I was adopted at 5 years old, and to welcome me into the family, my new dad bought me a PS1 and played countless hours of Gran Tourismo and Spyro with me for years to come. I can't tell you how impactful those years were. He has been such a great dad beyond that, too. Absolutely wild that a game console was so helpful to an awful situation, but it really brought us together quickly when we needed it!
$300 is a steal for what the Playstation could do. Really cool to see these more obscure examples with actual research behind each one, we're subscribing!! You brought the interest and the lols!!
yeah, no... the piracy have NOTHING to do with with the black discs, that is one of those romours that's been echo around like a parrot, the black discs are 100% done of the aesthetics and nothing else, the piracy protection is done by the wobble grove
I’d say it’s black so you can’t see where the data tracks end and begin so you couldn’t make a comparison or your copied disc to the original visually.
@@sbeezynukka of course I can't, I'm not a DVD burner, the wobble groove can only be made with a special burner, and other commercially available DVD burner would simply ignore it, you can think f it more like a intentional scratch or a pass-key hidden in the manual, so no, the black disc had nothing to do wit piracy, it was purely "to look cool" and "so people could show off their PS1 games to their friends" the whole thing about black discs and piracy is nothing more than a "mew under the truck" type of rumour
@@Kate_Hanami I’ll stand on why they colored it the way they did, wobble groove still standing. Security by obscurity which is their playbook so it stands to reason why they did it!
@@sbeezynukkait’s because nobody else had black discs, so it was incredibly easy to determine a copy from an original. More of a “seal of authenticity” than any specific anti-piracy tool
2:23 - Wild Arms was not cross-platform. The PS2 game was a REMAKE, hence the sub-title, "Alter Code F" ("F" standing for Filgaia, the world the game takes place on). Hell, the PS version came out in 1996 (Japan) & 1997 (US), while the PS2 game was released in 2003 (Japan) & 2005 (US).
Honestly, it launching at $300 was the only reason my dad bought my brother and I one. Looking back on it, I realize what a steal that was, especially as the library began to grow.
The CD player thing sent me down some weird music forum rabbit holes, but it was kind of amazing to see it have such a specific purpose that has nothing to do with video games.
I had a chipped PS1. Also had an open air weekly market my parents would take me to, and come home with a few pirated titles. Some of them had added trainers and such. It's also where I got a copy of Thrill Kill, when it first leaked.
I am a blind gamer and own a PS5.. What's interesting about the voice that it uses to relay information to me is that when the hints say to press x something, the voice actually does say Cross. But, I still call it
16:57, I hate to do this to you, but you were dead wrong on this one. The 10/24/06 release was actually a re-release into a Capcom Books version of the same game that came out back in 2000! The last original game that was released in Japan, was Black Matrix 00 which was released on May 13, 2004. There was just 1 other game that was released that year and that was Dynamite Soccer 2004 Final which was released on April 15, 2004. All other releases after 5-13-04 were re-releases like the game you mentioned, the Final Fantasy Collection, and Metal Gear Solid 1, and a few others. The source of this comes from an extremely well known PS1 Collector who has a YT Channel known as the Sony PlayStation 1 Sanctuary & Museum who actually ran a museum near Philadelphia, PA in 2020 and beforehand, in Tokyo, Japan back in 2013. All those dates are verifiable so sadly your info is somewhat wrong.
I’m now subscribed to your channel for the cracking research you put into this video and the pure nostalgia factor injected into it. The PS1 really did feel like the future when it came out. Plinky plonky, cartoony graphics were out, more adult orientated, gritty games were in and I was onboard for it all the way! I still remember the first zombie encounter in resi 1 freaking me out….but I loved it.
Black disc idea is only cosmetic, nothing to do with piracy. For an example, Square Enix also released ps1 re-print releases of Final Fantasy games few years ago which did not have black color on those discs and they play fine on ps1.
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You are also wrong on this one, Yetisports World Tour was released on April 22, 2005 on PS1 for the PAL territories published by JowooD Productions and developed by Edelweiss Medianwerkstatt. This information also comes from Sony PlayStation 1 Sanctuary & Museum on RUclips. Nice try though, that did fool alot of folks.
"Sony doesn't know how to make [electronics] hardware" is the most schizophrenic thing anyone could say at any point in the 90's. what was next from the geniuses at Sega, Toyota doesn't know how to make cars?
