Playstation - 15th Anniversary

[HashiriyaS14]

Before everyone starts hatin', I didn't put this in the "gaming" subforum because I'm not talking about a particular game. For those of my generation, Playstation was a cultural phenomenon in how it changed the gaming landscape and the place of videogames in American society. This milestone also makes people my age feel old.

Technically, 9.9.2010 was the 15th Anniversary of the US Playstation launch (and the 11th Anniversary for the Dreamcast).

I was a high school freshman in 1995 when the system came out. I was a Sega devotee at the time and thus I didn't purchase one immediately. Like so many others, it took the Final Fantasy 7 launch to get me on the bandwagon, but I shortly began playing through the backlog.


I've been working on assembling the complete launch title lineup in original longbox format, but I'm still a few titles short.



This was the first console where I saw the tech demos and was really blown away.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJBv-hBuUg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwNt_9GvpFI[/youtube]

[dre1507]

Playstation is the one. Never owned any of the first two, but sure played many a games on them. Gonna pick up a new PS3 soon. had to sell the last one.

[Mr1der]

I don't know how many hours I spent playing Rally Cross and out doing my brother for the most epic wrecks ever.

I loved that game...

[dre1507]

my favorite ps one game was gran turismo.

[Frank E Bones]

Grant Turismo and Metal Gear for me.

[ProudNissanFreak]

+1 on GT, but Twisted Metal as well.

Owned PS1, 2, and 3, but not a PSP. Love the PlayStation consoles.

[DrifterXRPS13]

oh how i remember that day...my faves and games that i spent hours and hours and days and days and weeks playing...resident evil, metal gear solid, dino crisis, final fantasy vii and viii to name a few...and let's not forget about the wonder tekken and street fighter alpha.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Yeah well...the n64 had Anti-Aliasing so HAH.

[tigersharkdude]

Have had all 3 as well, messed with the psp but didnt like it. I remember when the PS1 came out, my brother bought one right when it came out

[Mr1der]

Yeah well...the n64 had Anti-Aliasing so HAH.

oh god the hours wasted on Goldeneye and WWF No Mercy....

[Alfador]

Another milestone in video gaming...

Super Mario Bros. reaches ripe old age of 25
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20016 ... 7-1_3-0-20

[TroubleBound]

The red dots on the bottom represent console release dates or summin?

I joined the ps1 crowd a bit late with gt2 and driver, but made up for lost time with lots of gameplay hours. Devoted Sony customer ever since, have never owned an xbox or sega as they are inferior. Nintendo died after 64.

[Frank E Bones]

Oh and how could I forget about Mario Kart from back then on the Super NES, thats gotta be one of my all time faves

Nintendo died after 64

Youve go to try the Wii, its actually pretty fun.

[dasoupdude]

Twisted metal 2 and Gran turismo were my fav, oh and driver

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I got a PS1 after they released the Dual Shock controllers, but spent many many many an hour playing Gran Turismo and GTA. All time favorite Playstation game for me has to be the Legacy of Kain series.

[ThatGuyRoger]

oh god the hours wasted on Goldeneye and WWF No Mercy....

lol yes! Goldeneye ftw! it was always fun when i would play no mercy with my 2 other friends and we'd team up on each other. but it would suck when you were the one who was getting teamed up on b/c my friend would throw me making me run to my other friend where they would be waiting to hit me with the steel stairs and it was a repeated process lol.

good times.

GTA and dead ball zone were my favs on ps1

[tigersharkdude]

I got a question for yall. Anybody remember a game that was like a knockoff of twisted metal? It was called "roadtrip" or something like that. It was setup a LOT like twisted metal

[HashiriyaS14]

Nintendo died after 64.

Have you PLAYED Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2? Twilight Princess? Pikmin? Spirit Tracks? NSMB and NSMB Wii?



N64's birthday is the 26th of this month. 14th Anniversary.

[TroubleBound]

I got a question for yall. Anybody remember a game that was like a knockoff of twisted metal? It was called "roadtrip" or something like that. It was setup a LOT like twisted metal

vigilante 8 was pretty similar, and road rash was fun with the motorcycles and chains/bats

[ADDirishboy]

oh god the hours wasted on Goldeneye and WWF No Mercy....

Dude, I STILL play those.

We actually have Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 drinking parties. SO FUN.

[tigersharkdude]

nope, neither of those

[Rev_D21]

I still have my original PS1. I held on to all my games too. Now-a-days I have almost 100 titles between PS1 and PS2.

[Jesda]

I swear I played mine for no more than an hour. It sat for years and I gave it away.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Gonna have to go with the n64...all the titles just seemed a lot more polished and FUN. Sure there were a lot of good PSX games but there are a metric TON of killer n64 games.

[Mr1der]

you didn't have the first Syphon Filter then.

my god the taser gave me hours of entertainment.

[_b.jaye_]

hard to believe. i remember my cousin had got one & we played ridge racer, & return fire a ton. i was so pissed that squaresoft had changed platforms for the next installment of final fantasy at the time.

[HashiriyaS14]

I have a huge quantity of sealed PS1 titles that I need to sell off. Like two hundred.

No Suikoden II or anything like that, mostly mundane stuff like Syphon Filter and Spyro and whatnot, but there's LOTS of it. I'll probably pull at least a couple grand, which I can then spend on snazzy development hardware. I've been wanting a PSTOOL.

[krash]

Man, I mis my PS1 and Crash Bandicoot. That damn game costs 50 bucks or something now.

[tigersharkdude]

crash bandicoot and spyro were, and still are, the ****

[Otto.]

I got a question for yall. Anybody remember a game that was like a knockoff of twisted metal? It was called "roadtrip" or something like that. It was setup a LOT like twisted metal

I do.

Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012