[Vinesauce] Vinny - Exploring Abandoned PlayStation Home Worlds

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[@vinesaucefullsauce]

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[@kennynelson3189]

I love chat replay *smile*

[@user-cq5gi6cf3j]

Game

[@marvibun]

I'm INCREDIBLY surprised this has been preserved to any degree, from the assets all the way down to the environments. Shout outs to the people that remember the Edo Period world.

[@rustylasagna]

Remember the SIREN hospital? I thought that was a pretty cool area. I believe there was also a house for Dead Nation and a graveyard for Burn Zombie Burn.

[@Mari2on]

and it's playable again ONLINE, check destination home :)@@rustylasagna

[@ColtComanche]

Burn Zombie Burn had a hedgemaze. The zombie house wasn’t Dead Nation themed

[@neoqwerty]

I tried for so long to get enough from the free minigames to get some cool avatar stuff to match my Etna earrings from the Disgaea 4 kiosk in the promo world. (the only stuff I bought was the Hudson Dolphy world because I wanted the dolphin sim stuff)

[@ArcRay20]

super surprised to see something like this. i recall spending a lot of time checking out the JP version side of this as it had SO much interesting stuff. good times. also i forgot how robust this whole thing was. they REALLY ACTUALLY tried with this. with this amount of effort, i wonder if it would have worked better in today's online environment?

[@baconlabs]

Turns out the whole "future of the Metaverse is a dead mall" thing already happened nearly a decade ago, and history is already repeating itself

[@SnrubSource]

Not bringing back PSHome for the PSVR2 was such a missed opportunity

[@VanAleph]

And the first Metaverse push (which included Worlds) happened a decade before that. Looking forward to 2034, I'm sure they'll nail it that time

[@genericgorilla]

​@@VanAleph there can only be a couple of these second life clones at a time, VRChat is doing well and arguably roblox is also kinda sorta like a metaverse, so they already did nail it but maybe in the future we could navigate a deserted VRChat when something else replaces it

[@zeetonblaster2319]

I remember when this was pushed when I got a ps3 when I was 10. I played it I think for a couple hours and moved to COD.

[@zangl2955]

Can’t wait to finally explore vrchat once everyone has left lol

[@AL2009man]

As a former PlayStation Home user, I'm starting to feel like Old Snake.

[@Atomic_Acorn969]

Can confirm.

[@rustylasagna]

Can also confirm. It’s been so long.

[@BenDover-tn6vx]

what about Xi guys? Remember that....

[@smonkponk]

Can't wait for the PS3 to start being considered retro... if it isn't already (oh god please make it stop).

[@Atomic_Acorn969]

Do any of you remember M.A.G. (Massive Action Game)? good times.

[@kyrridas1573]

i still remember when PS Home did a virtual E3 booth where you could watch trailers, download demos, earn costumes, and take screenshots with standees. it was a really simplified version of what could be, but the idea was phenomenal. as dumb as Home was, it was strangely ahead of its time in some aspects. if Sony ever tried again in the PS5 era, they could probably make something actually really cool.

[@rustylasagna]

PS Home also had this weird AR experience called Xi. I personally never checked it out when the service was online, but it looked interesting, and the spaces were cool to visit.

[@_Mike_Omega_]

I mean with PSVR2 being pushed the way it is (I highly recommend it honestly) if they were gunning for the Second Life audience here back in the day with Home, I think they could offer up a VR Chat style experience on PS5! In VR or on controller, just general spaces to hang out seem like a fun idea, even if they become “dead malls” in time.

[@neoqwerty]

I visited that world when they were promoting Disagea 4! I got the Etna earrings playing the prinny game and that is still my favorite fond memory.

[@samdutcher6813]

I remember watching Resident Evil: Degeneration in PS Home movie theater room with other online players.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I remember the Street Fighter promotion. You could pose fighting. Me and my friend were taking pictures of each of us "winning" and the other lying on the ground. It was just choosing poses, but it was so fun. A great memory.

[@AKAProm]

I loved Playstation Home back in the day. It's how I watched Tokyo Godfathers for the first time because PS Home just had theaters playing movies for free. Shit was so cash.

[@zangl2955]

That fuckin rocks. I wish that sort of stuff was still novel, so people would stick around for a movie in vrchat.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I literally had entire movie nights with groups of friends in personal spaces that had theatres.(we could chill at fully in a personal space VS having random talking and having all the speech bubbles block the screen in the public theatre. I miss Home so much...

