Very cool video man... So many memories and for me, with games I've only played recently (Persona), so many new memories to come. One of my favorite consoles of all time.
My Dad made a bargain with me. If I made straight As then I could get the Playstation. I being not that great at school was determined to make those marks. However, with all the mental strength I had at the time I could only pull off mostly As. He said oh well better luck next time. Later that day of report cards he told me he was proud of me and I did the best I could do at the time. He said if we trade all your Sega games and system in at EB games we would get the system. I selected Warhawk and of course got the Playstation one. What a amazing time it was. The smell of a new console the glory of Full Motion Video! It was amazing and the DEMO DISC it came with when it originally came out AMAZING! Never had so much fun in my life. I thank my Dad for that moment it was truly a great treat for trying so hard. 6th Grade 1995.
Good Grief! You encompass what it is to be a nostalgic gamer. So many good memories from this system. Love the Xenogears music in the background
I got a PlayStation in 1996. It was the first video game console I ever played, with Crash Bandicoot being my first game. So much nostalgia is tied up with the PS, with Crash, Spyro, and the Ridge Racer Type 4 demo providing me with hours of entertainment during my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play games very much back in those days, and so barely scratched the surface of its catalog. Still, I will always look back at the PS as a perfect introduction to the world of video games.
Great nostalgic video Johnny, Thx for sharing your thoughts
Very great video man, always enjoy your videos. I was only one when this extraordinary console came out. I wish they would of used better cases these things break too easily. I really hope that you will continue too make videos for another 20 years.
I got my PS1 one Christmas and got 4 *ahem* backups for it. I remember 1 was Doom and another was 3d Lemmings the other 2 I can't remember. Doom was just so good, my favorite FPS ever and I had it, so good, so many great memories and games, I could go on for ages talking about this console. Great video and great look back at a legendary console
I was born in 94, but I still remember playing the PlayStation when I was really young. It was definitely my first foray into gaming. So many good memories, Spyro especially, Spyro 2 was actually the first game that I beat haha. You're right, it doesn't feel like that long ago. I can still remember these things vividly, like playing Crash Team Racing with my cousins or laughing at the absurdity that was Glover with my brother. Really good memories with the PS1.
I was ten years old and Wipeout blew my mind , I seen the new movie Hackers the same week I first played it , what a week , good times
Love the channel!! I remember resisting the PS1.........then I could not resist anymore and ended up with the console, destruction derby, I honestly cannot remember the other game I got. I was still sitting on consoles at home and I will admit being a Sega fan boy so to give money to the competition again like I was Nintendo was soooo bad lol. However I simply love games toooooo much to stick with one brand, that's why over the years I tried to get them all :)
I only had the n64 during that generation, but going back I've played tons of great games like Crash, FF7, SotN, Xenogears, Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Suikoden II
So many great games for the system.
Awesome shirt!
I used to make "want lists" too. I had a notebook full of games and their prices.
For me Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil were the life changers for me. Those types of games like Parasite Eve and Dino Crisis were these new types of games where I was really immersed. Being a kid at the time ya know I had N64, but I was always aware I was playing a game. There was points and sparkly collectibles, and things were kinda cartoony, but these new type of Playstation games were so realistic to me at the time. That's when I became more invested in games than ever before.
Yes, it does make me feel old, haha. I think I had a similar reaction to the Playstation, as you did. It was there, I didn't care much about it. I remember thinking four shoulder buttons was weird! It was the fact that Square went to Sony that caught my attention, for sure. I didn't actually get one, myself, until Metal Gear Solid, though. The ideas behind that game blew my mind, and I had to have a Playstation to play it.
I've played so many incredible titles on the 'station, many of which you mentioned in this video, and it remains one of my favourite consoles of all time, without a doubt. Loved PS2, too. I wasn't a big fan of the PS3, though, and I haven't yet picked up a PS4. I think my last favourite console by Sony was the PSP!
Great vid.
