WipEout 30th anniversary.

[LHantz]

I can't believe it's 30 years since I was standing with 10+ people open mouthed watching WipEout on the Sony Playstation on a huge projection TV. For me, it changed gaming. I had a Pentium PC at the time, pre 3DFX, had no chance keeping up with it.

Personally I think the original Playstation was the greatest Console, and between that, my PC and the NTSC US N64, will never be beaten for gaming from 1995 - 2001

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Still got mine, first console I ever bought on first day. Bought it on mail order from some ad at the back of C+VG – the days when you had to phone up! Went to college and my mate told me I was an idiot for not staying at home and waiting for it to arrive - I rode home straight away and it was there as I got back! Ridge Racer and Wipeout! Good times 😭😍 have had to replace the optical drive since though.

That thing has seen some good times in my university days. We used to put our CDs on to that weird graphics demo disc thing late at night that went all ceefax to the delight of my then girlfriend 😭😭😭

Gonna now cry a bit after being reminded

 

[LHantz]

One memory was that my mate got PS Resident Evil from a 'guy' but it was the Jpn version with the full uncut intro with the hand and the Dogs head exploding, but none of us knew Japanese, so it made it even creepier. Took us ages to work out the Paintings where you had to click in order of the age, or the Crows pecked you. Playing Resident Evil 2 (US this time!) for 12 hours straight to completion, me and my mate had to take a sickkie off work the next day!

Tip of the iceberg, so many cool memories!

 

[big10p]

It was a total game changer. Oops, pun. I had mine on pre-order from my local Sony shop, now long gone. All those lovely Sony CRT TVs lined up on shelves.

The playstation was a paradigm shift in gaming as a whole. Sony went to great efforts to bring video gaming out of the dark, and turn it into a cool, legitimate form of entertainment for adults, as well as kids.

 

[LHantz]

I first saw a Playstation in late 1994 in an import shop in Doncaster (ICE - got shut down for piracy) it was playing Ridge Racer but it was high up behind the counter, next to it was a Sega Saturn playing Virtua Fighter. I remember feeling so privileged to finally see these new wonder machines that were all over the pages of Edge mag

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Racing estate cars, split screen, on Japanese Gran Tourismo whilst absolutely blitzed 😆

 

[LHantz]

And realising a Nissan Skyline is an absolute beast, and why I had never heard of one!?

 

[kingtreelo]

i remember playing GT and thinking it looked real and graphics were never going to get any better

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Because mine was Japanese we didn’t know what we were doing we made a car that had the best engine or something but was too heavy and it wouldn’t go 😆

 

[Stokers]

The PS1 was a great console, playing through Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid with my bro is a core memory.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

RE2 😍 So, so good!

FFVII in Japanese and no manual not so classic!!!! 😭😆

My mate from Malaysia, who now works for Rockstar (he’s claiming he’s the one for the plastic bag over the head in Manhunt!) got me loads of games 😍😍😍 absolute legend

 

[LHantz]

The atmosphere in Metal Gear Solid, once you got into the base was something else, the feeling of isolation, and the Sniper Wolf battle, first time I felt emotion for some blocky Polygons, when the Wolves took her corpse...

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

What was your “swap disc” plus blu-tac or cardboard for loading imports? My Tomb Raider got proper fooked 😆🧜‍♀️

 

[LHantz]

Yes, I had the opposite way, because I got an NTSC US Playstation before I got a PAL one, but it played the Music out of sync, so I sold it to a work mate. Think the laser packed in after about 6 months..! When the FMV intro's/cut scenes kept skipping I used to turn it upside down and they worked fine, needless to say that I replaced the Laser eventually. Easy installation though.

By the time Tomb Raider came out, I had a 3DFX card and played it on the PC, even better with x2 Monster 3D 2's in SLI mode, but that is another story!

 

[Bods]

Mate bought a PS1 with his Uni Book money and told his mum he borrowed

We got to enjoy Wipeout and Destruction Derby though

Can't remeber what money he used to buy Amiga 32

 

[kingtreelo]

the PS1 just changed gaming forever, i had people turn up my house when i bought GTA on launch day to see what all the fuss was about, and looking back now it's funny