Sony PlayStation - Talk About Games 

Mike actually made a really good point about the power button and eject button on the PS4, I fuckn hate them as well..

Metal Gear Solid just blew me away and changed the way I looked at video games. I remember seeing the Hind-D cut scene and thinking it looked so much real than anything I ever seen before.

When I was 15 years old I worked as a paper boy all summer just so I could buy a PS1 and Metal Gear Solid....15 years later I have owned every Playstation console and MGS is still in my top 5.

The playstation absolutely changed gaming for me, forever.

Little fun fact: When the playstation was just released you could play copied games without any mod chips (there werent any they came way later) by putting in an original game, leave the cover open and use a needle to block the switch which signals the system that the case is closed. Shortly after the initial boot you could swap out the CD original with a copied one. Also one of my favorite games you sadly not even mentioned was Tekken 3 which is until this day is my most favorite fighting game of all time.

The N64 may have been the successor to the Super Nintendo...but I always considered the original Playstation to be the spiritual successor, especially when it came to RPGs.

Ryan: Here's a video about the original Playsta- Mike: FUCK YOU!!!!! NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love PlayStation 1! My favorites are Crash Bandicoot, Sypro The Dragon, Twisted Metal 2, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Tekken 3, Parappa The Rapper, Spider-Man, and Crash Team Racing.

How could you forget about Silent Hill?

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon was an excellent platformer and I personally liked it more than Mario 64.

*Dual shock refers to two vibrator motors and not analog sticks*

Spyro was the PS answer to Mario 64 if you ask me.

Loved me some Ace Combat 3, Tekken 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Gran Turismo 1 & 2, Armored Core 1 & 2, Final Fantasy VII, and Metal Gear Solid.

Final Fantasy IX is still to this day the most beautiful game i ever played. I dont care if it's only the cutscenes, it's still fucking beautiful.

anyone else feel nostalgic when the ps1 screen starts up?

Ryan: "The PS1 is the bridge between retro and modern gaming" Mike: "Damn, how can I find a way to bring up Nintendo?"

"Crash bandicoot doesn't gold a candle to Mario 64"...come on...you can't beat the third crash bandicoot, that was perfect! And you've forgot to mention the "spyro the dragon" series, those were amazing platformers.

I member berries playing Medievil on my PS and being blown away by the graphics and atmosphere.

not a single word about tekken , spyro, gex, crash bandicoot,and medi evil .....shame guys shame

what not so many people understand is that when the genesis/mega drive and the snes were at their top and at their late life span, the 16-bit technology and the sprite art were at their best. The progammers had the know-how to do wonders at that point. When they started doing 32-bit stuff, with 3D enviroments and polygons it was like they had to learn from the beginning, it went back to the atari 2600 age. They had to learn all over again.

Playstation is one of the best consoles ever

The N64 has maybe 7 great games. The N64 also had one of the worst controllers of any popular game console. The PSone has around 100 truly great games and a good controller.

PlayStation drinking game: Every time they mention FF7, take a shot.

These days the only thing people talk about with games is unimportant stuff like HD graphics, a millisecond difference in loading times and garbage like that, which leads to stupid arguments like "PC master race" and all that. The truth is, the only thing that matters with a console is the quantity and quality of its games. And no other console ever matched the PS1 and PS2 with this. There's so many great, underrated and barely known CLASSICS on the console that people aren't aware of 'till this day (Wild ARMs pops to mind, for example). And in this video they go through a whole list of games and still only mentioned like one or two legendary titles out of countless. The only console that comes even close to the quantity of games that PS1 and PS2 had, is the NES, and that one dropped the ball as far as quality goes with most titles. Like 70% of NES games are pretty bad. Also, I like Ryan, but he's talking out of his ass when he says PS1 didn't have good platformers/FPS games. He may like the NES platformers more personally, but PS1 had a shit ton of great, popular platformers like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Rayman, Pandemonium, Symphony of the Night, Oddworld -series etc. And Duke Nukem 3D, for example, is an awesome FPS game. It's like an extremely polished DOOM with lots of new added elements.

Rayman on PS1 is like one of my favorite games ever man.

LOL Ryan talks about the weaknesses of PS1 and he mentions that crash bandicoot was just OK ?? really.. really.. here in Europe crash bandicoot was a system seller.. everyone loved the games, along with spyro the dragon.

Ahhh PlayStation , A Master Piece

They should do a Talk About Games about CastleVania

I remember buying this little plastic thing with a switch that plugged into the back of my PS1, you could play burned games or other region games without any overheating problems.

I half agree with Ryan's platformer comment. Crash, Gex, Spyro and other PS1 platformers have aged much better than Mario 64. However none of them, not even Mario, have matched the pinnacle of platforming: Banjo-Kazooie.