When I was 14 I was babysitting for some family friends, and they had just bought a Playstation. That was my first opportunity to try it out, hadn't seen one in person to that point. Ended up playing Toshinden Battle Arena, Crash Bandicoot, and a couple more games on a demo disc. I spent about 5 hours playing these games, and from that point on I was obsessed with the Playstation. I would buy magazines and read them over and over, and would rent a Playstation and games like Tekken, WWF In Your House, etc. from Blockbuster. Eventually I sold my SNES & Genesis with a ton of games and bought a Playstation with Power Move Wrestling and Final Fantasy VII. I had so much fun with my Playstation over the years. I still play on it regularly, so many great games......I once got a date with this girl that I was really in to, but cancelled the date to play Tomb Raider when it first came out. lol Never ended up getting another chance with her, but it was still worth it. Lara Croft was my true love. ;)
Great vid as always Jonny. I too never payed too much attention to the PS1. Going through EGM and Gamepro magazines, it was a page turner for me, I didn't care, on to the next page. I assumed it was another 3DO, CDi or Amiga crap console. Then one day I was working at my local arcade, and my buddy came running in to find me. He was going OFF about the playstation and Battle Arena Toshinden, he wouldn’t shut up about it. So I played it, thought it was a slightly better version of Virtua Fighter 1, not 2. Then I found out that MK3 was a launch title, and that sealed the deal for me. I was already playing MK3 in the arcade, and now I can play a perfect arcade port at home to practice! Sold ever since.
PS2 is close to gaining retro statues if you consider something retro to be 15 years old. Now that makes me feel old because it don't seem like long ago that I was getting excited for Smugglers Run or Time Splitters and Finishing games like X-Squad, Midnight Club and Shadow of Memories.
I remember seeing Battle Arena Toshinden playing on the then newly released PlayStation.
I saw it playing in the window of a game shop in London and I could not get over how amazing the graphic's looked in comparison to the Snes and Mega Drive.
Can't believe its been 20 year's since its release, where does the time go?
Great video :)
Ow, who can say what any of us is doing in 20 years, if the youtube is still around or if we are able to still be operating a game controller. . . I'm 36 btw. BUT I will be expecting you doing a PS4 20 anniversary special! :) It would be awesome, can't wait!
Awesome retrospective Johnny! Yep, can't forget when the PS 1 came out. I was a Saturn fan boy, but eventually buckled and used my credit card to buy a PS 1. Die Hard Game Fan used to fuel so much of my 32-bit insanity back then. Final Fantasy moving to Sony was definitely a kingmaker for sure!
I got it for xmas, I was 7 and it came with a bundle of Broken Sword, Road Rash & Myst. My mum had also bought me Tomb Raider thinking it was Tekken. Broken Sword is now one of my favourite game series of all time :)
I look back at the PS1 days and just smile. Coming from the Colecovision/Nes/Snes days I felt (and still do) like the Playstation was the gaming console for adults. More emphasis on story, characters, violence, sex and such. I received my PS1 Christmas '97 and it was awesome. Crash 3, Syphon Filter, Bloody Roar 2, Resident Evil, FF7, Power Move Pro Wrestling, Tenchu, and many other awesome games. Pure nostalgia goodness.
I had just joined the Navy when the PS1 came out, and at that time I was a casual gamer. I had actually sold my Genesis before I left home. I would see guys playing it in the break rooms, mostly the sports titles, and didn't give it a second thought. Then one day, I saw a guy I knew playing Metal Gear Solid. My jaw hit the deck in amazement. The next payday, I was off to the mall to get my very own. I remember we had a ceremony for some admiral on our ship some later weekend. Since I was one of the wardroom cooks, I had to work. When it was over, my buddy and I snuck a keg of beer, and stashed some leftover food in our berthing. We spent the next 48 hours playing Metal Gear from start to finish. It was a great time.
Oooh… nice t-shirt! My first gaming moment for the PlayStation was the dinosaur demo (played with it for hours) and Pandemonium, Rayman and Tekken. Went on to become one of my favourite consoles.
Nice video, brings back some memories :)
Had similar experience like you, when the PS was first announced - just thought ok, another DOA console. But one day i went to my local video game store to pick up some Mega Drive games and they hat the PS up and running. The game was Resident Evil and I couldn't believe what I just saw there. This totally sold me to the Playstation and then I did the biggest mistake in my hole collecting history (well from todays standpoint, back in the days it was ok) - I sold my SNES with many great games...
But I got the Playstation and Resident Evil (other day one pickups were Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Toshinden and Wipeout). The PS was modded to play imports as RE was the NTSC version. Violent video games had a hard time back in the days in Germany, so I relied pretty much on Imports.
