PlayStation is 30 years old...

[@CINEMARTYR]

I remember when the PS1 came out when I was growing up in Ireland, it felt like such an exotic thing, it was a thing that a family like mine was never going to own. But a few years after that, I would I ask my family to give me like 10 bucks each for my birthday so I could start saving for a PS1. I remember that day my brother said hold your hands out and I felt him put a really heavy box on top of them - they surprised me by just getting the PS1 and Tekken 3. It was a serious peak moment in my childhood, just euphoric levels of happiness.

[@moises1514]

W family beautiful memory

[@SENATORPAIN1]

I got a rock.

[@theinfinitymachine9610]

I had to wait until they released the 100 dollars smaller PSX version and buy all the Greatest Hits games for 19.99. It's worth the wait but I got to play FFVII and FFVIII.

[@bunchamp85]

Thats such a cool memory! I got mine in october 1997 but had to wait til christmas to get a game. Lots of demo one haha. Then i got FF7 for christmas and It changed my life

[@mduduzinkosi6147]

Need for speed high stakes as well, and underground

[@piquelitojr]

Happy new years to you all!

[@JakeBaldino]

Happy 2025!

[@OmegaBlack999]

Hey, thanks! You, too, friend!!!

[@Foolishtook1985]

You too man

[@drgonzo123]

Happy New Years to you too! Hope the next year is your best yet.

[@YuniorGamboa]

Happy new year bro

[@delazak]

Buying a PS2 at a flea market in like 2006 altered my brain in a way that I can never fully explain. Coming home with a copy of Battlefront 1 only to open the disk tray and have a copy of MK Armageddon was like christmas

[@dr.loomis4221]

I like to picture you profile pic is your reaction to discovering MKA in the disk tray lol.

[@delazak]

@@dr.loomis4221 Pretty much lol, me and my brother had to hide it from my parents since they didn't want us playing M rated games 🤣

[@MolinaKojima]

@@delazakthat’s a funny story man haha I remember being a kid and hiding GTA vice city from my parents

[@delazak]

@@MolinaKojima I bought a copy of GTA3 off a kid in my 7th grade homeroom for $1 and had to hide it for the better part of a year so I feel you on that. Eight Ball's intro dialogue is burned into my brain since we didn't have a memory card for like a year so I just replayed the opening hours of the game

[@Zack_Mee_Nhatz]

Jake casually dropping bombshells about his dating past is an underrated comedy moment.

[@maineman5757]

I'm 30 years old! The PlayStation is my soul console. ❤

SAME! My mom took me to Circuit City in 1997 to get a N64 and we walked out with a PlayStation because of MK Trilogy and the fact that it played CDs. I immediately fell in love with games like Resident Evil, Tomb and experienced the launch of MGS1, Tekken 3. What an amazing journey all the way up to PS5 today. ❤️ PlayStation

[@ProtoNecron]

Thank you Jake, i needed to feel old today. Also Happy New years dude.

[@VideoClubRandom]

I was a 10-year-old boy here in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. And the video store in my neighborhood had a raffle to give away the PlayStation, they gave you a coupon to fill out with every rental. I lost the '96 raffle, but won the '97 one! Thanks to renting so many movies, but I credit the win to getting hooked on The Punisher for the Sega Genesis, I rented it so many times I was full of coupons... I never won any other prizes in my life, but for a 10-year-old kid with no money, there was nothing bigger.

[@nicksanchez8294]

My family rented a PS1 from Blockbuster with Crash 1 and we were hooked. My dad only recently told me that after the kids went to bed, he stayed up late and would keep playing for hours. Crash, Jet Moto, and Twisted Metal 2 are my most potent PlayStation memories.

[@Redino20]

Dude! My dad would do the same thing with Gran Turismo! The PS1 was quite literally a game changer for everyone

[@gangatalishis]

Twisted metal and vigilante 8 were peak.

[@Theckonestroh]

Had to bring up blockbuster. Lol

[@RickyRicardo03]

Happy New Year everyone 🎊 Jake, you nailed it for me too man. I got the PS1 in 97’ for Christmas and jammed on the demo disc for at least half the year. It was still so fun and man, that start up sound was/is beautiful.

[@danimalplanet2087]

The memory that hits me more than any is when I got that PS2 for Christmas. My Grandma was Watching me play MGS2. She would shudder whenever I would shoot a guard because it looked so real for the time.

