Was Rayman a Playstation launch title in the UK

[Strider]

Anyone know the answer to this?

[Number45]

Gamespot have the UK version down as released in December 1995, so it doesn't look like it. A few months down the line from release.

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps/action/rayman/similar.html?mode=versions&om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;versions

[J0e Musashi]

It was in the US, dunno about over here.

[Skull Commander]

As far as I remember rayman was not available at launch.

[meppi]

I got my PSone on September 30 1995 and Rayman somewhere in October.
If I remember correctly it came out 2 or perhaps 3 weeks after launch.

[MikeRox]

take it ur covering the PlayStation at launch in a forthcoming issue of retro gamer? hehe

It was definitely an early title as the "PlayStation" tab at the bottom of PS1 games was introduced a few months after the console, and Rayman is free of that IIRC (until the Platinum re-release). Great game either way, pixel perfect eye candy mmm

[Skull Commander]

I hate rayman. He is just one of those ****ty characters who have been designed sorely to be the next sonic or mario.
See also: Croc (by name and nature!), Bubsy the bobcat, Nutz, Crash Bandicoot and spyro the dragon.

[elkatas]

See also: Croc (by name and nature!), Bubsy the bobcat, Nutz, Crash Bandicoot and spyro the dragon.

Hmh, Crash was poor character, but he did adventure in some great games. But I agree about others.

[Skull Commander]

Hmh, Crash was poor character, but he did adventure in some great games. But I agree about others.

I actually enjoyed a couple of crash games too, but he was and is a rubbish character! Apart from Mr Nutz I have played and disliked all the others mentioned. And I'm going to add in Gex. He sucked ass too!

[Profit]

If it's any help, Rayman is the best selling PS game in the UK:

1. Rayman
2. Tomb Raider 2
3. Gran Turismo
4. Gran Turismo 2
5. Crash Bandicoot
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7. Who Wants to be a Millionaire
8. Driver 2
9. Tekken 3
10. WWE SmackDown 2

Edit: Rayman is SLES-00049, so no it wasn't a launch.

[Shez]

Croc!

Wow, I recall the hype surrounding that title, and it wasn't too clever from what I remember - I also recall Spyro being hyped to high heaven, but at least that was reasonably playable.

[elkatas]

If it's any help, Rayman is the best selling PS game in the UK.

How in the hell?

[angelx]

crikey, best selling? It wasn't that great :P For shame, no resident evil

[ShadowDancer]

Rayman was a great game and looked and still looks fantastic. I played it on the saturn mind. (i do believe there isn't any difference though)

[Fastware]

Rayman sold massively on the Platinum range, once the machine was down to a child (birthday/christmas) gift price it was an obvious choice for young kids, a game like Sonic. The Crash Bandicoot in the list will be platinum version too for the same reasons. I worked for a distributor and these games would sell every day.