The fifth of Sony’s game console PlayStation series, which has been playing for years, is on the way. Although the new consoles look modern and beautiful, at some point they make the question “where are those old consoles”. Today, we will talk about the legendary game console PlayStation 1 features and make a short nostalgia tour.
Playstation 5, which has come to a new age with both SSD and other performance details, was not the first console to go through an era in the game market. However, he gets this feature from a very familiar name, the biggest member of his family: Playstation 1.
Introduced at a time when the game console market was dominated by Nintendo and Sega. Playstation 1He had a very successful and long life. From this about 26 years ago We start the nostalgia tour, where we will take a look at the features that make Playstation 1 unforgettable, which was released and still in the memories of many people, fasten your seat belts.
Legendary features that make the Playstation 1 game console unforgettable:
- A long-lasting game console,
- Incredibly large library of games,
- Access to the Gran Turismo legend,
- success in the market,
- The disc reading lens that sometimes drives people crazy,
- legends legend Crash Bandicoot,
- The controller that inspired the next generation.
A long-lasting game console:
calendar leaves December 3, 1994 While showing its date, Playstation 1 was released in Japan. Playstation 1, which managed to attract attention when it was introduced, but was thought not to hold up in the market led by Nintendo and Sega, was quite good when it was released in Japan. Later, while the calendar leaves showed the year 1995, the PS1 was released in western countries.
Playstation 1, which achieved a successful debut, for about 10 years continued to be produced. After a successful decade, Sony stopped production of Playstation 1, but games for Playstation 1 continued to be released. discontinued in 2004 The last game released for Playstation 1 was in 2006.. Sales of Playstation 1, which continued to be sold until the beginning of 2007, were later discontinued.
An incredible library of games:
(The game in the photo is one of the legendary games of Playstation 1, C-12 Final Resistance)
One of the details that shows that a console is good is how good the game library is, and when it comes to the game library, the success of Playstation 1 cannot be ignored. Playstation 1 had a game library with a total of 7,918 games, with the last game released in 2006.
In addition to the fact that the game library was extremely large, Playstation 1 had quite good games. Among these games Final Fantasy 7, Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo There were legendary games that could survive until today and were in everyone’s mind. We will talk about these games in the rest of our content.
Access to the Gran Turismo legend:
Although the sales of Playstation 1 were good, the sales of the games released for the game console were just as good. Although many of the games released for the game console are very popular, you may be wondering about the best selling game. The best-selling game released for the Playstation 1 game console, the series continues to be released today. Gran Turismo was.
Gran Turismo, now known as Polyphony Digital (then it was called Polys Entertainment), was the first racing game released by the company. Only 15 names worked to make Gran Turismo, which managed to make itself popular thanks to its graphics, gameplay dynamics and atmosphere that makes you feel the excitement of the race. The game, which took 5 years to develop and was released after, has a total of 10.85 million It became PS1’s best-selling game. The series continues to be released exclusively for Playstation today.
Success in the market:
Sony’s legendary game console did not have very good games when it was released, but this did not affect sales negatively. The day it was released in Japan 100,000 Playstation 1, which managed to sell more than 1 unit, was fully sold after about 6 months. 2 million It managed to outsell. Make no mistake, this number represents sales counted within Japan only.
Sales continued to increase rapidly as Playstation 1 gradually began to be released in other countries. Playstation 1, which started to be sold quickly from the day it was released in the United States, to sell 800,000 units in only the first 4 months succeeded.
The sometimes infuriating disc reading lens:
All electronic devices such as game consoles, computers and these are sometimes hardware errors can give. One of the most common mistakes in game consoles was happening to Playstation 1 users. Inside the Playstation 1 game console lens and this lens was used to read the disc. Most PS1 owners will agree that this lens is sometimes infuriating.
So much so that if you have a PS1 game console and you are having a problem, it is one of the first solutions that comes to mind. “Blow the lens” it was a word. For computer problems “Format passes” Just as it was a common solution, blow cleaning was also a common solution for the PS1 lens. Of course, with such a simple method, the system would not completely recover, but if you were a lucky kid, the PS1’s lens could start to run games after you blew it.
Legends legend Crash Bandicoot:
When you think of Playstation 1, more than one thing may come to mind, but it is one of the games that almost everyone who owns this game console loves. Crash Bandicoot. The Crash Bandicoot series, which had a very good sale, especially with Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, underwent a lot of changes during the development phase, but in the end, it was decided on the character that has survived to the present day. Even today, Crash Bandicoot can still be loved and played by many thanks to its remake versions.
The controller that inspired the next generation:
Each game console’s controller has different features and designs. It was the controller that came with Playstation 1 that inspired the button designs of all the controllers of the Playstation game console released from the past to the present. Also on all Playstation controllers released later triangle, square, X and O buttons used.
There was actually a very specific meaning behind the way the buttons on the controller were designed. According to Teiyu Goto, designer of the controller, X and O are confirm and cancel it meant. For this reason, in almost all PS1 game menus, these keys functioned as cancel and confirm.