HAPPY SWEET 16 PSone!

[Dangerboy]

And I have nothing to show for the celebration...my baby grows up so fast.

A nod to the Dreamcast as well ^_^

[Haoie]

If the PS1 was a chick, she'd totally be legal [most places].

Pondering, pondering.

[pixelsnpolygons]

I'll play some Mary Kate and Ashley's Sweet 16 Licensed to Drive today in the PlayStation's honor! But, damn, it is creeping up on 20 years. I don't have the same soft spot for it as I do the Dreamcast - but I had some awesome experiences with the original PlayStation. I was sold on the thing when I saw Ridge Racer - I was a Ridge Racer fanatic at the time. Tekken didn't hurt either. The best games were to follow, though. There were real gems on the PlayStation.

[Kevincal]

I got it on launch day 9/9/95 I remember like it was yesterday, good times. Though I have to say it seems wrong calling it the psone, technically to me its the ps1 or just ps. :) psone came out in like 2000 didnt it?

[scaryice]

I prefer to say PSX. U R NOT e!

I still need to get Mega Man 8 and Dragon Warrior 7...

[Rickstilwell1]

Favorite system of mine easily. Most of the games I play are RPGs. Most of the RPGs I play are on Playstation. I especially enjoy the 2D RPGs, but the 3D ones are quite nice as well. PS1 was also home to so many great platformers and adventures.

[retroguy]

When I got my first job, the PS1 was the first game system I bought with my own money. My friend had one and playing it at his house, I got totally hooked on Crash Bandicoot, but when I got my own, I discovered many awesome games. The best ever, though, was Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. I picked it up when I saw the ads announcing that it was going away, which I guess was my first purchase as a "collector" (although these days I don't really collect beyond simply keeping all the games I buy to play). I was on vacation when I found it, so I had to wait a few days before I could play it.

When I actually did play it though, I was completely blown away by it. To this day, it's the only game I've ever played where I cried during the end credits because the story had moved me that deeply and because I had fallen so in love with the world and characters that I didn't want it to end. And the game keeps getting rereleased (most recently for the PSP), so I keep hoping that maybe someday someone will make a movie or short-run anime series out of it so that the story can be enjoyed by a wider audience.

[Ludwig]

The PSone (PS1) is currently 12 or so, not 16, the one you think of will turn 17 in just a view month from now, so i fear you are a little late or way to early, even though technically is the first release in the USA. If you want to be absolutely correct you call it a PlayStation or PS, in my world PSX is also acceptable, since that was what most people called it, and at least around here even the press often abbreviated it with PSX. I guess the "real" PSX was just name-recycling since many people ended up falsely calling any PS, PSone, after the PSone was released.
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Well, happy US-Release anniversary PS!

[WesternNYCollector]

I saw people abbreviating PlayStation as PSX long before that PSX DVR-thing ever came out in Japan. Two letters is just one too few to make it a distinct enough abbreviation and calling it the "PS1" seems redundantly redundant to me.

[BydoEmpire]

Odd timing with this thread, but last night I happened to be looking at my PS1 games on the shelf, and was thinking "there's a LOT of great stuff here." Games I will definitely be playing again. Some of the FF Chronicles games are on my "retirement games" list (games I want to play but know I never will until I retire and have lots of free time).

I was never a huge Playstation guy. I bought one when Soul Blade came out because I loved it in the arcade, and after I played it on a friend's Playstation I decided to pick one up as well. I actually wasn't doing tons of gaming that generation, but I do remember picking up Resident Evil 2 when it came out and getting totally hooked. I heard about the series but never played the first one. Man, did I love that game, and every Resident Evil up through 4 (not counting the spinoffs). I also really liked that the PS1 had so many great classic game compilations - the Konami one in particular is awesome.

As that generation neared the end of its life, I think I played a lot more Playstation, and I ended up getting quite a few games for the system. I bought Castlevania Chronicles when it came out, and I remember getting to Dracula but I could never quite beat him. I've still got that darn save taunting me... I also started FF 7 after I had finished FF X on the PS2. I never got around to it in the day, and it was pretty fun. Didn't finish, though, I got about 20-ish hours in, started the second disc and that was it.

Happy Birthday Playstation!

