Playing PS1 In 2024

I bought an original Playstation 1 for the first time in my life, 20 years later.
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#ps1 #playstation1 #playstation
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:36 The PS1
3:09 First Impressions
4:37 Playing PS1
9:21 Controllers
11:33 Accessories You Need
13:27 Games
16:08 Outro

[@LightSnackProductions]

This guy is like the one person at your job that keeps you employed there .

[@defalt_2797]

What 🤣

[@jerkusclownstar]

That's good to know

[@jlb3135]

Gives u a reason to come back

[@gregames4843]

1994 til now is 30 years, not 20. Love the vids - thanks for making them! edit: Oh I just got to the part where you show your memory card. Be careful with those non-OEM ebay ones. You can usually use a few of the memory slots, but if you go beyond a certain amount they erase your data! I still use them sometimes, but I transfer any important saves to a more reliable card.

[@BasementGamerYT]

I am quite dumb...thank you for watching

[@yanghao8351]

MemCard Pro for the PS1 are popular. You can store lots of game saves. Or you can make a picoMemcard for the PS1.

[@Dragonfury3000]

Still my favorite generation. Games that I just want to play for fun not just to kill time.

[@detectiveblutomindpretzel6292]

It's so quiet because it doesn't have any fans in it

[@munz-matthias6578]

Also the CD drive sits on rubber grommets to minimize the noise from reading the disk

[@wowwhataworld.9590]

And it doesn't have any fans in it 'cause it don't need em, super low power consumption. One reason to play PS1 games on a PS1 console

[@ZiadHamwi99]

​@@munz-matthias6578 Yup, add to this that the CDs in the PS1 spin significantly slower than the DVDs in PS2 or Blu-ray's in PS3.

[@MrKrewie]

im guessing the comments are referring to the disc reads, need to grease up the mechanical arm moving the laser head up and down, its severly dry

[@PetersBros.]

PS1 has some great games Crash Bandicoot series, Tekken series, Metal gear solid, Pandemonium series, Tony Hawk series, Resident Evil series. PS3 is Still the Peak for me, but growing up around PS1 brings heaps of nostalgia.

[@rogue67211]

Wish Legend of Dragoon would come back 😪

[@Joepereginefalcon730]

A Bugs life is better than all them 🐛🪲

[@vanssssssss]

For me it was also Syphon Filter, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Crash Team Racing. We still play CTR, Micro machines and Quake 2 in 4 player splitscreen 🙌

[@theyuca-clan4239]

Don’t forget about hydro thunder

[@Kramastrastus]

Medal of Honor series too.

[@FloodXL]

I could spend 20 mins listening to this guy explain why charcoal grilling is better than propane.

[@tripdefect87]

The PS1 Slim and PS2 Slim are my favorite consoles purely from an aesthetic standpoint. Love both systems. Got my PS1 in 1999 for my birthday with Crash 1, Tomb Raider, and Rayman. Loved it, it's one of my favorite systems and the PS2 greatly improved on it, but I never got one for myself until I got a job and most of my collection is games I either wanted to play but never got the chance to or ones that my cousin owned

[@snizzol]

My first owned console ever. love it so much, i got 5 just in case... please more PSX, get the Namco Gun and Time Crisis.

[@ryanaudioo]

love the vids , keep it up

[@VolkaBeretta]

Let's go!! Love your videos bro!

[@Jinsei24]

love the style you make your videos!

[@zach7384]

I've been binging your videos, 32 years old and definitely in my retro game collecting phase lol. PS1 & PS2 are my latest pick ups. Found your channel at the perfect time, thanks for the entertainment 🙏 would be cool to see you venture into other consoles, such as gamecube through wii u or something. Im here for it either way tho!

[@scruf153]

imagine being 10 at Christmas 1985 and being one of the first to get the NES

[@Asaylum117]

Honestly, this brings back memories of when my best friend used to own a PS1 back in the day. If it wasn't for the PS1, I wouldn't have had a PS2 growing up.

[@Akihiko169]

Awesome video, as always! I would love to see more videos focusing on particular games - really enjoyed the ones on True crime and GTA liberty city stories.

[@vilius37]

You’re are the best!!!❤ You will go far! ❤️

[@DoubleTGameHustle]

Never owned a PS1 so excited to see your thoughts on this! Also I hope you make some 360 videos! 🔥

[@relax4531]

yea same

[@leeg12000]

Still have my original PS1, complete with my Eminem sticker from '99. Awesome console. MGS1/2/3. GTA's, Splinter Cell. Way too many to mention. Cool content brother 👍.

