General gaming discussion

Anyway more PlayStation nostalgia. This day 30 years ago the PS1 launched in Japan. It certainly wasn't the initial success people might think it is but started stronger than expected with a great port of Ridge Racer. The Saturn promised Virtua Fighter which was the game the japanese public wanted. By the time the system hit the US and Europe it had managed to build up a strong library and the tables started to turn. Sony did everything right with it, other than the dodgy disc drive.

The PS1 is such an interesting console. I just adore it and love talking about it's history, architecture and those sweet, sweet games.

I'm kind of with the person that said astrobot's cameos where a little soulless. It's not as egregious but there's a bang of Ready Player One off the cameos. There's a big difference between how the likes of Nintendo, Sega, squaresoft, hell even Konami reference their back catalogue and I can't quite put my finger on that secret sauce other than I feel there's a genuine love for it and there's still people there that worked on those games.

But we also shouldn't forget that Nintendo stuck a SNES rom on a disc (and the **** PAL version in Europe) to celebrate Mario's 25th anniversary. That's next level corporate laziness.

Great interview from Eurogamer. Really goes into what made the PlayStation so great, stuff like the involvement of the Sony music guys and how they used first party games differently than they do now.

Who needs pixel shaders when you have gouraud shaders.

We can laugh at this but the PlayStation 1 and it's low barrier of entry in terms of coding and costs allowed the owner of a developer of business software to take a punt at their dream of getting into game development.

This is the seed that lead to armored core and dark souls.

I always found syphon filter a bit... Middling. I mean the taser was a lot of fun but never saw the appeal when it released, especially after MGS.

I think I was just playing too many PC games at the time and found the auto aim combat a bit dull.

Ah now I would go so far as to call it lone soldier! That game was a true stinker.

I remember warning PlayStation early adopters on school not to buy it but a few did because there was a bit of a post launch drought in games. There was a lot of anger over just how bad that game was.

I was too old for power rangers and thought it sucked so have no nostalgia for it but the new game looks amazing. And now it has Goemon style first person fist fights: