Playstation One memories.

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I was struck down with a rather an annoying ailment and had to take to my bed for some months. Now playing games on a PC can be a tad problematic whilst lying in bed so I decided to buy myself a Playstation One and replay the games of yesteryear.

The most difficult was trying to remember the titles of the games I played. Tomb raider and the Resident Evil series were easy enough but others were a little more difficult.

Anyway the point to my thread is I was in my forties before I played my first game and I can remember spending many hours playing games, far to many if the truth be known, but when I replayed the games recently I still got the same buzz, even through in nearly every way they are so inferior to today's games.

For some reason I sold the console and games when I was back on my feet, but oddly, some months later I am wishing I had not. I think I will buy another one. LOL.
 
It's difficult to see anything other than a statement in your post so not really sure how I should reply. But saying that, I'd love to own a PS1 again, if only so I could play the original Destruction Derby.
 
Zero Pope said:
It's difficult to see anything other than a statement in your post so not really sure how I should reply. But saying that, I'd love to own a PS1 again, if only so I could play the original Destruction Derby.
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Sorry mate I did not post a question just feeling a little nostalgic for a PS1.
 

Ahh the memories :) Abe's Odysee, Destruction Derby 2, Die Hard Trilogy, Silent Hill, Wipeout 2097, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken. I could go on. One of the best consoles ever :D
 
The games I remember fondly are;

Final Fantasy 7,8
Resident Evil 1,2
Tomb Raiders
Oddworlds Abes Oddesy
Gran Turismo 1,2
Tekken 1,2,3
Fifa 98 Road to World cup
Metal Gear Solid
Vandal Hearts
Silent Hill
Cool Boarders
Twisted Metal Series
Tony Hawks Pro Skater
 
I still (and probably always will) think that the PS1 had the best games from any console.
The only competition at the time was the Saturn which was a fail, and the N64 that used cartridges so couldn't compete on game size. Iirc the ROM for some of the N64 Zelda games was something like 30mb. I think Nintendo had a massive fail by using cartirdges for their mid-1990s console.

I am currently playing:
Crash 2 (far too easy to finish the main quest, yet Crash 1 was too hard!)
FF6 (PS1 remake of the SNES classic)
Tomb Raider 3 (**** me the controls are frustrating)

Every now and then I play Resident Evil 2 & 3 and I do enjoy a run through on FF7-9 every few years.
 
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Resi 1-3
Final Fantasy VII
G-Police
Twisted Metal 1 & 2
Fighting Force
Nightmare Creatures
Crash Bandicoot (1 & 2 were my favourites)
Cool Boarders
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
Destruction Derby 2 (I preferred 2 for some reason, think it had multiplayer?)
Pro Evo 2
Dino Crisis
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
N64 that used cartridges so couldn't compete on game size
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mgbs don't make the game ;) - although I will concede that the were some adavntages to using CDs at the time. There were also some negatives. The best games on the N64 - which were the best that gen for me - wouldn't have been as good if not on cartridge.

Bushido Blade, Tekken, Nightmare Creatures, MGS and Resident Evil were my faves :)
 
Warbie said:
mgbs don't make the game ;) - although I will concede that the were some adavntages to using CDs at the time. There were also some negatives. The best games on the N64 - which were the best that gen for me - wouldn't have been as good if not on cartridge.

Bushido Blade, Tekken, Nightmare Creatures, MGS and Resident Evil were my faves :)
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The only disadvantage was load times IIRC?
 
Still got my PS1. The one game that stood out for me was Ninja Assassins, 10yrs since i last played it. But sadly no longer have it. Played all the James Bond games. There was a WWII series but i can`t remember what it was called.
 
There was a game I remember set in Egypt had blue crabs, which usually hid in vases, there were mummies who carried staffs that fired bolts of lightning or somesutch at you, anyone care to name it from that minimal description.

But yes to resident evil games but my all time favourite game was Alien Trilogy, that was the first game I ever played, are such memories.
 
grimm said:
The only disadvantage was load times IIRC?
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That's the main one - the loading times were massive. Playstation games always struggled with 3D too - the games never looked solid, like everytung was a 3D paper model, and the graphics were grainy. I'm not sure if the latter is to do with the storage medium, but I can't think of a 3D PSX game that wasn't grainy.
 
Warbie said:
That's the main one - the loading times were massive. Playstation games always struggled with 3D too - the games never looked solid, like everytung was a 3D paper model, and the graphics were grainy. I'm not sure if the latter is to do with the storage medium, but I can't think of a 3D PSX game that wasn't grainy.
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That would be the 33mhz processor and 2mb of RAM :p They didn't look the best but they sure were fun. In some cases, like Resident Evil 2, I think it actually added to the atmosphere.
 
When you look past all the games that made the PS1 amazing and spawned many franchises, the one thing I recall was just how many demos I played. As far as I'm aware, it was the first console to really offer Demos and the Playstation magazines carried new ones each month.

At its peak, the Playstation had a crazy amount of games released for it and obviously they weren't all going to be successful.

For example, I remember playing a demo for a platformer called Spider:



How about Time Commando, anyone remember that:
 
Warbie said:
mgbs don't make the game ;) - although I will concede that the were some adavntages to using CDs at the time. There were also some negatives. The best games on the N64 - which were the best that gen for me - wouldn't have been as good if not on cartridge.

Bushido Blade, Tekken, Nightmare Creatures, MGS and Resident Evil were my faves :)
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I just loved the huge range of games on the Playstation. There were just a few Nintendo hit titles that the PSX did not have. Unlike today where there is little between the 360 and the PS3 as they are essentially two differernt versions of the same thing.

I enjoyed a range 0f series such as:
Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Micro Machines, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Destruction Derby, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Tenchu, Armoured Core, Spyro, Wipeout, Parappa the Rappa, Ape Escape, Oddworld, Twisted Metal, Tony Hawk's, Syphon Filter, Medal of Honor, Grandia, Driver, Road Rash, Ridge Racer, Cool Borders, Dino Crisis, Star Wars, LMA Manager.......these are all series that I have said which were good not just individual games!

Some liked Tekken - I hated it!

I would argue that the 360 and PS3 are equal, but in the 1990s the PSX took a gigantic crap on the N64, shortly followed by a repeat performance with the PS2 and Gamecube....and I love the gamecube for the Resident Evil Remake!
I even liked the N64 because Goldeneye, Mario Cart and Zelda were so much fun, but a few top games could never top the enourmous range of titles on the PSX.
 
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To be fair the graphics were such a giant leap from the previous gen of consoles that a few graphical problems were a non-issue. I never once heard of anyone complaining or arguing over graphics back then.

The main advantage and selling point of the N64 I thought were the small number of amazing games on it such as Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, Perfect Dark 64, Donkey Kong 64, Starfox 64, the Zelda games.
 
Kronos said:
There was a game I remember set in Egypt had blue crabs, which usually hid in vases, there were mummies who carried staffs that fired bolts of lightning or somesutch at you, anyone care to name it from that minimal description.
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Exhumed?

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Tonight I'm going to try and get a PSX emulator working on my iPad and go for a run through of Final Fantasy 8 :D
 
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