The icons thing is also why xbox is the outlier for button layout. Nintendo and Sony both put "confirm" on the right while xbox puts it on the bottom. Western developers flipped the buttons round for PlayStation games so that kinda carried over for Japanese ports that get translated.
Some Facts about Savegame Storage. Even before the NeoGeo some Consoles used external saving, but NeoGeo had the first "Card" . Nintendos Famicom and Super Famicom hat Storage System made by Ascii (also for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance) and NEC hat their TenNoKoe Line of Savesystems. Sony Memory Card also incorporates 16 Blocks, not 15, but one Block is not visible to the User and contains the Table of Contents of the Card. That also means the User can only 120kb of Storage (1Block=8KB). That's also the reason for a neat Trick on the PSone. If you delete a File from your Memorycard by accident in the Console's Memorycard Manager, don't leave the Screen but power off your System and the Saves are....well, saved, because the TOC is rewritten when you leave the Memorycard Manager.
2:25 What? Wild Arms was not multiplatform. It (much) later got a remake on PS2 called Wild Arms Alter Code: F, but there were two separate games in the series that came about before that. Wild Arms 2 (2nd Ignition) for PS1 and Wild Arms 3 (Advanced 3rd) for PS2. So not only was it not multi platform it had a sequel that came out after this supposed multiplatform PS1 release, as well as that game having a PS2 sequel that came before this imaginary PS2 version. And to top it all of, they were separated by 9 years between releases. The PS2 remake uses fully 3D models and environments as opposed to the PS1 original only doing so in battles, and has 3 additional playable characters (Jane, Emma, and [SPOILER]), for a total of 6 when the original only had 3. And if anyone's curious, I recommend the PS1 original over the PS2 remake. It has larger environments (the PS2 version shrunk everything down or made them smaller) and it has a (mostly) better translation.
10:37 there are evidence o this, the one is placed on na cable for a laser bellow. There is a potentiometer which controls a strength of a laser beam. It is calibrated in a manner that black disc reads perfectly but silver disc as poorly as possible. If you slightly turn this potentiometer clockwise you can adjust it and read both disc perfectly.
Cross button comes from the UK , if you had to choose languages at the beginning of the game and it had a UK flag X was more than likely going to be Cross (ex. Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone Ps1) . Also the PlayStation Symbols have been know for a while FF Tactics does this , and i read about it in a magazine in the 90s. Good Video o.0
I'm not sure that it was recently uncovered that the controller's face button symbols and colors had meaning, I remember reading about the intended meaning back when the PlayStation launch, it's just be reiterated recently.
My PS1 was never chipped, but I did have a smart card that I could plug into the back that would let me play copied games. I used to spend all my savings on copied games at Skegness markets. C-12 Final Resistance was such a brilliant game. One day we might get a remaster/remake/sequel to that awesome game. Along with Chase the Express
VCDs made sense for some time at least because they did have some small benefits over VHS .... you could stop a scene, the movie didnt need to rewire to be viewed again ... the resolution did suck compared to DVD but on the CRT tvs we had back then it didnt look that bad, and certainly not too much different than VHS
C-12 being mentioned makes me happy, loved playing that during my childhood. Would be awesome if it ever got a remake or sequel. Or even just ported to modern consoles at this point
My first PS1 came with a thing you put in the dev port at the back called "Multi x Killer". Insert a original game first, then a burned one and game on :)
Used to have several PS1 chip mode consoles as they were sold like that in SE Europe, Balkan Peninsula.Greetings from Serbia, land of Novak Djokovic and piracy games! ;-)
I remember Net Yaroze on PS1. And that Official Playstation Magazine Demo Discs, at least in the UK, had full Net Yaroze games on them for a long time. And I had a chipped PS1. But that was many years ago, and I have lost the console to time since then...
the ps1 played several interactive screensavers when playing music cds as a hidden feature. also , i think theres a special feature in the ps2 when watching certain movies where you could change camera angles while the movie played. I think they only made one movie for the feature. some special version of final fantasy spirits within.
At the beginning you mentioned some games being cross-platform for the PS2 and PSX e.g. Harry Potter. If I'm not mistaken, those are a different case. It's not a port, it's entirely different game but with the same IP used and build based on the same premise. But it's not a port thus it's not a cross-platform title per se. Correct me if I'm wrong. Other than that, a great video!
