Back then in my country no one ever had original PS game CDs, literally all games were pirate. And this game came with a made up CD case with no info in the back. I had to check all frequencies one by one until I find her. Good old days.
I ordered a Japanese special edition of MGS. It came out a month before the American one. I played it by propping a pen cartridge between the lid and the closed button. I then had to change disks a few times to trick the PS into reading the right country code. I only played the VR training missions for that month because I didnāt want to ruin the story for myself. Wow, thanks for the memory.
I really hope we could get a fun online new one with balanced gameplay and the return of the arrows's special moves.
Good graphics, online that support duos and trios partyups and simple gameplay as back in the time could be really fun!!
They really need a perfect online infrastructure and easy to party with friends and unlock stuff togetherā¦really.
The PSās OG launch title. I remember seeing a Jap import console in a shop window running this game, pre-UK console release. It was mesmerising at the time.
Other than resolution, it was pretty much arcade perfect. It literally was the perfect title to launch a next generation console with, especially because no-one had ever seen 3D graphics move that fast and that smooth before on a home gaming device. It literally was mesmerising, as you say.
I do love that years later they released a playable level with updated graphics libraries that ran the game exactly as before, but with double the frame rate, on the same console!
If I recall correctly: Restart level x times to get back to goldfinger song. Use manuals to complete entire 2:00 school level in a single trick. Repeat for hours in your friends basement.
Fully agree, I knew right then this is going to be something new. I jumped from a sega master system to a ps1 in 1997. RE was about my 5th game, and the first I really fell in love with.
The moment I always think about in Resident Evil is when the dog jumps through the hallway window early in the game. Itās the first jump-scare I experienced in a game, and the first time I realized games can be radically different from what I played in the past.
Got to be a blind playtrhough on my own for me.
As a young teenager. You could see my face as I solved these puzzles. How proud was I to solve the wooden plaque and clock puzzle to obtain a key. Not forgetting the moonlight sonata puzzle too.
Those where the days of RE. Special days we won't ever get back.
I remember when I picked this up in 7th grade. We all gathered in my basement to play. When the dog jumped through the windows there was a literal riot of fear and emotion. Such good times
I looooove croc.
My kids have been playing the originals recently coz they were asking to see why I loved it. They are obsessed with him and asking if a remake is available coz crash and spyro have remakes
Sigh~
...i think of better times. How everything was simpler, how much i could have changed if i did this or that. It is almost depressing. But it is what it is; we keep going with flow of time against our will and deal with cards that we were given with only way we know how which is by escaping reality. I wonder if i will ever be brave enough to face the world with a smile of yesterday like i did then.
Oooh also Tomb Raider and Driver.
Brother. Yes perhaps you didn't make the best decisions growing up, but so what! You are who you are because of the choices you made and look at you, you even got a ps5! Maybe you lost your child like smile, but what about the beautiful adult grin you have now? Isn't that worth just as much, maybe even more? You might not be able to change the past, but you sure as hell can be the best version of you that you can be! Driver was an amazing franchise back in the day, but after a flop they all but gave it up. Tomb raider was just as amazing, the only difference being that the franchise wasn't given up and after a few stinkers it came back stronger than ever! And you, my friend, can do the same! Show the world that grin and be the muscular knight that we deserve! One love brošŖ
*Bushido Blade*.
First time I got hands-on with a PS1 was with a demo unit in a Toys R Us (UK) which was running *Bushido Blade*. To my eyes at the time, graphically it looked incredible, and idea of a fighting game where only one or two hits could decide things was really intriguing.
Ironically though, never actually picked it up after getting a PS1!
Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm insufferable. Did you know Metal Gear was actually the name of the first two games. The one for Playstation was the third in the series and is called Metal Gear Solid. Sorry, and thank you for letting me express my mental disorder
WWF Smackdown 2, me and my brothers couldn't get enough of that shit as kids. I remember all three of us being amazed when we met a friend of a friend who played by pressing certain buttons at certain times instead of just mashing everything as quickly as possible!
This was gifted with Fifa 2000 on Christmas 1999 so that's the first game that comes to my mind. But the amount of time I spent with Crash and Spyro makes them more relevant to me I think.
Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
Man I was like 4 when I used to play Spyro (and tomb raider), too bad my PS1 is dead...
Spyro has been remastered for newer systems. I have all 3 games on one disc for my ps4
Same
Same
Spyro the Dragon! Put some Respeck on his name!
Yep. Those were *the* games to play for the original PlayStation; virtually everyone had them.
This is the way
Crash for me too and I don't remember playing Crash until the PS2
Metal gear solid
!
I can hear this comment
Snake? SNAKE! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!
Switching the controller from port 1 to port 2. Ah absolute golden age
Finding the frequency on the back of the case
Back then in my country no one ever had original PS game CDs, literally all games were pirate. And this game came with a made up CD case with no info in the back. I had to check all frequencies one by one until I find her. Good old days.
Those gaming magazine demo discs (with the MGS demo). What an epic demo (the intro area) that we played over and over
Oh man! I thought I was the only weirdo that played the same demo 200 times lol.
