The PlayStation 5 is here and everyone seems to be loving it, but sometimes it's nice to look back at how it all started. The original PlayStation arrived in 1995, changing the industry and laying the path to where we are today. One way to get a quick history lesson is to watch the above video from YouTube channel My Retro Life, presented by Tyler Esposito.
This short film goes over the main bullet points of the PS1's creation and early days, but it mixes it with some amazing home videos. Tyler's father captured lots of footage of the PS1, as well as his son enjoying the likes of Battle Arena Toshinden, Ridge Racer, and Time Crisis. The family was able to rent a Japanese PlayStation months ahead of public release, getting a taste of proper 3D gaming before many others.
It's an informative video, but it's also one that should put a smile on your face. Seeing Tyler as a child getting overexcited opening birthday and Christmas gifts makes our inner child very happy. If you're in the mood for a nostalgic trip down memory lane and have a spare 10 minutes, we can highly recommend this.
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This is a brilliant video, thanks for sharing.
Awesome video, funnily enough I actually bought Ridge Racer yesterday. I remember first seeing the Playstation on Gamesmaster, showing off Ridge Racer which was out of this world compared to the Megadrive and Super Nintendo. My first experience of one was playing Resident Evil at a friend's house and we were all just stunned as it looked real, then a bit of Tekken and as I was the only one who bothered to look at the manual (remember those?), I wiped the floor with everyone as King. The mid 90's was a truly special time for gaming and one that we'll sadly never come close to replicating again
Brilliant video full of nostalgia! That kids Dad is a legend, collecting games and having a home theatre. What a lucky guy
Wow the 90s nostalgia there! Awesome flashback to that time.
Still remember getting my PS1 for Christmas. My parents pretended that Santa only got me the cables and games and that I would have to wait an entire year for the console itself. And as my 7 year old self held back tears, my sister pushed the console behind me and said "look!"... I turned and accidentally tripped right onto it and broke the disc drive xD
Boxing Day was spent at GAME with my dad asking if they could provide a replacement xD... Good times!
I remember that dinosaur demo, still looks really impresive, especially on crt.
The $299 short n sweet statement will go down in Gaming history as a game changer...........AGES
Check out Bedroom to Billions Great film about Sony Playstation.
PlayStation 1 is at the very top of the list for my favorite system of all time
Great video! To be honest I was never a PlayStation fan. I bought the console near the end of its cycle and the only game I’d gotten for it is Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style. I was too much of a Nintendo fanboy to ever stray. But PS2 changed the game for me.
Awesome little video!
The PS1 was arguably the first console that showed off the full range of what gaming could strive for. It had everything: survival horror, story-heavy JRPGs, 2D platformers, 3D platformers, action games, shooters, puzzle games, fighting games, and, for possibly the first time, truly cinematic and emotional experiences like Metal Gear Solid.
Sony's lack of censorship and the large amount of data that could be fitted onto the CD-ROMs meant that third party support and creativity would explode and leave the comparably restrictive Nintendo 64 in the dust.
I loved living through that era. I was a tad older than this kid but man was that an awesome time. Playing RE1 and 2 with my buddies at sleep overs, along with RPG Maker and FF7, 8, and 9. Sooooooo many good games and memories!
I think I would have turned out a bit different if I had a dad like that. My dad was always against video games and constantly shamed me for liking them. Hopefully a lot of kids these days have the experience of the kid in this video.
That was totally rad. Thank you!
We have great history.
And it could make the amazing future.
I remember when I got my PS1. Christmas of 1998, about three years into the lifecycle. My first set of games for it was Final Fantasy VII, Small Soldiers, and Street Fighter Alpha 2. After Christmas I used allowance money for working around the property to buy Final Fantasy Tactics and Megaman X4.
I was a big PS1 fan, but i won’t lie I was mainly into the Nintendo 64. Me and all of my friends had one; I was the only one with a Playstation alongside it. So my late 90s childhood was mostly Mario Kart 64, SSB, Star Fox 64, so on and so forth. We always brought controllers to each other’s house and played multiplayer games.
I didn’t really use my PS1 heavily until after the Dreamcast flopped. I went without a new gen console until my GameCube at launch, and there wasn’t much out for it that I really liked beyond exclusives, which you had to wait for to release. In that time period, I started really getting cracked out on the PS1, purchasing older Square RPGs for it in 2001 and 2002. I fell in love with the PS1 at that point and my GameCube mostly collected dust outside of the yearly big Nintendo releases.
In early 2003, I managed to convince my grandparents to buy me a PS2. They had bought a DVD player two years before, but they kept it in the living room. I told them that I really wanted to watch movies in my room, and they were going to get a DVD player for me. I told them that a PS2 made more sense for me because it was roughly the same price (I think Sony had dropped it to 200 bucks by that point) and it also played all those PS1 games I was cracked out on.
After that, I became a huge playstation fan and have remained so to this day. Except for the period between 2006 and 2010. I was in line to get a PS3 on launch day, but changed my mind at the last second and went with the much cheaper 360.
I migrated back to Playstation when I traded my fourth 360 (RROD was a pain) for a slim PS3 in early 2010.
Thanks for sharing Push Square.
Wish I had some videos of this type from my childhood. Would pay a fortune for footage of my mates and me playing a Sensible Soccer tournament on the Mega Drive.
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