7:27 I believe the PS1 also had this I think it was the PS1 had this really cool screen where you could like do some crazy stuff like while music played you could shift through different like tunnels and really trippy stuff
Still have my original ps1 (that was just called a PlayStation back then)... it may or may not have a chip in it still...and it may or may not still be able to play games my dad got from a bloke at work that would provide a list of games for £5 each ;-) I used to live in japan a few years back... circle and X are a big part of Japanese culture to mean yes and no. In fact when i'd mark student papers we used a circle to mark things correct, X for things that are wrong (or half X like a tick), and a triangle was used to give a 1/2 point (essentially to draw attention that it's almost right and to look again) ... they didn't use a tick. several games would use circle and X... and people would form and X with their arms when trying to tell you something is bad or wrong. Must admit it took a while to unlearn X for enter (yes) on UK consoles ... on Japanese it's circle for enter (yes)...I'm now back in the UK and still get it mixed up.
10.35 what an amazing game, Forget the title but I remember the dungeon crawling / fighting 2 part game was amazing Also usually X would be enter on later titles but say FF7 Circle was enter so they must of just changed it around in later titles
12:34 except USA swapped X and O since basically ever. So over here that logic falls apart. I really don't know why it's always been that way. A few games for a while used O as Accept but somewhere around 1998 that just never was the case. When I got my import Vita it came as X being Accept but once I exploited it, it went back to USA X and O settings.
I mean in japan has always been the other way, so the logic applies, Sony of japan should have enforced using circle to confirm for all regions and be consistent about it.
When I bought the ps3 it was in 2017, I've only played on pc my whole life, I was confused by this decision, I got so curious that I went to check if I was alone in thinking that x should be the cancel button and O the confirm button
I had a chipped PS1 and I loved those games like Gran Tourismo, Tekken 3 and Final Fantasy VIII. I loved that console and got it gifted for my 10th birthday and had to share it with my older brother. Sadly, one day my brother decided to buy a PS2, because it could play DVDs and yes this still breaks my heart. Because I was about to finish Final Fantasy VIII at that time and my brother hadn't even asked me, if replacing was okay. From nowadays perspective, I'd refuse and say "keep the PS1 and buy the PS2 too."
@@jameswallis4220 my brother bought the second gen of the PS2, which wasn't able to read burned CDs and wasn't downward compatible, also at that time hard to chip.
As much as Power Pad Dance Aerobics and PaRappa the Rapper did to innovate on the music game genre, Konami did so with their Bemani series. Beatmania started as a series of DJ simulation arcade games that eventually found their way to the PlayStation. How was that possible? Konami had to make original 5-key controllers that re-created the arcade experience in the consumers' living rooms. The software and controllers turned PlayStations into DJ stations. (Sort of.)
15:25 - why would you bother? video cds were a great thing back then, because they were affordable. on black market or the web you found hollywood movies put on 600mb cds, you could easily copy with a (not so cheap) cd writer and 600mb was somewhat you could download over days on slow internet connections. a friend and me got a vast collections of movies, theater-rips and old gems written on blank cds you could by in packets of 10 to 50 back then. video quality was no concern. being able to watch a movie home on your psx or pc was groundbreaking and the displays were low resoluted. it was way before average people thought about hd or stuff.
19:32 honestly I would have thought Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy VIII Maybe the reason why I bought the PlayStation 1 was because of Final Fantasy VII at the time those Graphics were insane it's kind of crazy to look at it now and be like really but yeah they were
I live in Latin America, so I had my PS1 and PS2 both chipped lol. This was kind of a "necessary evil" for people like me living in relatively smaller cities and towns, since you'd rarely see official games on sale anywhere at the time the PS1 was out. And from those you'd see, the titles would usually be very limited in variety (just 3 or 4 at most on most stores that sold games, which were not a lot of stores either), and many of them were titles that simply looked boring or were completely unknown (or both) and usually going for huge prices. It was kinda the same when the PS2 came out, though there seemed to be a little bit more variety in stores compared to before. So yeah, piracy was the way to go if you wanted to play different games that would have never gotten here otherwise, anime games included.
I don't like it any more than you do, but according to the Playstation manual, "box" and "cross" are the official designations for "square" and "x". You're totally right about Circle though.
I remember 5903 the cheat cartridge was also the vid player that fit from 1 end of the console to the other at the back and most films discs had to be split between 2 discs I only had deep blue sea first half 😂
Were you including handheld consoles in this? The Gameboy reached 100m before the PlayStation, yet when you stated that it's the 6th best selling console, that includes handhelds.....
