metal jesus: metal jesus here and i am backagain with reggie. how is it going, guy? reggie: it's going good, brother. today we'regoing to do a playstation 1 buying guide, so get ready. metal jesus: that's right. so we're goingto cover the hardware as well as ten games that we think are just perfect for a new collector.let's take a look. all right, dude, so let's talk about the hardware. we have the originalmodel 1 right here. reggie: my favorite system of all time, thesystem that got me back into video games. metal jesus: now one of the great things aboutthe playstation 1 is that it's pretty cheap to collect for. you find these everywhereand you find them cheap.
reggie: the reason why is, because the ps2system, you have backwards compatibility so you can play all ps1 games. so it made thissystem pretty much worthless. it's one of the most worthless systems price range wise… metal jesus: right, right. reggie: …out there. metal jesus: but it's fun to collect for. reggie: it definitely is and i would advisepeople to start collecting for it because the games are so cheap, especially the goodones. the system is $5 to $10 at the most. metal jesus: but there are some things tolook out for if you're at a thrift store or
maybe at a garage sale, and that is that theymade a ton of different models of these. and they kept revising the hardware a little bit. reggie: trying to get it right. metal jesus: trying to get it right. so hereis the very first model, and this comes not only with the typical playstation av out,which we all know and love today, but it also comes with rca, the two audio outs, and thenalso the yellow outs. reggie: what do you think people mostly usethose for? do you think they use them at all really? metal jesus: honestly i'm not really surewhy they have this in here other than audio
files love the two audio outs because sonywas primarily known for making audio hardware back in the day. and so when they made theoriginal playstation, they actually put an excellent audio chip in here. and so a lotof collectors back in the '90s who were buying cds, this was their preferred way of listeningto them. reggie: oh, wow, i didn't know that. metal jesus: so this version here actuallywould hook up to your stereo and you would have a fantastic audio player. it's so coolbut they got rid of this though. reggie: pretty fast, i think. metal jesus: i think so.
reggie: back then, i've never seen any. metal jesus: and that's the thing is thatthere's a bunch of different models of this. we're not going to cover all of them, butthere are a couple things you want to know. so they got rid of these. they also got ridof the parallel ports here and the serial ports. now the parallel port was used for... reggie: a gameshark, which i used mine forto help with a couple of games that i'm struggling with, but it was another good thing aboutthe gameshark. it was the gameshark pro that you could actually go into games, becauseback then, you couldn't really look at game cinematics like resident evil or mega manx4, and look at the cartoon scenes. with that
gameshark, you could go to the video scenesautomatically and just watch them, which was pretty cool. it was a good device for it. metal jesus: that's cool. reggie: but i think that sony seeing thatkind of stuff, they didn't like that because it would open up more possibilities for... metal jesus: they didn't really use it, andso i think as the revisions went on, it's like they just lost the serial port and alsothe parallel ports. reggie: it could have been used as an expansionpack too, right, possibly? metal jesus: yeah, it could have been. that'sthe thing is that when they built this, that
was very pc-like to add those two things inthere. they could have technically added a printer, because that's how pcs back in thedays would add printers. but there's a couple of things you need to know about this though.so the first couple versions of the playstation were notorious with skipping fmvs, and a lotof it has to do with the way that they built the laser mechanism. they were made of plasticand so they would wear as time went on. and you mentioned how you would flip it over… reggie: yeah. metal jesus: …to get it to play. reggie: i flipped it over just to get my playout of it, because it was kind of sad when
you pay for a java system that's not workingproperly. so as a young teenager, i just flipped it upside down. i did whatever i could doto get it to work. metal jesus: the other thing is that theywere known at least early on for overheating. reggie: overheating. they made fans that wentunder the system for it. the fans were pretty limited because they actually stopped makingthem because they made the new model's systems work. so i've never seen too many of the fansout there, so it's probably pretty cool. metal jesus: yeah, it's pretty interesting.so we have another model here where you can see in the back they removed the extra audio/videoout of here. but they kept improving them to the point where they made...