[@zabukoii8081]

@@zangl2955people do? Wdym. There are multiple theaters and movie worlds in vrchat. I’ve watched plenty with and without other people. Vrchat movies are popular and still used everyday. Idk what you’re talking about

[@doughnutholer]

One of my favorite features in VR until recently as well was the plethora of theater apps that were pretty immersive.

[@FollowMe4REP]

Remember how scared everyone was that people were gonna stay home and watch movies in virtual spaces? Good thing those luddites got so scared that now they watch movies in their real, physical homes.

[@Medli32]

This is one of his most tense streams yet. "Will Vinny Vinasause find the perfect world for New Years before the clock strikes 12?"

[@cookieface80]

The answer was no, as expected.

[@Splicewave]

Thanks for playing on my build of ps home offline. It was put together by me but I haven’t made an update for it since February and there’s a lot of content that needs a server to work essentially. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

[@JunGaGotoku]

Is it public so people can try it out?

[@lIlIllIIllllI]

@@JunGaGotoku yes its public and has been for a while you can play it by going to his yt channel where he has tutorials for it

[@nemoguy]

Is the R-type space preserved?

[@Cyber_Akuma]

Any plans to try to get some of that stuff that required online working somehow? Even if offline? It's a shame that so much of it's functionality is broken without the servers even for single-player minigames or all the trailers/theater stuff.

[@lIlIllIIllllI]

​​@@Cyber_Akumahe now has online version so some of that stuff is now possible to get working

[@KreationKills]

to play in abandoned spaces during the time of the year where most of mankind is gathered in celebration, Binny Ott is truly the Liminal Man

[@AggroNoobs]

For those that didn't see this live, "FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY" was timed *Perfectly*. It was kind of magical.

[@redcomet_622]

Maybe in a couple years or even one more year, Vinny can explore the abandoned metaverse.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

I-I-I just bought more land in the metaverse

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

Jarvis Johnson made a video like that living in the Facebook metaverse

[@joercagu2]

He could do it right now lmao

[@misanthropiclusion]

Its already abandoned so he could lmao

[@redcomet_622]

@@joercagu2 Its gotta be completely abandoned. Theres probably like 2 people still on there

[@funx24X7]

Had some good times in PS Home, mostly trying to glitch into places you're not supposed to be but there were a handful of other fun things to do

[@Atylonisus]

The easiest boundary breaks all had to do with slopes and railings. I recall you could eventually manuever your way into floating positions by rapidly waggling the control stick INTO the wall as you descended slopes, and somehow your vertical height could be maintained as you should be descending -- allowing you to walk over walls or rails. You probably already recall this, but it was fun to see which maps had collisions enabled on out-of-bound areas and which would just soft-lock you into falling forever. The default Home-"home" (the personal apartment every user starts with) also could be broken by rotating long couches into the corners of the ceiling, which would clip the furniture out of the walls. You could then place it on the ceiling or even float the couch to distant parts of the map. If a furniture was close enough to your character which they were in a sitting position, you were allowed to cycle your character to be sitting in any other nearby object. This let you follow your couch out of bounds.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

The wiggle up the benches in Central Plaza was my gateway into the addiction that was trying to get into places I shouldn't be LOL. I even found a few places and spots that I font think anyone even found, because they were unpopular dead worlds.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

​​@@AtylonisusI had my entire roof decorated LOL. I did that to every house space that would allow the glitch out. Me and my friends would call fallibg off the map "Blue Hell" lol. "Aw crap I fell into blue hell. I gotta leave the world and come back."

[@juggernautz181]

please keep exploring old abandoned community games, it's really cool seeing forgotten relics of the internet

[@JacobKinsley]

I absolutely love those indoor glass metal fence things in old video games, they're probably the number one thing I associate 2000-2010 online games with

[@crescentfresh8001]

A sad, single firework greenscreened against the skies of PlayStation Home while a guy in a banana hammock tied to balloons swims through the air is the perfect sendoff to 2023. I mean, it really says it all.

[@VulpesHilarianus]

I think this was one of the last times where people tried to be social with one another. I'm noticing a lot of these kinds of social spaces games are dead, and MMOs are treated more like single player games these days. VR Chat's a bit different because it's more like going to a costume party to hang out with people you already know, and the user generated content and motion captured movement help add novelty. But stuff like this, Habbo Hotel, and IMVU where interpersonal interaction was a requirement and there were hard restrictions put in place on what you could do just don't have a place anymore.