What's crazy I've knew most of the facts on the list but the n64 was my primary system of that generation but i had all 3 at the time and i can say the ps1 helped sony out a lot
You can’t say “its not cross, its ‘X’” and then say “its not ‘O’, it’s circle” They’re all shapes. X is a letter, not a shape. X does not mean, nor does it spell ‘no’. But a cross, particularly in that orientation, does mean no. Think of road signs and stuff. It’s cross. The inventor of the PlayStation said as much.
Wow to last for so long almost 30yrs. I have 2 ps1 but both are long dead by now but i kept them in a drawer i wil never throw them for sentimental reasons. The plastic casing is already yellowish because of age and i still have over a hundred game cds.
What is the website you’re sharing on screen that has the sales information for all those PS1 games please share it with us. I’d like to know what website that is
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I was adopted at 5 years old, and to welcome me into the family, my new dad bought me a PS1 and played countless hours of Gran Tourismo and Spyro with me for years to come. I can't tell you how impactful those years were. He has been such a great dad beyond that, too. Absolutely wild that a game console was so helpful to an awful situation, but it really brought us together quickly when we needed it!
I was gonna share my experience regarding a chipped ps1. Then I read your experience, and thought, never mind... I can't compete with this....
"Sony doesn't know how to make hardware"
It's even funnier when you consider the earlier SEGA consoles were frankenstein abominations of add-ons.
30 years later they're selling the same hardware just now with AI for 700usd
Really glad to be the one that worked on this one 🎉🎉🎉
Are there more vultures now?!?!
Nobody ever mentions one of my favourite ps1 games, destruction derby haha
The Atari nonsense was one of the big things I learned while writing this. Absolutely amazing. The balls on Atari is genuinely impressive to me.
Way to put it my dude
@@ofj6400 It was a big, crazy swing, and I have to admit I'll always admire stuff like that, at least a little.
It's totally x and circle hahahahaha
@@tysoncarpenter8628 Yes! Lmao
Yeah it was the only thing I learned from this video too 🙈
Yaaaay!!!! Fun facts! I love Fun facts!:D
They're FUN. And one thing we like around here is GOOD CLEAN FUN. AND FACTS.
Thanks, Jay! appreciate you
@@CulturedVultures you're welcome! :D
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I hope you are glad you paid to get incorrect facts in some circumstances
$300 is a steal for what the Playstation could do. Really cool to see these more obscure examples with actual research behind each one, we're subscribing!! You brought the interest and the lols!!
Great facts and very entertaining! :)
yeah, no... the piracy have NOTHING to do with with the black discs, that is one of those romours that's been echo around like a parrot, the black discs are 100% done of the aesthetics and nothing else, the piracy protection is done by the wobble grove
I’d say it’s black so you can’t see where the data tracks end and begin so you couldn’t make a comparison or your copied disc to the original visually.
@@sbeezynukka of course I can't, I'm not a DVD burner, the wobble groove can only be made with a special burner, and other commercially available DVD burner would simply ignore it, you can think f it more like a intentional scratch or a pass-key hidden in the manual, so no, the black disc had nothing to do wit piracy, it was purely "to look cool" and "so people could show off their PS1 games to their friends" the whole thing about black discs and piracy is nothing more than a "mew under the truck" type of rumour
@@Kate_Hanami I’ll stand on why they colored it the way they did, wobble groove still standing. Security by obscurity which is their playbook so it stands to reason why they did it!
@@sbeezynukkait’s because nobody else had black discs, so it was incredibly easy to determine a copy from an original. More of a “seal of authenticity” than any specific anti-piracy tool
@@mrb692 ok you guys have your opinions on why and I have mine! I’m standing on it and that’s that!
2:23 - Wild Arms was not cross-platform. The PS2 game was a REMAKE, hence the sub-title, "Alter Code F" ("F" standing for Filgaia, the world the game takes place on). Hell, the PS version came out in 1996 (Japan) & 1997 (US), while the PS2 game was released in 2003 (Japan) & 2005 (US).
good 'ol days of gaming, still remember i went into playstation cafe/rental to play winning eleven/pro evolution soccer everyday after school..
Never heard of this channel until today, immediately subscribed! Love the video!
Honestly, it launching at $300 was the only reason my dad bought my brother and I one. Looking back on it, I realize what a steal that was, especially as the library began to grow.