[@slarbiter]

Ps1 and snes on a tube TV have been keeping me together in 2024. Silent hill, Parasite Eve, Spyro, Rayman, Resident Evil 1&2. Currently playing the hell out of final fantasy 3/6. Ps2 controllers work on ps1 Also my primary CD player lol

[@SulphurBorne]

Love your vids dude

[@shaun8062]

It seems everyone I've talked to or watched videos from recalls living in a bubble where all their friends had N64 growing up and didn't know many people with PS1. I am also one of those people. In fact, after collecting for the N64 recently I got into the PS1 finally like you did and bought the same version of the system. I enjoy it quite a bit and I think It's different enough from the N64 that they are both warranted in one household. Take snowboard games for example. The N64 had 1080 which was lightyears better than Coolboarders 2 on PS1. Then take racing. The PS1 had gran turismo 2 and the N64 didn't really even have a racing simulator game. Then their first person shooters where N64 wins again. Then RPGs where PS1 wins again. Then multiplayer where N64 wins. video, music, and large sized games where PS1 wins. 3D platformers where N64 wins.

[@valentinzivkovic3640]

Your videos are so entertaining

[@rogue67211]

The startup definitely brings back the anxiety feeling, hoping you get to the good screen.

[@johnflores4913]

Hey man great video! I have a question. How do you set up an old console like that on your monitor with the best settings?

[@shawnpray4631]

When I bought my ps3 I picked up Twisted Metal 2 and Final Fantasy 9. Both very fun games. Was going to get Tony hawk’s pro skater 2 but ended up choosing the Dreamcast version.

[@Joepereginefalcon730]

A bug's life the greatest ps1 game of all time 🍄🐜 🌿 🌾 🐝

[@Punisher6791]

nah, its Tomb Raider bro.

[@Grave_Digger606]

It’s actually Silent Hill 1.

[@munz-matthias6578]

The early ones with the rca ports were known for their sound quality. A lot of people use them as CD-players because the laser they used was apparently comparable with some much more expensive systems back in the day. They also had more problems however, e. g. overheating and the laser-sled wore out kind of quick thus needing new adjustment.

[@MrKrewie]

bought one to learn a bit about electronics and successfully installed an xstation on it, love these old machines, they really dont build em like they used to do

[@MarkyV83]

Yeah the first edition had the 3 AV phono connections on the back. Also on the early version the laser disc drive was towards the upper left side, but heat from the internal PSU caused disc reading issues so they moved the laser to the right side on later models, like this one in the video.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

One Basement Gamer and his journey with the PS1🤔 I got the 1st version of the PS1, which can be connected to a hifi system to being blast by the soundtrack of the games or even CDs including changing the variations of reverbs😃Mine is a chiped PAL one, which can play US and Japanese Games.

[@kennethroberts3953]

I remember getting the original Playstation with birthday money when I was about 12 I think, I got it with Mortal Kombat Trilogy. I played the all the way upto when I was 18, great console and lots of good games. Dino Crisis 1 and 2 Resident Evil Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 3 Wipeout Taken Taken 2 Taken 3 Broken Sword 2 Doom Metal Gear Solid Final Fantasy 7 Gran turismo Gta Gta 2 I think there was a Rugrats game that was pretty good. The Simpsons Wrestling was really good. I know there are more but they are the games that spring to mind when I think of the original Playstation.

[@cameron3550]

GREAT VIDEO! Can you please share the link to where you bought the refurbished PS1?

[@stashmerkin9576]

Keep an eye out for Bushido Blade, Omega Boost, Ghost in the Shell and Legacy of Kain.

[@stopkillnkenny]

This video is a classic, really enjoyed it. Looking forward to more!

[@Brick_Soup]

I bought an og PlayStation about a year ago so I could play my dad's old collection and it is in surprisingly great condition but doesn't have the little cover on the back

[@jessecameronat1993]

The PS1 was my childhood console and it was my first console I ever owned back in 1998 when I was 5 years old i remember playing Spyro the Dragon and gran Tursimo 1 back in 1998 and 1999

[@theowlsofouterheaven]

I still play my PS1 games on the original PlayStation. So nostalgic!