[@KobatheASMRbiker]

I feel like we had the same grandma lol. But she would just love watching me play Mgs2 while she sat in her rocking chair

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

The only PS i ever had was PS4, but I played original PS when I was a kid. Here in Lithuania, just regaining independence, country was in poor shape and obviously very behind to western culture. in 98 or 99 maybe I got Sega Genesis for Christmas, like 15 years after console was originally launched... But for a kid here it was huge. So we were kids playing Genesis and phamicon games when literal PS was already a thing. But we got these video game kiosks that would let you play PS games, all the kids were spending time back there back then. So I vividly remember playing crash racing and FIFA 98 or something like that. Then growing up, I just became PC gamer, Lithuania as a country in whole was never big onconsoles, never had that wave over here, everyone became PC gamer and played things like Red Alert, Diablo, Commandos, Heroes of might and Magic, NBA LIVE etc...

[@danimalplanet2087]

@@TheRealUcanUwill Red Alert 2 was my favorite game to play online for years.

[@shannonbayley3684]

Ps1 & ps2 are definitely my favourites. Playing Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tony Hawk, Tekken, Ridge Racer, Parasite Eve etc for the first time. They and many others were absolute trailblazers for the industry. They took risks and put out so many original games back then. It was a gold rush. The wild west. Have the best memories from those days.

[@eddiecoker4808]

Brother came home from the navy. Bought his ps1 oversea, and bought the original resident evil. Talking about when their games had large black cases. Scared me so bad i couldnt sleep, had to watch the cosby show to fall asleep. Coming from sega to that! Messed me up. Also Jake's hair is talking to me.

[@skibsteds]

Happy New Year, Jake! Love the channel and will definitely be here for 2025! - I am an older gamer (we're talking Atari 2600 and C64 in the 80s here), and I bought my PS1 here in Denmark in 1995. It had just released and I bought it at a local store where it was just kind of put on a random shelf. But I got it and Ridge Racer 1 and Jumping Flash (as far as I can recall), and have been a Playstation fan ever since. Man, the first Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, Wipeout, Resident Evil.. all those games blew my mind.

[@badGamr]

In 1992 I sold my company that I had built with my partner and from that sale I bought my house for cash. In 94 we had the Northridge Earthquake that did about $150K in damage to my house. I took advantage of that to build a large home theater room - 20x20 with a wet bar and it's own HVAC and restroom - 2 9' leather couches with foot rests, a video projection system and a 15' screen with full THX surround. It was a significant enough system that the local paper profiled it. I designed the room with a raised floor so that the 4 huge down firing subwoofers would rattle your chest. I ran a cable system under the floor to accommodate up to 4 different kinds of console controllers. There were multiple connectors in front of each of the couches to connect your controller of choice into and these under-floor cables ran back to a rack in the back of the room where the video consoles lived. At the time I was a PC gamer and the days of being the master race were long away. A PC gamer at that time was more of the long suffering sort. When you bought a PC game, it was not uncommon to spend a few hours screwing around with it and various drivers and other crap to get the game to run. By this time I was sick of that routine and decided it was time to give consoles a shot. Prior to this I had never owned a console. I bought a 3DO, a Jaguar and a PS1. Of these, clearly the PS1 was my favorite - Ridge Racer, F1, Wipeout, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Mortal Combat and many others. My media room became an after school gathering place for the youngsters in my neighborhood. Any given afternoon it was not uncommon for my media room to be hosting 8 to 10 kids. I had some simple rules for sharing access to the games and on the whole the kids were well behaved. I would rent games from a local video store to gauge if they were worth buying and many times the kids would bring their own mem cards and rentals as well. For me, the PS1 was a masterful design. At one point I installed a chip into it to bypass the DRM on games and a gameshark for cheating. Good times. In 1997 I divorced my then wife and she bought out my half of the house and I left all of that behind and did not game for a while. In 1999 a friend introduced me to Everquest on the PC and I got lost into that MMO for about 7 years. Running my own raiding guild and having a blast in that giant multiplayer system. By late 2006 I had re-married and had not played Everquest in over a year. I had amassed a fairly large collection of movies in digital form that I kept on my PC but I was looking for a way to stream them to my new HDTV. Enter the XBOX 360 as my new streaming platform. I picked up a few games for the XB - Red Dead and GTAV among others. I tried to get my wife into gaming but that did not fly. Eventually I migrated to a high capacity server system running the PLEX media server and and Apple TV to receive the stream. I still use that system to this day. When the PS4 came out I bought one and I was elated by the quality of the console, the ability to sleep it and record footage was huge. I loved the PS4. Infamous Second Son was a blast along with the AC games that I played on it. I attempted to get my wife into gaming again and this time it took - LEGO Jurassic World was her entry into gaming - She went on to play every LEGO game she could get on the PS4. To this day she has played all of the Batman Arkham games and loved them. All 3 of the Spider-man games and again, she loves them. We play GTA Online almost every night as a duo - She is on her PS5 and I am on mine. Life is good.

