It can't be denied that I had a PS1 which of course, I had some form of severe addiction to it as a teenager (and my grades plunged until my mom locked it up and only allowed me to play within restricted but fairly reasonable schedules) so what do I remember about it?
As great as games were and yeah the PS1 version of the arcade hit Mortal Kombat II had a better translation than the SNES, much better BUT the whole problem was the LOADING times. Not only this game but almost every game had the problem of lagging loading times which was later fixed with the Playstation 2. Yep there were some games in the PS1 that had the cheating bastard of the CPU.
Okay graphics do retain in quality unlike the SNES however the arcade crossover games could not get the "true tag team" due to memory purposes. Sad. That was the downside of the Playstation.
It was also the era of blockier 3D graphics that became stepping stones to downright brilliant endings. People were "oohed" by Tekken's rather simple 3D graphics (while it had a rather incredibly cheating bastard CPU)... and graphics back then weren't very crisp but let's face it, if it wasn't for the lower graphics, the higher graphics can't be reached. It's all trial and error!
And the Playstation did what the SNES could not... play real FMV videos!
All these were the stepping stones to the improvement towards the PS2 and the current PS3 (which is nothing more than a want in my purchases list).
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