30 years. That's a long time. I remember my first game as Crash Bandicoot. My previous console before that was Megadrive (Genesis)

Happy memories of meeting at a pals house, giving Tekken 2 a blast then hitting the clubs before getting back to my mates for some Wipeout 2097, Playstation just seemed so cool and did so much to bring gaming into mainstream acceptance.

The real story here is that Sony have suddenly added 5m units to the PS2 total just to spoil the party for Switch breaking the record.

So,in 1986 I bought a NES . Around 1991 I bought a SEGA Genesis and played at least over a 1000 hours EA NHL Hockey 92 to 95 and a lot of platformers . So in 1995 I was looking to buy a Sega Saturn . So I got to try playing games on a Saturn because my friend bought one . I felt from playing a few games, that Sega Saturn was going more in the Arcade direction with their games. So I did not buy the Sega Saturn. Then i got a call from another friend in December in 1995 and he told me he bought a Playstation and was enjoying playing a 3D fighting game . After that call , I thought to myself, Sony is a great entertainment company and I have a feeling that most 3rd party developers are going to want to make video games for Sony PlayStation. Then I bought one in December 1995 and the first single player campaign I completed was Playstation DOOM. Since then all of my gaming has been on Playstation 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and sometime in the spring of next year I will buy a PS5 Pro . So basically, i bought a Playstation not for the 1st party games , it is because I thought Playstation will have the most quality games to play .

First game I ever got was Speed Freaks. Played the hell out of it almost everyday and never got tired. That childhood memory is one I'll never forget.

I got a PS1 towards the end of its gen. First games were Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 3 and Silent Hill. The rest is history 😎

I remember when PlayStation one launched. I was in Hawaii on the Island of Oahu and went to the Navy exchange to see a demo. I was blown away by it. I couldn’t afford it a the time but my friend was able to and we had one hell of a time playing it.

On a side note I had another friend who worked at software ect. (Later to become GameStop) and they were allowed to take games home so they could tell customers about the games. He would borrow one go home and rip it on his computer then take it back. Had a whole library of PS games and didn’t have a PlayStation.

Turned on my PS5 today and that ps1 sound came on....... I was Giddy as a New player alrighty then.

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