[@yanghao8351]

Looks clean... (probably lightly used a magic eraser on the plastic) I love the PS1. I have a few models (original and slim). They are fun to clean, refurbish and put new capacitors in. I actually really like playing discs on the PSone slim but switch between the models depending on the game.

[@Johnny_Utah231]

What did you think of syphon filter 2? I loved that game when i was a kid First game i owned when i got the psx my friend had syphonfilter 1 used to play it all the time at his house but never could pas the first level so when we reached that point we restarted the mission untill one day he called me to tell me he had discoverd a way to finish the mission Just fun memorys i have with syphonfilter but also spyro, crash, driver, deadballzone, tekken2&3, hogs of war, thps2

[@Wayy2Loww]

I have the PS1 Controller without analog sticks and I love it, I don’t know why but it just feels so good in my hands. It’s pretty satisfying to play games with. It’s abit annoying on later ps1 games like Crash Bandicoot Warped where they designed a lot of the levels to be used with the analog stick

[@AnotherNormalYorkshireman]

Yes my man. Ps1 content.

[@davidagiel8130]

I had ps1 the year it released, i was about 15 and i picked fruit all summer holidays to get it along with Alien Trilogy and MK Trilogy.

[@PeteFredrickson]

The PS1 was my first console growing up, specifically the PSone slim model from the early 2000s

[@mikehawk5492]

If you're gonna play ps1 on original hardware you gotta play it on an old CRT tube TV, they were never designed to look good on modern HD flat screens.

[@stephenhughes5156]

Or through an upscaler like the Retrotink 5x.

[@BigBoss-nc7tz]

I will never forget when i first played metal gear soild and how shocked i was with the graphics and atmosphere it was a head of its time indeed 😢

[@bjornironsides6474]

My first PlayStation experience was twisted metal 2. After only knowing Mario and donkey Kong type games, this blew me away.

[@chlamygamine2190]

The best way to experience what the PS1 offers ..... Speaking of original hardware.... CRT tvs. Light gun games shined.

[@yanghao8351]

A CRT is great but the screen is just a special vacuum tube that will eventually breakdown as they get older. Plus they could be expensive to replace.

[@sinbysin666]

@@yanghao8351 nothing lasts forever.

[@Enzed_]

​@@yanghao8351 they're more durable than you realise. I still have a crt that's probably 20 years old and it's still working fine.

[@yanghao8351]

@@Enzed_ was it new 20 years ago? It's around the 20 year mark where the electrolytic capacitors could start to fail and their ESR numbers or capacitance are way off. At any rate any electronic device 20 years and older should be looked over to see how the components are doing. It might be running fine but actually it could be slowly "failing".

[@stephenhughes5156]

​@@Enzed_I'm trying to decide whether to get a CRT, Retrotino 5x or just use emulation. As much as I love the idea of having a CRT (particularly for pre- 6th gen consoles), it seems that I'd be looking at at least £200 for a 20+inch CRT (14 inch is a bit too small for me). Which is fine, but there's a chance it might only last me a few months (or even a few weeks). So at that point I'm thinking I just spend the extra £100 for a R5x which will last me probably forever (and allow me the convenience of being able to chill on my sofa playing on a 43 inch TV).

[@wowwhataworld.9590]

PS1 was the only system I owned growing up. The next system is owned was an Xbox 360 when I was like 18 and living out of home. As someone who is very familiar with the PS1, that double press to close the lid was iconic haha

[@Mintcar923]

My OG PSX had a sorta defect where games would freeze.. I really should have got it replaced but I just tossed it and got a PS 1 in like Dec 2000 you know the smaller model.. I still have it in the closet.. Maybe I’ll look into getting some memory cards and hook it up again one day! I still do play my ps 1 collection sometimes on ps3

[@kennethroberts3953]

Oh yeah Tenchu was a good ninja game on the PS1

[@chris4087]

Two first PlayStation games I played that I played was micro machines v3 and formula one. The very first formula one game had the best controls they nailed it straight out of the gate. Wasn't a formula 1 fan at all still not but that game has perfect handling.

[@lucianodamico_]

A good upscaler, like the OSSC or one of the retrotinks, go a long way to making PS1 games look better. PS1 has RGB output also, so you can get a SCART cable that supports RGB to get better sharpness/colors/output/etc. MyLifeInGaming has a good PS1 guide that you can watch where they go over the output details, and other videos that discuss upscalers. The best upscalers you can get are probably the OSSC Pro, RetroTink 5x Pro, and PixelMorph 4k, but the less advanced and more affordable ones (original OSSC, RetroTink 2x) would be good enough if you're using a 1080p monitor/TV.

