I am totally stealing someone elses blog and bringing it here. Godmodeenabled from GS made a PS1 blog. I will post it below with my response to follow. Just comment with your own memories.

This is GME:

My very first experience with the Playstation was renting it (remember doing that) from the video store (and these?) with my brother. We also rented Ridge Racer and I think The Bouncer. We were both pretty impressed with the game (Ridge Racer not so much Bouncer) and the system overall.

A few months later one of my best friends was first to get the system, it wouldn't be until a year or so later that I got mine and man did we play a lot Of Kings Field. Kings Field was a first person rpg made by From Software that would spank Demons Souls upside down and sideways and then teabag it. I still remember getting murdered by living trees and to this day I keep my distance from all trees. Coniferous? Mo like conspicuous.

Here are some of the games I remember the most from the PS1 era:

Resident Evil

Remember the PS1 longboxes and the badass artwork this game had? Chris Redfield on the front cover has like the angry rrrr Doom guy face and it looks nothing like him, but it's still awesome. Ahhh man Resident Evil, god this game was so good back in it's day!! I remember the classic running down the long hallway... "there sure are a lot of windows here" *CRASH* *eaten by a dog*

YOU ARE DEAD.

lol WTF just happened? My controller is on the other side of the room and I may have peed myself a little. Ooooh dirty Capcom. I remember just being terrible at the game for several tries at it, running out of ammo, getting stuck forever on a puzzle. So many great memories of this game. The sequel of course was even better, and a game that was played in our circle for years. I still remember running to the police station without killing a single zombie in order for the special helicopter zombie guy to appear (and he had a key or something) Tomb Raider 3

Tomb Raider 3 was one of the first games I ever owned for the system (renting and borrowing from friends was big), and man do I fvcking hate that game. This was the first Tomb Raider game I ever played, it was a popular series and I got it as a gift from my dear old mom for a birthday a think. You pop the game in and the first damn level literally has you sliding down a hill, you have three seconds to press jump or you fall into a spike pit and die. lol. WTF. I just pressed start and now i'm dead. This sets the precedent for the rest of the game too. Prepare to leap blindly off cliffs to your imminent demise as the camera dances around wildly like a drunk zebra on fire.

Final Fantasy 7

I remember my friends older cousin being the first to have it and WHOLLY SH1T 3 DISCS THIS GAME IS AWESOME. We sat floored by the cinematics, excited by the gameplay and generally enthralled. We took turns playing the game into the late hours of the night gettiing out of Midgar on our first go. I still remember the laughs we had during the crossdressing part with cloud. FF7 isn'y my favorite RPG (or even my favorite FF hello 3) but it was a magical game for its time. It is up there with some of my favorite jrpgs.

Metal Gear Solid

I first got my hands on this game from a demo disk that came in an official playstation magazine. The demo only let you play up to the point to where you get into the facility but man I must have played it hundreds of times. I was all over this game the first chance I got to have it and it is still a masterpiece and one of my favorite games. This may come as a surprise to some as I hate the modern Metal Gear Franchise a lot, but the early ones were perfection. This game... DIS GAYME.

It had this engaging storyline, that at times a little crazy played out like a great action movie. You had so much innovation and love in this game. The boss battles are still talked about today. Everyone remembers their first time against Mantis and what no internet? Man you were stuck on him for a while! I remember sneaking up to guards and planting c4 on their backs and then randomly blowing them up... ahhh this game.

Driver

I played this one before Grand Theft Auto i'm pretty sure. And man does this game really feel like realistic driving. The car chases in this were NUTS. This game was soo much fun. This was one of my favorite games for the system I played through it so many times. Sometimes when you got going at really high speeds the physics would go crazy and you had this "record" option to record part of your runs or whatever for fun. I remember the last level is driving the president to a safe spot in his big ass clumsy limo and secret service coming at you at 400 miles an hour, sometimes the physics would go nuts and they would hit you juuuust right while you were full speed going down a hill and you would catapault spiraling into the stratosphere and reappear like two dozen blocks away upside down. MISSION FAILED.

