Today we celebrate 15 Years of PlayStation, the gaming industry and most importantly, the PlayStation fan. It is an honor to officially kick off our celebration on the PlayStation.Blog with a retrospective journey and history lesson 15 years in the making.
The PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable, the PlayStation 3 — these aren’t just names to Sony gaming products — these are milestones in every gamers’ coming of age story. Twisted Metal, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Killzone and God of War, aren’t just clever titles to PlayStation classics — but defining moments in gaming history where PlayStation stands above the rest, delivering memorable experiences and jaw-dropping moments.
Sitting at PlayStation and being part of this amazing journey as a gamer and now working with the PlayStation team, I can’t help but recollect my first encounter with Metal Gear Solid. Within moments of popping in my PlayStation Underground disc, and booting the MGS demo — I knew right there and then what I wanted to do with my life. I must have shredded through several layers of protective coating on the PlayStation disc, playing the MGS demo over and over, patiently waiting for Hideo Kojima’s classic. If I can define my favorite PlayStation moment in two words, it would be: Pyscho Mantis.
Where were you on September 9th, 1995?
this might sound out of place or idk, but is there anywhere on the web where I can watch the SONY keynote from when they introduced the, what was back then, the new memeber of the faimly, the PlayStation 2?
I just saw a small piece of it on the featured video, and now I feel like watching the whole thing.
Thanks for any help.
15 years and been there every step of the way. :)
I remember getting the launch Playstation and playing Battle Arena Toshinden for like 24 hours straight with my friend. We eventually figured out you can put an audio CD into the Playstation after the battle loaded…first in game music! Of course it would just play a random track off the disk, but we thought it was amazing anyway.
Thanks for all the good times Playstation. It’s cheezy as hell, but you have always been here for me when I needed to escape the world and play somewhere else, and I will always be here for you as long as you provide that experience.
I use to do the same thing with Twisted Metal. I’d pop the PlayStation disc in a CD player and listen to soundtrack on my Walkman. =)