The CD player thing sent me down some weird music forum rabbit holes, but it was kind of amazing to see it have such a specific purpose that has nothing to do with video games.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Especially with audio stuff, it seems like.
That free not three bit got me. Love that (and the video of course!).
I had a chipped PS1. Also had an open air weekly market my parents would take me to, and come home with a few pirated titles. Some of them had added trainers and such. It's also where I got a copy of Thrill Kill, when it first leaked.
Good times ❤
I learned to solder as a kid so I could install modchips. Then I discovered the easy way 😂
I am a blind gamer and own a PS5.. What's interesting about the voice that it uses to relay information to me is that when the hints say to press x something, the voice actually does say Cross. But, I still call it
Yeah it was verified to be a shape not a letter, just like the others on the controller. They even said why would it be an x if the others were shapes
@@TheGlovener1985 You know what, that makes more sense. I used to think half were shapes, the other half were letters.
@@MrIvanjc fair. Nobody ever called it a cross. In all my years growing up with it
16:57, I hate to do this to you, but you were dead wrong on this one. The 10/24/06 release was actually a re-release into a Capcom Books version of the same game that came out back in 2000! The last original game that was released in Japan, was Black Matrix 00 which was released on May 13, 2004. There was just 1 other game that was released that year and that was Dynamite Soccer 2004 Final which was released on April 15, 2004. All other releases after 5-13-04 were re-releases like the game you mentioned, the Final Fantasy Collection, and Metal Gear Solid 1, and a few others. The source of this comes from an extremely well known PS1 Collector who has a YT Channel known as the Sony PlayStation 1 Sanctuary & Museum who actually ran a museum near Philadelphia, PA in 2020 and beforehand, in Tokyo, Japan back in 2013. All those dates are verifiable so sadly your info is somewhat wrong.
Here's one you missed: The very early revisions of the PS1 had a bug in the GPU that caused ugly banding in some scenes :)
I’m now subscribed to your channel for the cracking research you put into this video and the pure nostalgia factor injected into it. The PS1 really did feel like the future when it came out. Plinky plonky, cartoony graphics were out, more adult orientated, gritty games were in and I was onboard for it all the way! I still remember the first zombie encounter in resi 1 freaking me out….but I loved it.
Coolest video I've seen in a while. New subscriber here!
Black disc idea is only cosmetic, nothing to do with piracy. For an example, Square Enix also released ps1 re-print releases of Final Fantasy games few years ago which did not have black color on those discs and they play fine on ps1.
Is that a lofi version of Whiterun OST in the back?? simply beautiful
I noticed that too
'Bits and Hits' is the channel they got it from. They put it in the description
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Also, quick little addition: Europe got a few PS1 games after that final FIFA. The last one in Europe was Jet Ace on November 15, 2004. However, this was published by Phoenix Games and is therefore an affront to several deities.
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I thought it was Schnappi
Good ol' Phoenix Games. Just like the mythical creature, it keeps coming back from their ashes
You are also wrong on this one, Yetisports World Tour was released on April 22, 2005 on PS1 for the PAL territories published by JowooD Productions and developed by Edelweiss Medianwerkstatt. This information also comes from Sony PlayStation 1 Sanctuary & Museum on RUclips. Nice try though, that did fool alot of folks.
The Saturn had an awesome CD player too.
"Sony doesn't know how to make [electronics] hardware" is the most schizophrenic thing anyone could say at any point in the 90's. what was next from the geniuses at Sega, Toyota doesn't know how to make cars?
To be fair, Sega made the technologically superior consoles, just didn't understand the need to get game publishers behind them.
The icons thing is also why xbox is the outlier for button layout.
Nintendo and Sony both put "confirm" on the right while xbox puts it on the bottom.
Western developers flipped the buttons round for PlayStation games so that kinda carried over for Japanese ports that get translated.
I used my PS1 to listen to The Better Life by 3 Doors Down, which was my first CD.
Same! That and great milenko lol
the ff7 music had me set from the beginning
Please continue making these random facts for all the other consoles. I'd love to see a video like that about PSP 🙂
Some Facts about Savegame Storage. Even before the NeoGeo some Consoles used external saving, but NeoGeo had the first "Card" .
Nintendos Famicom and Super Famicom hat Storage System made by Ascii (also for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance) and NEC hat their TenNoKoe Line of Savesystems.