[@arsnakehert]

What a beautiful story, I actually look up to you lol You're the hero of those kids' childhoods, they must have so many fond memories

[@The1Overmind]

Man, Jake, you are hitting some insane nostalgia talking about all this. Some of my fondest core memories are going to Walmart and getting that 5 minute speed run time to play whatever demo was available for whatever console they had out on display. My brain literally developed a neurological subsection specifically for remembering how to resume playing those demos the next time that I was there and could play it for 5 more minutes. I distinctly remember super Mario 64 being one of them. And then remembering the day that we got a Nintendo 64 with super Mario 64 and having so much time to sit there and explore wherever and whatever for an entire night or over the weekend. Aww, man, you got me tripping on some nostalgia tonight 😂

[@Asf_932]

I was born 93. My go-to games on PS1 were Duke Nukem and Namco Museum Vol. 1. Truly a life forming experience for me😂😂

[@d_shuffles]

I felt like I was telling war stories about PlayStation to kids this Christmas.

[@YuniorGamboa]

😆

[@zett18]

As someone who could never afford multiple consoles and having my first playstation be a ps5 it’s honestly great. I’ve been going back and playing classic titles and new ones too which has been really cool to get into playstation even without any nostalgia

[@KuroNekoIX]

Thanks for making these videos, I love hearing people talk about their passion. And also, I didn’t know you and Andrew go way back. That’s so cool!

[@MyManJFKTV]

It’s funny. When I was young, my grandma called any gaming console a Nintendo, and now my dad [who’s never really been fond of games outside of Jet Moto] calls any gaming console a “damn PlayStation.” I used to get on punishment quite a bit as a kid throughout the PS1 generation, and my dad would tell me to “unhook that damn PlayStation and pick up a book.” Good times.

[@kingtokeabowlboi7977]

It’s crazy that the Ps2 came out in 2000 when I played so many of those games when I started playing video games in 2007 or so

[@Rico513]

Got mines in 1998 as a 12 year old for Christmas with MGS, Jet Moto, Tomb Raider 2, and Madden 97. The rest is history.

[@n.s.2690]

Im on the younger side at 17 and I remember in 2018 when Spider-Man was coming out I met someone who I’d consider a brother today asked me if I was excited for it and we bonded over our shared interests. In the summer my Xbox One died and I was heart broken but my dad lended me his since he also had a PS4 and I asked if I could get one for my birthday for Spider-Man which was in October. But still i remember when my dad let me play it on launch day on his PS4 for a few hours and it was magical, everything about the game felt right. The suits, the world, Peter, etc. Everytime I went to my friends houses I’d hog the controller when we played Spider-Man😭😭 I felt like a god when I finally had my own console

[@Eirikr07]

I'm older Gen Z but the SNES and PS1 were my first consoles. Played everything on both, so good. I was like 4 or 5 lol.

[@WhispyWoods.]

I love hearing the inside stories with these consoles and really stages of life as they release over the decades. Good stuff!

[@mathewm6294]

Merry New Years everyone, this console came out when I was 11. In many ways this console was my beginning of my modern gaming era, with the Resident Evil games being the big motivator to even buy that first console. My mom bought me my ps1 for my 15th birthday after getting me a Sega Saturn for Christmas a couple of years before. That was a mess as the support for that system was almost nil, I had to go out of my normal shopping area just to get an RF Switch for a TV that didn't have a/v plug ins. Since then, I've been a steady PlayStation guy, even though I've had og xbox and the 360 in there over the years I always come back to PlayStation, from the awesome 2 all the way to my ps5 now. Thanks for this video Jake, this has been a much appreciated trop down memory lane.❤✌️🎄

[@dtanobo]

Jake and I both playing Jurassic Park first is dope lmao it was a core memory for me. Then Ridge Racer and finally Hercules. Then the rest of history

[@ARIXANDRE]

Realizing we are getting old through video games. It's what connects me to GR and your content, Jake. Happy New Year!

[@zacharron]

After being out of gaming since about 13 I got the PS1 in 1996 when I was in the Army. RE1, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, MGS1, FFVII are all core gaming memories for me. Have a good New Years, Jake!

[@budfahnestock2418]

as a huge rpg fan, ps1 will always be my favorite, but when i first got with my wife way back when, ps3 was where it was at for the co-op indie games. i can't tell you how many hours we put into deathspank, pixeljunk games, those tomb raider isometric games, little big planet. then also the big titles like borderlands, the ps3 was a co-op wet dream for a young couple that were both into gaming and getting stoned.

