Sony's PlayStation Turns 15

This is the PSX. Anyone refering to the original PlayStation as a PSX is to be shot on sight.

Pitfall, Frogger, & River Raid on Atari 2600
Dig Dug & Pole Position on Atari 400
Zelda and Duck Hunt on SNES
Resident Evil and FF7 on Playstation

well that's what it was a PSX and it was great for it's time. I remember standing in line for like 6 Hrs at Toy's R US, I almost didn't get one and the next batch in wasn't going to be for 60 days, that was like life or death back then. As it turned out i have been a Playstation Junkie to date, I have tried Xbox but doesn't compare at all to PS2 or PS3. I also remember the Sega Saturn which i thought was the real first 3D gameing console. My Brother has his sons PSX here under the desk with 5 games, we might have to fire it up one more time , just for old time sakes...................

I have access to all 3 versions of the PS, but the PS is my favorite by far. Lots of memories playing Grand Turismo, Xenogears, Breath of Fire III. Too bad developers do not make great games like those anymore.

I gave my xbox360 away to a family with 9 children. I needed to stop playing video games!!! Addiction Feels so good when it is Electronic.

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.

ps2 was alright , it had millions of games to choose from , so that's what i liked about it

I grew up playing pc, never really like any consoles. Really, pcs are more universal, I don't know why people buy ps3. Maybe games are better but still pc is a better option for me.

It was a big debut for Sony. After the rivalry between Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo everyone was wondering what was next. (SNES was my choice) After Sega CD came out and the commendable effort from Sega Saturn there were hints at a CD based platform that was not an add-on from what was supposed to be a Nintendo/Sony partnership continuing from when Sony provided some hardware for Nintendo systems. When the rumors of a SNES-CD stopped and Playstation emerged I held my breath. Would the beloved cartridge loaded games be replaced? What was with the CD load times?!? I knew this was going to change console games forever, especially when BIG developers like Squaresoft who became Square Enix moved over to the new platform and the rest is history. Happy 15th Playstation!

got it for my birthday when i was 9, first two games...2 Xtreme Racing, and the origianl Tekken, then twisted metal and all it's cheat codes

I have a lot of games, and still want to get more for my Playstation. It's my favorite system of all time and I still play it. Just yesterday I had Twisted Metal 4 going on it.

My fondest PS1 memory is so far above and beyond the other memories that I really only have this one... my then-gf bought me Mortal Kombat 3 for it and we were sitting at home one night playing it and she looked at me and said "Let's play strip Mortal Kombat!" Man what I'd give to be that age again!

Atari 2600 - Frogger; Combat; Yar's Revenge
Atari 5200 - River Raid; Miner 2049'er; Star Raiders
NES - Zelda; Metroid; Rygar;
Super Nintendo - Mariokart; Zelda; Super Metroid
Nintendo 64 - Mario, Zelda
Playstation - Gran Turismo; 007
Playstation 2 - More Gran Turismo; SSX
Game Cube - Mario; Zelda; Metroid Prime (notice a pattern here?)
Playstation 3 - Warhawk; Little Big Planet; COD4

I progressed from Atari -> Nintendo -> PS -> PS2 ->PC. Now I'm a PC'er for life!

I started on the SNES and them my brothers and I pooled our $ together for a PS1. First game, Einhander! Was amazing x10 compared to the only SNES 3D game I owned Star Fox. I still own and play my PS library as well as buy games that I was meaning to buy but never got around to buying when I see them in second hand shops.

I'm surprised no coleco vision fans with zaxxon, burger time, donkey kong...

my bro got a NES when i was 5 played duckhunt (that orange gun kicked asssssssssss! hahaha) then, a super Nintendo around 1997 played TONS of super mario on it! then came the N64 i think around 1999 played DukeNukem: Zero hour, Zelda, Rainbow 6, and still one of the most fun games ever made, SUPER SMASH BROS!!!!!

Oddly enough, I still think I have my old PS1 sitting around somewhere (probably in storage). Wonder if it still works?

crash bandicoot
jumping flash
resident evil 1 and 2

good times :]

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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