[@pareidolist]

At the end of the day, though, these are all just knockoffs of Second Life that never achieved its success and longevity.

[@theonlyenicfanever5346]

I would love an MMO that felt like a social game! I miss this era of "virtual worlds"

[@0ING0_B0ING00]

God, I miss virtual worlds.

[@FollowMe4REP]

Just waiting for someone to conflate metaverses with virtual worlds.

[@raspymorten]

12 year old me thought this was the coolest shit.

[@flurpoid]

Software like this has this sense of futuristic optimism that I feel is kinda gone today. To me it feels like the public zeitgeist has gained this omnipresent cynicism towards technology as we've seen it begin to disrupt our lives and relationships more.

[@daveraschke]

I wish we had more technology with that sort of vibe these days

[@bepis_real]

The mid 90’s up until the late 2000’s was a good sweetspot between analog & digital

[@j-skullz]

corporations got too greedy who is surprised. folks need to remember that technology is for the people not shitty CEOs and nosy governments edit: tbf this game is a corporate hellscape it's just long enough ago that people can feel nostalgic about it, but it's still a corporate hellscape lol

[@DolusVulpes]

that's because it's fake corporate optimism

[@zp577]

This is different from Metaverse and VR chat how?

[@Old_Soul_Shimi]

Totally wasn't expecting this stream. PSHome was great, I would spend hours just chilling with my cousin and bonding with him and some online friends, whom of which I still talk to. I remember so many out of bounds glitches for maps that we would exploit so we had secret chill spots. Great times. I also remember when they gave away a mansion garage and one or two other spaces when Sony got hacked big that one time. My favorite spots to chill in were SALT, the Konami Penthouse, the SIREN Blood Curse Space and the basketball court (Can't remember that name but the radio would always be like OH BABY BAYBAYYY). Actually, I think all of the spaces were great, miss this dearly

[@rustylasagna]

I always enjoyed getting on the fountain in the hub area. And weirdly enough, I enjoyed how calm the starter apartment was.

[@Old_Soul_Shimi]

@@rustylasagna Ah I remember that too! If I recall there were some out of bounds bugs you could find in the start apartment but they were hard and I couldn't do them. I knew how to get on top of my tables and make stairs with them but I couldn't get down to the docks where the secret developer sign was. Also loved the apartment vibes especially with the retro wallpaper and the green one. Would totally live there in spite of how expensive it probably would be realistically

[@BenDover-tn6vx]

putting the sofa up on the roof

[@BenDover-tn6vx]

server jumping to japan for the arcade machines....

[@krazyaddiktive1418]

You mean The Playground? Lmao that was my favorite place. I spent so much of my dad’s money on that damn game. I miss it

[@bruce1947]

Fuck man. I met a lot of friends in playstation home. Kinda sad seeing it like this. I still remember seeing these exact spaces brimming with life, people talking to each other and walking around. Some of the games in here were legitimately incredible. There was this one robot arena shooter I remember playing a ton of, among other things. It had crazy events and ARG type things, worlds with storylines you could play through and a ton of high profile collaborations with the likes of Star Wars, Doctor Who and every Playstation game etc. There's really nothing like it.

[@zangl2955]

Wish I could’ve experienced this. I’d get a ps5 if they came out with a new worlds-type game with the same level of ambition.

[@This-Was-Sparta]

Always love weird streams like these. Something about the dead mall vibes you get in abandoned virtual spaces is so fascinating. Besides that, seeing people in the comments here collectively reminisce about the times they played in something like this is wholesome.

[@LovelyMinmay]

Granzella spaces relied heavily on mini games. The beach one you visited allowed to swim even using some floaters you could buy on the store. Kikai Machine Empire was a action RPG in the vein of a previous Irem event (Granzella is the successor company to Irem) called Semifinalist Fantasia which was another action RPG they made for ONLY ONE DAY (April's Fools 2009 iirc) and only for Japan (They later made a space to remember this but lacked most of the stuff).