[@zendude1554]

Happy New Year! Grew up very similarly with my cousin’s hand me down NES and then the PS1. So many memories that forever defined me, even more so during the PS2 era. Still my favorite console to this day

[@ChayongkornSingprasong]

Rayman and Tomba were my most vivid memories from PS1

[@JakeBaldino]

TOMBA my man

[@ChayongkornSingprasong]

​@@JakeBaldino I'm so glad I got the PS5 release 😂

[@bailey3209]

Loved tombi (as it was called here in the UK for some reason) I didn't realise It had been released on ps5 (only got one a month or two ago)

[@albertovaldivia6132]

Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour is burnt into my memory going to my grandma's house back in the day

[@Frost4Real]

Always love hearing people's gaming history, thanks for sharing. Funny how u made videos because u didn't have many people to talk gaming with, and me and others watch yours for the same reason! ❤

[@stug5041]

Loved hearing your journey - similar to my own with ps1 and 2! The one thing I find wild is whenever guys like us talk about being a kid with ps1/2, many people talk about not having a memory card and replaying stuff over and over - this makes no sense to me - I’d of mowed those extra lawns asap, even as a kid replaying the intro over and over Knowing there was a better alternative would have driven me nuts

[@jaives]

first saw the PS1 at the end of high school. i was enamored. it was leaps and bounds over the SNES. i worked part-time during college and bought it two years later. ruined a semester for me playing FF8, FF Tactics and Vagrant Story.

[@JaspersChannel]

Thanks for a great year Jake. Much love from The UK. Pizza's on us!

[@army103]

Christmas of '97 was when my parents finally agreed to get me a new system to upgrade from the NES I'd been playing for the last 8+ years. But I had to decide between a PS1 and a N64. In the end, what sold me on a PS1 was a) having seen my friend play Resident Evil a few months before and it blew my mind, b) the Final Fantasy 7 commercials on TV, and c) the fact that two of my friends were getting N64s. It was one of my best Christmases ever!

[@酎ハイ飲んだらいい感じ]

12:26 "what a time to be a player"

[@Carloszavalalol]

He did date a chick for her PlayStation 😏

[@solracrod]

I have so much nostalgia for ps1 and ps2! I’m 46 and I was able to work at GameStop during late 1999 til 2005. I was around during to me, the best time for gaming. I witnessed many game and system launches! Cheers Jake and Happy New Year!

[@MicSolace]

I was born in 1996 so the PS2 was my personality for a while, things like Onimusha, MGS, NBA/NFL Street, NFS Most Wanted, Ratchet and Clank, Vice City I played religiously, Funny enough I’m writing a song about the PS2 rn😅

[@rawraw2495]

Good stuff. I can still remember that rich kid friend i had. While i was playing SNES, He was playing Neo Geo and 3DO. But one day he had an imported PS1 with Battle Arena Toshinden. And it blew me away.

[@Choteron3]

I remember playing an insane amount of hours of winning eleven/ pro evolution soccer. The golden era of football games (ps 1, ps 2)

[@mctapoutos7426]

ISS97 was pure magic

[@VogueDistortion]

I still play the pro evo games on PS2 to this day. Best football games ever made!

[@thisistheway7258]

PES 3 - 6 were the absolute pinnacle of football games. What a time to be a football fan and gamer 🌟 ⚽️

[@VogueDistortion]

@@thisistheway7258 I also like PES 2. Very fast, very arcady. Really fun game :)

[@DanielTheTEMP]

Hope you have a nice New Year, Jake!

[@JakeBaldino]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! thanks for always having my back and watching all these years. I appreciate it.

[@brandonfleming10]

Currently playing God of War Ragnarok Valhalla ❤️ so much fun! 😊

[@dagooons]

i loved this personal reflection on what you experienced Jake with the evolution of the playstations!! this was a great idea for a end of the year video

[@nolongerinbetween3913]

I came late to the party, at the end of the PS3 cycle. But there's an upside when this happens: there's plenty of game bangers to play and catch up with. Game after game. It never stops. Now I'm at a different place having to wait and craving for the next installments of Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Death Stranding etc

[@ForeverMasterless]

PS2 is still in the conversation for the greatest console of all time. Such a HUGE library and so many great games.

[@shawnwarner8204]

I was 11 when the ps released. I got one in feb 96 after selling my sega cd and a few games, all I had for months was cyber speed until I got street fighter alpha 2, good times

[@TheABElia]

I remember when Resident Evil dropped on the PS1 as a teenager. Totally mind-blowing.