reggie: my favorite version, the ps1 system.now this ps1 system, i actually bought it with a monitor, which i thought was prettycool because i was going to the military at the time, and they were talking about beingin the field and stuff like that and have entertainment. so this was my entertainment.the monitor, really solid. it actually has those ports on the back of this monitor. metal jesus: yeah. reggie: now this is a third-party monitor.it's not the official sony one, but this one's still pretty good. the system is actually,as you can see, a lot smaller. it's pretty much the same system, but the design is somuch unique. it's smaller. it's quieter.
metal jesus: you can tell they are just refining.it's smaller and better. reggie: they really did a good job on thesystem. i'm still impressed looking at it right now. metal jesus: well, i love the fact that sonykeeps revising their hardware. they do this with every system whether it's the psp, theplaystation 2, the playstation 3. they always make slimmer versions. reggie: they did it three times with the ps3,which i was like, "wow, okay." metal jesus: yeah, it's cool that they dothat. at some point, it's going to be like this big and it's going to be in your pocketand you can attach your keys to it.
reggie: it's really awesome. metal jesus: so that's a quick overview ofthe console itself, but it was such a popular console that there was a ton of other stufffor it. so where did we start with the controllers? metal jesus: the very first version of thecontroller was this. the world was introduced to the playstation controller. a couple thingshere. notice that there's no thumb sticks. so that was not originally part of the design. reggie: to be honest with you, it's very similarto a super nintendo controller. that's one reason why i started to like… just withthe layout of the blend on the side, i feel like it's close… that why i liked it a lot.
metal jesus: interesting. okay, so like kindof a natural transition for you, right? reggie: mm-hmm. yeah, very easy. metal jesus: and then of course you have anothervariation here. reggie: yeah, a red one which i don't rememberi found this at with cool color, i guess. metal jesus: oh, yeah, totally, but they dideventually do one with thumb sticks. reggie: yeah, the dual shock. this is notthe first version of the dual shock. they had another one that we don't have, but thisone was the defined version of it, and i remember this one came out during the time that metalgear solid head came out where they were really expanding on the vibration function, whichwas really cool.
metal jesus: well, and also thumb sticks arereally useful for 3d games, and so during this transition from 2d games to 3d gamesand controlling things with an analog stick in 3d space, it just became more natural andthey stuck with it. it was nearly perfect. reggie: the other thing i should mention,when they made these sticks, ape escape was another game that these analogue sticks werereally used for. so it was a really cool control for it. metal jesus: so while you're out collectingfor controllers, you also need to take into consideration you will need a memory card. reggie: yeah, and i want to tell you a littlequick story about that because i had got two
games for my system. before i even got it,my mom helped me buy the system. i finally got the system, got home, was so excited toplay it, didn't realize i needed a memory card. so i played one of the games. [inaudible0:07:34] all the way to the end. metal jesus: how many kids have this exactsame story? reggie: yeah, i know, right? and i didn'twant to turn the system off because i didn't want to start over again. metal jesus: well, if you think about it comingfrom the nes and back when cartridges were the thing, they would have a battery savebacked up into it. reggie: yeah, those cds where…
metal jesus: so you wouldn't even think ofthat. it's like, "of course." but cds obviously can't do that, so they need a way to saveand so these are very important. reggie: very, unless you want to start thegame from the beginning every time. metal jesus: what's also important too aboutthese is that even if you don't play your ps1 games one ps1, let's say you play themon a playstation 2, you still need to use a playstation 1 memory card. reggie: yeah, you do. metal jesus: it's always good to have a stackof these around. reggie: yeah, it really is.
metal jesus: all right, so what else havewe got? reggie: we've got a multitap port. it's notthe official multitap. i don't know what happened to mine, but this is the knockoff one i had.pretty cool still. it's not as cool as the first model, because the first model actuallyslides on the system like a block. metal jesus: you highlight something hereis that that again there were so many third-party solutions for the playstation 1. it's kindof crazy. you'll be out looking at stuff and you'll see something you've never seen before.some third-party controller or memory cards were really popular, everything. metal jesus: oh, yes.
