Sony PS1 Buying Guide + Great Games & Hidden Gems! 

Thanks to Reggie and Voultar for helping with this video! Check out their channels: www.youtube.com/@The_RadicalOne & www.youtube.com/@Voultar

The PlayStation 1 is definitely my favorite system of all time. Making this video flooded me with so many memories of good times I’ve had playing this system over the years.

Slight correction re: PS3 back-compat: every PS3 can play PS1 games! Only PS2 back-compat was removed with later models. The PS1 was always emulated on the PS3's cell processor, so they were able to include it on every revision!

Time to update every console buying guide videos for 2024!

Though only a few ps3s can play ps2 games EVERY PS3 can play PS1 games

I remember me and my older brother just giving our 3DO away after purchasing a PS1 with Castlevania SOTN, Bushido Blade, and Tenchu.

I still remember getting my first ps1, I miss buying gaming magazines with the demo disc, I discovered some good games this way.

When I first held a Dualshock, I was blown away. I was like, this feels so good

Excellent. I'm 49, and I still remember picking up my Playstation at Walmart at 2am with my buddies. Such awesome memories especially of the first year or two. Blast Chamber, Tekken 1, Twisted Metal 1, Resident Evil, those early games were so fun, and it just reminds me of a great time in my life.

Couldn’t think of a better person to make a PlayStation video with!

First a pickups video now this? Man it has been ages I feel since the last buying guide, and how I found your channel years ago! Love it man!

Metal Jesus should do a podcast about video games.

Ah nostalgia overload seeing the trippy colored memory card interface with the interactive blocks

Alright! Love it when Reggie comes by 👍 thanks for the video fellas

Thankyou MJR for this video! The PS1 is my favorite system of all time. Sometimes when i'm down or feeling nostalgic, i just boot it up for the start up sound. Goosebumps and feelings of pure happiness is what i getting from that sound.

I still remember standing in a huge line with my older brother at Babbage's waiting to buy the PS1.

My favorite console of all time. Some games that I highly recommend are Parasite eve 1, 2 and Legend of legaia.

I love that you two recommend lesser known games in this series, the top games lists/videos are always filled with all the same stuff we all already know. It's awesome to watch a video and actually write down a bunch of new games I've never heard of! Love it, looking forward to more updated console guides, it's one of my most watched on your channel. Thank you

PS1 was such a huge part of my childhood. It blew my away. I didn't get mine until probably 1998 or so, maybe 99. But dang was it wild. I'd add an honorable mention about why the retrotink4k may not be for everyone. It's expensive. I think it's $750 for one. But let me assure you, it's worth every penny. It's just that $750 is a lot of money for a lot of people. It does incredible things. Think scaling your nintendo switch to 4K and how beautiful that'd looked on an HDTV (OLED especially). It'll scale your PS3 to 4K. It'll downscale your HD stuff to 240p if you wish. The firmware and the work that's gone into it is nothing short of incredible. The developer has poured thousands of hours of his time into perfecting the feature set, bringing new features to the Tink5X (which at this point is years and years old, yet he still strives to get every last ounce of performance out of that thing). It really is the definitive video scaler to own. You wouldn't be sorry. But if $750 + applicable tax and shipping is too much to swing, the tink5x does a wonderful job and as MJ says in the video you surely won't be dissapointed with it. No comparison to those $20 and $30 video cable converters from amazon. Anywho. The PS1. Yes. What a wonderful system. The mods and things we have available for it today are incredible. Custom shells from muramasa entertainment. Memcard pro. Defender wireless controllers. ODE's. You name it. We have it. You can rock it old school stock on a CRT, or you can HDMI mod the system and connect it to a Tink4k and run it on a huge OLED flatscreen. The options are limitless. The fun is limitless. And if you can't do this work yourself, there are lots of people who make videos to help you learn and lots of people who you can commission to do the work for you. Don't know what else to say other than I love this video! Long live the PS1. The PS1 and PS2 are easily among my favorite consoles of all time and they still see regular use even in a household with a nintendo switch, PS5, gaming PC, etc....