[@JosephStillGames]

My experience with the PS3 was almost identical to yours. I was Nintendo kid tho so after the Wii I got the 360 for Christmas and my best friend at the time had a PS3. Got the PS3 at the end of it's life almost so I had tons of games to catch up on. Then got a PS4 and a PS5, but admittedly I go back to my Series X more now for it's backwards compatibility with 360 games... Happy New Years to you, Jake! Hope there's lots of pizza in 2025 🙌🏼

[@chrisneal1980]

Old gamer here , so C64 in 1987, but then usual journey starting with NES, skipping to PS1/2/3 , Dreamcast and now PS4/5 with all the handhelds in between. Currently loving the Vita again. Still cant get that feeling of PS1/2/3 launch day and taking it home, those were the days!

[@Woupsme]

I had a PSX at my dad's. My parents were divorced. Once time I came back from ny Mom's and saw my parents had friends over, had taken my PSX to the living room TV and enjoyed Grand Turismo or Need For Speed or something. It was a rental and they had returned the disc. But somehow the game continued to run when replaying the same map. I arrived and immediately went to choose another car and the game stopped working then and there. That's the most I remember to share gaming with my dad. But fortunately I've been gaming for 25 or so years and shared lots of great memories with friends here and there. And now my son and daughter grab two PS controllers, hand one to me and sit with one themselves (turned off - they think they're playing too). I love to hear them enjoy my favorite hobby with me.

[@brigbain3169]

Have a great New Year Jake! 2024 was the year that I started watching your videos more often as I had occasionally checked your stuff out on GameRanx before but I love this personal channel. No matter how many pizzas you may or may not falsely promise us, I can't help but return every time

[@jamesdeziel1468]

I’m a 98 baby and Spider-Man on my parents’ PS1 was my first game I ever played. I also played that Lost World game and Power Battles. BUT I’ll always remember turning 6 and getting a PS2 and Lego Star Wars 1, MY first game and console.

[@Centruzi]

One of my favorite memories was my parents getting me a PS2 with Jak 2. They didn’t know a memory card was required so I spent a good week replaying the beginning of the game. I also can relate to the not having a PS3 when MGS4 came out. I didn’t play it until many years later but man was it worth it. We need a remaster!

[@AndrewBurris-pj3wl]

Loved this segment man...I related a ton to this. We followed very similar paths through the PS2 era. I was born in 90 and got to be a kid/teen through some great gaming years. After the PS2 era I mostly stuck to Nintendo and still do. I would like to own a new PlayStation but can't justify the purchase as I have a backlog on switch as is. Anyway man thanks for the nostalgia trip. Happy new year all

[@FoilCapGaming]

Im older than PS, Xbox but not quite older than Nintendo. Growing up with games and seeing where we are now is quite the journey. I remember thinking, one day, these cutscenes will be what the game looks like. We’re lucky to exist in this moment. Happy new year Jake and folks! 🎉

[@Pick18]

I was 3 years old when I first got my ps1 for Christmas, my parents got me crash 2 and my older brother got finial fantasy 7. I will always remember us four huddled round our tiny crt by the fire taking turns on crash 2.

[@UngliYT]

My very first game I EVER remember playing is Resident Evil on PS1. Blew my mind. I was like 5.

[@ob1_kn_obi969]

my history was Metal gear on those weird demo discs and it blowing my mind, then spyro, crash, croc phantom menace, jedi power battles, etc., but resident evil i managed to witness for the first time before everything and seeing the zomibe turn for the first time scared me but got me hooked and RE is still one of my favorite fhanchises to this day

[@philingupspace]

Such cool insights, I love to hear personal stories like this! :D As someone who really started to care about gaming with the PS4 and went capital G mode with the PS5 I could relate to your PS2 times! ❤🤝 Thanks for all the videos! :)

[@danielflandez5223]

I too, got my PS1 in 1997... I was in 7th grade and I also saved up all my lunch money etc. To finally save up to get one. When I finally did, all I had was Resident Evil 1 (with no memory card) 🤣 so I literally sat, and beat the game in one sitting.

[@curtisimpson]

Asked for an N64 for Christmas in 7th grade, but got a PS1 instead. Loved it. Left the home team after PS4 and joined the PCMR. Not having backward compatibility and having to rebuy games I already owned made me question the platform. I look back fondly, especially at the first 3, but I’m much happier as a PC gamer these days.

[@curtisimpson]

Also. I bought my PS2 at a Steak N Shake/truck stop with money I saved from my first job at a grocery store. I too felt like an adult with that thing!