reggie: another one, the light gun. guncon1 actually. metal jesus: sweet. this thing is awesome. reggie: time crisis. what else? point blankwas another good game for it. this is pretty awesome. i didn't get mine until later downthe line, but if i had this in the beginning, i would've been playing a lot of cool, lightgun games, because those were my favorite type games in my ps2. metal jesus: oh, yeah, and like you said,this is just such an awesome arcade experience in your house. reggie: but you definitely need have to havetwo tv or...
metal jesus: you do. one thing to note isthat if you're going to play light gun games, they do not work on modern hd televisions.you do need an old-school crt, so keep that in mind. reggie: let's see what we have here. metal jesus: yeah, you brought these. okay,i've heard of these. these are the pocket station. reggie: pocket stations. metal jesus: what is this? reggie: it's like a memu just like the dreamcastone. but for some reason, sony of japan, they
want to bring it out to america but it's compatiblewith one game in america, which is [inaudible 0:09:50]. it was a game i was playing prettycrazy. by hooking this to the game, you could actually with a memory card slot you couldunlock other spells. they weren't unlockable by other means except through these systems.so that was pretty cool. metal jesus: yeah, i can see where these wouldbe appealing because again it's like when you're not home and you're at school, youcan still do some sort of gaming. that was the idea. reggie: yeah, exactly. metal jesus: because at the time, sony didn'thave a portal, so this was it.
reggie: pretty much, but i think by that time,they were in talks about it because they had an idea that they wanted to get into the modelsomehow. but another thing is that those are the original sony mascots on the cover. metal jesus: these cats. reggie: yeah, these cats. i've got their namesbut... metal jesus: oh, interesting. reggie: because sony has so many mascots.other systems don't have that many, but sony has. you don't know who their main mascot.the first one was crash. i don't know who it is now. and another item i got which islike a pocket station, i guess. it's called
pockets guy [sp]. i have no idea what thisis, and i got it. and it looks like a pocket station. i haven't really opened and messedwith it yet, but maybe somebody else will know what it is. metal jesus: wow, interesting. it says it'sa memory card but maybe it's got some sort of screen or something like that. reggie: yeah, something. i don't know. metal jesus: all right. so that is the hardware.let's take a look at some games. all right, so we have a stack of ten games that we thinkpretty much anybody who's going to be getting a playstation 1 collection, so just go outand buy.
reggie: games like we usually use are gamesthat kind of define the system. metal jesus: these are not necessarily hiddengems. they're just again it's like, "go get them," right? reggie: all right. metal jesus: let's start with crash bandicoot3: warped. so, dude, first of all, i think this is one of the best crash games ever.honestly if i was to say, i think it's like a masterpiece. it's that good. reggie: i hate to say this, but on my firsttime playing that game, i think it was last night. i think i played it once when i wasyounger, but from what i've played off, i
couldn't believe i hadn't played it yet. thisgame is pretty sick. the platforming on this game, and the voice acting and the story isreally cool. metal jesus: well, i think also to the graphics.at this point, they knew this is not a dog. they knew how to make awesome games in a playstation1. reggie: yeah, they learned that system. metal jesus: this showcases that. it's gotso much going on. personally i think the platforming is just perfect. it's the best version ofthe crash series. anyways, highly recommended. reggie: did you like the one-hit kills inthat game or...? it had pet [sp] points. that kind of made me mad a little.
