PlayStation 1 is now 23 years old (in japan), share your first games on it
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I know I can play Ps1 games on one of my two ps2 slims, my ps3 too but I can't fight the feeling of wanting to buy an original unit and play them all over again on original hardware
First games I played on PS1 as best as I can remember. Played on a neighborhood friend's PS1, and as well my mom's then boyfriend who both had it around launch. Didn't get my own PS1 until late 1997.
Ridge Racer
Battle Arena Toshinden
Tekken
Warhawk
Jumping Flash
Twisted Metal
X-Com
1Xtreme
Based Loaded 96'
Novastorm
Doom
Ridge Racer
Battle Arena Toshinden
Tekken
Warhawk
Jumping Flash
Twisted Metal
X-Com
1Xtreme
Based Loaded 96'
Novastorm
Doom
I had the original japanese version a few months before it came out in Europe. And off course, i had it with Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddddddggggggge Raaaacer! Then Motor Toon, Jumping Flash and Tekken.
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Between the PSX, the Neo Geo and the Saturn, it was glorious!
Between the PSX, the Neo Geo and the Saturn, it was glorious!
My parents rented me one from a Video store before I actually ended up getting one years later.
I probably played the original Time Crisis as my first PS game, possibly Point Blank, Tekken or Wipeout. I can't remember.
The first game I played when I eventually got my console years later was Crash Bandicoot.
I probably played the original Time Crisis as my first PS game, possibly Point Blank, Tekken or Wipeout. I can't remember.
The first game I played when I eventually got my console years later was Crash Bandicoot.
took me a while too get a ps1, around 1998 Christmas, got NFS3 and Crash Bandicoot.
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It was 1997. My first two games, bought with the console, were Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy 7. The console, an scph 1001, was used and probably already busted when I got it. It didn't survived that summer. It was the worst piece of junk I ever bought, but I was happy like a child.
I got mine later and I sold my sega saturn to get money for it. The games I really wanted to play back then were street fighter ex and final fantasy 7. So those were my first games on the system.
NFS III: Hot Pursuit didn't come out until 1998. It might have been NFS II instead you're thinking of.took me a while too get a ps1, around 1997 Christmas, got NFS3 and Crash Bandicoot.
Funnily enough when I got my PS1 for Christmas 1997 I was given Crash Bandicoot 2 and NFS II.
Oh another thing I absolutely miss about PS1 and CD's generally was be awesome printed disc artwork that you got on some games.
Always remember this one.
Did anyone have any favourite printed disc artwork?
Always remember this one.
Did anyone have any favourite printed disc artwork?
i guess it was 1998. cant remember put it was definitely Hot Pursuit. amazing sountrack.
Hot Pursuit was fucking incredible. Hands down my favorite NFS game.
I bought Captain Tsubasa J months before I bought my PS1. This was the first and last time I buy a game first before the console. I knew nothing of the PS1 TBH and I just wanted to play that game. It made me buy the PS1. I think it was 94 or 95.
My PS1 came with a demo disc that had cool games like espn extreme sports, loaded, wipeout, jumping flash, destruction derby etc. These games made me for the first time play games that I thought looked realstisc and was something different for me. Showed what the system was capable of and what the future looked like.
Imo this practice should make a return at least having tech demos of upcoming games on a disc or have all of them ready on the store day 1. I'd defo like a disc though.
My PS1 came with a demo disc that had cool games like espn extreme sports, loaded, wipeout, jumping flash, destruction derby etc. These games made me for the first time play games that I thought looked realstisc and was something different for me. Showed what the system was capable of and what the future looked like.
Imo this practice should make a return at least having tech demos of upcoming games on a disc or have all of them ready on the store day 1. I'd defo like a disc though.
Ah man, yeah the artwork on some the discs were great. You don't get creative art on game discs very often anymore.Oh another thing I absolutely miss about PS1 and CD's generally was be awesome printed disc artwork that you got on some games.
Always remember this one.
Did anyone have any favourite printed disc artwork?
Twisted Metal
Oh sorry, it's called Vanark: Astro Trooper, it's an on-rails shooter where you can customize your ship with special weapons.
Also, special mention to Terracon, one of the best looking PS1 games that nobody knows about:
This may have been the first, but Silent Hill will always be the best for me. Stayed up all night with a buddy playing it, scared the crap out of us.
Got mine about 6 months mths after the UK release on an insurance claim as our house had been broken into.
Tekken, Ridge Racer & WipEout, but it was the demos for Tomb Raider & MGS that really stick out in my mind.
Tekken, Ridge Racer & WipEout, but it was the demos for Tomb Raider & MGS that really stick out in my mind.
The first game I remember playing, still have it sitting in my shelf.
Same. #fuckGaia
We got this instead of Tekken because it was cheaper, and got Street Fighter the Movie instead of Street Fighter Alpha 1 for the same reason. :p
Ridge Racer and ESPN Extreme Games. I spent a ton of time with the Extreme Games for whatever reason. Looking at videos now, it appears to be a mediocre games at best. But I enjoyed the hell out of it back then.
The original Resident Evil. It's what I bought a PSX for.
Love at first sight, and it still holds up IMO.
Love at first sight, and it still holds up IMO.
First thing that popped into my mind.It was a respectable platform game. It had unique personality.
It was my mother's gift for 1997 Christmas (welp, 20 years ago!). It was starting to become popular in Europe in that period.
Trivia: Croc started as an official Yoshi game!
For me it was :
Great memories.
Fellow Chilean! I'm pretty sure you must've been one of the first people to own one over here, I was born in '96 but I remember the PS1 being huge in the early 00's, most people only had the SNES back in 1997 (so I've been told).
I finally bought it when Final Fantasy VII demo came out. I think I grabbed Tekken 2 and Tomb Raider 1 with it. I am fairly certain I grabbed some other games but don't remember which exactly.
My first game was Bugs Bunny Lost in Time
I haven't tracked the game still, pretty hard to find out of eBay.
And Crash Bandicoot, awesome games.
I haven't tracked the game still, pretty hard to find out of eBay.
And Crash Bandicoot, awesome games.
+1 there is really no competition.
And that's against games like High Stakes and Hot Pursuit 2 which are also great
@ thread my literal first game was FF VII on PS1.
We had rented a PS1 and the game was FF VII. The console was beautiful enough, so was the 3 disc case.
Never looked back since. What an experience. I still remember the first days with the console, where it was, how it felt, the TV I played it on (Sony Trinitron which we still have).
Still remember even the demo discs. There will never, ever be an experience of amazement like that again moving into 3D gaming with such a grandiose game for the first time.
I cannot remember the first game I played, but it was in 1995. I played most of the big early games. To me when I think first PSX game it's Tekken though, since I played the arcade version a decent amount before the console came to America.
Fun fact: The "1, 2, 3! 1, 2, 3!" are the words of the three Japanese pre-launch PlayStation commercials back in 1994.
Anyway, my first game is probably Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back because I remember there was a Coco Bandicoot level in this game.
Anyway, my first game is probably Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back because I remember there was a Coco Bandicoot level in this game.
Twisted metal was a game my cousin and I played nonstop, so many memories.
Warhawk, battle arena toshinden, jet moto, so many others.
Warhawk, battle arena toshinden, jet moto, so many others.
I had a SNES and then the N64 (shared with my brother), sadly I missed the PS1 back in the day, when my father went to buy the console he almost got the PS1 but my brother cried he wanted the N64 and that's it,
earliest memories of me playing it were probably late for the PS1, I think Gran Turismo 2, Tony Hawk 2 on a friend's house...
I also was gifted a PS1 in 99 or 2000, but it was the wrong color system, I used it to play MGS1 (years later when I had a TV with support for PAL), still have it and it works great (the dual shock is not 100%)
earliest memories of me playing it were probably late for the PS1, I think Gran Turismo 2, Tony Hawk 2 on a friend's house...
I also was gifted a PS1 in 99 or 2000, but it was the wrong color system, I used it to play MGS1 (years later when I had a TV with support for PAL), still have it and it works great (the dual shock is not 100%)
My very first PS1 game. I was so hyped just going around creating havoc. This game had so much craziness taking place all at once and I could not get enough of it.
First games I got were 2xtreme and Darkstalkers (with the long cardboard case!)
PS1 was my first console all my own and favorite. Thought 2xtreme was garbage at an early age and hated it haha. Brother chose a game and I chose one (Darkstalkers) but man it was so hard. Spent my first 5 or so months just playing the demo disc, these two games and some rentals. Soon after moved on to Twisted Metal 2 and eventually RPGs!
Friend in the next school year always talked about RPG's but I never had money for them (4th grade and family was not exactly doing well at the time) but got Street Fighter Alpha and Final Fantasy 7 some time later. It had not dawned on me that FF7 and Pokemon were the same genre but I remember my thinking being "omg it took forever to get out of midgard, I have to be close to the end!" haha. Doubled down on RPG's then and basically my remaining PS1 collection is 95% RPGs. As a kid in a poor family I needed to make games last and these definitely took a long time to beat!
Dad never understood my love for them though, only getting a handful of action games for himself lol.
PS1 was my first console all my own and favorite. Thought 2xtreme was garbage at an early age and hated it haha. Brother chose a game and I chose one (Darkstalkers) but man it was so hard. Spent my first 5 or so months just playing the demo disc, these two games and some rentals. Soon after moved on to Twisted Metal 2 and eventually RPGs!
Friend in the next school year always talked about RPG's but I never had money for them (4th grade and family was not exactly doing well at the time) but got Street Fighter Alpha and Final Fantasy 7 some time later. It had not dawned on me that FF7 and Pokemon were the same genre but I remember my thinking being "omg it took forever to get out of midgard, I have to be close to the end!" haha. Doubled down on RPG's then and basically my remaining PS1 collection is 95% RPGs. As a kid in a poor family I needed to make games last and these definitely took a long time to beat!
Dad never understood my love for them though, only getting a handful of action games for himself lol.