In memoriam: The Playstation

[Up the Junction]

It's 25 years now since Sony announced their entry into the home console market...

There were more than 3,000 titles* released worldwide for the system. What are your favourite memories of the original incarnation of a console now into it's fifth generation? What games did you play to death?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P ... E2%80%93L)
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[Cockneyboy311]

25 years. Bloody hell :shock:

[fjthegrey]

Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Tekken
Tekken 2
Tekken 3

God damn the PS1 knew how to do trios of games.

[westhamgardner]

What a console, some of my favourites:

Medal of Honour
Tony Hawks 1 & 2
Tomb Raider
Worms armageddon
Fifa 2001 (the pinnacle of football games)

[chelmsfordhammer91]

Fifa 98 road to world cup, 'indoor' 5 a side pitch.
GTA
Gran Turismo
Crazy Taxi

[prince_huggy]

What a console, some of my favourites:

Medal of Honour
Tony Hawks 1 & 2
Tomb Raider
Worms armageddon
Fifa 2001 (the pinnacle of football games)

This thread makes me feel old. Me no likey

I'll go with what you said and add Wipeout to the list. Played that to death and one of the few games I completed from start to finish.

[szola]

Gran Turismo saved my life when I had to work nightshifts

[swisstony]

Gran Turismo
TOCA
Destruction Derby
Tenchu (I & II)
GTA & GTA London
Bushido Blade
Kurushi
Metal Gear Solid
Worms
Adidas Power Soccer (with the alternative commentary cheat code)
FIFA 98 RTWC (+1 to the 5-a-side pitch)
NIghtmare Creatures
Silent Hill
Syphon Filter
V Rally
Colin McRae Rally
International Moto X
Driver
Parappa the Rapper
Speedball

There are plenty of other I spent hours playing but they're the ones that come to mind

[Up the Junction]

Speedball

Didn't know this was released on the PS... wouldn't Speedball 2 have been out by then? Obvs a big hitter at the time on Atari ST/Amiga.

[r99c]

Gran Turismo 2 phwoarr

Let's not kid ourselves though, the daddy of the proper generation of games consoles, before this shitty online connectivity etc and social media, bakc when you used to get your mates over to actually play the games with you, will always be the PS2

[swisstony]

Didn't know this was released on the PS... wouldn't Speedball 2 have been out by then? Obvs a big hitter at the time on Atari ST/Amiga.

Sorry, my mistake, full title SpeedBall 2100, only out by 2099!

[Up the Junction]

Sorry, my mistake, full title SpeedBall 2100, only out by 2099!

Close enough! Would that be a renamed v2?

[swisstony]

I think it was a tweaked v2 especially for the PSX

[Dayinthelife]

Suikoden and Suikoden II, possibly my two fave games ever.

Also countless hours into Gran Tourismo II.

[Hammer1972]

Let's not kid ourselves though, the daddy of the proper generation of games consoles, before this shitty online connectivity etc and social media, bakc when you used to get your mates over to actually play the games with you, will always be the PS2

Strangely the only PlayStation I never owned. Not sure why, maybe I fell out of love with gaming for a while.

[Gormalysis]

Can still hear the booting up noise. It was a great console and I can see why it completely overtook the market.

Quite a few games I owned but the ones that got the most time were
Final Fantasy 7 and 9
Tony Hawks 1-3
Street Racer (round a mate’s house)
Rayman

[Clacton-ammer]

Mortal Kombat & Crash Bandicoot from my very poor memory on these sort of things.

[binary]

Just added Project Eris to my Playstation Classic and added a ton of old PS1 classics and obscurities to it. It's actually a pretty decent machine once you hack it - which you wouldn't know from half baked state they released it in.

[Up the Junction]

It's actually a pretty decent machine once you hack it...

Tell me more.

[Up the Junction]

Got to love a list.