Metal Gear Solid, the greatest game of all time any system.

The PS1 also has, by far, the best console version of Doom.

the playstation has THREE main controllers. no analog, analog (but no rumble) and dual shock

17:35 - Took me 20+ years, but I just saw that that squiggle is an "S" thats behind the big red "P"

Megaman Legends is still my favorite game probably.

Slight correction here guys, the Dual Shock wasn't the second controller design for the PlayStation it was the third. The PlayStation originally shipped with the "digital" controller (the "Super Nintendo controller with arms on it" one), then after SEGA released their "3D control pad" for the Saturn, Sony released the PlayStation "Dual Analogue" controller (essentially the digital controller with two analogue sticks added) then finally after Nintendo released their N64 controller and rumble pack Sony launched the "Dual Shock" controller (essentially the dual analogue with rumble feature).

I love this channel and this video is a good example of why.

Textures are REALLY important, that's why, in general, PS1 games looked good even if the 3D was inferior to the N64. Detailed, non-blurry textures make a big difference and good artists can do miracles with that.

God, hearing that playstation startup brought back so much nostalgia. I haven't touched a PS1 in years.

Maybe the most important aspect of the original PS was how many franchises started on the system.

Am I seriously the only person who liked Castlevania on N64? I spent many hours playing it.

Classic system . I got Spyro with mine. fucking classic. Loved playing legend of dragoon and crash

PS2 had a guncon 2.. the adapters are hard to find with the gun, but you can rig a way to bypass them

16:50 As for polygons, I totally agree when people say good 2D looks a lot better than bad 3D. However, I will always have a place in my heart for low-poly in the same way I do for low-pixel-density like Atari or NES. For the same reason movies run at a low frame rate, less visual information means you get to imagine more, and it seems more magical.

Oh my god armoured core was the shit on the PS1, nothing says fun quite like piloting a mech and blowing stuff up!

"Shadows of the Empire" was an awesome N64 game.

Cyber Sled was actually a somewhat enhanced port of the 1993 Arcade game, though it was also one of the last games to use the Namco 21 system board (flat-shaded 3D polygons). There was an option to play the game with textures on instead. Namco also released a similar port with StarBlade, which used the same hardware, for the PS1 early on (it was previously on the 3DO and Sega CD as well).

metal gear solid. thats enough to get yourself a PS 1

The Spyro titles were really good 3d platformer games for the PS1...

Original Playstation was good, but MAN those loading times. It was clear the tech wasn't quite there yet.

Mike, you should play Alundra, is like the Zelda for playstation

Just do a show called Talk About Consoles

Couple oldschool video game savages going balls deep

Not to be "that guy", but the dreamcast had the last light gun games.

Don't forget Abe's Oddworld and Star Ocean: The Second Story... not perfect games, mind you, but very entertaining experiences. Tekken 3 was also quite the blast. Legend of the Dragoon was more fun for me to watch than to play. Chrono Cross might have tried way too hard with the characters and the story, but the music and atmosphere was great.

Final fantasy 9 is still my favourite game of all time!!

Symphony of the Night is my favorite game of all time. I'm happy I can still play it on my PS3.

Shout out to all my Final Fantasy Tactics fans out there!

pretty awesome shoot em ups on the ps1 too

I wish you would have at least mentioned Tony Hawk Pro skater, Tenchu, Tekken, Oddworld, Spryo, Soul Reaver. There were so many good games that the graphics werent always the best but the story, concepts, and breaking new ground was really a huge step in gaming.

I loved the ps1. My favorite game for it will always be Xenogears. The story is one of the best ever written, for an RPG.

Gotta disagree on the "PS1 had no good platformers" shtick. Gex 2/3, Rayman 1/2, Spyro 1/2/3, Crash Bandicoot 1/2/3, Croc 1/2, Kao the Kangaroo, Tomba 1/2, Klonoa, Lomax's Adventure, Medievil 1/2, Strider, two Bugs Bunny games, MDK 1/2, numerous Dysney and Marvel games... Really now, "no good platformers"?

This console saved our childhood from being confined to playing Super Mario most of our lives... Thank you Play Station!

This is the best console of all time for me. So many good memories whem gaming was something new, magical and super immersive. And the list of amazing games is super impressive.

I bought a Saturn at the time. Come at me

Action Replay is a serial I/O that with a spring install does gameshark hex and allows backup play.

soooo many good platformers for ps1......

Talking about 1998, 2000.. sounds like "the other day" but DAMN! It's almost 20 years ago!!

the playstation and n64 both had theyre own good exclusives. ps (crash bandicoot, ff7,medevil,soulreaver,spyro, peracite eve etc) n74 (starfox,mario 64, mario kart, banjoo kazoee, yoshi world, conkers furry day) etc.

