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PlayStation is 10 years Old Today

Posted by Zonk on from the i-love-my-old-PSOne dept.

pluke writes "ComputerandVideoGames.com reports that today is the 10 year anniversary of the PlayStation launch in Japan. Facing stiff competition from the already entrenched Sega Saturn it went on to conquer the market and define the modern games industry. Happy Birthday old boy, though I must confess was always a Saturn man." Sniff...so many memories.

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  1. greatest consol ever by VendingMenace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    in my humble opinion, PS1 is the greatest consol that has ever existed yet. I own an xbox, ps2 and gamecube and while they are quite good and have impressive abilities wich outstrip the ps1 however, there is just something special about the ps1 and the line up of games that it had.

    Just a quick review, from the top of my head...
    Twisted metal
    Castlevania SYmphony of the Night (best game ever, i think)
    Tony hawk series
    FF VII
    metal gear solid
    tekken 3
    and the list goes on and on...

    I could go on forever, PS1 truly was the greatest of the consols in the golden age of the consol.

  2. LOL by News+for+nerds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >A Pentium 100MHz was pretty good in software
    >rendering, and if you throw in a 3Dfx card that
    >came out about a year later...It's no contest. When
    >I saw my friends raving over a PSX FPS, and the
    >sports games, I went back to playing my GLQuake,
    >and NHL 96 at 640x480.

    That kind of PC costed over $2500 then IIRC.