Sony's PlayStation Turns 15

[RuveDRAN]

i remember when i first bought my ps1, i went to the shop to buy one cheap cartridge game but they didnt have it , thenn my brother told me to get the ps1. the first game we bought for it was nfs :high stajes (i think) . my brothers friends would come every night and play. the ps1 is the best of all playstation consoles

 

[cyber_jockey]

I played my first 3d game on a PS1 and I was blown away by the graphics. Today I'm surprised that 2mb of ram can actually produce that graphics.

 

[felipetga]

Started on the Odissey, I dont know if you all remember that, than got myself a TK85 (cassette driven on a b/w TV), then Atari, then jumped in the 16bit era with Genesis!! Then got myself a 386dx, in 97 got the PS1 in which I still play some games.

 

[belardo]

It was the Odyssey2 that I think you're talking about. My first console/computer(in a sense). It came with a race game with 4 colors. (image Google it, folks - http/www.videogamecritic.net/oddsz.htm ) its called Speedway.

And tonight, I downloaded and played the DIRT2 demo for the first time and I thought about how my first racing game compares to what was on playing in 1920x1200 in DX10.

Yep... very different. Far more than the PS1 vs the PS3.

 

[silverblue]

I'm not sure I agree with the idea that the PS brought "3D gaming into the home space"; rather, it made consoles cool. This much is evidenced in early games such as Wipeout, which was ported to the Saturn anyway albeit with some music replaced.

Sony got lucky because everyone else got complacent; Sega bodged the Saturn by adding a second CPU (despite the obvious extra power given to the system if people could harness it properly) and by not supportting developers properly as well as failing to properly market a machine which ended up more expensive than the PS, and Nintendo hyped their system as a Silicon Graphics monster only to castrate it in development, make its games overpriced by insisting on a cartridge slot and charge developers ludicrous royalties. How could you not win with competition that bad?

 

[mitch074]

Fortunately (or unfortunately), I got a 3dfx Voodoo card at the time the console started getting traction in Europe - and most "cool" PSX games (yes, it WAS named the PSX before the Sony PSX became a product in its own right) had PC ports: WipeOut on PC was great (first 3D game I remember really using Windows 95's Direct3D), and so were MDK, Tomb Raider, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain...

This console did bring 3D to the console market, but the best part of it was that it didn't require cardridge - and this was reflected on price: gorgeous games were cheap! Something that the MegaCD didn't accomplish (it was still 2D), that the 32X didn't reach (the Genesis 32X Doom port was laughable, and anyway no MegaCD games made use of it), that the 3DO didn't get (too expensive, too limited), and that the NeoGeoCD completely missed (games were ridiculously long to load).

The original PlayStation was the total package:
- very good controller: you could hold it without breaking a thumb!
- cheap games: ROM did cost a bundle, CD was a dime a dozen (NeoGeo's cheapest game still cost 150 bucks)
- useful when not gaming: you could play audio CDs with it
- GREAT games: no more SEGA nor Nintendo licenses made unknown studios much better known (EIDOS)
- GREAT games (squared): Final Fantasy in 3D, FF7 is still legendary
- not dropped: even now, you can buy and play it: smaller form factors, laptop-like versions... And emulation: PS2 (and some PS3) can still play PSOne games

 

[cknobman]

Dreamcast blew away a playstation hands down. Too bad it didnt get any good dev support for games.

 

[quantum mask]

[citation][nom]JeanLuc[/nom]I have to confess, when I was 14 I so very ignorant of Sony and dismissed the PS1 as another 3DO or Neo Geo and thought it would get blown away by the Sega Saturn. God was I wrong.[/citation]
I did the same thing! Who knew?