So I went home and hug this thing up to the TV and then.... I realized that you need a TV capable of NTSC or RPG to get NTSC games in color :) So I spend one year playing RE in black and white before getting a new TV. But this didn't bother me - RE was just to great even without colors.
That console came to our house 22 years ago and it was love at the first sight. I was then 7 years old. Now being older (and finally in a situation which allows it) I started to collect the PS1 games which I've always wanted to own as a kid.
I don't think any channel on CZcams has done Square's transition to PlayStation any justice except this one. Props.
I miss the old days of gaming. Nothing beats the old systems and games. This console is what made me broaden my horizons and started playing RPG games.
I WANT THOSE 20 YEARS OF MY LIFE BACK AND ENJOY ALL THE CLASSICS AGAIN!!
The PS1 was one of my favorite consoles as a kid and I still play a lot of the classics on my PS3. The best part of the 20th anniversary though is that OG PS4. I need that in my life! Thank you Sony for some of my best video game memories and to another 20 years! Happy Birthday PlayStation
I remember when it first came out in the USA. I was really young back then, but I loved my video games. I remember asking my mom for the Playstation, but she said no "that the games were too adult" and it made me sad. Instead, she had gotten me the Sega Saturn. I never did get into the Sega Saturn, but that's probably because I only ever had two games for it and no memory card so I couldn't even save. It wouldn't be until the smaller model of the Playstation, the PS1, came out in 2000 that I would actually get the system. I remember always looking at the PS1 games every time we went shopping, wishing how I had one and which games looked cool. When I finally got it, my first game was Digimon World 2. I loved it soooo much! It was from then forward that I would get more and more great games and fall in love with the system, ultimately becoming my favorite system of all time.
TWISTED METAL 1 & 2 !!! Great memories!
I was playing Tales of Destiny on my PS1 yesterday! The PS1 is my favorite console of all time. I still play PS1 games on a regular basis. I cannot believe it turned 20 years old.
FF7, FF8, Brave Fencer Musashi, Star Ocean 2, Suikoden 1, Suikoden 2, Tales of Destiny 1, Tales of Destiny 2(Eternia), Parasite Eve, Gekido, Ehrgeiz, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot 2, Xenogears, Pac-Man World, Tomba 1, Tomba 2, Bomberman.....the list can go on and on. The library of the PS1 is amazing.
Loved this console still true to Playsation in 2017. FF7 First game I ever bought. My sis was the one who got the Console for Christmas. I was in 7th grade. Many sleepless nights I miss the old days. Were did the time go??? Next Christmas PS2 for me.
I've had some of the best gaming memories with the PS1, Still remember playing FF7 all day, Re2, Metal Gear Solid, Xenogears, Silent Hill, the list goes on.
This system was a pure rpg power house and is still to this day my favorite console! So many good memories and still a lot of fun to this day!
I was 11 when my household got a PS1 in the summer of 1997 here in NZ. The games we got were G-Police, some sort of futuristic helicopter game, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Those were the happiest days of my life being able to sit down with my brothers and just jam out. But we grew up, life happened and we grew apart.
Man that brings back some memories. I got my PS1 in either 96 or 97 so I was like 11 or 12 years old at the time. FF7 was like one of my earliest memories for the system as well because I got it after the greatest hits version of the game came out. PS1 had so many good RPGs and I was glad because I had come off of playing the N64 and sad that it had like no RPGs but, the PS1 came along and it was like the skies opened and rainded down JRPGs galor and I was so happy. Two games I was kicking myself pretty hard over not picking up for the PS1 where Valkeyrie Profile and Breath of Fire 3 though I got a physical copy of Valkyrie Profile recently and need to play through it.
I am slowy collecting the good RPGs for the PS1 but, not any of the insanly priced one.
That beauty lit the console gaming world on fire. Much respect.
Definitely my all time favorite console! I remember going to Block Buster to play the demo station they had in the store. I bought my PS1/PSX a few months after it was released in the states. I saved all my Christmas money in '95 plus all my allowance and lunch money for a few months so I could finally buy one in Feb 1996. My first game was Ridge Racer. The first 6 games I had for the console were in the giant CD cases. Ridge Race, Destruction Derby, Resident Evil, Sim Theme Park, Need for Speed and Twisted Metal. Crazy the stuff you can remember but the console had a big impact on me.