This hits right in the feels. Loving the tag team videos!

Killing it with these vids lately MJ 🙌🏻

Thank you for this video. This helps me a lot with my collecting for the PS1.

I've been in a retro mood lately. I just finished watching your 3DS video with Kelsey from years ago and now this video with Reggie. Great timing!

I remember you and Reggies 1st PlayStation 1 buying guide! Thx for make a part 2!

On the controller side, 8bitdo’s wireless adapter for PS1/PS2 also works very well. Supports a wide range of Bluetooth controllers, including PS4, PS5, Xbox, and several others (including of course 8bitdo’s own controllers).

Love your videos from you both! You guys make a good team! Subscribed and watching from West Virginia!❤️👍

Very good video. Voultar always giving good advice about console maintenance . Reggie, a real fan of PS1, speaking about the system. I really enjoyed the video specially because I recently install the PSIO in the console.

Love these updated buying guides! More please! ❤

These guys rock! My ps1 came with ridge racer and I had a jumping jack flash demo as well as Warhawk and many other games

Yes I am here 5 minutes and I'm such a number one fan I'm so glad to be here for metal Jesus rocks and my favorite guy radical Reggie

fantastic video, thanks guys I'm looking into some of your game recommendations right now!

really great video! learned a lot new stuff i didnt know :) ty

Great video! Thank you for the recommendations 😊

The PS1 is the main console that I grew up with. Some games for people to check out that came out in Europe but not in the US, so many Americans probably don't know about them yet: - Agent Armstrong (pretty decent sidescrolling shooter) - Firo & Klawd (isometric shooter that can be played in coop) - Wing Over (air combat competition game)

I love all these buying guides. Keep them coming 👍

Perfect timing just bought myself a PS1, thanks for the vids guys always look forward to them.

So many accessories I didn’t even know existed for the PS1. Always learn something new when I watch one of your videos !

Another great video! Thank you both.

Could literally watch you guys review anything and it would be enjoyable to watch. Thank you for the awesome content!

Awesome video! I adore the suggestions at the end and will definitely be working my way through some of them.

Just bought a ps one again thanks to this video lol can't wait to get it

What a great time to release this I have been getting into the PS1 and it’s games recently!

As always, a great, entertaining video. Many thanks to you both.

Great video! What I have always wanted to watch is a video with Reggie about Game Boy Color hidden gems. He gets pretty cool stuff.

You and reggie are the best combo, I love watching you guys together. more updated buying guides please!... with hdmi solutions for older consoles that needs it. also it will be nice if you could do a video with the remaining metaljesus crew left after all these years especially with drunkenmasterpaul!!!

Love these videos boys! Great work!

Great content guys. Love the chemistry! ❤

Thanks for the video guys!

Koudelka, never played, but watched the walkthrough for it, and fell in love with it

WTF, no fist bump in the intro!!

Amazing video, love the buying guides! if I had one feedback on the video it might be that it felt a bit like you where in a hurry, like you guys where short on time, I don’t think anyone would mind if the video got a few minutes longer. Loved the accessories part!

Just found your 10y video about UMD video collecting, loved it and glad to see the channel alive and well. Rock on and have a good day!

Hopefully you will reach 1 million subscribers soon. More people need to know about your channel💯

Great informative video guys !!!

Awesome video guys

Great video as always i planned on collecting for PlayStation one as well as 4

I have fond memories of playing the Twisted Metal games on my PS1 back in the day, especially the 2nd game.

I can tell a lot of time and energy went into this. Thanks for the great video, guys!

Great vid guys. I still have Bushido blade I only ever got to the last boss and never got past it but I still loved that game

Great EP guys. thank you

MJR & Radical Reggie! Love these videos!

The original PS1 got me into video games with Tekken3 and FFVIII (without a memory card!). I had it for over 6 years and the capacitors never failed

Great video. Thank you both. PS1 is one of my all time favorites.