 

[demonhorde665]

YAY 15 years of mainstream mediocre gaming !!!!!

that aside i do have a comment on this

"The birth of Sony's foray into gaming could be credited to Nintendo, for its partnership with Sony to create a CD-based gaming platform add-on for the Super Famicom. Nintendo eventually backed out but Sony pushed on ahead, determined to go at it alone. The product was the PlayStation, which many credit as the system the brought 3D gaming into the home space"



this is not quite accurate , what actually occured was sony claimed they had rights to make the add on disc drive by themselves. tghe contract the had with nitnendo however , clearly stated they only had co-manufature rights (ie they work with nintendo to produce the unit and it has nintendo's name on it) sony was not pelased with this swearing that nitnendo screwed them which is not the case. suffice to say they made the ps1 to strike at nintedo really.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]cknobman[/nom]Dreamcast blew away a playstation hands down. Too bad it didnt get any good dev support for games.[/citation]

deracast blew away teh ps2 actually , rember the ps 1 was 32 bit dreamcast was a 128 bit system , that had higher specs than a PS2 did actually the dreamcast could have easily pushed more powerful graphics had developers not started droppign support for the "tyrendy" ps 2 .. suffice to say though i ahve both systems and teh games that were great on dreacast i liked more than games i have on ps2 (minus the GTA series)

 

[demonhorde665]

P.S. sony did not bring 3d gaiming to home , PC did that , i and many of my firends had 3d pc games runnign at home well before the ps1 was made

 

[Guest]

Sony should re-release the playstation in a Discman form!

 

[counselmancl]

Wolfenstien 3d was my first glimpse into the 3d world. That was on a 486sx 25 with 256kb of video memory and 2MB of RAM and a 105MB hard drive. [citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]P.S. sony did not bring 3d gaiming to home , PC did that , i and many of my firends had 3d pc games runnign at home well before the ps1 was made[/citation]

 

[deuketc]

Crash Bandicoot, Streefighter EX, Gran Tourismo,, just to name my fav's but there were so many games and good memories.

 

[jacobdrj]

I was never a fan of either the N64 or the PS1/2/3. I never liked the controllers, the graphics, and the games lacked the creativity of the older consoles, for the most part. Obviously there were some good games on the N64/PS1. But these consoles signed my exit ticket from the world of Console Gaming forever. This 'birthday' represents the death of enjoyable console gaming for me, and kind of depresses me.

 

[zjuice]

Commodore 64
Atari 7800
NES
Super NES
N64 - release date - release date
PS2 (5 of them, worst hardware ever!)- release date
Game Cube - release date
PC (still have)
Xbox360 (3 of them, damn red rings, Still have) - release date
Wii (Still have) - release date
PS3 (Good blu-Ray, Crappy online) - 6 months ago

 

[silverblue]

I don't think we can really bring the Neo Geo into this. Remember, it was technically an arcade in the home with (obviously) arcade perfect games. Purely for the real hardcore gamers but I'm sure the bragging rights would've been theirs, however being Neo Geo its games catalogue was almost exclusively SNK titles which were overshadowed by Capcom's efforts (whether they deserved to be or not, it was the unfortunate case) on other machines. Ask most people which they'd know more about between Street Fighter and King of Fighters and they'd probably go for the former. Incidentally, you can play Neo Geo titles using the Wii Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade.

As for the Dreamcast, it wasn't anywhere near the power of the PS2, however its hardware made more sense and was vastly more efficient due to the PowerVR 2 hardware. Whilst there were some technically astounding titles on the Dreamcast - Le Mans 24 Hours springs to mind - it really couldn't come close to the PS2 in terms of 3D once the latter was really able to stretch its legs due to its T&L engine, and I doubt the Dreamcast could handle games such as GT3. Even so, it was an excellent machine, and in my eyes probably the most well-rounded and innovative console up to that point, however it was born under the cloud left by the Saturn's demise and never really recovered from that. Ironic, considering it was relatively easy to get good performance from the Dreamcast whereas the PS2 had a rather steep learning curve - one of the (many) reasons the original PS beat the Saturn.

 

[lydiamarie]

long live the playstation! great updated games here:

/www.life123.com/hobbies/games/board-games/new-improved-playstation-games.shtml

 

[T3kl0rD]

I loved the Playstation 1 and I especially love playing ISO's on ePSXe! Better than the original, especially with a Logitech PS2 cordless controller and a USB adapter!

 

[skit75]

[citation][nom]ProDigit80[/nom]Sony should re-release the playstation in a Discman form![/citation]

No need to do that. I'm sure somebody here can point you in the right direction of an emulator. I know they exist. I don't know how legal or illegal they are though so I will not try.