PS1 is a strange relationship for me i have very faint memories before they reached the uk that virgin & hmv had japanese imports there was a tiny area where i saw the original mono ps1 boxes and a £40 memory card sat on the shelves with the grand total of 2 games all at horrendous i'm too poor to even look at prices. At that point it never really was on my radar as something i wanted, i saw them appear in import mags in various features & reviews but for me the stuff that people went wild for like ridge racer, tomb raider, tekken, wipeout were all to opposite to my game preferences that it was a total turn off add in the lad culture too cool vibe that was pushed around it in the uk it had a bit of a chavvy vibe to it.
I can't reven remember the exact year that i eventually got one as i never bought mine, it was roughly the time DDR was released in japan on ps1 as thats where me owning one started. When cex opened in albion street in leeds they had a ddr contest using a giant projection screen tv set up in the window with a dance mat routed out and on the floor in front and a dj with massive speakers on either side it was insane, 10 highest scores through the day came back at 4pm to battle it out. Ended up thrashing everyone and walking away with the dancemat a chipped ps1 and the copy of ddr they were using and that's how i ended up with a playstation. With it been chipped it opened up a whole new library of stuff i spent most weekends in cex browsing what they had in picking up whatever looked weird or interesting total opposite stuff to the typical mainstream ps1 flagship titles, however it was a mix of uk and japanese stuff as it was surprising but even weird stuff like incredible crisis,bust a move, parappa, vib ribbon & even mister domino all made it to the uk, Some of my friends had ps1's that were chipped so i used to find they had bought odd exotic japanese stuff from the local carboot so between the stuff that turned up in cex my tastes slowly matured. Sadly with no internet at that time to see whats out there i missed out on so many japanese titles due to not even knowing they existed something i rectified as they years have gone on.
I personally still hold it's library up against anything it's godlike and still one of my fave systems i regularly play on. Well not at moment it's all still packed up from the move but the games haven't aged for me i love them just as much now as i did then. Still have that dancemat i won all those years ago although the plastic inside it is probably degrading by now def needs the mold wiping off eww, the original ps1 & ddr i sold off a long time ago buy i ended up buying all the set of ddr years later.
I can't reven remember the exact year that i eventually got one as i never bought mine, it was roughly the time DDR was released in japan on ps1 as thats where me owning one started. When cex opened in albion street in leeds they had a ddr contest using a giant projection screen tv set up in the window with a dance mat routed out and on the floor in front and a dj with massive speakers on either side it was insane, 10 highest scores through the day came back at 4pm to battle it out. Ended up thrashing everyone and walking away with the dancemat a chipped ps1 and the copy of ddr they were using and that's how i ended up with a playstation. With it been chipped it opened up a whole new library of stuff i spent most weekends in cex browsing what they had in picking up whatever looked weird or interesting total opposite stuff to the typical mainstream ps1 flagship titles, however it was a mix of uk and japanese stuff as it was surprising but even weird stuff like incredible crisis,bust a move, parappa, vib ribbon & even mister domino all made it to the uk, Some of my friends had ps1's that were chipped so i used to find they had bought odd exotic japanese stuff from the local carboot so between the stuff that turned up in cex my tastes slowly matured. Sadly with no internet at that time to see whats out there i missed out on so many japanese titles due to not even knowing they existed something i rectified as they years have gone on.
I personally still hold it's library up against anything it's godlike and still one of my fave systems i regularly play on. Well not at moment it's all still packed up from the move but the games haven't aged for me i love them just as much now as i did then. Still have that dancemat i won all those years ago although the plastic inside it is probably degrading by now def needs the mold wiping off eww, the original ps1 & ddr i sold off a long time ago buy i ended up buying all the set of ddr years later.
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