7 Lessons 30 Years Of PlayStation Has Taught Us

It’s PlayStation’s 30th Anniversary! Time certainly does fly when you’re having fun, but sometimes you have to stop and look around - otherwise you might miss important lessons. To celebrate, Rob has put together a list of lessons he’s learned in PlayStation’s lifetime. Have you learnt any of these lessons?
Are there any lessons we missed? Are you happy Rob has decided to teach others? Let us know in the comments!
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[@MountainBain]

I can't believe it's been 30 years. How far we've come. I hope I'll still be gaming the next 30 years. Looking back has been fantastic

[@alextownley9388]

I turn 30 in February lol

[@SethÚasarune]

@MountainBain I'll be gaming when I'm 90 "Hey, guys! They've just remastered the entire PS2 catalogue for the holodeck! LET'S GO!"

[@delanefazio6695]

...I totally agree to all the comments above. ~UltraAmen

[@delanefazio6695]

​@alextownley9388 Happy Blessed early Birthday brother and many more to be. ~Peace&Soul

[@pluggedinplayerful]

I hope in still alive in 30 years lol

[@reginaldh2079]

This channel is one of the best things to come from PlayStation. Have a good weekend everyone.

[@mandalor7306]

This makes my Friday so much better

[@stircrazyvidz8530]

I know, there's nothing better than coming home from work and knowing all of your entertainment has been prepared and waiting for you when you're ready for it 😂

[@junaidjoseph1617]

It's Monday now

[@chrisjones5949]

Rob's gleeful grin after smacking Dave with the bottle was quite hilarious 😆 Happy 30th, PlayStation!

[@stevenallan5822]

Also 'if it moves shoot it, if it doesn't move, shoot it anyway ', so many things we've learned over the past 30 years.

[@younglove3362]

🔫

[@chrisrudolf9839]

Unless you are playing a survival horror game, where the rule is: If it doesn't move, run past it, if it moves, stagger it and run past it anyway unless it's really fast or it's a mandatory boss fight.

[@TehPwnographer]

PlayStation Access is one of my most favorite things to happen because of the existence of the PlayStation brand. Y’all are the best in the biz!

[@SethÚasarune]

Hello, you've caught me commenting during the intro

[@khamankhoma8232]

In my fighting game dojo, we have only 2 rules: 1) Improvise, adapt, overcome. 2) Spam it if it works.

[@TheGamer69-pro-gamer]

Who asked

[@Robo-Mojo]

@@TheGamer69-pro-gamer I asked. I care. Spam until it stops working, always.

[@amberanime]

@@TheGamer69-pro-gamer Do you need a hug? Bad day? Want to talk about it?

[@Khaotic_Reign]

I can’t tell you how gratifying this video is.. going back 30 years and watching all this 30-year-old PlayStation gameplay.. It’s like a warm blanket.. just so comforting!😌

[@alialmuhanna4938]

11:25 “Must have been the wind !” Oh, Dave ! 😆😆 And enemy guards.

[@phollie801]

7:37 “hahaha, square button OP” got me good

[@kokugatsumoon]

Been playing PlayStation all my life. This video really touches yhe heart....as i break everything in sight.😢

[@botodd4679]

"Hehe square button O.P." I laughed too hard at this lmao!

[@adamplanner2143]

I love what Sony did with the PS5 themes celebrating the 30th. Hearing those sounds of the past consoles brings back core memories much like Sega Genesis

[@mrfrye18]

robs face when he threw the bottle had me in stitches 😂😂😂 ALSO.... WE NEED MORE OUT TAKES IN FUTURE

[@TRiGGAHHH]

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend ahead of them!

[@XannolcZ]

Save early. Save often.

[@MrOliZaki]

The nostalgia of the last few weeks had been insane! 30 years of PlayStation! Can’t wait to see how this years festive access content continues to entertain! ❤

[@MadeByJoey]

Rob you are a lot of things, but most of all you are endearing! Thank you for being you.

[@T800CS101]

"The lack of easter egg is still an easter egg." Omg 😅

[@GhostSpartan-z8y]

I've learned nothing...and learning that taught me everything.

[@Trae-Zulu555]

Everyone of these is soooooooooooo true!!! especially the diverging roads for loot and easter eggs, boss room, and the game excuses hahaha well done Rob!!!!