Sony Memory Card also incorporates 16 Blocks, not 15, but one Block is not visible to the User and contains the Table of Contents of the Card. That also means the User can only 120kb of Storage (1Block=8KB). That's also the reason for a neat Trick on the PSone. If you delete a File from your Memorycard by accident in the Console's Memorycard Manager, don't leave the Screen but power off your System and the Saves are....well, saved, because the TOC is rewritten when you leave the Memorycard Manager.
2:25 What? Wild Arms was not multiplatform. It (much) later got a remake on PS2 called Wild Arms Alter Code: F, but there were two separate games in the series that came about before that. Wild Arms 2 (2nd Ignition) for PS1 and Wild Arms 3 (Advanced 3rd) for PS2. So not only was it not multi platform it had a sequel that came out after this supposed multiplatform PS1 release, as well as that game having a PS2 sequel that came before this imaginary PS2 version. And to top it all of, they were separated by 9 years between releases. The PS2 remake uses fully 3D models and environments as opposed to the PS1 original only doing so in battles, and has 3 additional playable characters (Jane, Emma, and [SPOILER]), for a total of 6 when the original only had 3.
And if anyone's curious, I recommend the PS1 original over the PS2 remake. It has larger environments (the PS2 version shrunk everything down or made them smaller) and it has a (mostly) better translation.
I absolutely loved playing The Bouncer! back in the day.😊
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
10:37 there are evidence o this, the one is placed on na cable for a laser bellow. There is a potentiometer which controls a strength of a laser beam. It is calibrated in a manner that black disc reads perfectly but silver disc as poorly as possible. If you slightly turn this potentiometer clockwise you can adjust it and read both disc perfectly.
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Cross button comes from the UK , if you had to choose languages at the beginning of the game and it had a UK flag X was more than likely going to be Cross (ex. Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone Ps1) . Also the PlayStation Symbols have been know for a while FF Tactics does this , and i read about it in a magazine in the 90s. Good Video o.0
What are these games in the video, anybody could help me?
Game at 0:51, 4:15, 4:32, 5:59, 6:19, 8:40, 10:32, 10:38, 12:24, 12:25, 14:02, 18:13, 20:37
I'm not sure that it was recently uncovered that the controller's face button symbols and colors had meaning, I remember reading about the intended meaning back when the PlayStation launch, it's just be reiterated recently.
This was amazing
My PS1 was never chipped, but I did have a smart card that I could plug into the back that would let me play copied games. I used to spend all my savings on copied games at Skegness markets. C-12 Final Resistance was such a brilliant game. One day we might get a remaster/remake/sequel to that awesome game. Along with Chase the Express
VCDs made sense for some time at least because they did have some small benefits over VHS .... you could stop a scene, the movie didnt need to rewire to be viewed again ... the resolution did suck compared to DVD but on the CRT tvs we had back then it didnt look that bad, and certainly not too much different than VHS
C-12 being mentioned makes me happy, loved playing that during my childhood. Would be awesome if it ever got a remake or sequel. Or even just ported to modern consoles at this point
Would love to do a playthrough of it on the channel!
LION AND THE KING!!
The visualizer for the CD Player was fun too, used to mess around with that quite a bit
Is it bad that I’ve started enjoying the edits more than the actual content?
I still have a chipped PS1 and it’s still awesome 😊😊😊
"I'm not having it. I'm not having it today." lol
My first PS1 came with a thing you put in the dev port at the back called "Multi x Killer". Insert a original game first, then a burned one and game on :)
Used to have several PS1 chip mode consoles as they were sold like that in SE Europe, Balkan Peninsula.Greetings from Serbia, land of Novak Djokovic and piracy games! ;-)
What RPG game is shown at 8:12 ? I wanna check it out.
That game is called Brave Fencer Musashi, it was a pretty fun game
Does anyone know what the name of the game at 5:24 is?
I’ve been searching for it for years 🙏
Not that my back doesn't do it, but this video makes me feel old AF 😅
Circle being confirm in some games always threw me for a loop compared to every other game at the time. X was yes for western games
X is labelled “fork” on the controller circuit board
I remember Net Yaroze on PS1. And that Official Playstation Magazine Demo Discs, at least in the UK, had full Net Yaroze games on them for a long time.
And I had a chipped PS1. But that was many years ago, and I have lost the console to time since then...
I remember triangle being back in games and the only time back was circle was at the playstation main menu.