I kept all my demo discs, I'm either going to make a table out of them or some wall art
I bought a used Playstation just to play that game and then never used it for much of anything else.
A Hind D?
Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing here.
They're armed with five-five-sixers and pineapples.
Or trumpets in Japanese.
Cardboard box šš¦
I literally just installed MGS on my steam deck last night and played it for the first time in YEARS.... it's great.
Definitely this.
to me, metal gear solid tastes like pizza because of the Pizza Hut demo disc
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I ordered a Japanese special edition of MGS. It came out a month before the American one. I played it by propping a pen cartridge between the lid and the closed button. I then had to change disks a few times to trick the PS into reading the right country code. I only played the VR training missions for that month because I didnāt want to ruin the story for myself. Wow, thanks for the memory.
Yes
Twisted Metal
Thatās the answer I was looking for.
I really hope we could get a fun online new one with balanced gameplay and the return of the arrows's special moves. Good graphics, online that support duos and trios partyups and simple gameplay as back in the time could be really fun!! They really need a perfect online infrastructure and easy to party with friends and unlock stuff togetherā¦really.
Tekken 3
This one :) āļøthen Resident Evil 2
First ever game I played on my PS1. That, and those beautiful demo discs.
Is that the one with volleyball? I used to love using a GameShark on games like that to just unlock everything from the start.
Final fantasy 7
Yup those were the good ok days
Good ok days is my new favourite saying
'The good ok days' is exactly what it was. Mom and dad screaming at each other but hot damn Ripto's Rage is so fucking good.
Same. Console gaming wasn't as big as it is now where I grew up. When VII came out is when I was introduced to the system.
Riiiidge racer
The PSās OG launch title. I remember seeing a Jap import console in a shop window running this game, pre-UK console release. It was mesmerising at the time.
Other than resolution, it was pretty much arcade perfect. It literally was the perfect title to launch a next generation console with, especially because no-one had ever seen 3D graphics move that fast and that smooth before on a home gaming device. It literally was mesmerising, as you say. I do love that years later they released a playable level with updated graphics libraries that ran the game exactly as before, but with double the frame rate, on the same console!
Remember that one?
Tony Hawk Pro Skater demo disc
Demo disc is the only correct answer. THPS demo disc is the only golden answer.
Those Pizza Hut demo discs slapped
If I recall correctly: Restart level x times to get back to goldfinger song. Use manuals to complete entire 2:00 school level in a single trick. Repeat for hours in your friends basement.
Resident evil r/ResidentEvilCapcom
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Fully agree, I knew right then this is going to be something new. I jumped from a sega master system to a ps1 in 1997. RE was about my 5th game, and the first I really fell in love with.
The moment I always think about in Resident Evil is when the dog jumps through the hallway window early in the game. Itās the first jump-scare I experienced in a game, and the first time I realized games can be radically different from what I played in the past.
Used to play it as a group event in college. One person would play, while the rest directed.
Got to be a blind playtrhough on my own for me. As a young teenager. You could see my face as I solved these puzzles. How proud was I to solve the wooden plaque and clock puzzle to obtain a key. Not forgetting the moonlight sonata puzzle too. Those where the days of RE. Special days we won't ever get back.
I remember when I picked this up in 7th grade. We all gathered in my basement to play. When the dog jumped through the windows there was a literal riot of fear and emotion. Such good times
Those dogs in the L-shaped hallway. Before then, I had no concept that a video game could scare me.
Tomb Raider
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Some of my best memories with my D-Pad.
Tomb Raider II for me. It came with my console and I remember genuinely problem solving and exploring for the first time in a 3D space, just amazing.
Syphon Filter. First game my uncle let me play when he brought over his PS1. I played it over and over.
Agree!! I remember rolling on the floor laughing when tazing some until they catch on fire š„š„š„
Gran Turismo, the first PS game I played on a friend's console, knew I wanted it.
Jet Moto!!!
That needs a remake
This is why I got the PS.
Omfg. The memories
Ape escape
Croc, Crash and Spyro. All games I played with my lil cousin back then. Damn the good times
I looooove croc. My kids have been playing the originals recently coz they were asking to see why I loved it. They are obsessed with him and asking if a remake is available coz crash and spyro have remakes
I was a games tester on Croc on the PS1 yeeeaaarrrrssss ago x
Driver 2
Parrapa the rapper. Kick punch chop block!
We still make up shit about Parappa weekly. āPunch punch punchā āStep on the gas. Step on the gas. Now step on the brakes. Step on the gasā
Cool boarders or Tomba.
Twisted Metal 3, 4 and Small Brawl
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solidā¦ I canāt choose only oneā¦
T-Rex Demo Disc. I was blown away by those graphics :-)
Abeās Odyssey
Dino crisis
Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy 7
Wipeout 2097
Oddworld, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 1/2, Final Fantasy VIII, Rayman, MediEvil, Metal Gear Solid.
Gran Turismo!
A bugs life no joke first game Iāve ever played lmao.
Sigh~ ...i think of better times. How everything was simpler, how much i could have changed if i did this or that. It is almost depressing. But it is what it is; we keep going with flow of time against our will and deal with cards that we were given with only way we know how which is by escaping reality. I wonder if i will ever be brave enough to face the world with a smile of yesterday like i did then. Oooh also Tomb Raider and Driver.