The first time I played one was 1996, I was 12 years old. I'm from a small town and I didn't know anybody that had one yet. Every one was still playing SNES at that time, I had only seen it in magazines. Anyway I went over to his house and his olde brother had bought one and was away for the night. He had Jet Moto, and Ridge Racer. I remember we played until like 5 or 6 in the morning with the volume super low so his parents wouldn't hear us. Man I was blown away! Then the following year Final Fantasy 7 came out and I remember I became obsessed with getting one, unfortunately my parent only bought me one in 1998, but the first game I got was FF7. So many great games on it too! My favorite was obviously FF7, but the other greats for me were FF Tactics, FF9, Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, Bushido Blade, Gran Turismo 1 and 2, Crash Bandicoot series, Twisted Metal 2 and 3, The Mega Man X games, Driver, Tenchu Stealth assassins 1 and 2. Lots more but those are the ones I played the most and can come back to anytime and have as much fun with them as back then.
The leap between Genesis/SNES to PS1 was so huge i don't think we will ever see it again,
probably games look way better now but they can be done somehow on this 20 yo machine
And it's library is so big,i still find interesting Japanese only titles every single week
My dad comes home with Street Fighter collection on ps1 and says "we can play it in a cd player, right?" I was so bummed, until he pulls out a brand new Playstation. Then my school called snow days every day that week. It was amazing.
I was 14-years-old when I got my PS1 for Christmas in 1995. I was really huge into fighting games back then and would waste quarters playing MK3, Tekken 1, Street Fighter Alpha 1, etc. When I saw that one of the release games for the system was Tekken 1, I immediately begged my parents for it!
I played the hell out of Tekken, Ridge Racer, and Mortal Kombat 3 that winter. The next year when Resident Evil 1 / Biohazard, Street Fighter Alpha 1 & 2, Darkstalkers, and Tekken 2 were released, I was already fully hooked by Sony.
I was too young to remember the PS1's launch, but I do remember the console itself very fondly. When I was in primary school it was the console everyone owned and talked about. It really is a symbol of my childhood and the 90's in general for me. It is my personal favourite console of all time :)
I got a Playstation for Christmas, 1997. A bit late, but it was awesome! I had a subscription to Playstation Underground, too. Loved playing the demo discs they would release. I don't have the system anymore, unfortunately, but some of the first games I remember playing for it are Auto Destruct, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2. Awesome system!
I don't recall the year but I was at Toys R Us with my mum with the intent to buy the system and forego an allowance until it was payed off. Standing in front of the systems, my mum asks "Are you sure you want to get this?". Looking back at her I say "Yes." I was shocked to hear, "Good, your dad is setting it up at home now". I went back home to find the system set up with 2Xtreme (90's rollerblading kid here) and bam, I was racing on skateboards, rollerblades and bicycles with some kick ass 90's cheese rock.
Love 2xtreme
time just flies by >_> i remember playing tony hawk 1+2, gta, sould reaver, final fantasy 7, need for speed, grand turismo, tekken and many other great games with my friend, everytime i came to his place :D
One of my favorite consoles. I remember buying it in a bundle with Ridge Racer right around launch as it was all the store had left in stock. Hard to believe it has been 20 years.
I played it for the first time because a friend from school had it. We played Twisted Metal 2 all night and I remember being mostly blown away by the environments. I couldn't believe you could go wherever you wanted on the level. So I went home and begged my parents to buy me one but they made me save my allowance (I was 9), and after going through the five stages of grief I finally settled on accepting it and I saved ten dollars per week until I finally got it at the beginning of my third grade summer (couldn't have been a better time). I remember my mom telling the guy at the the local game store that I saved for six months and he told her how good the system was, that it played music CDs, and he recommended some games like Resident Evil. The first games I bought were WCW vs. the World, Crash Bandicoot, Marvel Super Heroes, and a demo disc that had Cool Boarders 2 on it. It was unbelievable going from Sega Genesis to Playstation overnight. I couldn't have even conceived of a game like Metal Gear Solid or Gran Turismo before that. We won't experience the wonder of a revolutionary technology like that again until virtual reality becomes affordable, hopefully soon!