Great video MJR and Reggie! You always bring the nostalgia back with the classic systems. I recently started playing Grandia and Resident Evil Director’s Cut. I also want to say a special thank you to Reggie for busting out the one handed controller. In 1999 I was in a work accident and my buddy who owned a game store brought over that controller for me. I played lots of amazing rpgs and believe it or not Tiny Toons Bowling when friends would visit. Great times and amazing system to this day. Thanks dudes.

Thanks for the time stamps

Great video keep with the good work.

Man, this video was such a good way to spend 27 minutes. So much nostalgia! The first PlayStation was indeed a memorable console with so many amazing games. I wonder how we survived on those 15 block expensive memory cards lol. I remember the nightmare of deleting a save file to make way for a new game. Thanks for this video! Make more!

My hidden gem for the PS1 is NASCAR Rumble. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with NASCAR other than the car liveries. It's pure arcade racing, and probably the closest thing to a Burnout game on the PS1. By default it has Mario Kart style powerups, but in my opinion, these get annoying very quickly. Thankfully they can be turned off. There's a spiritual sequel on the PS2 called Rumble Racing.

Metal Jesus thank you for your channel man. Always brings me memories of Video games fantasy nostalgia. I hope you grow to 1 million this year!

I loved this video!

Fantastic video, ye guys are the best

My family were late adopters of playstation, so I had a PS1, and that's my childhood in a nutshell.

I've been away for years but every time there's a Reggie and a PS1 or playstation hidden gems I'm always watching thanks for posting this although it might be too short! lol

Reggie and Metal Jesus last PS1 video had me revisiting retro game stores trying to pick up the games I had when I was younger. Just picked up Tenchu 2 and Tekken 3 which were always on in my household. Thanks Reggie and Metal Jesus!

Hell yeah! I've had my PS1 since 1999 and it STILL works like a charm!!

That Dino Crisis needs to be re released on ps5. Top game for me on PS1

I love that you guys have been doing updated buying guides! It’s been so long since you’ve shown your PSP collection. I think it would be great if you could do another update on PSP games!

N2O: a psychedelic tube shooter filed with all manners of insects with music by the Chemical Brothers. Colony Wars: a space combat game with Starfox-like mission progression and voice-overs by one of the best James Earl Jones sound-a-likes I have ever heard.

These hidden gems look great! good job, guys

I know you've probably heard this before, but I would kill for a Metal Jesus & Reggie podcast. I could listen to these guys for hours!

Man, the PSone was my birthday present I love that thing so much! So many gaming memories playing Strider, Soul-Blade and Grandia 1!

wow You still here on youtube! And looking super cool!

I'm so glad Buying Guides have made their return, they are how I got introduced to the channel, 7 years back I think and they are still great, keep on being awesome man

Good job 👏 😊

Great video guys. I put a few of those games on my list of what to look for at SEGE this weekend. I think the PS1 has the best startup of all time. I love the sound it makes.

I’d personally recommend echo night very spooky ps1 gem that hardly gets love these days

Oh, man. I wasn't expecting this awesomeness today! Reggie + MJR + PS1 is 🔥.

Metal Jesus and Radical Reggie the tag team retro champions are back in action

23:32 Thanks for shouting out Disruptor! 🔫

The Power and the Glory that is Reggie! Always love Some MJR and RR!

That "pocket sky" is great 😂!

I just feel sorry for Reggie who's gotta pack all that shit in his car when he goes visit Jason!

I remember buying Elemental Gearbolt when it first came out and being blown away by it. Such a fantastic soundtrack.

i Love that you talked about the Justifier! Crypt Killer is my favorite light gun game for the playstation. very underrated game but very fun!

The most professional I've ever seen Voultar, no sexual innuendo or calling Bob obese.

I actually was digging in my closet to clean stuff out the other day and came across the tiny version with the portable screen connected ( and working !! ) all the games I have are scratched to heck & back however it’s pretty sick to have found it.

Ayyoo all the memories are coming back!!

I was just planning to buy a ps one this week 😂 perfect timing for this video

Some love for Disruptor ! My first game on the system, iconic cut scenes and gameplay!

Such fond memories with the ps1. Unfortunately that generation had not aged well other than certain games. I will say most 2d games on the console still look incredible