[@emilybaxterthecartoonywitc1805]

Jet Moto was so much fun. First video game was Pong. 58 years old and still gaming

[@akblodge]

My older brother and i begged our parents for a PS2 when we were young - probably when we were 7 and 5 since that would’ve been 2006. Getting that console on christmas day is a memory i will never forget, we played countless hours of guitar hero and battlefront 2. Still have my slim version to this day

[@JH-cb2zf]

PS1 was magic for me, my brother and my friends. I remember being scared by Resident evil, Resident Evil 2, Silent hill etc. The platformers like Gex, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro were so relaxing, the music, the colors...Then you had fighting games like Tekken 2, Tekken 3, Bloody Roar, just so much memories of playing that with like 10 friends at our house. Gran Turismo with so many cars, Need For speed, Wipeout....There will never be a better age for video games as was in the 90s and early 2000s...

[@welfiblablabla]

Been a playstation gamer since the beginning too. So many memories. First games on it were Ridge Racer and Air Combat. Can still remember how at first my brain did not understand the 3d graphics of air combat. And I loved Crash Bandicoot! PS2 was epic, I got mine out of the attic recently and was shocked which games all were on PS2. Also were I started playing online. Funny thing is, we (my brothers and I) were not expecting of getting one, eventgough we saved up the money. One day my dad just brought one home out of the blue. PS3 I was late to too, not as late as you but about a year in. A friend lend us his Xbox360 and only after he wanted it back did I buy a PS3 and a matching TV with HDMI which still works to this day 17 years later 😂 PS4 was the first console I ever preordered and asked a day off at work to go get it. And then sitting at home waiting on the telephone with EA and Playstation because the Battlefield 4 console upgrade didn't work and I had not bought another game 😅 Got a PS4 Pro when that came out because there was a great trade-in programm at a local store. PS5 I regret not having preordered so I got it a year in too. Not planing on getting a Pro. Had an SNES and an Atari 2600 before, used NES funily enough after PS1, then Wii and Switch.

[@HLLFURY]

I just changed my PSN avatar to the 15th anniversary emblem because I love having an existential crisis.

[@wayneswirl]

Happy New Year from 🇮🇪 I had a similar path. Had PS1, PS2, Xbox, XB360, XB1, PS5. Skipped the PS3 and PS4 regrettably. Managed to catch up on a huge backlog with the PS5 though. Still yet to play MGS4 tho😢

[@xbotnpc420]

PS2 was such a sweet spot for gaming. Like you said Jake, not too young but not too old either. Jak n Daxter, Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper ❤️

[@FL-Kaiman]

Goldeneye 007 back in Xmas of 97.. My mom was doing make up for a church Christmas play, and one of the parent’s kids brought an N64 and Goldeneye.. I was hooked.. got one goldeneye that year as a present.. 3years later, same time and place I witnessed Halo CE and warthogs in action.. I am 33 for reference.. I didn’t get a PlayStation1 until the slim came out in 2000, spyro was my Sony gateway drug

[@kylepatrick113]

Very similar story to yours, I had a sega genesis and a Super Nintendo, then 97 got my ps1 for Xmas. Ps2 I waited a couple years after release mowed lawns and raked leafs for cash saved and bought my ps2. PS3 I waited till the slim came out paid $300 for my ps3. And ps4 bought it launch day. And sold it 6 months later. Wasn’t impressed. Then bought a ps4 pro towards the end. Now gaming on my ps5. Fun fact ab myself.. I STILL own all my consoles till this day. I never got rid of them other that my original ps4 still have all my games too

[@E1ectricOrange]

I remember when my brother got a PS1. He let me play it sometimes. Other times I'd sneak in his room and play it when he was at work :D. My dad bought me Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot. It took off from there, I was obsessed with video games. My dad broke down and bought me my own PS1. He bought himself Hot Shots Golf to play himself. Also discovered Resident Evil for the first time when my brother brought it home, that game created so many memories my best friend and I still share. I got a PS2 when it launched, my first game was SSX. I was late to the PS3 party but I did get one, what an amazing console. I'm still collecting!

[@DavyLeonard1]

That Spider-man game where you couldn't touch the ground was the game I hammered most on ps1. Surprised Jake didn't shout out more Spidey stuff.

[@DarkForce2024]

I was 14 or 15 when I got a PS1. First thing I did was order a mod chip. (Well, I did buy RE2 and a memory card). I was a broke kid, so I just rented games from the supermarket, threw them in my Memorex 2x CD-RW drive.... I know it doesn't make up for it, but years later I did buy all the games I really enjoyed.