HappyConsoleGamer I remember when it came out back in the day. I was in middle school and I was a Sega fan. Nobody had one right away. My first experiences with the system was the demo stations they had set up at Kay-Bee Toys when it still existed.
The first games I saw was Crash Bandicoot and Bubsy 3D. I was amazed at the 3D graphics of Crash and repulsed by the 3D graphics of Bubsy. I said "That doesn't look as good as my Bubsy on Genesis." Anyway Playstation stayed out of my mind for awhile but when my friends started getting them and my exposure grew I wanted them more and more.
We couldn't afford new game consoles like that back in the day, if I remember right it was 199$ when I really started to want it. This wasn't the type of thing I could just ask my parents for like some kids might have been able to. So I worked over the summer saving up 10$ at a time doing lawn mowing. Around my birthday I still didn't have enough. I really wanted it but even the most spending of my relatives would not get me one. So I asked EVERYONE for money as a gift. I took my lawn mowing earnings and my birthday money, but sadly I was still short. I pretty much gave up hope.
Then my dad told me to give him all the money I saved and he did it in the tone of a bully. It freaked me out and upset me. He took the money from me and I was mad. Then on my birthday I was woken up by my dad yelling at me to come eat because I slept in till like noon. Sitting there hooked up to the TV was my very own Sony Playstation with two controllers. I only had a Playstation demo-disc to play but I didn't care, I was immediately on board with this. I played the Crash Demo, Tekken, Ridge Racer, and Spyro as well as Parappa the Rappa. Turns out my dad bridged the gap in the money I had saved and did it the way he did to maintain the surprise. It was pretty awesome.
Beyond the Beyond was one of the first RPGs I saw on the system. It looked so awesome and that was part of the reason I really started wanting it. I later picked up that game at a pawn-shop. Over the years my PS1 collection grew and grew and while it's actually kind of small compared to my PS3 collection (as I had the finances of a kid with no job back then) I feel like I've gotten the most milage out of the PS1 than any console I've personally owned.
My PS1 fell victim to my old dog however. He pissed on the thing, it didn't run anymore. Eventually I took it apart and cleaned it out (just with straight water.) As if by magic it worked again. Couple years later he pissed on it again! That dirty dog! This time I couldn't save it because when I opened it up the ribbon cable to the eye snapped, his piss had corroded it all the way through. It was that, and the desire to switch from collecting Dragon Ball Z & Slayers VHSes to DVDs that caused me to buy a Sony PS2 (which still functions to this day.) Rest in peace PS1 my old gray friend. And rest in peace as well you dirty fucking dog.
My first PlayStation experience was 1996 when playing street fighter ex and alpha 1 and 2 with my cousins psx.I was more sega as well and got a saturn and dreamcast first.but when my older cousin got FFX,tobal no 1,and bushido blade. From then on I wanted one bad and i finally got one on my birthday w thps and tekken 3 i was hooked. Till this day i show love toy ps3 ps4, and think of play FFX REcv DmC and Smackdown on the ps2 HAPPY B DAY PlayStation rock on for 20 more years
I remember renting both the Playstation and N64 from Blockbuster (back when you could rent consoles), but my brother and I were content with our Genesis + SNES combo, so we didn't end up getting either "next-gen" console until two or three years later. I can't remember when or why we went with Playstation, but it may directly correspond to the Final Fantasy VII TV trailer, which pretty much blew my mind back then. Other than Final Fantasy, I remember playing a ton of Madden 98, 2Extreme, Jet Moto, and a ton of amazing JRPGs. It remains my favorite console of all time.
When it released i also wasn't into consoles. I was a pc gamer. Then i went to england for half a year and played a lot of ridge racer in the arcades. When i got back to the netherlands it took me an other half year before i bought the playstation. At that time i was getting annoyed to having to upgrade my pc again to play the latest games, and finally bought a playstation, with ridge racer and croc, and a memory card. Had a great time with it, but eventually i got back to pc gaming, since i was finished with school and starting to work and got me some cash to spend.
hello Mr.johnny this David the happy gamer I remember when the playstation was released in the year 1997 I was eight years old at the time and my brother was about thirteen years old and we excited about the debut of the console now we never really bought it but our cousin's mom who was our aunt purchased it for him so when we learned that he got it we went straight to his house. We came to an understanding that we all would share it .
