15 years of good ol’ PS!!!
For me, there was good times and PS… each one separated from the other.
I remember or one ‘xmas, going bananas with my N64 and Super Mario 64, but there was one thing missing; good games. For example, at that time I had Super Mario 64 and… nothing else… ‘CAUSE THE FRIGGIN’ CARTRIDGES WERE TO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!… so I considered myself an SRD ( stands for Super Rental Dude ).
For the next ‘xmas I thought: “Nintendo is always trying to get into our wallets and no further more, and I want a gaming system that gets to my heart… let’s try something diferent…”, the it came, the only thing I’ve been considering for years as the most outstanding gaming system ever.
For that time, I remember going with my fasha’ (as GoldMember says Father) to Saint Andrews’s Place. We asked for it, and it was the best investment that I have done in years… well not me, my dad’s investment.
It came with 3 games and 2 controls for maximun fun times. I remember that I choose:
- 007: Tomorrow never dies
- Crash Bandicoot (all 3 of ‘em)
- International Superstar Soccer (HELL YEAH!!)
But there were all type of games for this console. Let’s take for example in the cars genre, NFS Road & Track. On the N64 for the time I asked for it was San Francisco Rush, a s**tty game that I play ’till nowadays. But never compared to this one where you could play with diferent types of cars and the most fun was that this was the first game to get the five-o’s in it.
The other game that I consider a really friggin’ good stuff was Road Rash Jailbreak, a NFS style game but with motorcycles and bad ass on-road rumbles and crap like it.
that was until 2001 that I met PS2. First thing I said when I say it was… WOW!!!!…
Newer games, newer graphics, newer fun stuff!!. I didn’t bought this one but, nevertheless, It was a good console with nice games like Shadow of the Colossus, Prince of Persia, NFS Underground, GTA Series, God of War… and so on and so on…
And 2 years back from now, It came the most s**tty console ever existed (for me)… PS3.
Why s**tty???… ok, here’s what sony said when they designed the product:
Hey I got an idea, why we cannot do the same as Nintendo; just get into people’s wallets. I mean, we can do the same PS2 games with better graphics and that’s it. We put some BlueRay stuff to fool the people because they won’t use it because it’s just for our games, and that’s about it… how ’bout that??… YAAYYYY!!!!
F**K YOU SONY BASTERDS!… you played with us big time pal’. When this big turd came, it has the most errors that a console could have had for god sakes. I mean, a friend of mine had one when it came out, and he had to put a fan beneath this so it would’t go overheating its ass off. Oh and what can I say about the games… plain old PS2 games remastered. This year finally came out some decent games like Heavy Rain and Sony’s Uncharted.
But, aside of these last inconvenients, it has been 15 wonderfull years of fun and top quality entertainment. As for me, I won’t buy PS3, right now I’m a fan of 360 ( YAYY!!! ).
What do you think about it… was a good move of Sony to put a really friggin’ expensive console on the market???… post you comments!
Been a fan of Nintendo for the most part of my life, it was difficult to follow another company, in this case Sony. N64 was the last console I fully supported, I enjoyed great games that will forever mark my life:
Golden Eye
Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Diddy Kong Racing
WCW NWO Revenge (One of the greatest wrestling games ever)
WWF No Mercy (Like WCW NWO Revenge, but with ladder matches!)
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Beetle Adventure Racing
But this truly great games were released far in between and the N64 suffered of a sub-par games catalog. Every gaming company began developing games for the Playstation for one reason only: CHEAP CDS! This is an important point to make because I think and insist that one of the most important reasons the Playstation propagated like slice bread were PIRATED GAMES! Install a chip on your PS, buy a CD, copy a game unto it and play like a madman, that was it.
When I got the Playstation 2 I thought that I had betrayed Nintendo. I did it for the sake of playing RPG’s. I buyed a couple of games:
Final Fantasy X (never finished it)
WWE…(another wrestling game which didn’t surpass the N64 ones)
Spiderman (never finished it)
Shadow of the Colossus (it’s nice you mentioned it, I never played it, the game is still with its plastic cover)
At the end of the day, the Playstation 2 was the twilight of my gaming days. Never really played or used it, except for playing some movies.
Today I enjoy playing from time to time the old school games which bring tears and happiness to my life.
Nice writing,
Elioncho
Dude, I couldn’t agree with you more. The older games were the funniest games ever.
Take for example on the SNES, UNIRACERS… god, such a simple game turned into a masterpiece…
Excuse me also, for not putting a list of my most beloved N64 games, it’s just that I couldn’t go along with the cartridges stuff… but the most memorable game for me was Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, rented it a lot, played a lot…
Greetings people, I’ve recently join this community of good geek and crappy talking… just kidding pal… I just read this post and I felt like is my duty to comment, so there is it; I remember this guy on college saying that he was the best at street fighter and killer instinct (aahhh…good time isn’t it?) then I came back of past memories of ass kicking nights with my partners, DUDES that was my childhood… the good games of nintendo like mario kart, contra, the inmortal megaman, and some others… but I give a point to sony in this stuff I was never been a fan of PS, in fact I always was a nintendo guy, but I have to recognize that sony did a good job with this console, I used to play PS when I get invited to a friend’s house but I alwaus prefer the N64… on that time.. now my attention is redirected to a console that to me … have the best gamimg rating by now… Xbox 360 my friends… I got only two things to say… Microsoft did two things well for the thousand of crappy stuff that they made….
1. Excel (I’m not gonna explain why).
2. Xbox 360.
that’s all.
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Niwo.