"PS1 Facts YOU Probably Didn't Know"
Me, who lost their virginity to a PSX in the backseat of a Previa: "Bet, and I also definitely know what sex is."
I enjoyed this video ps1 was epic ,i still play it now
the ps1 played several interactive screensavers when playing music cds as a hidden feature. also , i think theres a special feature in the ps2 when watching certain movies where you could change camera angles while the movie played. I think they only made one movie for the feature. some special version of final fantasy spirits within.
Pilots say “tree” for clarity
Kung Fu Hustle is truly legendary. I have my copy tucked away safely for the zombie apocalypse.
14:43 I loved my PS2 I still own the first DVDs I've ever bought. And I remember being like 16 I think when I bought a PS2 I was so happy
At the beginning you mentioned some games being cross-platform for the PS2 and PSX e.g. Harry Potter. If I'm not mistaken, those are a different case. It's not a port, it's entirely different game but with the same IP used and build based on the same premise. But it's not a port thus it's not a cross-platform title per se.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Other than that, a great video!
7:27 I believe the PS1 also had this I think it was the PS1 had this really cool screen where you could like do some crazy stuff like while music played you could shift through different like tunnels and really trippy stuff
Still have my original ps1 (that was just called a PlayStation back then)... it may or may not have a chip in it still...and it may or may not still be able to play games my dad got from a bloke at work that would provide a list of games for £5 each ;-)
I used to live in japan a few years back... circle and X are a big part of Japanese culture to mean yes and no. In fact when i'd mark student papers we used a circle to mark things correct, X for things that are wrong (or half X like a tick), and a triangle was used to give a 1/2 point (essentially to draw attention that it's almost right and to look again) ... they didn't use a tick.
several games would use circle and X... and people would form and X with their arms when trying to tell you something is bad or wrong.
Must admit it took a while to unlearn X for enter (yes) on UK consoles ... on Japanese it's circle for enter (yes)...I'm now back in the UK and still get it mixed up.
The fact you're British and said "sorcerers stone" instead of the original and correct philosopher's stone, is quite honestly unforgivable.
Expellidontworryaboutit
10.35 what an amazing game,
Forget the title but I remember the dungeon crawling / fighting 2 part game was amazing
Also usually X would be enter on later titles but say FF7 Circle was enter so they must of just changed it around in later titles
12:34 except USA swapped X and O since basically ever. So over here that logic falls apart. I really don't know why it's always been that way. A few games for a while used O as Accept but somewhere around 1998 that just never was the case. When I got my import Vita it came as X being Accept but once I exploited it, it went back to USA X and O settings.
I mean in japan has always been the other way, so the logic applies, Sony of japan should have enforced using circle to confirm for all regions and be consistent about it.
When I bought the ps3 it was in 2017,
I've only played on pc my whole life,
I was confused by this decision,
I got so curious that I went to check if I was alone in thinking that x should be the cancel button and O the confirm button
I had a chipped PS1 and I loved those games like Gran Tourismo, Tekken 3 and Final Fantasy VIII. I loved that console and got it gifted for my 10th birthday and had to share it with my older brother. Sadly, one day my brother decided to buy a PS2, because it could play DVDs and yes this still breaks my heart. Because I was about to finish Final Fantasy VIII at that time and my brother hadn't even asked me, if replacing was okay. From nowadays perspective, I'd refuse and say "keep the PS1 and buy the PS2 too."
you could of just played the game on the PS2 just fine ;)
@@jameswallis4220 my brother bought the second gen of the PS2, which wasn't able to read burned CDs and wasn't downward compatible, also at that time hard to chip.
@@TraxtasyMedia ohh my bad, I skipped over the chipped part haha.
I had a chipped one too, borrowed my mates chipped games and box you put on the back
Triangle... a shape.
Square... a shape.
Circle... a shape.
X... a letter? Hmm. Not in my world. It's the cross button. Come at me.
As much as Power Pad Dance Aerobics and PaRappa the Rapper did to innovate on the music game genre, Konami did so with their Bemani series. Beatmania started as a series of DJ simulation arcade games that eventually found their way to the PlayStation. How was that possible? Konami had to make original 5-key controllers that re-created the arcade experience in the consumers' living rooms. The software and controllers turned PlayStations into DJ stations. (Sort of.)