[@shadystarfish07]

I love when New Yorkers talk about their rats like they're a part of the family. Warm and fuzzy feelings

[@novarat4089]

"I have no idea how to fart" - Vinny Vinesauce 2024

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I played Home for YEARS. It's a social platform with avatars, and sooo much more. I was there since day 1 to close basically. I was there when it got shut down. Everyone was taking photos and videos like crazy. One of my friends went around and took over 700 pictures of ... everything. Many people did this. There were ALL types of people from ALL walks of life. I met so many interesting people. Old, young. I lost a hangout, an escape from my miserable reality, free fun little mini games, lots of friends, and a way to talk to people. I fit in. I could be whatever I wanted through my Avatar. I could express myself when I couldn't do that in real life. I could be me. I miss Home so much. It was my home. Genuinely. I had an abusive childhood and was bullied my ENTIRE school life, and I'd escape into Home every day. For YEARS. My favorite hangout spot was Motorstorm and Central Plaza. You could glitch up onto the benches. That's where I spent a lot of time, too. The Christmas version of Central Plaza had amazing snow crunching noises. It was so crisp and fresh sounding. Like it had just fallen, and you were compressing the fresh powder with your feet. I miss Home so much... All of us that used the social platform do. I think about Home every day. It genuinely was my home as a kid. It was better than my real life. I wasn't abused there. I could chat. ANY time of day, you could pop on and find people to talk to. If I was ever lonely at like 3 in the morning with notging but my own thoughts, I'd hop on Home. I want it back. 💔💔 Rogue, I miss ya. Thanks for everything.

[@Sleeprocket1]

Man i guess you really had to be there. I feel like this about Counter Strike Source. I know people still play but all my favorite servers from back then shut down

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

@@Sleeprocket1 Oh it was 110% one of those "you 110% had to be there and experience it" kind of things. Honestly I don't think the source engine is that. There's a LOT of differences in overall model design, how they interact, clothing item interactions with the model, etc. Edit: Oh I misread, my apologies. CS Source was a phase I missed lol! My family couldn't afford a Home PC in the early 2000s

[@dezbk9]

Man I think about home everyday too. I’ll never forget the first time I hopped on when I was 12. I always ignored it but then one day I was like ya know what imma check it out, and I was blown away. I really enjoyed going to parties on there or like going to the movie theaters and watching real movies with other people online. Every now and then I still listen to ps home music but I usually avoid it because it makes me really sad cuz I miss home so much 😂

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

@@dezbk9 I was around 11 when I started playing it. It was one of the first things I checked out when I got my PS3 lol. Some of my genuinely fondest nights/evenings were spent on Home. I'm still friends with 2 people I met way back then. Both were kids like me lmao. We're all adults now and have all been friends for over 10 years. I used to have movie nights every week. (: I had a home apartment that had it's own movie theater room. Genuinely a great place. It was super ahead of it's time. Home would have FLOURISHED in today's environment. Even more than it already did It's CRAZY to think about. We've been talking every day for over a decade. These 2 stayed with me through thick and thin when even a fee irl friends left my life. Met them both at different times. Dude it was like we had need friends IRL since childhood lmao. It was amazing. 😊💞 I always hated the saying "online friends aren't really friends" In my personal experience, they can can even better. 🤷‍♀️ Also! CHAIN SWING LOL. I hated that song. Despised it. Now I find myself looking it up on occasion for the nostalgia. Motorstorm had genuinely great bands. Found a lot of good bands from looking up the songs they played. The Motorstorm game was an off road racing type game. So it had a lot of good early 2000s rock music, and some of the heavier rock infused R&B. Or heavy techno LOL.

[@UmiZoomR]

For me it was Habbo Hotel around 2009/10. Grinding musical chairs for free credits. They sometimes would kick you out for winning, or being black.

[@JAM92]

Depressing, awkward, desolate, abandoned, corrupted and fractured. Hits hard.

[@OnBrandRP]

Man I miss PS Home. So many memories! What made PS Home so good was the fact it didn't take itself too seriously. It was a simple social hub game that contained mini games and microtransactions. I have SO many memories of just exploring the various worlds and talking to people.

[@bruce1947]

Probably worth mentioning that the offline version of this hasn't been maintained in years and the online version is a LOT more fully featured.

[@Minty_Meeo]

Glad to see the Steamboat Willie bit made it onto the fullsauce channel.

[@invaderzimrules132]

I used to hang out on here for hours with my PlayStation friends. I feel ancient now and kinda sad seeing it so.... lifeless

[@_Cetarial]

I didn’t play Playstation Home much, but I do miss it. It’s so weird seeing all the areas competely empty.

[@smadik666]

Good old bowling alley, i remember back in 2009 when MJ died, i would watch his music videos on the tv screen there

[@VoidVagabond]

1:12:20 holy shit it's the music from that commercial for the Palm Pixi phone. For some reason that song is still in my head all these years later.

