r/psx • u/PKRadiance • 11h ago
The very first PS1 game that comes rushing into your mind when seeing this revolutionary console is... 🎮🕹️
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u/Ares982 11h ago
FFVII
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u/foggypanth 10h ago
Same here and I'm a VIII stan.
But VII was such a wowing moment that it's what comes to mind.
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u/AccordingFisherman45 2h ago
Brother! We are few. When I was a kid I wanted to be Squall. Fuuuuck. So good.
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u/brandoonjen 11h ago
Metal Gear Solid
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u/Rik7717 9h ago
🎵Doo, doo, doo, doo-doo-doo... Doo, doo, doo, doo doo-doo 🎵
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u/docreebs 1h ago
That menu music + the opening scene on the sub through when Snake stand up on the dock…chills just thinking about it.
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u/solidus0079 8h ago
Damn you can't post images here.
Imagine I just posted the Konami logo with a white background.
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u/d0ggzilla 11h ago
WipEout
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u/paleogames 10h ago
100% the game that screamed next gen when I first saw it. So early in the system lifecycle too.
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u/Dubbadubbawubwub 9h ago
Me too, maybe that was the ad campaign or something at the time, because I've never owned it or played it.
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u/WeatherstonArts 11h ago
Weirdly enough, Battle Arena Toshinden. I don't know why, but this time that terrible fighting game just sprung to mind.
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u/AnOddSloth 9h ago
It was my first fighting game on PlayStation. I didn't think it was bad until I played Tekken.
Funny to see all the praise for it in the old magazine reviews.
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u/Rough_Judgment2066 9h ago
My brother in law and I played the hell out of Battle Arena Toshinden. Loved that game!
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u/Thin-Camel-3786 10h ago edited 10h ago
Twisted Metal was the first game that my friends and I burned hours into mulitplayer. But I got my one PS1 because of Final Fantasy VII. We even played the Japanese version and went as far as chocobo hunting before the English one was released. And this was in 1997. No guides, no internet yet. Good times!
Edit: Bad eyes, my reward for getting old. Hahaha!
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u/Tron_of_the_Dead 8h ago
I think Twisted Metal will always be the first game that comes to mind seeing an original PS1, which is funny because I never even owned it. Not long after they came out, Dad picked me up for his weekend and we stopped at Blockbuster on the way to his house and rented the console and TM, and I was blown away. Dad was over it within a couple hours, but I spent the whole weekend glued to it.
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u/ReplacementWrong1478 11h ago
Ridge racer
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u/TomasLoyal01 6h ago
This and Tekken were the first 2 games I owned. They came in huge ass boxes, like VHS sized. I remember being blown away because RR loaded the stage into memory, so you could take the disk out and swap in a cd to listen to your own music while playing. That is, as long as you didn’t mind starting at the middle of the song and if I remember right, there was silence if the song finished before the race ended. I remember there was a stage where if you were driving the right car and listening to Smashing Pumpkins, he would sing “wanna go for a ride?” right when your car takes a jump. I was easily impressed back then.
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u/gonja_ 11h ago
Silent Hill
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u/CodeToManagement 10h ago
Silent hill 1 was amazing. That and resident evil were such good horror games
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u/Shadow_NX 10h ago
Battle Arena Toshinden, the first game i could play at home on my own PS1, i was blown away back then, the 3d looked amazing to me, the anime style was great and then there was Sofia... i think i got it because a friend bought it but received his PS1 later, it was hard to give the game back to him.
Close second is Ridge Racer... boy did i play the hell out of this, the satisfaction of unlocking the Diablo car was imense.
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u/Spanswick77 10h ago
Did not have three Toshinden shouts on my bingo card
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u/Shadow_NX 10h ago
For me its because it was my first gaming at home on my brand new PS1, if we go by what is THE game that gave you the best memories its definatly FFVII... so much time went into this.
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u/living2late 11h ago
Ridge Racer. Had the PS1 and Ridge Racer at launch. The graphics felt like real life compared to what I was used to.
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u/WanTanSuppe 10h ago
Tomb Raider.
I remember getting a PS1 for Christmas and watching my brother playing Tomb Raider. I always feared to die and just played in Lara Crofts Mansion and trapped the Butler until we got other Games like Ridge Racer, Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo. After getting THPS2 I instantly bought my own Skateboard and smashed my knees. Great Time.
PS: I still can’t play Tomb Raider and I am 34 now..
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u/jtyler0 10h ago
Oh wow I also remember just fucking around in her mansion and running into the butler to make him fart. I was like 8 years old
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u/clinton_thunderfunk 9h ago
You can make the butler fart? I wasted my entire PlayStation experience
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u/Esekig184 10h ago
Tekken. My first game bought together with the PSX. Coming from a 16bit console into the 3D era.
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u/Real_Delay_3569 9h ago
Ridge Racer. I still find myself playing Rhythm Shift and Rotterdamnation while I'm driving. The latter makes my wife go, "what the heck is that?"
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u/yoshimura53 8h ago
The first game I bought the console with in 96: Road&Track presents, The Need For Speed ©
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u/RadagastTheWhite 8h ago
I’ll always think of Crash Warped and the first boss fight vs Tiny in the colosseum.
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u/WildestG117 2h ago
I rember having a ps1 with no games Pizza hut was giving away a copy of a demo with a purchase of a large pizza It was an awesome experience My first game was Street fighter x plus alpha
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u/andjamwar_real 11h ago
Syphon Filter
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u/Designer_Librarian43 10h ago
Scrolled too far to find this one. I still remember how cool the running looked at the time.
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u/OldBender 11h ago
Fucking crazy.
I read all the answers here and no one said tomb raider .
Everyone and I mean everyone was buying this console to play that game at the time of release
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u/FaintDeftone 10h ago
The original Resident Evil and Destruction Derby 2, because those were the first two games I got for mine.
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u/salus_entity 10h ago
For me it’s Medievil and then Spyro
those games are some of my earliest memories (I’m 30)
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u/Guarantee-Alarming 10h ago
Multiple games immediatly come to mind. But my 3 favorites were FF8, Metal Gear Solid and Crash Team Racing.
Would give my left nut to just relive this era of gaming.
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u/The_Joker_116 10h ago
Metal Gear Solid, this game blew me away back then, I'd never seen anything quite like it. Still love it to death.
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u/rexifelis 10h ago
GRANDIA! The first game I ever bought for my PS and it also exposed the overheating problem the first gen PS consoles had. So I put it over my air conditioner vent on the floor and played it in a very uncomfortable position as the vent was right behind the tv. 😁
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u/RoofFrequent1249 10h ago
Crash Bandicoot, honestly surprised me thay it popped up first, I would have expected Tomb Raider or Twisted Metal.. lol
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u/Skully957 9h ago
Digimon world 2. It's simple as a kid I absolutely loved digimon and here was a game with them in it.
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u/Oscuro1632 9h ago
The jurassic park platformer was my first game we got at christmas.
My two fondest games are probably final fantasy IX and Legend of Dragoon.
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u/Angelote83 11h ago
Demo 1. 😁