>comed out December 3, 1994why does ps1 feel like it comed out in 1997 instead of 1994? every notable game for it released in the late 90sdid anyone actually own one in 1995? what did they play?
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>>12110548>what did they play?Some very good arcade ports like Ridge Racer, Tekken, NBA Jam TE, some remasters of the 3DO games, a very nice port of Doom and Doom 2. Every King's Field game on the console came out in those early years. There was also Jumping Flash and that other weird 3D platformer that I forget the name of.There was an anon a couple of weeks back who claimed that consoles have their own internal generations of games and was laughed off the board, but in the case of PS1 the console truly didn't come its own until 1996 or 1997 when more involved games started coming out. Same thing happened with the PS2, its first year was absolutely dire, and everybody remembers what a laughingstock PS3 was for the first few years.
>>12110548Even if you payed full price in 95 you would of been content. You couldn't loose with Sony back then.
>>12110548I had a 2000 character post wrote but I accidentally closed the tab, so I'll give you the condensed version.No one had it before 1997. Before that, everyone thought it was Saturn vs. N64, and expected the N64 to obliterate Saturn when it finally came out. Upon release of the 64, it got a mixed reception, because Crash Bandicoot, RE1, and Tomb Raider all released on PS1 the same year and were just as good as Mario 64, and looked considerably better. I got one for my birthday in 1997 because my older cousin showed me RE1/Tomb Raider and it blew everyone's mind, I was playing Crash 2 while they were suffering through Diddy Kong Racing trying to convince themselves it was some console defining game. By the time Banjo Kazooie released, I was playing Spyro and Crash Warped and my N64 friends were mad jelly. Word of mouth started spreading about Goldeneye in 1998, but by the time my friends had it my stepdad had MGS1, and I showed it to my friends and again blew their minds. They suffered through years of the N64 hype cycle, forcing themselves to like garbage like Mario Kart and Smash 64, while I was playing FF8, Tomba, Spyro 1-3, FFTactics and other great games. I have a very distinct memory of getting a PS2 on launch year (my dad knew a guy who worked at best buy and he held me a console) and showing my tendie friends Armored Core 2 and Ridge Racer 5, the two games I had at launch. And even that late they were still convinced Playstation wasn't a real console and told me that AC2 was, "Just a dumb Gundam Wing ripoff." and "Wait until Banjo Tooie comes out bro."By like 2001 though everyone admitted PS1 won that generation and just gave up and bought a PS2. Backwards compat was a big deal for late PS1 games and the early success of PS2 because PS2 started out with NO GAEMZ, and an absurd number of good PS1 games came out between 98 and 2001. LOL, I wrote another almost 2000 characters. Love PS1. Simple as.
>>12110595How old where you in 1997?
>>12110548I was just a kid at the time but I understand what you're saying, OP.I got a PS1 for Christmas 1997, and even as a kid back then, I always thought it was strange that a lot of the games I owned at the time were sequels to games I never played or seen before on the same console. I don't even know a single person in real life that's played Tekken 1 or 2.
>>121106067, but I had to grow up early because my parents also got divorced that year. I would have suffered a lot more in those years if PS1 didn't have so many great games around that time.
>>12110617I was a 14 at the time and to me the playstation had already won in late 96. Larger library and a much deeper pipeline of games than either N64 or Saturn
>>12110629Yeah, the older cousin I mentioned who was probably like 15 already thought it was locked up for Playstation in 1996. I thought he was crazy until he showed me the games. Messing around one afternoon with PS1 and his library of games at my Aunt's house convinced me N64 and Saturn had no future compared to PS1. Even at 6 years old it was obvious that every N64 game that wasn't flatshaded like Mario 64 looked like shit, and that PS1 was somehow the better 3D console, even though N64 was supposedly a perfect 3D machine according to my tendie bros.Crazy in retrospect to think we were having these kind of console war arguments at 6-9 years old, but we were. Kid me would consistently brag about there being multiple Spyro/Crash games and only 1 Mario 64.
>>12110548>why does ps1 feel like it comed out in 1997 instead of 1994?I mean first off, unless you are Japanese then it came out in late 95. Why it feels off though is because you think of 94-96 as 16bit territory, when big name games like the Donkey Kong Country Trilogy and Yoshi's Island were coming out. People seem to draw a cleaner line in their heads between the 2D era and the 3D than existed, Sony of America's early anti-2D policies in the US probably help to encourage this. The Japanese PS1 and to some degree the European one have a ton more 5th gen 2D games.