[@shmugo_]

it's Sleepyhead by Passion Pit. It was also used in Little Big Planet 2 :)) Great song

[@antichrist8543]

@@shmugo_LBP MENTIONED ‼️💥🗣️🔥

[@ge0ne0]

This morning I just was explaining to my son what PS Home was and he thought it sounded cool. We come home and Vinny drops a 2 hour video on PS Home. What are the odds? So cool.

[@cheadlestudio]

absolutely gutted he didn't go to the LBP world

[@FollowMe4REP]

san Luis oBisPo?

[@chiggenfoot]

i didnt realize his feet are hands and now that i’ve seen it i cant stop staring at them

[@tahunuva4254]

I knew something was afoot, but I couldn't put my finger on it

[@iChupacabraTube]

As a former ActiveWorlds world-owner, it brings me such great joy to see Vinny, of all people, not only covering long-lost worlds of user created content, but preserving their feel and energy. Sad when you realize - and take my word for it - there is infinitely more data that has been lost to time than you can imagine we'll ever recover.

[@Atylonisus]

I used to use Home. I spent entirely too much time figuring out how to clip through boundaries and walls, so I could be THAT guy. I'd wander just out of reach of regular users and pretend to be a lost or broken NPC The Sodium game shown at around 6:30 was a fully-released subgame you could pay for and it has upgradeable weapons, boosters, lock-on, other unlockables. Buying it gave you a personal World dedicated to the game. The real magic of this Hub world was that you could also play on restricted EU or JP servers by setting your location to those addresses and creating a new character. I remember you couldn't acquire certain clothes unless you were in Japan or Europe-only, but there was also seemingly no way to transport items across region boundaries. Even so, i once saw a man wearing what appeared to be a Cheetos Tornado equipped to their face, and I KNOW that was a region-locked item so it must have been possible.

[@FollowMe4REP]

Meanwhile, I started out as a lost and broken NPC and now I’m in the KZbin comments section.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I was one of the people running around in pickle outfits and tornado cheeto heads. We just spoofed our IPs to be in Japan. 😂 There also eventually ended up being .zip files just FULL of the EU and JP items. The spoofing was OG OG days.

[@sweetenerstems]

dear God.... I remember playing PlayStation Home so much back then. MANNNNNN I'm so glad the community didn't forget this game and preserved it bc I miss playing

[@TheDarkDragon.]

This year I discovered ur channel and found for me the go-to ytber who i can watch all day. Sadly me living in europe cant watch ur streams but thats alright cause this channel exists and im thankful for that!

[@Calvin_Coolage]

Welcome to the family Eurofren. Thankfully Vinny's got such a huge backlog of Full Sauce videos and highlights to look back on.

[@thepenguin9]

I FUCKING MISS PLAYSTATION HOME oh my days I wish I spent more time in it

[@UnkleSurvivor]

ain't never seen nobody say 'Oh my days' before, kinda rocks 🤙 keep it up

[@thepenguin9]

@@UnkleSurvivor it's a popular saying here in the UK!

[@UnkleSurvivor]

@@thepenguin9 nice try 🤭 i know the UK isn't real !!!Bait used to be believable ♡

[@thepenguin9]

@@UnkleSurvivor guess vinny lives in New Amsterdam now damn

[@mn_kr]

i still remember the first time i joined ps home and i was bullied alot but kept playing anyway cuz how fascinated i was in exploring the worlds. i eventually stopped making friends and solely played it for the available worlds i can explore

[@muffy_bunny]

whaat why did they bully you

[@zakinnamis5577]

@@muffy_bunnyhonestly people were weirdly mean in ps home lmao

[@armorofgod777]

@@zakinnamis5577it was high school level pettiness and exclusivity, especially if you were wearing free clothing you were treated like a peasant by the people decked out in hundreds of dollars of virtual clothing

[@zakinnamis5577]

@@armorofgod777 fr hahaha. I remember some dude who was decked out, was followed by two girl characters (who idk if they were even real women) making fun of me cause I was poor. Weird asf lol

[@armorofgod777]

@@zakinnamis5577 i remember it clearly, the default black shirt, jeans, timberland boots, and to stand out even just a bit, a free accessory you would get from a minigame lolll, good times tho for sure, it pulls on the melancholic heart strings thinking about it, it was so alive and i would always log onto it whenever i got bored of whatever game i was playing at the time to relax and just chill with people. since i was about 10-11 at the time i would find bothering people by spamming dances in front of them amusing while they were trying to hit on each other or e-date

[@TheEternalClown]

Somehow TF2 will be more of an everlasting community centre than Metaverse or anything intended for that purpose

[@icchorist]

why tf2 of all games

[@wolfzenskiigh7775]

MAN I cannot believe that there are people preserving PlayStation Home. This is so awesome. Seeing this again for the first time in almost a decade takes me on such a nostalgia trip; Vinny actually went to a few places I've been to before. The way Home was used to hype up games was so cool, and the furniture system was really neat, too. Things you placed down actually had physics so you could just stack things on top of each other in a huge mess, lmfao. What a time.