[@DarkAttackYT]

Happy New Year, Jake! I just finished Astro Bot last week and let me tell you something. It exceeded all of my expectations and quickly became one of my favorite games of all time. I don't even like platformers but Astro Bot did something a lot of games these days seem to miss. It's fun from start to finish, there is no part that drags on for too long, there is no unnecessary filler and every single level is fun to play. Even the hard levels, they may have given me a hard time at first, but I only blamed myself for dying because I managed to complete them very easily on my second playthrough. Do I even need to mention the music? That was the main reason why I re-completed these hard challenges, hehe.

[@jonathanblack1651]

Happy new year Jake! Long time fan. I've had a very similar experience growing up alongside Playstation especially since I ALSO turned 30 this year lol. I started out on an NES very early on then around 2000 got a PS1 and for a long time the only games I had were a couple of Pizza Hut demo disks that I still have to this day. I also played a ton of Crock, Glover, and the OG PS1 Spiderman game which intro will forever be in my head. Then the PS2 came and like you said it was just a peak time to be that age and gaming. Jake & Daxter, The DBZ Budokai games. And Kingdom Hearts were probably my biggest highlights for that era. After the PS2 I had switched over to the 360 after getting pretty heavy into Halo and online gaming and I rode the xbox train pretty late into that console generation. It wasn't until I won some cash at a hockey game that I was able to afford a ps3 on a black friday sale. It was a blast getting to see what Sonys first party studios had come up with during that generation that had completely flown over my head at the time, specifically Uncharted and The Last of Us. From there I had pretty much completely switched back over to Playstation and got a Ps4 day 1 and boy it was a slow launch. I had pre-ordered Watch Dogs to be my big next gen game for the console but it had gotten delayed so I had to settle with Battlefield 4 and Rezogun as my only titles on the console for a bit. But once the generation started moving forward the titles started to pour in thankfully. It's been a really interesting experience growing up in this bubble of gaming history and seeing the evolution from 2d graphics to the near photorealism we have today.

[@MrColoradoCrow]

Happy New Years 🥳

[@rn6312]

First time I ever used a PS1 was when I used my friends PS1 to play MGS1 not long after he got it and went OMG THIS IS AWESOME.

[@Day-px7wr]

Jumped in on a ps1. First games were TOCA 2 touring cars and crash bandicoot, ps2 first game was Midnight club 2, ps3 was NFS prostreet and Kane and lynch, ps4 was gta 5 and my first ps5 game was hogwards legacy.

[@mikestich9173]

I jumped in around 1996 or 1997 with frogger and some demo discs. MGS1 later in 98 was huge. THPS and Syphon Filter in 99 were amazing. My hidden gem is small soldiers. Still love that game. So many good titles on PS1 and PS2. Happy to have lived through that era.

[@landonewts]

PS1 was my first gaming console. It was probably 1997? was in my late 30s and working at a startup in SF, and my co-workers were all getting one, so I did too. There was a cool hole in the wall game store in the South Bay where the owner would modify, or “chip,” your PlayStations so you could play all the cool Japanese region games. (She was a legend) Luckily one of our coworkers spoke Japanese and would translate the game instructions for us. I can’t remember the names of the weirdest games, but there were some out there titles coming out of Japan that you could only play on a chipped console. But we would get together and play Soul Calibur, Parrappa, and other US titles too. It was a special time. Lining up outside a store in the cold with the fam to get a PS4 for my kid at launch was a full circle moment.

[@LivingRoomBK]

@8:20 - bro you said the thing out loud that we all did but never talked about.

[@dazzledave]

😂😂 💯

[@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319]

I LOVE the 30th Anniversary opening with the musical chimes from the OG PS that Sony pushed out for the PS5. It's a nostalgia trip every time I power up now. I hope it's a permanent update and that it doesn't revert back to the PS5 jingle anytime soon.

[@japhetruiz9183]

Hey Jake. Happy New Year! We are very similar. I had the PS1 but I mostly played GT2 and Ps2 was the one that started all my gaming love. GTA. Tekken 4. Midnight Club. Man the console it had everything! Then XB360 and jumped to PS4 then stayed a Sony boy 😂

[@danielschmaderer]