Breath Of Fire 3

Fishing! This game had the best fishing minigame ever! I literally put 50 hours of my life into just fishing with this game. It was awesome. They sold for lots of money and healed you if you ate them so it gave me quite an edge to have so many tunas. Another fun thing about this game is that at the very end you are wandering around the same three areas over and over stuck inside your characters mind and there was only one solution to progress to the end of the game. Are you ready for this? You had to set the controller down for five minutes and not touch any buttons or literally do anything, and an event would occur that took you to the end. It took me and my friend over a year to beat this game, remember pre internet and we knew noone else who played it. I gave up completely, but he would try playing it a couple hours a week to try and figure out what to do. One day he says "fvck this game imma take a dump" and throws the controller in the corner and leaves the system on. After the time elapsed the character started talking and was teleported so I was like "umm your game just played itself and you are in a new area wtf" Cue my friend running out of the bathroom pants down tripping over himself to see. Almost a year of playing the same three screens and all you had to do was nothing for 5 minutes..

They don't make games like this anymore!

I'll end this here cause I don't want this to get too long but there are so many games I missed its ridiculous. I could talk about how fun playing horse in Tony Hawk was, Triple Triad card game in Final Fantasy 8 that I got every card for and spend 100 hours on, Suikoden 2 and it's great story, Burning sheeps bums in Spyro The Dragon, impaling fools in Legacy Of Kain: Soulreaver, that godamn saggitarius puzzle in Silent Hill that I was stuck on for months and soo much more.

The PS1 is probably the most legendary console of all time, I would argue only the SNES has the balls to stand next to it. So how about it, were you a PS1 fan? What are some of your great memories surrounding the system? Will there ever be a system this good again?

Sigh... remembering those days when every game was something new, when I had no clue what to expect from any one game, makes it hard to get back to what I am playing now. I doesnt matter what unplayed game I pick from my collection, I know exactly how it will control and playout. I know every trick it will use, I know how it will be paced. Games now seem to be made from templates, its all the same. Almost nothing surprises me anymore.

I was a Nintendo fan back then and was late to the Playstation party.

Got drunk one day, went out and bought a used PS1, Parrappa the Rapper, Sammy Sosa Softball Slam and Bust a Groove (oh and Hot Shots Golf 2).

And then somewhere in between then and now I bought 192 Playstation games.

Favorite memory with the system was probably Gran Turismo 2. While in the generation I think I ended up playing most games on the N64. Mrs. Aspro used the PS1 non-stop for RPGs.

Dvader said:

Sigh... remembering those days when every game was something new, when I had no clue what to expect from any one game, makes it hard to get back to what I am playing now. I doesnt matter what unplayed game I pick from my collection, I know exactly how it will control and playout. I know every trick it will use, I know how it will be paced. Games now seem to be made from templates, its all the same. Almost nothing surprises me anymore.

Nobi Nobi Boy would cure what ails you.

Or Deadly Premonition. Or Endless Ocean

Or any of the cult classics everyone is always trying to get you to play.

I'm half kidding, because I don't like people bullying others, but maybe it wouldn;t hurt you to try something off menu every now and then.

Going into this year I did not give two fucks about Saint's Row, Mass Effect, LA Noire, Skyrim, Bulletstorm or Red Dead Redemption.  In fact for each of those titles I had some small contempt for some reason or another. And I completely loved each and every one of them, in fact if gaming stopped today I'd have no problem going and replaying them.

So you know, if you are bored with what you've been playing, try a new direction.

Not going to help Aspro; he wants blockbusters that are doing something different, not random niche games.

For the record, the Bounce was a PS2 game, so someone's memories are a bit hazy unless he's referring to Tobol #2, an early Square fighting game. But enough of me being a dick to someone who isn't even here....

I loved my PS1. It was the one and only console that was directly responsible for someone dumping me. Shortly after I got the system my then girlfriend felt neglected, and rightfully so. Serves the bitch right though.

For me the PS1 was all about RPGs. Square blew up that generation from being the niche RPG company to being one of the most dominant 3rd parties in the world and the PS1 was very much their golden age. FFVII, Legend of Mana, SaGa Frontier, Bushido Blade, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Chrono Cross were all games that were more often than not firmly sitting in my console. Plus this was the era that I learned about console dungeon crawlers - Azure Dreams and Torneko: The Last Hope were very much like crack for me at the time. And round that out with a few fighting games like SFAII and Ultimate MK3 and you've got a damn good idea of what I was playing at the time.

gamingeek said:

Typical PS1 owners, wowed by CGI cutscenes. Meh I say.


N64 FTW!

Typical PS3 owners too, amirite Vader *cough* *MGS* *cough*

Foolz said:

Not going to help Aspro; he wants blockbusters that are doing something different, not random niche games.

Noby Noby Boy can only cure constipation. It's bound to give you explosive diarrhea everytime you try to play it.