[@INFPeace-]

As a long time PlayStation gamer since the PS1 era, I agree with ALL of your points!

[@ABadassDragon]

Number 4 is actually very relevant when it comes to martial arts. A noob can be more dangerous because they dont know what they are doing and are generally more reckless than someone who actually had training

[@TheMrTraynor]

My wife regularly beats me at Street Fighter. I'm trying to perform some special move (d,d r, r, u r, u, or something) and she just keeps punching me in the face. And I've lost. Where's the finesse?

[@younglove3362]

Lmao 😆 🤣 😂

[@RARufus]

Except for Virtua Fighter. I’ve never been schooled by a noob in VF…at least once you learn how to play it…which takes some time.

[@ishmaelforester9825]

PlayStation taught me that life is short. Time is precious. I spent too much time playing games but I don't regret a second.

[@FineYungCannibal.]

Outakes at the end are a nice little treat. 😁

[@Sensational_Kong]

Love Rob and his Friday features! As a fellow day 1 OG PlayStation gamer, I have to say this list is spot on, and hilarious!😄

[@davidmatthews8064]

Loved seeing the outtake. As a Christmas present to us, can we have an outtake compilation please? Thank you, you are awesome ❤

[@chazclark86]

These Friday features make my Fridays even tho the amount of times I miss them on a Friday.. PlayStation has been a massive part of my life. Gaming saved my life once as well lol. Keep up the great work guys. I still have old consoles also 😜 never let them go.

[@Anluain]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and Rob Took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference

[@lonewolfheart1697]

30 years... wow and congratulations to PlayStation for such a wonderful journey that will continue for decades to come... I remember getting my hands on a PS1 back in the day... it's the console that took me from gaming as a kid to gaming as an adult. It was such a joyful time to discover a whole new generation of games. Mine came with FFVII and I was utterly spellbound. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@CozyAshenWand_]

Must have been the wind hit me harder than it should have 😂😂😂 another great video 🎉

[@seanp8220]

Love it, so totally relatable. I love all the little joke sequences you film. Enjoyed it.

[@PeterPurdie]

Love the post-credits outtake scene. Thanks for 30 years of awesome.

[@Lumiria]

So true on all levels as a gamer. Also forgot "I pressed the button!" in the list of excuses. A great video for the 30th anniversary.

[@flamedbeacon]

thank you for bringing back the bloopers at the end missed those =D And my favorite bit is rob throwing the bottle "oh must have been the wind" LOL

[@Boomtings22]

30 years of PlayStation some of the best times of my life, I’ve made some good friends because of PlayStation! So thank you Sony PlayStation ❤

[@sixpin79]

"Must have been the wind..." Gets me every time, lol.🤣

[@turismofoegaming8806]

I bought another PSone about a little over a year ago, just to have again because of how much the system means to me and how much I loved it growing up!!! It was literally part of the last few years of my childhood going into teenage hood, and then into being a young adult! It's at the tippy top of the list when it comes to the consoles that I feel the most nostalgic and strongest emotional bonds towards! The Xbox 360 and the Vida are way up there also!

[@sillybutton861]

I know it’s been back a while but I feel like it should’ve been back sooner than it was! I love it

[@wordyballoon]

Rob is one of the greatest hosts/ speakers I have ever heard

[@ste4392]

How's it been 30 years?! I'm 33 a feel like I remember the ps1 coming out. Clearly lying to myself 😂 PlayStation has been incredible, such a big part of my life. Here's to 30 more

[@there-tro-re-loadx2953]

It was 1998, I used to go to a game parlour spending my day playing TK 3 and twisted metal, had no friends and no one wanted to be but I never felt alone, I grew up with playstation. Thank u

[@jazzyzone4665]

This is seriously one of the best ones. I related to everything 😂

[@danielanderson6013]

Video game logic has been a relative constant over the last 30 years. Example: my go to strategy for big bosses in Skyrim- sneak up, fire an arrow, quickly run back into the shadows and hide until they assume I'm gone, sneak up, fire another arrow, rinse and repeat. The thought makes me want to jump back in again!

[@Graver81-69]

I was surprised the other day when I turned on my PS5 and it played the old PlayStation startup music. I’m nostalgic as hell right now with my PS5 on PS2 menus and playing Silent Hill 2 remake

[@ungenbunyon5548]

Rob, you are such a treasure

[@kelf5u7]

Another great friday feature! Genuinely look forward to these every week.