>>12110548>comed out
>>12110548>did anyone actually own one in 1995?You're kind of correct I got mine in late 96 with a bonus paycheck bought it with the final fantasy bundle ( not a game I am really into desu) along with die hard trilogy and a lightgun. Had great fun, used hook it up to a projector and have pizza and beer parties with fightinng games like tekken 3 and cardinal syn. Stuff like wipeout and tombraider 2 was great too. It was a handy CD player too and I had a stack amp plugged into mine. Hard for you to appreciate but even buying a big quality TV back then cost $$$$
>>12110548Anything we could get our hands on really. You've got to understand that in 1994 the reference frame for most people were Amiga, Mega Drive and Super Nintendo and maybe we had seen Doom on the PC in some guy's house but at that time even the shittiest PS1 games were something mindblowing since 3D games done like that was not the common thing people were used to.
>>12110548Early PS1 was very soulful. It was basically the 3DO but actually good. I'd say the console really started to hit it's stride around mid-1996.
>>12110669Yeah, that was also the reason for Saturn's initial success. People were impressed by any 3D that looked better than Star Fox and Doom, so if you had the money you were buying a PS1 or Saturn even if King's Field and Daytona USA looked like shit compared to the later games, they were lightyears ahead of anything on Jaguar/32x/SNES/Genesis. 3DO stuff was close, but NO ONE had a 3DO.Doom and Duke 3D might be the only good 3D games on non-3D hardware. Even kids knew 16-bit consoles couldn't do real 3D. 3D games were regarded as automatically bad until Tekken/Daytona USA/VF2/Toshinden/Tomb Raider/RE1/Quake/Mario 64.
>>12110548>comed outare third worlders now in the 5th gen of game consoles? Wait til those lil guys get the ps2
My father bought one in late 95, and it had those games:- Road Rash- Jumping Flash- Tekken- Toshinden 2I remember playing Road Rash a lot and being amazed with the FMVs. Something else that really got me hooked was the audio quality. I've played the Genesis version before, and it sounded way better than that one. Even the engine noise was crispier and louder.There was another one that I barely played because I couldn't make heads or tails of it, I'm pretty sure it was Kileak or Forsaken. It was an FPS in a bunch of sci-fi corridors. I think it was Kileak, but my cousin lost the CD around 97 so I've never seen it again.
>>12110558>There was an anon a couple of weeks back who claimed that consoles have their own internal generations of games and was laughed off the boardNice try, anon
>>12110548>why does ps1 feel like it comed out in 1997 instead of 1994?FF7. as much as 4chan wants you to believe otherwise, FF7 was a huge phenomena. There was also tomb raider that released a bit before that.
>>12110864I guess that's it. Most of the iconic games only came out after 1997, and seeing stuff like Gran Turismo being talked about by everyday people (not just friends in school) was sort of a shift on how games were perceived back then.My uncle bought me Gran Turismo 1 because he kept seeing the TV ad for it and asked me what it was. My parents knew Playstation games by name.
>>12110548"Comed" is not a word, the past tense of "come" is "came."
>>12110906That's how they teach it in Indian schools.Comed, Teached, Buyed. Take your pill.
>>12110906>he tooked the bait
>>12110548Consoles can't cum
>>12110850I agreed with his observations on the Famicom/NES and the PS1, but he seemed to claim that it was a universal fact that entire console libraries can be split into three distinct periods even though other anons were giving counterexamples.
>>12110548It doesn't. You're just a third world zoomer.>>12110864Jarpiggy delusion. Diddy Kong Racing sold more copies in the US than FF7 in 1997, despite being released two months later.
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>>12110864This. Literally my grandmother recognized Cloud because there was a promotional guy dressed up as him at the mall she worked at. FF7 caused a lot of people to jump ship from Nintendo. To this day they never came up with an answer to it.
>>12110548Ridge RacerRaymanWipeoutTwisted MetalTekkenBattle Arena ToshindenDestruction Derbywere all notable games, if it was up to me I would personally throw in Namco Museum, Worms, and a few shmups like Raiden and In The Hunt because they're fun
>>12110928Do they teach you all these things wrong as a joke so you'll be laughed at and not taken seriously by any actual English speaker?
>>12110548Playstation didn't become a thing until the paid exclusives like Tomb Raider 2, FF7, and MGS started rolling in.
hmm when it came out a lot of us were in disbelief at how expensive it was but yeah i think by 97 it was more common, first resident evil was a big deal and lots of tekken.
>>12110548Seems common for Playstation consoles to be late bloomers. PS3 feels more like a 2011 console than a 2006 one because all the good shit came out in the last leg of its existence. PS2 feels like the only real exception to the rule
PlayStation Underground, mainly.
