If you're reading this, then there's a good chance that you grew up making PlayStation memories. The problem with these, though, is that they can't easily be shared. Fortunately, Sony has teamed up with Studio Output and Found Studio to produce an animated video based upon Tweets posted by gamers all around the globe – including one Greg Miller of Kinda Funny fame.
The clip includes skits involving players memorising the map in Resident Evil right the way through to breaking a DualShock due to Street Fighter Alpha 3. Personally, we can relate to the button bashing in Tekken – our Marshall Law was at his absolute fiercest when we were rubbing the end of a spoon across our PSone controller's unfortunate face buttons. Which bits stand out to you? Take a trip down memory lane in the comments section below.
[source digitalnewsroom.co.uk, via vimeo.com]
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The most furious button bashing I remember was the torture scene in MGS1. My friend and I came up with the idea of covering your knuckle with the sleeve of your shirt/jumper and then rubbing it back and forth on the controller as fast as you can, worked a treat!
@SteveButler2210
I always put my thumb, which was placed on the button, against my chin and started shaking like a mad men.... Coincidentally I have severe neck problems these days. Too bad I'm not American, I'd sue the hell out of Konami
@Boerewors That's an interesting tactic. It was always jumper or a spoon for me.
putting in magazine demo disc , loading the start (PS) screen , swiftly removing said disc , sticking some tape over the little bulb thing and then slamming in your (pirated) game of choice ! (not that i did or condone this of course)
@SteveButler2210 Button mashing on the torture scenes was not something I mastered until playing MGS2 on European extreme. It was only then I realised if you took a pen and rubbed it back and forth over the triangle button (possibly the wrong button) very quickly you could own it.
MGS was easy for me I had a cheap logitech controller with autofire so I just had to hold the O button down
@SteveButler2210 Yeah, I hated that segment of an otherwise amazing game. I remember spending days trying to beat that part. Eventually I did, but not without thumb pain. Peace Walker had a worse one in my opinion though. I have the same mashing strength my thumb has in my index finger, so I beat that one by switching between them. Part of the reason I don't play the Metal Gear series on harder difficulties is because I know the mashing segments get ridiculous.
Well, this is actually an NES memory but it's a fond gaming memory nonetheless- that video still shows someone pushing buttons like a control cabinet- that was totally me when I played Super Mario Bros for the first time at the age of 7 lol. I sat the controller in my lap and "point-pushed" the buttons to run and jump- I cried when I couldn't make it over the pit
My fondest PS memory was long nights of local multiplayer in EA Sports NHL 03 (or something like that) on the PS2. I used to love my hockey games...
That wold be me with the memory card lol. At that time memory cards were such a new idea I was use to games having a battery back up like NES or SNES games. I remember getting FF VII and taking it over to my friends house only to discover we needed a memory card which nether of us had and we didn't have the money to go get one. When we got to the end of the first disc, we were so afraid to turn the system off, that we had to keep the PS running with FFVII for about a week till we were able to get one lol.
I played so much Tony Hawk Pro Skater that I had a blister that covered the entirety of the top of my right thumb. I was unstoppable in that game & no one has ever come close to beating me...damn that blister was hectic though.
@SteveButler2210 A battery or crayola felt tip pen for me!
Same strat for International Track and Field.
A personal funny moment was the cat junping out of the locker in Silent Hill, it made me jump so hard that I dropped the controller after pulling it out of the PlayStation!
My PS controller hand memory which I still do but it never seems to work is R1, R2, L1, L2 Start and Select when I feel like quitting out of a game or rebooting a frozen one. Squeenix should add it into FFXV for old times sake.
I think I got FF7 Christmas '98 from a really good friend of mine, but I got a PS1 for Parasite Eve awesome graphic cut scenes. The game that made me get back into gaming after a 10 year or so hiatus.
I remember spending half term playing the original Tomb Raider on Playstation with my mate. He stayed on a Z-Bed in my room - we woke up, played until lunch time when my Mum would insist we got dressed and had lunch. Then go back to playing till dinner when Mum would force us downstairs again, and finally play into the small hours before falling asleep and repeating the process. I think we completed it by Wednesday, so did it again till Friday!
I had Diablo 1 and had my character to level 24 with great gear. I was mucking around with memory card options in another game and clicked the Format option, not knowing what it did. Good bye Diablo, good bye over 180 hours of FFVII and FFVIII. Oh well nearly 15 years later and I am still weary to click format for anything.
I remember when I was younger I couldn't beat the MGS torture scene. Later I developed a technique where I just tighten all the muscles in my hand and wrist with my thumb over the button to be mashed, and I shake my arm at the elbow violently by tensing the muscles over and over basically. Works on any mashing sequence, always been faster than my friends.
My friend and I also played Cool Boarders 2 so much one day that we had blisters on our thumbs, so we put band aids over the blisters and kept playing, hahaha. That game was great. Wep Systems!
Finally, that same friend had just beaten MGS3 in a single sitting, and was watching the credits with that awful song (OOOH, I've got something in my throooat!) and he said he wished he could skip it. I told him "Try this. Hold L1, L2, R1, R2, Start, and Select." He did it, and reset the game before he ever got his ranking. He was so pissed but we laughed so much, because he totally knew what a soft reset was and did it anyways. He must have just been too tired to catch it. Great times with my PS systems.
Oh, and then there was also trying over and over again to beat the last test for the Class A license in the original Gran Turismo. The car with the broken front strut I believe. That was such a pain. I never did manage it as a kid, but I played it again last year and finally beat it.
@Baron_Von_Aaron HEEERE'S TO YOOOOU always gets stuck in my head now lol, and I have the MGS1 soundtrack on my phone so I always tear up when that end song plays ("The Best Is Yet To Come").
My first system was the GT3 PS2 bundle. Got it in the morning and played it all night! That first race blew my ayuss off. And the MGS2 demo at Target always stuck with me. Lots of ps1 memories at friends' houses tho! I walked in on the hang-off-the-side-of-a-blimp-or-something part of FF8 and wanted one so badly...
@charlesnarles Hahaha that same friend I mentioned plays that like every time he comes over.
Here's to you, Nicola and Bart!
Rest forever here in our hearts!
The last and final moment is yours!
That agony, is your triumph!
I jus used my index finger an middle finger that shiz worked amazingly fast 😂😂😂😂 the good old dayz, I miss them
Forcing broken games to work by holding down that magic button at the end of the console - In fact I managed to play FF8 disc 1 (only a 3rd of the disc was present at the time ), with disc 2! the game worked find but FMV's were all screwy
Dude the memory card one got me. I beat Resident Evil 2 in a day at my cousins house because he didn't have a memory card.
And also at home,Destruction Derby 2 beat it without memory card.couldn't let all that progress go to waste.
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