Still got my OG PS1 from 1997. Pretty sure I've still got Chocolate Salty Balls on CD too 😂
15:25 - why would you bother?
video cds were a great thing back then, because they were affordable. on black market or the web you found hollywood movies put on 600mb cds, you could easily copy with a (not so cheap) cd writer and 600mb was somewhat you could download over days on slow internet connections.
a friend and me got a vast collections of movies, theater-rips and old gems written on blank cds you could by in packets of 10 to 50 back then.
video quality was no concern. being able to watch a movie home on your psx or pc was groundbreaking and the displays were low resoluted. it was way before average people thought about hd or stuff.
13:06 in the voice of Butthead "HUHHUH you were old when the PS1 came out"
Anyone know what game was on at 14:30? It just unlocked a core memory and i cant remember what it was called!
That would be Blast Chamber. Loved it. Good 4 player nonsense.
@@messiahmozgus thank you so much!!!
@@jameslangdon6653 I rarely get to answer these. I'm usually clueless.
19:32 honestly I would have thought Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy VIII Maybe the reason why I bought the PlayStation 1 was because of Final Fantasy VII at the time those Graphics were insane it's kind of crazy to look at it now and be like really but yeah they were
I had never even heard of Net Yaroze!!!
I live in Latin America, so I had my PS1 and PS2 both chipped lol. This was kind of a "necessary evil" for people like me living in relatively smaller cities and towns, since you'd rarely see official games on sale anywhere at the time the PS1 was out. And from those you'd see, the titles would usually be very limited in variety (just 3 or 4 at most on most stores that sold games, which were not a lot of stores either), and many of them were titles that simply looked boring or were completely unknown (or both) and usually going for huge prices. It was kinda the same when the PS2 came out, though there seemed to be a little bit more variety in stores compared to before. So yeah, piracy was the way to go if you wanted to play different games that would have never gotten here otherwise, anime games included.
I don't like it any more than you do, but according to the Playstation manual, "box" and "cross" are the official designations for "square" and "x". You're totally right about Circle though.
Nobody ever has called them box or cross 😂
Square and x
VCD was bigger in asia. Its was easy to store in size and environment. Many asian users had limited space.
We just had loads of memory cards for ps1 as kids lol
Anyone knows what Rally game is in the 0:51?
Micro machines
I think the PS1/PSX is my favorite console now.
I remember 5903 the cheat cartridge was also the vid player that fit from 1 end of the console to the other at the back and most films discs had to be split between 2 discs I only had deep blue sea first half 😂
Wild arms alter code F was a full blown, built from the ground up remake
I think two of my cousins had their ps1 chipped. We were like 10-12. We played a ton of new games after that!
Were you including handheld consoles in this? The Gameboy reached 100m before the PlayStation, yet when you stated that it's the 6th best selling console, that includes handhelds.....
welp, you could also save your game progress on famicom disk systems
and you put footage of the N64 version of Mortal Kombat Trilogy into a PlayStation video. Coll stuff tho :)
What's crazy I've knew most of the facts on the list but the n64 was my primary system of that generation but i had all 3 at the time and i can say the ps1 helped sony out a lot
Atari = greatest salty Mcsaltersons of all time
You can’t say “its not cross, its ‘X’” and then say “its not ‘O’, it’s circle”
They’re all shapes.
X is a letter, not a shape.
X does not mean, nor does it spell ‘no’.
But a cross, particularly in that orientation, does mean no. Think of road signs and stuff.
It’s cross. The inventor of the PlayStation said as much.
He's wrong, it's X
Kung fu hustle is the best movie ever
Got my ps1 chipped for £20 and then got games for £1. Funny thing is "chipping" a PlayStation actually ment removing a chip, if I remember correctly?
Yeah, that's why I bought a PS 2 for playing my movies on a CD DVD
i got my PS1 day 1. i still have it and use it to this day. i have about 150 titles for it including Tomb Raider Crash and Spyro series.
Wow to last for so long almost 30yrs. I have 2 ps1 but both are long dead by now but i kept them in a drawer i wil never throw them for sentimental reasons. The plastic casing is already yellowish because of age and i still have over a hundred game cds.
@@kristofferandchristine9252 THE ONLY THING I HAD CHANGE OUT WERE THE CABLES
What is the website you’re sharing on screen that has the sales information for all those PS1 games please share it with us. I’d like to know what website that is
PriceCharting!
the playstation symbols are the only ones I've been able to memorize.
2:15 and Crash 2!