[@bniy]

Oh god, seeing the SCEE Mall and NOT seeing a bunch of people arguing in text bubbles standing around emoting 🤣🤣 what a time.

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

Absolute WARZONE, it was. Crossed arms and sass. 😂😂😂

[@bniy]

@@SessmaruKusanagiGaming and a lot of Vega masks 😂

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

@@bniy THE VEGA MASKS LMAOOO. They thought they were soooo edgy and cool. 😂😂 Crossed arms. Vega Mask. That 1 top that made you shirtless with a FREAKING TRIBAL tattoo. Laugh emote. Edgy jeans. God, those were the days!

[@TeenWeedMcGee]

This brings back so many memories, theres a perfect world for new years i remember with campfires and fireoworks always going off, everyone always wanted to talk to you. I remember unlocking things to do outside the game, earning secret costumes, sharing the cool itmes and worlds you found whether it was a spooky maze or haunted house. Maybe you had a world that was basically a scavanger hunt. This game was beyond silly and even if it was just stuck onto some console as an advertising machine, having little money as a kid and finding this for the first time and seeing all the people, worlds with bit fantasy blimps and challenges for you to complete with strangers. I miss it.

[@NEVERKNOWSBE5T]

1:12:12 Took me a while to find but the song is Passion Pit - Sleepy Head I don't know if I know the song from PSHome or where I've heard it but as soon as I heard it I was instantly transported back to 2008.

[@TortoiseMaximus]

It was used in LittleBigPlanet 2

[@NewsofPE]

@@TortoiseMaximusthe trailer to be precise, used to play it over and over

[@NewsofPE]

@@TortoiseMaximusalso vinny saying "how can it be dmca, it's just baby singing" hurts my soul

[@ToastyCubes]

Granzella were an offshoot of Irem who were best known for the R-Type and Disaster Report games. Sony contracted them to work for PS Home and they made a subdivision solely to make worlds which would appeal to Western audiences, such as the ones Vinny goes to in this stream. They're one of the few Japanese developers besides RGG Studio who excel at making environments which feel "lived-in" nowadays. Despite working in the Western market, they're ironically responsible for one of the PS4 games which never got an English localization, "Kyoei Toshi" which is one huge kaiju / tokusatsu celebration. I think they're releasing a new Disaster Report this year so hopefully it gets good press.

[@VortexKiller2]

Hitomi Fujiko: "Are you lost?"

[@SickTom]

I used to love playing the LittleBig Planet 2 world with my brother when it came out as an ad for the game.

[@AfroRyan]

The E3 spaces were genuinely cool at the time.

[@theMimicsBox]

I remember my dad was subscribed to playstation magazine or some sort of insider program around the time playstation home came out, and I remember being fascinated because there was some sort of ARG puzzle type thing going on, it was really wild to experience at that age, and solidified this game as such a surreal thing to me, cool to see it preserved in some manner.

[@FreshTillDeath56]

What killed PS Home was how unbelievably slow it was to load and download new assets way back then. Still, this is fascinating to revisit and good on these people for securing this for preservation.

[@malmalspur]

It kinda felt ahead of its time in a way. It always reminded me of those fake games you'd see in movies.

[@LylaFur]

No..??? What killed home is the player base dying. The download time was pretty fast for PS3.

[@Nilon241]

8:33 That Ryu is literally Ryu from Streets (tm)

[@ImmaLittlePip]

I dont know why but theres just an eerieness to this but also a wholesome sense of nostalgia I half expected some creepypasta type stuff to happen like a user logging in or mannequins to follow Vinny *Mario has logged in*

[@missalrightisokay2101]

Mario is like a weeping angel and snaps Vinny's neck/or either stomps on him when he’s turned around

[@ImmaLittlePip]

@@missalrightisokay2101 He does the ground pound

[@rustylasagna]

I gave PS Home a lot of shit back in the day because it felt lame alongside the other games I owned. It may also be due to Sony’s attempt to gain lots of revenue through the sale of virtual cosmetic items (yup, I hated microtransactions before it was cool). However, I’m gonna cut it slack because you didn’t have to spend any money, and you could get lots of free items and explore every space. There was also that social experience too.