I started on the NES, but Metal Gear Solid was my game on the PlayStation. Syphon Filter, GTA1, Final Fantasy 7-9, Medievil, and Tony Hawk 2 were also games I loved. When the PS2 came out, I remember buying GTA3 and Max Payne about a month before I got the PS2. My dad called me an idiot and my older brother found out I got those games in hopes of getting the PS2 earlier and he ended up buying it for me, which was amazing. I also played a game called Eternal Ring, which was an early Fromsoft game, which was also hard as hell. I had a love hate relationship with relationship with that game. As for the PS3, I already had an XBox 360. At the time, I had played MGS2, but never played MGS3. I got the PS3 very late and got the Metal Gear Collectors edition and had the chance to finally play MGS3 and 4. That was also my first time playing Demons Souls, which was the start of my Fromsoft obsession. And there was the PS4. I was so excited to get it. I actually got it a year after it launched because I was super broke at the time. My wife (fiancée at the time) surprised me with the Destiny edition, which was awesome. I was beyond stoked to get my hands on Bloodborne, which is still a top 5 for me. Never got the PS5 because I’m a dad and I don’t have time at all. I play the Switch once in a while. Rather than that, gaming has taken a bit of a backseat in my life……for now.

[@xxtheitguyxxxx3657]

Awesome video! I remember my dad taking me to Toys R Us and buying me a PS1 with Spyro the Dragon! My first games on the PlayStation 2 was Resident Evil Outbreak and GTA San Andreas!

[@imaca6538]

I was 16 when the ps1 came out. It was absolutely mind blowing, it was all about getting the arcade at home back in those days and when I played tekken and ridge racer it was the reality. Miss those days 😢

[@GG93JA]

PS1 was my first ever console as a 4-year-old kid. My first game was croc legend of the gobbos. A classic that deserves a remaster.

[@Pariente300]

I remember getting fifa 06 on the ps2 and being blown away by it. The previous one I had was fifa 01 on the ps1 so it was a big jump. Hearing el perro bermudez being the Spanish commentator was so good. Such good memories. My brothers and I spent countless hours playing that game.

[@VogueDistortion]

It was '98, my sister wanted my parents to buy a PC (and an encyclopedia on cd-rom) to help her with her homework. I convinced them to buy a Playstation bundle with Rayman and Rapid Racer instead. My sister still aced it at school and I had an obsession for life. So win win. It also took me half a year to finally get a memory card. :D

[@SnowWhiteMR2]

I actually didn't get a brand new Play Station until PS5 lol. I grew up as a Nintendo kid. I got a job at Game Stop in highschool and bought a used PS1 and PS2 around the time the PS3 came out. Nvr got a 3 or 4. So I'm late to the party, but there have been some fantastic games! One of my favorite game of all time is FFX and I feel like the PS5 is the only console really worth getting now days. I've loved Stellar Blade, Elden Ring etc, and I hope Sony can keep the console e experience alive in the future with the PS6 too!

[@Gzilla313]

I remember as far back as play Gran Turismo on a kiosk at Bill Knapps with my brother while waiting to be seated, but the first PlayStation that was mine to play was PS4. I’ve been a Nintendo gamer my whole life, but when I gifted my wife a PS5 I commandeered her PS4 to play Ratchet & Clank and the Spider-Man games. I’m having so much fun playing Astrobot right now!

[@darksting77]

happy almost new year! Im in the same camp, ps1 and ps2 were my jammy jam. I remember going the the local Radio Shack and seeing the PS1, showcasing Toshinden, and I think Twisted Metal, thought those were amazing. I remember thinking i need to sell my genesis/sega CD lol. Now PS2 , that was on another level, loved SSX, Metal Gear 2 was my life for a while and for some reason Dead or Alive 3d fighter. I like you didn't jump on PS3 until the slim came out, I had switched to Xbox by then. Well those are my two cents. Later Gator.

[@vinniecorleone62]

Your situation sounds a lot like my own! I scraped up every dollar I could find to buy the launch PS2, & one game, "Twisted Metal Black"! I was so broke then it was the only game I could afford for 4 months straight! You better believe I got quite familiar with every track & vehicle, the best of Fn times man!

[@purpincup]

We had a similar childhood man! Only difference is my first console was a SNES and then I got a PS1 after that. We played all the same games too haha. Anyways love the channel man, keep up the good work!

[@trainwreck2k2]

Being 40, psone def hit me at that perfect jr high age when everything is just memorable. Between tomb raider and mgs, cool boarders and thrasher, die hard, parappa the rapper, the list goes on. Those days will never be topped, it’s just not possible.

[@lukes5489]

After the OG PlayStation I got an Xbox, so I had to wait for MGS2 Substance, but I remember when my parents got divorced my mum wanted child support so she bribed me with a PS2 and 5 games 😂 1. Devil May Cry 2. Kingdom Hearts 3. Jack and Daxter 4. Vice City 5. Final Fantasy X When I think back to that stuff, I don’t think about the bribery and sadness; I think about how much all 5 of those games ruled, haha.

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

That's where i got my PSX, Toys R' Us. My 1st game for it was Battle Arena Toshinden.