[Dangerboy]

PS One as "first playstation" - not the remake white one, and it's 16 - I'm going by US years, not Japan. :)

[Flashback2012]

Happy (US) Birthday to both the PlayStation and the Dreamcast! :bday:

It's hard to believe it's been 16 and 12 years already. The kids grow up so fast. @_@

[spongerob]

This machine gave me some of my favorite games which I still love to this day. It also was by far the most fun machine to hang out with friends and play. Can't believe it's been 16 years already.

[YoshiM]

Wow...how time flies. At first I hated the PSX due to it's controller and how it made some not so savory influences to the game industry at the time (mandatory memory cards-looking at you). But titles like Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3 (CHICKEEENNNNNN!), Castlevania:SOTN and Silent Hill got me to move past those negatives.

Happy B-Day PSX!

[Smashed Brother]

I embarrassingly purchased the PSX about a month after launch so I could get a near-arcade perfect port of Mortal Kombat 3. Ugh....I was a total MK loser at that time. But, the system introduced me to the Tekken series, the Ridge Racer series and a whole host of other awesome games. I remember lugging my system around to friends' houses so we could play some rentals all night.

While the PSX received less attention from me in the later years (especially once the DC released), I'll never forget that inital impact...that what you had at home, finally could match or surpass what was in the arcades. Also, the many years of fun I had playing the greats on this little system. The PSX is actually home to a few of my all-time favorite games: Castlevania SOTN, XCom UFO Defense, Tekken 3, Wipeout XL and The Raiden Project.

[substantial_snake]

Most of my fondest gaming memories were made with the PS1 so this console will have a very special place for me. It was the first that that I was really wowed with both graphics, sound and effective story telling in games. This console made me both actually care deeply about why I was saving the world instead of just having fun along the way. At the same time that console had ton's of great games outside of story heavy affairs. I really don't know how many hours I put into the first three Crash and Spyro games but it was enough to go back and still enjoy those titles today. Sony made a huge impression with me on their first console and because of that they have had a pretty loyal customer since.

Favorite Game: Xenogears (first RPG I had beat on my own ^_^)

[RPG_Fanatic]

I was there on launch day getting my Playstation. I remember it like it was yesterday. Some of the best RPG's ever are on the PSX, my favorite system of all time!!!!!

[Nirvana]

My oldest brother bought a PSX around the time Final Fantasy VII came out. In fact, that was our first game for the system. We were blown away by the graphics at the time; especially the cutscenes.

Oh...the nostalgia :D

[starchildskiss78]

It is funny....most of my friends either owned a Sega Genesis, SNES, or Sega Saturn (primarily the Sega Saturn as their parents shelled out the money for the new system. I still had my SNES at the time.)

The only person I knew that had a Sony Playstation was my cousin. His mother ordered it for him out of the outrageously priced Fingerhut catalog ($600 bucks!!!). I would go to his house after I got done with classes and play whatever games he had. He had stuff like Ridge Racer, Twisted Metal 2, and the Playstation Underground demos. I even bought a game for his system: Felony 11-79!

I had some fun with the system, but it was not as memorable as some of the other systems I played. I always liked the Sega Saturn more for its games because it seemed like Sega tried so hard with games like Astal and Nights Into Dreams. When I finally bought a Sony Playstation (used) in 2000, the Sega Dreamcast was out.

I kept my Sony Playstation and its games for my move to Mobile, AL. I eventually had to replace it with a PS One because it was wearing out. I like the fact the PS One is much smaller, but I have a hell of a time getting discs in and out with my big hands...plus, the plug is a big pain with its massive box and its fold-in prongs. Why couldn't they have kept the simple two prong plug from the original?

Anyways....Happy Sweet 16 Sony Playstation...you managed to steal the thunder of not one but TWO systems (N64 being the second) and turned into a juggernaut that cannot be ignored. U R Not (red)E indeed....

[Graham Mitchell]

It's 16 years old but it still feels relatively new to me.

This platform had a long shelf life, didn't it? It came out my junior year of high school, and I was still buying new games for it after I graduated college!

[SpaceHarrier]

Happy birthday Playstation! I'll never forget that first time I saw a demo kiosk in FedCo.

I still love you, Battle Arena Toshinden (even if no one else does).

[Xtincthed]

i was too young then to buy one at launch (and it took me years to have enough money to buy a retail console) but i remember being amazed at the graphics :o

staring at Ridge Racer for hours in a shop :p

happy birthday "old" friend !

[AMG]

The PSX stands as one of my favorite consoles of all time, such an amazing game library for that machine.