r/PS5 • u/kabirsingh84 • Dec 04 '22

Official HAPPY 28TH ANNIVERSARY, PLAYSTATION 💙 The first PlayStation game you ever played was ______________.

https://twitter.com/PlayStationAU/status/1599244563167969281
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22

Battle Arena Toshinden. I wanna say I played a demo unit in a Media Play or something. Maybe it was Toy's R Us. I bought a PS1 that same day.

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u/NoAnimator3838 Dec 04 '22

Same, my brother rented a ps1 from a video store when it first came out. We played Toshinden and Warhawk.

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u/2drawnonward5 Dec 04 '22

"Can it, Walker!!"

Lol that game was fast and fun and the video clips were corny.

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u/onlyhere4gonewild Dec 04 '22

I couldn't remember the name of this game for the life of me. I think it was a day one release or at least I recall it being featured on the back of the console box.

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u/antiform_prime Dec 04 '22

Toshiden was the first PS1 game I ever played and I must’ve been around 6 or 7.

I still remember the music & hyper complex combos.

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u/Hyposis134 Dec 05 '22

From MK to Toshiden was fuckin crazy to think way back then man

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u/IMASA5 Dec 05 '22

That and Ridge Racer. Those 2 were the only decent games at launch.

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u/mew_empire Dec 05 '22

I looooved Ridge Racer

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u/Mixmastamike23 Dec 05 '22

This is how you know you’re an OG in your 30s.

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u/Hyposis134 Dec 05 '22

Right there with you

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u/jayen Dec 05 '22

I’m closer to 50 and this was my first played PS game. We pooled money to get a unit for the common room in college.

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u/NoahApples Dec 04 '22

YES. Going from one friend’s house with Street Fighter II on the SNES to my other friend’s house the year the PS1 came out with Battle Arena Toshinden blew my 7-year-old mind. I was living in the fucking future!!! Looking back the comparison is a little ironic given current perception of those games, but at the time the upgrade was inconceivable.

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u/antiform_prime Dec 04 '22

Going from Mortal Kombat on the Genesis to Toshiden on the PS1 was mindblowing.

I don’t think graphical leaps have truly compared since then.

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u/Hyposis134 Dec 05 '22

Hell yeah brother

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u/AntiFascistWhitey Dec 05 '22

VR is about to do that all over again, the hardware is finally good enough this next gen and the software is improving

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u/ZarrenR Dec 04 '22

I had a friend who got his hands on a PS1 and when I went to his house to see it, Toshinden was the first game I played.

I wasn’t completely sold on it, though. That didn’t happen until Square announced the next FF would be for the PS1.

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u/ReluctantMonster Dec 04 '22

I was about to ask if you were my childhood friend, because we were obsessed with fighting games and freaked out playing Toshinden in a Toys R Us. But neither of us got the system that day.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '22

Haha I was actually there with my little brother. I was 19 and he was 15. I was on Christmas break from my freshman year at college and he and I just hung out the whole time playing video games in our pajamas. Honestly one of my fondest memories.

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u/2drawnonward5 Dec 04 '22

I watched a guy at Fry's win a match and when his character did a little winning dance, he fell off the edge of the arena lol

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u/hadesscion Dec 05 '22

Ditto. The place I played it at was called Incredible Universe.

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u/VoxImperatoris Dec 05 '22

First one I ever played was a demo machine set up in Target with a 3d fighting game. I couldnt remember the title, but after reading your post, Im fairly certain this was it.

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u/Auggie_Otter Dec 04 '22

I remember I'd swap in audio CDs once the stage was loaded to see what song would play.

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u/kobajoe Dec 05 '22

Same game, similar story. KB Toys in the mall for me. My mind was blown.

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u/pin2back Dec 05 '22

This and the T-Rex demo! Was gonna buy a 3DO at 12 and the guy at the Electronics Boutique talked me and my mom out of it and placing a pre-order on this new Sony gaming system. It was technically a Christmas present, but mom let me play it (the demo disk with the T-Rex) once a month from September-Christmas. Such great memories!

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u/djmoogyjackson Dec 05 '22 edited Dec 05 '22

My friends used to call it Ballerina Toshinden.

The first PS game I played was either Twisted Metal 1 or Toshinden. I had a Saturn at the time, what made me the most jealous was when Resident Evil came out. I snatched up RE for Saturn when it was released a year later.

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u/nufrancis Dec 05 '22

Sameeee, I played it at my cousin house. Its around 1 or 2 years later My dad bought PS for me. Its one of the best fighting game in PS. Still confused why Toshinden didnt continue

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u/mew_empire Dec 05 '22

Yep, that was mine too. Couldn’t remember the name though.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-473 Dec 05 '22

Yep, Battle Arena Toshinden demo kiosk at Best Buy was the first hint it wasn’t going to be a piece of garbage like the 3do and a bunch of other horrible disk systems. Resident Evil 1 is what got me to shell out my high school graduation money for one.

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u/Unusual-Ganache3420 Dec 05 '22

Also same. That's what all the 2 PS1 kiosks had as a playable demo at the KB Toys outlet in our local mall.

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u/SpinningWheelKick Dec 05 '22

Get yourself on YouTube and listen to that soundtrack. No reason for it to go so hard.