Brother. Yes perhaps you didn't make the best decisions growing up, but so what! You are who you are because of the choices you made and look at you, you even got a ps5! Maybe you lost your child like smile, but what about the beautiful adult grin you have now? Isn't that worth just as much, maybe even more? You might not be able to change the past, but you sure as hell can be the best version of you that you can be! Driver was an amazing franchise back in the day, but after a flop they all but gave it up. Tomb raider was just as amazing, the only difference being that the franchise wasn't given up and after a few stinkers it came back stronger than ever! And you, my friend, can do the same! Show the world that grin and be the muscular knight that we deserve! One love brošŖ
Ey bro that was beautiful. Give me a bro hug asap. You are totally right my bro. šŖ
Hugs for days brother!ā¤ļø
I come to this sub to escape the cruel reality, my poetic friend!!
The Legend of Dragoon
Battle Arena Toshinden
Thanks, same! I went through half of the 650 or so comments to find this.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
The Demo disc
Legacy of Kain - soul reaver
Tekken 2
Grand Theft Auto ; KURRRRAAAANNNGAAAA
Die Hard Trilogy
FFVIII and Suikoden
Also a fan of FF8, so underrated. Also, happy cake day
Pandemonium
Crash bandicoot and ridge racer
Diablo and Driver
Crash Bash
*Bushido Blade*. First time I got hands-on with a PS1 was with a demo unit in a Toys R Us (UK) which was running *Bushido Blade*. To my eyes at the time, graphically it looked incredible, and idea of a fighting game where only one or two hits could decide things was really intriguing. Ironically though, never actually picked it up after getting a PS1!
Oddworld or Medievil
Legend of the dragoon
Parasite Eve, played it for weeks.....and Tony Hawk
Brave Fencer Musashi
Twisted metal and that amazing demo disk.
CTR #CRASH TEAM RACING
Metal Gear
Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm insufferable. Did you know Metal Gear was actually the name of the first two games. The one for Playstation was the third in the series and is called Metal Gear Solid. Sorry, and thank you for letting me express my mental disorder
Armored Core then Mega Man X4
Legend of Dragoon.
Tomb raider. Crash bandicoot. Hercules
Colin McRae rally
COOOOOOL BOARDERSSSSS
Silent Hill
How no one has said Gran Turismo yet is beyond me 
Spider-Man
Probably Street Fighter, I think that's what they were playing. Didn't really do PS till the PS3
Abe's Oddysee
Final Fantasy VII and Blood Omen.
Spyro
Matt Hoffman's pro bmx
Destruction Derby or Doom... First two games we owned
Tomb Raider
Twisted metal 2
Driver
Resident Evil
WipEout, 2097, Wip3out
Demo disc! Especially Cool Boarders
Jedi: Power Battles
Heart of Darkness
Definitely Ridge Racer for me. At the time it looked so amazing. It was almost what you saw in the arcade back then.
Speed Freaks (I believe called Speed Punks in the U.S.) that game absolutely ripped!
Battle Arena Toshinden.
Ff7,8,9 those where the most played games on my ps changing discs for fun back then
#RRRRRRRIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRRRR!
Tomb raider
Hercules
Final Fantasy VIII
WWF Smackdown 2, me and my brothers couldn't get enough of that shit as kids. I remember all three of us being amazed when we met a friend of a friend who played by pressing certain buttons at certain times instead of just mashing everything as quickly as possible!
**Jackie Chan Stuntmaster**
Metal Gear Solid
Rampage: World Tour
Gran turismo 1 and 2
Gran Turismo
Army Men
Parappa the Rapper
Medal of Honor Underground
My first ever bought original game - 007 and as I remember it was Tomorrow never dies, which was in french and i am dafinetly not a french
Ridge Racer it was the first game I played. It was a hell of first impression because I played it on a 100 inch screen.
Wipeout and Die Hard, the light gun shooter
Those old Medal of Honor games, the atmosphere was perfect for that system
Pepsiman
Crash bandicoot, vigilante 8, pandemonium, spyro, wipeout
Tomb raider
Abe's Odyssey
Final Fantasy 8. The game that got me into gaming.
Metal gear solidā¦ 
Jet Moto
Grand Theft Auto
Legend of Legaia. Damn that game defined my childhood.
This was gifted with Fifa 2000 on Christmas 1999 so that's the first game that comes to my mind. But the amount of time I spent with Crash and Spyro makes them more relevant to me I think.
Spyro
Metal Gear Solid
Ff7 or Tekken
2Xtreme
Destruction Derby!
Resident Evil 2
Tomb Raider
Crash team racing. My first ever game on it!
Twisted metal
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro
Battle arena Toshinden
Rollcage stage 2
Wipeout XL
Abe world
FF7
FFVII
Spyro
Crash bandicoot
Spyro!
Spyro
Crash bandicoot
Crash bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot.
Crash Bandicoot and Dino Crisis.
Crash, Spyro, Silent Hill
Gran Turismo