Great review, I remember RE 2, that game changed my life and is one of my most favorite games ever along with RRT 4.
By the way, are you sure your console is dead beyond repair? I thought you just had to replace the optical drive for a new one.
My favourite console of all time. I remember getting one for xmas back in 1995. Such a great console and so many amazing games came from it. The golden age of gaming for me. 1995-2000 My teen years.
such an awesome system. i grew up playing crash bandicoot and tecmo's deception infact i did a memories video on it but anyways great video as always :D
I am a still a little partial to the N64, but PS1 is an awesome console and it´s library of games is perhaps the best of all. Such classics! Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Gear Solid, FF VI-IX, Crash Bandicoot, Tomba, Klonoa etc... I still buy and play these games today and they hold up really well! Great video!
Can't say I'm really feeling old at the age of 18, but I can definetly feel that beard growing over my chin as I watch this. 1st console I ever had. Got it as a christmas present waaay way back. I can't remember the exact time when I got it, but I remember the 1st game ever playing on that thing was Mickey's wild adventure. Or Mickey mania to many others growing up with the 16-bit version. Such a difficult game to start off with. Wasn't all that good at it as a kid, only getting to like level 2 & never got past it.
Other than that, my PS1 collection as a kid was lopsided to put it lightly. We did own all the Crash games as a kid, we had Spyro 2; Ripto's rage, Rayman 1, Digimon world 1 & Final fantasy VIII among others. Everything else was burned disks. Yeah, we had a hacked PS1 that was just able to read those things naturally & had a couple more more games to add with that. The 3D Gex games & Tekken 3 being the most important to me. Tekken 3 is propably the #1 game of my childhood. Spent so many hours on it & in my eyes, hasn't aged a bit (barring the 32-bit graphics, which are still charming to me anyway).
Most of my collection on the PS1 was demos. Medievil, Tomba, Spyro 1, Oddworld; Abe's oddysee, Overboard, Kurushi final, Kula world, Devil dice, etc. It was sad, really. We rarely got any of those games for real & I've just recently had to begin climbing that mountain to obtain them all. At this point in time, it's like my great quest as a collector of video games to acquire all the games that I loved as demos as full versions. It's a quest that's surprisingly coming to an end. All that I have left is the Disney Hercules games & Devil dice, actually... huh. I just noticed that.
My first ever console! The first game I ever played on the PS1 was Tekken 2. The intro music and cinematic brings back so many memories
Of course I remember its launch, I was in college and loved it!!! I just always hated the load times but have always loved the controller design and the huge library of games
The original PlayStation is the last console I bought when it was new. Really. I had to sell my NES with all the games to buy me a Dual Shock pack. And I LOVED it. MGS, Crash Team Racing, Castlevania SOTN, Front Mission 3... So many many great games. I still plug it now and then to play some Bishi Bashi with friends.
Some games haven't aged well at all, but those early polygons where amazing back then. It was something new, something special.
And a year ago I bought my NES back, but that's another story...
Still have my original PS1 and it still works. Such great memories with that system. While I loved video games before, I really think PS1 was the one to turn me into the gamer I am now. Hard to believe it came out so long ago now. Man has time flown by.
I was 15 when the ps1 came out. I remember back in September of 1995, I was ready to go to the local kb toy store in the mall and buy myself a sega saturn. Sega had this great promo at the time when you bought the saturn, you'd get virtual fighters remix, virtual cop, and I think daytona usa. As I entered the store I saw this demo they had for the playstation, with battle arena toshinden, and I knew I had to have the ps1. Amazing memories I had with this system
Brave Fencer Musashi...great memories with that game
Makes me feel super old !!
I'll never forget the Christmas of '95 because of this amazing console.
FF7 was the very reason why i got mine(1st ever console i ever bought with my own money$$...). before this, i've always relied on my mom for my NES and SNES...lol. almost all those games you got there Johnny i also owned, sooo cool. another great HCG video. keep these vids coming. love you and Rob"man"...and your wife rocks.
Bought mine in 1997 second hand with Alien triology, tomb raider, and Wipeout 2097 "firestarter" - great stuff!
