Topic: The PlayStation thread

Might as well make a thread dedicated to the original PlayStation! After all, you can't talk about retro consoles without mentioning it.

Anyone else still regularly use their PlayStation? I have mine hooked up to a CRT and it looks glorious.

I also have the Logic3 portable LCD screen, but I find it's too small for me to properly enjoy whatever game I'm playing.

I've recently played the OG 1996 Resident Evil Director's Cut on my CRT for the first time (I had only played the 2002 REmake before it) and it was a genuinely great experience. Since then I've had a sort of renewed love for the little gray box, and shifted the focus of my collection to PS1 games, particularly survival horror titles of the era. I'm about to pull the trigger on a small lot including mint copies of Resident Evil 2 and 3, Dino Crisis and Silent Hill. I can't wait to play them on original hardware for the first time.

I still have one, but it's in storage. I keep a PS3 hooked up, so there's no reason to ever get the PSX out. I transferred all my memory card data decades ago. Maybe if I had a CRT TV, lots of room in my house, and played a bunch of light gun games, it'd be different.

Am I really missing out on anything playing on the PS3, though? Out of my PSX library, I mostly only play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Metal Gear Solid, and Jumping Flash anyway.

I never owned a PS1.

But my first time playing games was with a PS1, even though the PS2 already existed at that time. I didn't even know about it, much less understand the context of consoles.

Medal of Honor was one of the games I played a lot with friends because it had split-screen. We never managed to finish the campaign, though; there was a level where the CD wouldn't load.

Another game that left me VERY scared, completely terrified, and with nightmares... was Silent Hill. It was one of the first games I tried to play, I didn't even know horror movies or games existed, I didn't understand the concept of horror in media.

I've got 3, because I refuse to let anyone throw them away...they're also a part of history: one is the original PS1 my brother bought 2nd hand from a friend in work, must've been '96 or '97; one is the PS1 that me and another brother bought when that brother moved out, later sold to brother #3 so we could fund a PS2 purchase and; the final was one I bought from eBay a few years ago before I ended up with the family heirlooms!

I love connecting them up to my little CRT and playing the Point Blank and Time Crisis games, absolute peak gaming. Also love a spin on Gran Turismo, V-Rally 2 or Rollcage: Stage 2. Amazing system.

I really wish Sony would release a modern PS1 with a digital store. Although I suppose that already exists, what with the PS3 being able to play PS1 games.

Back when the PS Classic was in development I did think that it'd be neat if Sony included the ability to access a PSOne Classics-only version of the store to allow people to buy new games to install onto it, & to download games you already had purchased previously, but I never really though they'd actually do that.

My dad got one near it's launch, at least it was the original model. I played a lot of sports games with him, mainly NHL and some PGA Tour golf, it was fun. The only game I played single player was Final Fantasy VII, didn't beat it for some reason until later on PC though. My sister loved Resident Evil 1-3.

I skipped PS2 entirely and got a PS3. I don't have a PSOne at the moment and only a handful of games for collecting purposes (SotN and MGS come to mind, plus King's Field and a couple of others). A great and important system nonetheless. I've been playing OG Silent Hill on PS Triple, bought it and some other games on the PS Store a while back.

I thought I was done with games when I went to uni, leaving my SNES behind for real life. Hard to picture now, but gaming was still mainly thought of as a sort of child/youth distraction, particularly console gaming.

Years later, now an employed adult, I bought myself a PS1 and took it home with Wipeout 2097 and Tekken 2, based on a friend's recommendation. It's the one moment over the last 40+ years of gaming where my jaw properly hit the floor. Couldn't believe what I was seeing or hearing when the 2097 intro played and I then started racing to the Prodigy's Firestarter. Realised there and then that gaming would become an adult hobby too.

I'm mainly using my modded PS3 to play PS1/PS2 games. Although I pulled out the PSONE while I was backing up some PS4 games.

Look at that thing!! I remember that ad campaign so well. "Whenever. Wherever. Forever"

That Demo 1 intro was the coolest thing I had ever seen at the time.

That popup screen is so cool! And Quake 2 too, it's on my wishlist, as is Doom.

I still own the PS2 slim I bought as a teenager, but it looks like it's not reading PS1 discs anymore. Supposedly the laser needs adjustment or replacement. Bummer because I just got Riven for it and was curious to see how it looked. I also want to play more of Gran Turismo 2 and Colin McRae Rally 2.0.

As a cash strapped teenager my PS1 sadly went as trade-in value against a PS2 in whatever deal Game (electronics boutique?) had at the time.

I'll never forget the day I got my PS1 though. Christmas '98, with FFVII - which I'd seen played at friends and was obsessed with. Sorry to prior systems, but it was easily my best Xmas present ever.