[@gmanz5]

One of my biggest fears as a kid is seeing none of the adults around me played video games and that life was about giving up video games and that they were exclusively for children

[@Fujikawa-hw6ij]

Throwing your controller at your tv in frustration costs more then just throwing your controller against a wall. My adolescence self found that out the hard way 😄

[@giuseppe6218]

👏👏👏 Keep up with your excellent work BBB

[@SideWalkWalking]

Can you guys each do like a top 5 Playstation games list? I expected one for the anniversary and don't think there's been one! I love you guys opinions and stories.

[@melaniapina6368]

In this 30 years I learned that videogames can help us cope with many things in our young age but even in our adulthood ❤️ here’s to 30 years more 🍻

[@Bloo_Kitty]

Playstation taught me to do seemingly cheeky or random things in video games so that I may get a serotonin releasing chime and a digital reward in the shape of a trophy that will permanently remain on my profile for all of time

[@Nathanjbaldinus]

for 30 years I figured it would have been a top 30 list for fun. (Also to just see if Rob could come up with 30 distinct things lol)

[@rawyld]

My Playstation memories is coming after High school of bullying and hating School to play Playstation games to relax and loving it.

[@typh3ous]

I remember Christmas hoping to get a PS1. Unboxed a Sega Saturn. I was still really grateful and loved it for a short while. 2 years later the Saturn was traded in for a PS1 😂

[@ChrisBrown-ho3ge]

This channel is awesome funny and the people who do it are very nice people and one of the things that PlayStation has taught me over it’s long 30 year rain is the ability of hand and eye coordination it’s helped me a lot with this and still does today have a good weekend everyone and merry Christmas and a very happy new year

[@coyoteartist]

My official feeling old for the day and I've never even owned a Playstation. Fortunately for me, I have had other ways to learn the important lessons like glowy things, explore, destroy, spam buttons. What I will give Playstation via Rob is the brilliant alternative reality version of my favorite Robert Frost poem. That rocked.

[@shadowlinkbds]

Hello you caught me still not believing that it's been 30 years since PlayStation got its start. My age definitely shows.

[@kadosho02]

All of these are lessons to live by. Also the memory card. I remember a friend's PS1 did not want to save. It was a nightmare. But thankfully they had a backup one, just in case. Sometime those memory cards can be faulty

[@cjdowns5748]

I remember playing a game called elix which gave you a jetpack. The game wasn't that great but i greatly appreciated that there were oftentimes rewards for just jetpacking around trying to get to the highest and most awkward spots.

[@VaultBoy1974]

Prayers up to Dave to make it to Indy launching on PS5. Hang in there dude!

[@aubreynorton4470]

Damn, I'm getting old. I was 14 years old when the PS1 was released and have every console ever created by Playstation. 😊

[@geosword6]

Remember getting my PS1 (or PSX as the magazines called it) on import from Mention back in the summer of '95. Had Ridge Racer and Tekken and it felt like the future had arrived now. Followed it's development in Edge and never thought it would do what it actually did. Going from SNES to PlayStation was a leap the likes of which we'll probably never see again.

[@immaru]

PES Master League legend Espinas mentioned, let's goooo

[@LaxRoss1]

In 30 years we still have Delsin's backstory and revenge being done a dirty...

[@DreTheCoolest]

I been riding with PlayStation since 98 99 man where did the time go

[@RabittTunesTV]

Let’s goooooo! Good way to start my morning

[@kingfordism]

I remember the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 to a lesser extent would all of a sudden start loading from disc as you were creeping down a hallway when there was no sound telling you that something is about to go down. I loved the one about the big open room and ammo and health dumps was a upcoming boss fight.

[@ljuanmamx]

I loved the poem sketch 😂

[@sneakyskunk1]

This one is sort of genre specific. If you walk into a room full of zombies lying on the floor one or more of those zombies will stand up. They will usually wait until you have progressed far enough into a room so that you are strategically situated in a way that gives then an advantage in combat.

[@christianboyd4635]

The bits of the things of the thing you had cracked me up!

[@Apex_Gamer_87]

I've been gaming since the Sega Master System then Mega Drive before going through every generation of PlayStation so far even getting both the normal & Slim for both the PS2 & PS3. One thing not mentioned but still applies to some games today but was vital during the Memory Card era is the importance of saving, alot of games have auto save functions these days but back in early PS days if you died and didn't save for ages you'd have to do it all again.