[@TouchNGo99]

They really need to bring this back. I was addicted

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I still am. I think about it often. 😂😭😭 Made a LOT of memories here. I was a giant social outcast as a kid, so this was how I got my social fix lol.

[@maccamachine]

I love this type of stuff man. Just exploring old virtual worlds have such a strange feeling now very melancholic this is great Vinny. PlayStation home was so cool I used to love it and it’s a shame it’s gone now. It would be awesome if you did more of this or another game similar

[@PsychedOwlifyNZ]

they have parties on the servers and theyre so wholesome. support the devs

[@JacobKinsley]

Man I was _going_ to but like you _told_ me to and _now?_ It's like eh I don't _know_ if I want to support them now _someone_ has _told_ me that I _should_ do it, y'know? :/

[@zakinnamis5577]

@@JacobKinsleywhat the fuck are you talking about?

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

@@JacobKinsley Put the pipe down.

[@crowas7600]

I'm so glad Vinny got to visit Sodium one. you had to buy the game for 14$ but you had around 100 levels to go trough with weapon customization and like 6 different weapons to do loadouts with. Vinny only played the arena version. if he walked a little further he could had found the S1 game and played the demo. you could play until wave 5 and you'd fight a giant boss. it was wave based shooter.

[@TortoiseMaximus]

Disney still claiming Steamboat Willie in the description 😂

[@walkingDaLine100]

The gang wars over the control of the Godfather world will never be forgotten

[@lokiasgard]

I had Home. It was fun at the time. I had the Sweet Tooth mask and some other stuff that was free from E3 events. The Siren room haunted house was fun in October.

[@KandiStomper]

Bringing back so many memories.. I played home damn near daily for years. Though i will say if you think there's alot of options (especially clothing) in that version, the original version would have blown your mind. 😂 one really impressive thing you could do, was invite friends to your house or apartment and watch full length REAL movies in the game.

[@Davesoft]

A mall with no customers or products, a fitting artifact of our time.

[@sempertern]

Maybe this is an art piece in itself... Past and present.

[@Supermariosupervideo]

I remember when Hudson Soft shut down, everyone crowded the Bomberman world in memoriam, talking about Mario Party and all the stuff they made. Seeing these old hubs makes me think about how crowded and intimidating they were to 9 year old me. It was like peeking into adult life lol

[@nemoguy]

God I miss home

[@notNajimi]

8:15 I love the bootleg hitman silverballers on the right, there. Instead of dual 1911s they seem to be hi-powers

[@BennyIncorporated]

Man this hits hard, I went through a deep state of depression at one point of my life. We are talking about not leaving your room for 7 months straight levels of depression and PS Home was my outlet. I made so many friends, I bought a lot of the huge player homes like Loco Island or Club Luminosity and we would have a great time. Thankfully by the time they shut it down I was better. And fuuuuuck did I play a lot of Sodium 2, the Golden Vicky statue you got for earning like a million credits was the center piece of all my homes. I've always wondered if they'll bring it back because out of all the "meta verse" crap being pushed nowadays, PS Home was the most complete and professionaly presented.

[@CD2k7]

I remember playing Playsation home, I used to spend my time bowling with folks. Although I didn't really play often. I can't help but feel abit nostalgia.

[@Insanebeastbear]

Happy New Years Vinny, May your sauce be the viney-est

[@thekodawolfgaming]

Seeing all the game adverts is sending me back to 2009.

[@connor4wilson]

PlayStation Home is probably the most prominent and yet forgotten virtual world 'game'. Sony poured a lot of money into this service that reallu wasn't all that popular even during its peak, it was absurdly ambitious and all it really had going for it was it came free on your PS3. I still spent a lot of hours playing and receiving information overload with all the idling players and flashing lights and discordant area-specific music. One thing vinny doesn't capture here is how absolutely everything required minutes of loading screens, including trying to change your outfit. I'd love to see something more in-depth about this game sometime.

[@devilovesdevil]

I was so sad when they got rid of Home

[@pistachiodisguisey911]

Lowkey miss this a lot, was super active everytime I hopped on

[@persomiissleepy]

PSHome was VRChat before VRChat...and I miss it

[@el_babab]

I remember this back in 2009 or something like that, when i got my ps3 and had no game for it yet. I dont know how to describe this video but the strange feeling of seeing a place that used to be full of life, now empty, is a very weird feeling, i had dreams of revisiting places from my memory and finding emptiness, it feels very weird.