>>12110548The original mission statement of the PS was "arcade games for your home." Most games where as short as maybe 25 minutes long and were just not any good. I don't think that it had any game longer than one hour in its first two years. The PS did deliver on arcade-quality games for the time. It just needed better because the game discs were mostly blank space. Then games got longer with Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, etc. That started in 1996 but really became noticable in 1997 thanks to FF7 and TR2.
>>12110990It's perfectly reasonable to catalog things by the year or "era" they were released in. It's undeniable the industry follows trends which fall in and out of fashion.
>>12114531>I don't think that it had any game longer than one hour in its first two years.King's FieldSpace Griffon VF-9KileakMystX-COM: UFO DefenseRapid ReloadRaymanArc the LadSuikodenGexDBeyond the BeyondAll from 94 or 95. There's a lot more.
>>12113797Those demo discs were the shit, got me on so many good games.
>>12110548Because it was basically a better 3DO in terms of game library until 1996/1997 or so. PS1 peaked in the late 90s. I have read how Saturn was actually competitive with the PS1 until 1997.PS1 was a late-bloomer. It didn't have any strong identity early on compared to Nintendo and Sega.
>>12114752More LARPing from some zoomer who wasn't there. Games like Tekken/Tekken 2, Battle Arena Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Air Combat, Ridge Racer, Destruction Derby, Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Cool Boarders and Wipeout/Wipeout 2097 were hugely culturally relevant in the first couple of years of the PS1's life. It was a huge hit from day one with by far the best library of the new machines, and no amount of revisionist faggotry from faggots like yourself will change that.
>>12114774shut the fuck up. early games got mogged hard by late games you faggot
>>12114781I can't think of one single time where I saw a "top ten greatest PS1 games" list either by a site or an individual on a board that had even one single pre-1997 game on it.
>>12110548>what did they play?Tekken
>>12114802I've seen games like Crash Bandicoot, Wipeout, Tomb Raider and Jumping Flash on PS1 top tens posted by anons. There were plenty of great PS1 titles before '97.The inverse is more true. After 2000, the PS1 became a shovelware slop machine.
>>12114781I disagree.
Spokky poopy
>>12114802Exactly. When people talk about PS1 classics they usually mean FF7/8, MGS, GT1/2, RE2, SH, Crash 2/3, Spyro, Tekken 3, etc. All at least late 90s. Some 1996 stuff in there but mostly late 90s.Even the game sales numbers prove it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_video_games
A lot of the major games that were heavily marketed to Westerners and that are generally associated with the system now didn't come out until 96 or later. Just to give you an idea:>1996>Crash, RE1, Tomb Raider, Parappa>1997>FF7, FF Tactics, Gran Turismo, Crash 2, SOTN, Tekken 3, Oddworld>1998>RE2, MGS, Crash 3, MediEvil, Spyro>1999>Driver, THPS1, RE3, FF8, Silent HillAnd there were a few more games in 2000 as well. Compared to that list, 1994-1995 had very few major releases.
I’m surprised Crash 2 and 3 outside the first game
>>12114871I got a PS1 in 1998. I went for 3 and 2 first and later I played 1.
>>12110558dunno why that guy would get laughed off the board, feels like every console gen has at least 2 sub gens inside it:1. console launches with some launch titles but theres not much yet. the first year or so are filled with titles that only scrape the surface of what the console can actually do. releases are few and far between2. after the second year or so the consoles hit their stride, developers are starting to really understand what sort of crazy shit they can pull off and games are coming out every week.and then maybe a third sub gen near the end of its life where releases start to trickle off as devs prep for the next gen. some consoles also never really make it past that 1st subgen either, like the wonderswan (or ps5 kek).
>>12110595>before that everyone thought it was Saturn vs n64Absolutely not. Saturn has a disastrous launch with weak titles and the PSX undercut it by 100 bucks. While it hasn’t aged well gameplay wise, Toshinden blew away Virtua Fighter visually and you had cool stuff like Warhawk and Twisted Metal in the first few months. The Saturn was dead on arrival and honestly “PSX vs N64” didn’t last very long either as Nintendo’s system had a dreadful depth of library bouyed by just a handful of good games. This was all obvious to anyone who was patting attention at the time.
Weird shit to say.
>>12115097Disagree, but agree a bit
>>12114850Add Resident Evil, Twisted Metal 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Wipeout 2097/XL to this list. Tekken 2 was extremely popular until 3 came out and many remember it fondly even now. The PSX had a damn good library by the end of 1996
>>12110550>comed out
>>12110591>would of >loose Bruh
>>12110595>No one had it before 1997I had one before 1997. Not gonna bother reading your word vomit either.
>>12110928Do they teach "learned" in indian schools aswell, or is it just and american thing?
>>12111000>Diddy Kong Racing sold more copies in the US than FF7 in 1997source???
>>12110550>hath cometh