[@donlin091]

Here's something I learn playing games; if you encounter resistance, your'e going the right way

[@stellaanony3020]

PlayStation 1 taught me how to be scared of the boot up screen. I was always dreading the moment I saw the Sony computer entertainment logo but not the PlayStation logo. Crushed soul.

[@Snary82]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes! The Newb memory still haunts me. Years ago I used to grind FIFA Ultimate team. I had a great team with only 2 Gold and the rest Special. I went up against someone who had 2 Silver and the rest Bronze, including their keeper. I had almost 30 shots, with only a few not on target and around 90% possession. They had 0 shots, yet it remained 0-0, with their keeper pulling off God Tier saves. It was pass 90 mins, I was 1 on 1 with the keeper, I took a shot at 12 yards out and yet another save. They passed it to 1 of their players, who then WALKED the whole pitch, right pass my team, who just stood and watched. As they got into my penalty area, they took their 1st shot of the game and my keeper did not even move until it was pass him and in the back of the net. As soon as I passed the ball from kick off, full time was called!

[@Demea_ds]

5:00 as one who memorized the poem in high school and have never un-memorized it I regret to say Rob did not correctly recite The Road Not Travelled 😂

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Happy 30h anniversary to one of the greatest consoles of all time that not only brought gaming forward but legitimised gaming in the mainstream.

[@makienxhemmiktar]

Ah. 30 years went by like a flash.

[@brandonwoodward9515]

I have one: Rage quitting is just empty calories. It does taste good in that moment to let out rage by throwing your controller at your entertainment center, deleting or snaping the disk of the game, or even just pulling the power cord of the console while in the middle of an online multiplayer. However, you feel the guilt or the embarrassment shortly after when you realize or you see what you have done.

[@blackonyx1]

#8) MGS taught me that if an enemy has a cone of vision and you stand just outside that cone, the enemy won't see you.

[@sushiifoxx]

thank you, playstation 💙

[@therattis23]

I have a feeling Rob has waited 30 years to throw a bottle at poor Dave.

[@silentsword917]

Hasn't been 30 years for me. But one lesson I learned was to take care of my games and treat them with respect

[@chaosblade5906]

Video games have taught me that all rumors about a monster appearing or haunting a particular spot are true.

[@adamwebber6634]

I remember making one of my friends cry at his birthday party because I was a button bashing noob who beat him at his own game, which he'd just got that day, and insisted I was lying when I said I'd never played it before... Fun times 🤣

[@devlinburgess2463]

The amount of times I've hear Rob, in particular, complain about "sweaty goals" on football streams, it's nice to know there's some self-awareness.😆

[@Vyleph]

Ah Rob, he's not the big brother that gives his younger sibling the disconnected controller, but the disconnected and whole different generation one 😂

[@shenloken2]

Happy 30 years of PlayStation! Though for me personally; it started 27 years ago!

[@rubberbandit8210]

Hehehe, Square button op 🤣🤣🤣

[@preeque]

i learned that you can inbreed birds into different colors, until you produce a special bird that can take you anywhere.

[@personalspace6270]

I became 42 yesterday and I'm still sad that I will never will have as much with as when I was a kid. 😢

[@filtiarn7715]

1. YES 2. yes 3. yes 4. yes 5. YES 6.Yes 7. YYYEEESSS 🤣👌

[@twennysebben]

I was 12 when the Playstation came out, and I'd go to my best friend's house to play games and order pizza. Pepperoni and Twisted Metal. Good times.

[@Mazzooga]

I really love this Playstation Access-videos 😊❤ My favo channel on KZbin ❤

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

in thirty years the most important thing PlayStation taught me is that i should always bet on Blue

[@albertomorales1744]

" I JUMP" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SARGE4268]

That must have been the wind brought me far too much enjoyment, haha.

[@jordyboy62]

One thing I wasn't aware I've learned from gaming all these years is just simply how to innately know how to use controllers and control schemes with little practice. My wife has started playing games over the last few years and it's mostly PC. So when she plays console games she's struggles to get her brain to move the thumbsticks and press buttons at the same time. Equally, she can struggle with some of the game cues in how to do certain things because she has no prior experience of this from other games. Equally she struggles with pressing buttons rapidly to do certain things like double jumps. However on PC none of these are issues.