19:31 The moment Mike realizes he was deprived of glorious gaming experiences as a child. lol

What about alien games on ps1 (alien trilogy and alien resurrection) those games are awesome

Bring me one game from n64 with same quality of graphics and sound effect as metal gear solid

Remember the original PlayStation game cases? They were much larger. Also, the lasers went on Dreamcasts as well, but you can adjust the potentiometer with a small screwdriver and it fixes it most of the time. My region modded ps1 is still going strong. Fantastic console.

Could you do a Cinemassacre Plays video on the PS1 link cable, or multiplayer PS1 games like Crash Team Racing?

Jumping Flash series. hands down !

Come on Mike, you turn modern consoles on by pressing one button on the controller. Plus if I put my PS4 in rest mode when I turn it on it loads the game and puts me back exactly were I left off in like 5-10 secs. Been playing on console for over 30yrs and I love every gen that's come along.

Destruction Derby, Chalk Canyon and Gran Turismo, R11 in reverse with Feeder playing... Those games had such longevity and so much fun! :D

I loved that the when you played music on the PS1 you could turn on visuals. I always wondered why the flowing playstations didn't offer the same option?

I think the Spyro series was superior to platformers on N64. But it was at this point that I parted with Nintendo forever.

The games for Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Rayman were my childhood, and immensely fun for me. They were platformers I greatly enjoyed playing them perhaps even more so then Super Mario.

Modded Playstations were so common back then that stores would open up selling bootleg copies of games for just $1. I remember going to one of those many stores and buy a bunch of games for me to play on. And I would find a lot of Modded PS1 owners going there and we would all have a chat. Good times.

dont forget about LSD sim :)

Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Metal Gear Solid, Destruction derby 2, Resident Evil 1,2,3, Silent Hill, Tony Hawk 1,2,3. Medal Of Honour 1,2. Those were my go to games.

Really the power buttons lmfao I don't even use that shit. I turn the console on with the controller & eject the games with the controller as well. Mike try using the controller for once jesus.

Sony PlayStation .. A great moment of my life :)

Street Fighter Ex plus Alpha

It's interesting to learn about the Playstation as someone who never owned one. It was only just before my time! It would be cool if they did one of these on the Gamecube. That shit was my jam as a kid!

An old friend of mine had the original style silver ps2, referred to by the group as "Smoke stack". it used to malfunction and make grinding noises until you literally punched it in the face a few times. Worked more or less fine for a few hours after doing that until it began screeching again. Rinse and repeat. This went on until the 3 came out. Ah memories! I'm suprised it didn't stop working at all for suffering that abuse. Ikr cool story. :P Keep up the great vids guys! Watch em all the time!

I love PS1. A friend of my dad got me started on Crash Bandicoot.

Man, getting Excalibur II in Final Fantasy IX was pretty insane. But I loved every minute of it!

The ps4 power buttons are bullshit

MAN, Playstation and I go way back been a fan since day 1.

I never understood why some people prefer internal power supplies. They generally cause heat problems, specially on PlayStation consoles. Plus, external PSUs are much easier to replace whenever they decide to stop functioning. So I fail to see the advantage in an internal PSU, if someone could enlighten me that would be appreciated.

i'm so fucking happy that Ryan mentioned Croc. I thought i was the only one who remembered that game.

it is good, i wanna try soul reaver again

I'm PROUD to watch this in native quality on the PS4! THAT'S how influential the console was!

There wasn't just two versions of the controller. There were three, starting with the standard, the Dual Analogue (which got discontinued in 1998) and then from 1998 (well Christmastime 97) we had the Dual Shock.

i'm sorry Nintendo fans but Crash Team Racing is way better game than Mario Kart 64 or Diddy Kong Racing, N64 might had more graphic power and some excellent games but its library is really small compared to what PS has and that's what matters games no graphic power also what's the point in compare a 64bits machine with a 32bits machine? of course N64 can handle 3D way better than PS so bringing that to the table is meaningless for obvious reasons.

I love how their outfits match the wall.

It's funny because during PS1/N64 era (and also during PS2/GC era), PC gaming was at its best. Console exclusive games were a joke compared to PC exclusives, even the best ones such as Ocarina of Time. If you played Half-Life back then, you could never go back to stuff like OoT. It was levels above it. You also have Goldeneye which is always praised as a great FPS, when in reality it was a complete joke compared to PC FPS games during the same time. I remember a lot of PC gamers were making fun of Goldeneye because of how much inferior it was to play an FPS with a controller instead of mouse+keyboard, and because it worked at 20-30 frames per second, while every PC game had 60.