Blimey. The PlayStation is 15 years old today, and we still remember the first time we saw Tekken like it was last week. Makes you feel old, doesn't it?
Before December 3, 1994, when PSone launched, we remember having conversations of how Nintendo was going to batter games industry newcomer Sony out of the fight quicker than you could say "it's not 64-bit, innit".
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Yet it was that grey box, and the PS2 after it, that ended up doing all the stomping. Godzilla-like stomping. And Sony's put up a nice little website to celebrate that fact. It's all in Japanese, but it does have some nice flash-based, mouse-shifty stuff going on. Or something. Just check it out.
It feels like only yesterday for me too. I vividly remember playing Ridge Racer for the first time and marvelling at the arcade-perfect gameplay.
However, I must admit to being a bigger fan of Nintendo in those days. The SNES and N64 offered me more of my type of games at the time.
How things change.
I actually played Ridge Racer on the PS1 very recently - it looks like absolute hell, but it still plays brilliantly. Namco really should revive Rage Racer - I absolutely loved that game.
I think my first memory of the PS1 was Battle Arena Toshinden - I was truly flabbergasted by it, it was a huge leap for all of us that were used to our Megadrive or SNES. Wipeout was another launch title that left me speechless.
Another great PS1 memory was getting FF7 on the day of release. We had a Special Reserve (are they still going?) open locally and they had Dave Perry instore....of course, we had no interest in him or his autograph - we just wanted FF7.
wooah has it been 15 years already, i remember when i had my first playstation, with that demo in a red sleeve lol, damn that was when you felt king haha! happy birthday playstation you lil grey genious of a b*st*rd lol!
Aaaahh Christmas 94 was the greatest christmas i ever had, complete with V-Rally, Space Jam and Pandemonium!
Still though, hands down, the greatest games of all time: Abe's Exodus Crash Bandicoot 2 Digimon World Tekken 2 Pandimonium Fifa 98 South Park Rally Croc Point Blank
Special Reserve went under AFAIK. The bastards screwed up pre-orders and refused to give refunds in my experience, instead offering credit. They borked my pre-order for Panzer Dragoon Saga and SF3, luckily I got them elsewhere at a premium.
Fondest memories of the PS1 was getting FFVII on launch... still my favourite game of all time. I base that on the experience at the time of playing it, other technologically superior games have come along but none have made me feel the same way. Wipeout was also simply brilliant. And Destruction Derby 1 & 2. And Jumping Flash. And RE. And Xcom:EU (although better on the PC as UFO). Ahhhhh...
Wow time soon went. resi 1 2 3, warhawk, crazy ivan, MGS, FF7 and 8, tekken 3 and soulblade. still among my finest gaming memories. Happy birthday. My ps1 from then still works now (just wired it up to try) went through 2 ps2's though.
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