[@MP-nr6jl]

I know it's being preserved and rebuilt but I still wanna cry watching this. I miss this so much.

[@Moooogar]

I used to dress like a chrome looking dude, super shiny. And just walk around everywhere and take photos of the environment just in case Playstation Home was ever removed... My dumbass deleted all like 200 photos one day thinking nah it will stick around. I've been bummed about this for years. So, seeing this all again today is crazy.

[@FollowMe4REP]

Not trying to be rude but what in the world ever gave you the impression that it would stick around?

[@Moooogar]

@@FollowMe4REP Deez nuts

[@blobbem]

I played a little of PlayStation Home back in like 2009 and I always thought it was kind of lame. I didn't know that it had some wacky outfits and some strange areas.

[@NewsofPE]

that's cause you didn't play the minigames, those were the shit, they could count as full blown games, I remember playing an F-Zero type game on there

[@blobbem]

@@NewsofPE I don't think I came across any minigames back then. Not sure if they existed at that point, but if they did, I somehow never found them in the very brief time I checked out PlayStation Home.

[@ThreatLevel9]

yk, i loved this game. i was a kid and had no money to get new games. when i got bored with everything else, i would hop on playstation home. i remember there was one world (post apocalyptic setting i think) where you could walk around and stomp on scorpions. you’d unlock cinderblock boots for doing it enough

[@armorofgod777]

i remember one where you had to take apart an ak47 and put it back together so you can get an ak47 accessory and I thought it was the coolest thing lol

[@Darkfreed0m]

Damn , I remember this. I had so much fun trying to unlock things

[@JunGaGotoku]

God I remember this. Siren Blood Curse and AC2..

[@spacehobo1095]

Honestly the most fitting New Years stream for 2023

[@Slamboni4k]

I really hope PS Home is added in the future as a reiteration. I have really fond memories of Home, especially with some of the multiplayer games. It really felt like you could connect with random people, and that's something we need more of.

[@NewsofPE]

Therapist: "Japanese Vinny can't hurt you, he isn't real" Japanese Vinny: 10:41

[@rubeusvombatus]

Hey look, it's the main city from Starfield

[@Made_In_Heaven88]

Is this what VR chat world's will look like in 20 years? Dead and unhabited

[@user-eb5nh3dr3k]

The amount of nostalgia that I have for playstation home is insane. I -adored- getting on there and hanging out with peeps, had my own outfits and rooms... I loved it.

[@zule10000]

I spent probably an entire summer farting around in Playstation Home back in the day. All the different social spaces were really fun to explore and find the little things the devs added for everyone to find. I remember the Sodium world and Loco Roco world were favorites of mine to just hang out in. The former was where that Salt Shooter game was and I spent a lot of time playing that!

[@maliciousbugman]

>basically an abandoned mall game >marble statue costume (8:52) >nostalgia due to being abandoned and from many years ago The stars aligned for some serious A E S T H E T I C S potential here.

[@drabulusdael9329]

this game was buried deep in my psyche, it was my first liminal experience literally no one was on ever

[@Raphipod]

If, for any reason, someone wants the song name to 21:35: Private Eye - atomsoak ft. cerol

[@bootysalad]

i like playing etheral background noise when watching these types of videos really adds to the mood or any strange shit vinty plays

[@slamkam07]

Ps home was so insanely fun. There wasnt a whole lot to do, but meeting new people and just hanging out around some of the games was so cool. Cutting a rug at the club while someone hits on you on your left and someone oversharing about getting food poisoning on your right. And the house customization was awesome.

[@hatad321]

I liked decorating, like the objects had actual physics and some of them actually worked ( you could watch stuff on the TV, so on)

[@TurtleSoop]

Holy shit i completely forgot about this

[@diegomedina9637]

I remember this. It was basically Play Station's miiverse... And by that I mean the place was filled with creeps and pdf files.

[@drinkdrpumpkin323]

This is so sad and is nostalgic and amazing at the same time. I miss those days and hate where we are now.

[@FlooDnl1]

I loved this back in the days, having your own place to invite friends, loads of free stuff to do (it was not aaa but it was free and you could win skins and stuff to put in your own home)

[@TaccRaccoon]

28:20 lol The timing with the music

[@FineIChangedItYoutubeDontBeMad]

I played home a lot when I was a kid, I was too young to figure out how to chat or anything but I had a lot of fun hanging out in a beach world and playing games