[@lugented]

I only own a 360 console, but if I was going all retro personally would go all in on this route

[@ICARUS_I]

Recently rebought the PSone (slim version), which is the one I grew up playing. And oh boy, that start up screen, nothing else can ever top it. But, I agree that playing games on their original hardware is the way to go, even if they do look worse than playing them on a PS3. Can’t deny, that PlayStation came out swinging and cornered both Nintendo and Sega. A legend indeed.

[@evanbartley403]

syphon filter is great!!

[@snufftherooster93]

My first console 🤘🏻

[@MrRobMayer]

The RetroTINK-2x HDMI converter will help display quality some with these older systems.

[@SODMGGOKU]

Every PlayStation 1 has a sticker on the bottom showing the month and year it was made. For example mine says June 1998. Also Syphon Filter was a really popular game when it came out. SF2 is the best one out the series. Spyro Year of the Dragon was my most favorite game as a kid.

[@GrmDark]

Definitely recomend picking up Final Fantasy 9 metal gear solid and Crash bandicoot. Legendary games and they sell for cheap online 👍

[@seymiy3106]

how do you get a good and clean display ps1 on led tv?

[@fr4gg3rd00d]

You should play Driver 2 for PS1. Not necessarily for a video, its just a good game I think you'd like. I would like to see you do a video on the Dreamcast, though.

[@theTF2sniper]

9:34 I still got atleast 5 of those first gen controllers lying around, more then i do dualshocks.

[@rogue67211]

Parasyte eve, resident evil, and Syphonfilter were my favorites GTA was cool too.

[@Peace.and.knowledge1]

PS1 was an absolute beast/blast!! of a console. And crash bandicoot 1 of course was so amazing for it's time .

[@stevenrosscarpenter]

My fave ps1 games: - Driver - Bushido Blade - Warcraft II edit: oh ya and final fantasy 9

[@YagiTheDog]

Great video as always! Where are you buying these older consoles?

[@alkhoaja]

EBay or Amazon

[@YagiTheDog]

@@alkhoajayou aren’t the basement gamer!

[@alkhoaja]

@@YagiTheDog I guess so☹️

[@BasementGamerYT]

Been finding a lot of them on ebay

[@mikestacks2431]

I just picked up a ps3 and love using the ps4 controller on it. Best nhl game is nhl 14

[@SeasideBandit]

I had a chipped PS1, however it went 'missing'. Funny how it vanished after one of my brother's "friend's" stopped over. I still have the first one we got, with the parallel port. The laser pickup on it no longer works though. A fixer in the future, assuming I can still buy a replacement. Popstarter on the PS2 will have to do.

[@JWUniverse]

The Original PS1 Controller without the sticks were easy… There wasn’t many games that needed 2 Sticks to control characters since many of them were Tank Controlls like RE Trilogy and Tomb Raider 1-5. It was easier than it looked bro 😂 Trust me I had them all still do. You never heard of Syphon Filter?… That is peak PlayStation 1 The Entire Trilogy is good but Syphon Filter 2 is Amazing!

[@funasylumstudio]

Damn this guy needs to get into full on game reviews on PC too, this guy is a natural talent

[@Lunaria.Praesentia]

Syphon Filter 2 is magnificent, hopefully you can get the first one since, obviously, for story reasons you might want to start with the first one 😅 and basically gameplay-wise it's pretty much the same, in short; it is incredibly fun and badass, really epic series, at least the PS1 trilogy

[@lvcsilva]

the best games for ps1 are: army men air attack 2, winning eleven 2002 (the intro is just hmmm) and motor racer 2

[@cultivatedgamer]

The PS1 game library doesn't hold up as well as the PS2 or PS3, but it was still a great system. It got me back into video games. With Sega and Nintendo more focused on games for kids and teenagers, the PS1 offered a lot of more adult oriented games like the Twisted Metal games, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid franchises.

[@randallbro6749]

My favorite system next to the xbox 360

[@willmc6728]

I've never seen a kangaroo in an olive garden. But as a part of the commonwealth, I've never seen a beaver in creek. Trod on a brown snake once, by accident. Nice console

[@jacobbaranowski]

PS one can be played on evry PS3. But to get the best value from your PS one using a CRT for light gun 🔫 shutters is a must.

