Here's my family. I still own my SPH-5502 but i barely use it, games feel much better on Playstation 2 or Playstation TV. But i still remember the first day i played the infamous Star Wars Rebbel Assault II - The Hidden Empire, my first Playstation game, thank god it also came with Demo One.
A legendary console. Amazing library. In the US it had a great launch line up and the games never stopped coming for many years.
I got battle arena toshinden as my first game. I played it for years, many other people derided it as all flash and no substance, but I got a lot of enjoyment out of it and didn't feel like the controls or gameplay was terrible at all. I thought the graphics were very slick for early ps1 as well.
The first time i saw a PS1 was on a game rental store, early 1995. Not only the japanese console but some games like: Ridge Racer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puazywtucF0 Gunners Heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZbTyLjwt0 Parodius Deluxe Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GDpsxH7SGo Only after i came across Jumping Flash, Battle Arena Toshinden, Air Combat, Tekken, Raiden Project, CyberSled, Philosoma, Starblade alpha, and some US/EU developed stuff like Wipeout, Warhawk, Destruction Derby, Doom,... People can hate it as much as they want, but both PS1 and Saturn are what kept me interested on gaming during my teenage years. I like them both, but ended up getting a PS1 as a birthday gift mostly because the number of games i wanted to play. It is easily one of my favourite consoles of all time. G4TV show about the PlayStation History.
I didn't get my first PS1 until like 2002, someone gave me one cause he had a PSone (it was a PSX, or as I've just now decided to call it, PSPhat). It's got a lot of great games, and I usually don't play them on that PSX, or the PSone I bought later, I usually plop them in my PS3.
I can't remember what the first Playstation games I saw or played were. I was playing the N64 after the SNES so I didn't get into the PS until much later. I think it was early 1998. The first game I think I bought when I got my PS was Mega Man X4. That and Castlevania SotN are possibly my two favorite PS games. It's a classic system even though it tends to get alot of hate and alot of people today look at it and insult it. Ofcourse, I'm a fan of the Saturn too.
Most of the system's 3D games don't hold up that well, plus with a library of like 9000 games (not actually an exaggeration), there's a ton of crap to sort through. Like, 8 Barbie games, freaking Independence Day, hell, we have a whole thread for terrible PS1 games. It was a great popular system that was cheaper to make games for than its chief rival in the US. It's too bad, since the 2D games for it look freaking amazing, even today, and the gameplay on the better 3D games still holds up, especially Dualshock ones.
I remember that one kid in our highschool had one. He happened to be a pretty good friend of mine so that was fun. I think they were upwards of $800AUD when they launched, or something ridiculous like that. It took me years to buy one as the price had dropped to a reasonable level after a time.
Got mine in 1998, it actually got me back in gaming after many years of absence, it was the first console I bought since the SNES. Ridge Racer, Ridge Racer Type 4, Ace Combat 2, Symphony of the Night, MGS, Thunder Force V, Resident Evil so many great titles a defining system. Happy Birthday! Feeling old too now Grrrr...
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Cool. I've been playing through FF VIII again but on PS2. Noooooo. Calling PS1 'PSX' is usually a sign that you were involved with the system during it's heyday. I've been scolded by a few people in more recent years for accidentally saying 'PSX' and not referring to the obscure Japan-only DVR of the same name. I refuse to conform to the new standard, especially when so many people on the internet can know about something so unusual like the PSX DVR without knowing that PSX was a very common abbreviation for the PlayStation well after the DVR even came out and into the mid-2Ks. Pick up almost any gaming magazine from the late 90s, read it for less than 20 seconds, read the Duke Nukem forever hype, laugh, and then come back on the internet and you'll know what I mean.
This is the first thing I thought ... My first game on the PlayStation - a series of games Tomb Raider. It was a happy and carefree time!