Got my PS1 in 1998, I believe. It's always been the "RPG" console to me, even more so than the SNES. Legend of Dragoon and Legend of Legaia changed my life, seriously.
Being from the UK the snes hasn't got a patch on the ps1 since we got none of the RPGs over there that Americans talk so fondly about.. no chrono trigger final fantasy not even mario RPG
Thanks to final fantasy 7 we got an abundance of JRPGS over here on the PlayStation 1
Got mine the Fall of '97, First game I was hooked on was Project Overkill....Then I got a burner.....& got to play all the best games all the time! Who could forget the bootleg game Thrill Kill? Ahhhh such great memories....
I was living in the UK at the time when the PS1 was released in Japan. I remember being wowed by it and ended up importing one which cost me 550 pound at the time with a choice of one of two games... Tekken or Ridge Racer. that was quite a lot to put down on a console for me but it was during my carefree unmarried with no children times!! I went for Ridge Racer as I was a fan of the arcade game. I will never forget the day it arrived and when ridge racer first came up on my 29" Sony Trinitron TV I was just in shock.... I had the arcade game right here in my house. it looked identical, up until now I only had a megadrive and snes and was used to playing pretty good but not arcade perfect conversions. soon after that I imported Tekken and Parodius. To this day the parodius series is my favourite series of shoot em ups. Thanks for the memories. =)
10 years old, first got to try out Toshinden in Toys R Us and remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics. That Christmas I went on to get a system with 7 games - FIFA 96, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, Worms, Toshinden, Tekken and Doom. Greatness.
I was too young to remember when it came out. But I do remember the day I got it. It was 97 or 98 so I was around 7 years old and I used to play soccer. I was never very enthusiastic about playing. So my dad told me if I made a goal he would buy me a Playstation knowing I had been wanting one for Crash Bandicoot which I played at my cousins house. Within minutes of the game starting I ended up making the goal you should have seen the look on my dads fave. So after the game we went to Toy's R Us and I got my Playstation with Crash 2, Gex and Tomb Raider 2. Such a great memory. Happy 20th Playstation!
This was when I was starting to drift away from videogames; partly because I had so much schoolwork, but also because the transition to 3D games felt a little clumsy to me (I still consider console generation 5 to be the awkward adolescence of the game industry).
I remember being very frustrated because I felt that game developers were chasing technological milestones and the related marketing bullet-points instead of crafting interactive art the way that I had come to love.
My initial reactions were pretty much in-line with yours, Johnny; "Phillips CD-I, 3DO, now another tech company thinks they can just jump into the game industry and be successful.
I did eventually get one, and I think I spent most of my time in SotN, which is still one of my favorite games (I think I've bought it 4 times now).
I remember when this came out in the UK, there used to be queue's in Dixons to play on the demo console, it was months before I finally got to have a go. I got to play destruction derby and I remember thinking at the time how awesome the graphics and physics were. It was years before I could afford to buy one though but loved it! Great system and probably my biggest collection is the PS1. Mine broke as well, surface mounted fuses went and the controller ports packed up, managed to fix it but the rumble never worked again :p
Sony's first console was a game changer. The super Nintendo and Megadrive conquered alot of consumers but the Playstation made "ordinary people" talk about videogames. Resident Evil 2, Gran Turismo, Symphony of the Night are just a few of the great games I played on the console. I'm 39 but I remember very well when I bought it. Just like you my expectations weren't much, but... Best console ever in my opinion, great specs and the game library just got better and better as time passed by... Greetings from Portugal :)
Great choice for background music \m/
First time I ever played a Playstation game was back in pre-school. I didn't have a console (only a Gameboy - which still works, to this day, 20 years later) but my neighbour had a PSone so I'd go to his place every single day. I still remember playing Bomberman and just watching him play Spyro. By now, I only own a handful of PSone games (FFVII and VIII, Alien Trilogy, Soul Reaver, Wrecking Crew, Heart of Darkness and Fear Effect 2) that I play on PS2, but do I love those old polygon graphics.
I remember opening my ps1 on Christmas morning and being blown away by the jump that graphics had made from the 16-bit era. I played Driver and was astounded by how realistic the graphics looked.
I will forever have the Bust-A-Groove soundtrack in my head