[@mala4196]

Crash & Spyro trilogy made up my childhood

[@TheRealRetroBeard]

It's more like 30 years old. That makes me feel old 😅

[@stashmerkin9576]

Some PS1s have video visualizers when you play an audio CD in it. I think the later models removed it.

[@mitchellreece9820]

Did you ever jailbreak your ps3 slim?

[@notyourdad]

Damn. I completely forgot that I had Test Drive on the PS1 back in the day. I don't think I ever made any progress in that game.

[@adambrock284]

My ps1 came with the controller without the sticks.. you've got to remember we had all moved on from snes and megadrive that only had a dpad.. its amazing how good you can get with a dpad when thats all youve ever had. I remember having to learn to play with thumbsticks 😂

[@adambrock284]

At first everyone held them like tiny arcade sticks 😅

[@Punisher6791]

one Latin phrase that best describes the ps1: Sic Parvis Magna- Greatness from small beginning's.

[@derekknowles5805]

I recommend you get Heart of Darkness and Gundam Assault 2

[@user-rj9ui3sz8u]

That a nice PS1 who did you get it from?

[@MaximumScrotum]

I say this with love.he is the forrest gump of gaming.

[@suprxmefire9497]

Can you do a video on the ps4

[@fearsmasher1299]

I wonder if Dreamcast is next?

[@grizzlybearking1878]

Maybe some Psmove collecting soon? 👀

[@Grawbad]

The one thing that will give you pause about the PS1 since you mostly played PS2 and 3 and not much PS1, is the fact that the OG PS1 did not ship with an analog controller. The original controller did not have analog sticks. So there are a lot of games that use the sticks but the problem with that is, throughout the entire generation developers had to assume some players did not have an analog controller. So while a lot of games did use the sticks, even they were hampered because the game design had to take into account no analog sticks as well. So either the game auto rotated as you moved or there was just forward and back and turn but no aiming up or down. Or a game might use R1 and R2 for up and down. It was a long while before a shooter even used the sticks. I think it might have been medal of honor or wolfenstein or something that I first played a shooter that used the sticks as they do today. So yeah, you will notice a lot of the games designs were such that even though they used the sticks, the camera was not something you could manipulate with them. There are some though. I think the PS1 prices stay a little down due to the fact that PS2 and PS3 can play PS1, but I am also one of those that like original hardware. I have 2 PS1 original consoles and 2 of the small models. I even have the attachable screen for the small one. I recently went through MGS1 on that little screen. lol I opened the slim model myself and that controller is my baby. I can't tell you how much I love fresh controllers. The slim came with the analog controller unlike how the original model came with the controller without sticks. Also, you can get a memory card that you can put a micro sd card in and just have one card and keep all your saves as you go.

[@TucBroder]

I own both the OG PS1 and the slim PSOne. I prefer playing on the PSOne, but the fat one is chipped and that's the one I use for games from other regions.

[@MiBrCo4177]

I absolutely love my PS1 and all of the PlayStations however I seriously wish they would go back to Jewel case format and give us instruction booklets and even make a variation of PlayStation that is in the same case design as the PS1. It's so small and minimalist that you'd think with all of the slim designs that they're building these consoles on for their second and or third revision that they would have went back to this design in some way shape or form, and for all do you who sit here and say that they can't for whatever reason is asinine considering there is a huge variation of mini PCs out there that are smaller and every way shape or form then the PS1 and function just as good as consoles today if not better.

[@mcspooney]

Obscure games to try... Jackie chans stunt master, parasite eve 2 and hogs of war would be some good rare ones to try for you bud.

[@stannisthemannis5535]

YUS

[@WantedFoShow]

try and find medievil that game is legendary always a fun time

[@user-gj1lb6xp3t]

I bought my PS1 used with Syphon Filter when the PS2 came out... I forgot to buy a memory card 🫠

[@yroc2553]

More people should know about syphon filter

[@mnunfa1]

Next stop retrotink 5x pro and some retrovision ps3 component cables. You might like the scan line feature. Unless you get a sinden light gun dont bother with those games

[@2006Mercury]

Life is good

[@khalidmuhammad1991]

They should take you for young Reddington role in the blacklist tv show 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 you will be perfect for the role

[@ConradClaassen7]

i knew the ps1 was coming

[@nweditor875]

Love the Japanese ps1 alot.

[@sam_20_]

I have never played the PS1 but right now they go for 80 bucks in my area !! 😂