metal jesus: well, i never liked those, but,no, you're right. these games have always been tough. although i feel like this gameis easier than the first game. metal jesus: the first game is really hardfor me for some reason. i don't know why. i think it's just that they have refined itquite as much. reggie: somebody else had totally said thesame thing to me. they said that one was the best one to play. metal jesus: yeah, definitely. reggie: all right, another game here. i gotthis from my buddy, joe. die hard trilogy, this is three games in one based off the firstthree die hard movies, which i think they
have five of them now. metal jesus: let me just say, i haven't playedthis game but it's so wild that we have a movie tie-in game. who knew, right? reggie: i know, and it's pretty good actually.the voice acting is corny because they're like imitations of the actors, but they'regood imitations. they're like corny... metal jesus: bruce willis. reggie: yeah, like, "get the hell out of here,"like in the first movie. metal jesus: oh, okay, trilogy so it is thefirst three movies. there was die hard, die hard 2 and then die hard with a vengeance.
reggie: the first die hard is basically you'rerescuing hostages out of a building. you're shooting the bad guys. just rescuing people.that's how that game mainly is from what i've played. the second game is like a rail shooter.you're at the airport, which is like the second movie. he was at the airport and you're shootingthe bad guys, trying not to shoot the civilians of course. they like getting in the way. andthe third game, which was pretty cool, is basically a car chase, car racing game. you'retrying to race to get the bombs in town in a time limit. samuel l. jackson characteris telling you where to turn to get to the bombs in time. and of course people are inyour way in the streets. i tried to dodge them but they're just in the way.
metal jesus: okay, i just noticed somethingin the back here. we forgot to mention the mouse, and this game supports the mouse. reggie: it supports the mouse. i did not knowthat. that's probably for the first person shooter. metal jesus: yeah, probably. i could see whythat would be pretty interesting. yeah, so we didn't show the mouse. we have it and wejust completely forgot about it. that's cool it supports that. all right, so next up is castlevania: symphonyof the night. a lot of people consider this to be probably the best castlevania game orat least up to this point for sure.
reggie: my second favorite castlevania gameis symphony of the night. it is really cool because the intro starts you off from theprevious game's storyline, which really is actually really cool the game did that. sothat sucks you in like that, and the game pretty much starts you with a newer character.and you're basically just going through this massive castle trying to get to the last boss. and the story really unfolds going throughthe game. it's really pretty cool. you'll say it kind of feels like a metroid type gamelike metroid and stuff like that. metal jesus: this is one of those games thatkind of created that term though, metroidvania. reggie: basically because it's massive, whereveryou've been, you create a map where you're
going. so you can always backtrack and knowwhere you went, but in new areas, you're kind of just building the map, which is cool. metal jesus: the other thing about this gameis that people even today say this has one of the best gaming soundtracks, and so againit's just a really well-rounded game so definitely. reggie: yeah, definitely. my second favoriteresident evil game, resident evil 2. when this game first came out, i was bugging mymom to get a ride to the store. i was trying to do whatever i could to get down there toget it. finally got home and played it. played it with my cousin but he didn't want to helpme play because we were both scared to play through it. and this game was... man, it ismassively good and scary.
metal jesus: now one of the things, on thisone, it says it supports the dual shock analog controller. so was this one...? reggie: they made a version of it after theregular version came out. it was before the dual shock because dual shock had just comeout at the time. metal jesus: now is this a director's cutor something? i know there's different versions. reggie: no, this is just the dual shock versionof that one. dual shock version added the extreme mode, i think, to the game, whichis pretty cool. metal jesus: awesome. all right, i'm goingto be shocked. you brought a fighting game. reggie: yeah, soul blade.
metal jesus: which turned into soul caliberright? reggie: it's actually really called soul edge.i don't know why they changed the american name. reggie: maybe, i don't know. very good game.still playable to this day. it's a solid fighter. it's very cheap. it's probably $5-$10 at themost, i would think. it's got a lot of good characters in. the arenas, you can knock peopleout of the arenas if you're really good. solid characters, solid music and a story mode,afighting game with a story mode. that's always a plus to me. metal jesus: yeah, that's cool.
reggie: next game, puzzle starsweep. now alot people don't even know what this game is. metal jesus: i had no idea. reggie: it's a puzzle game but it's a uniquepuzzle game because it plays like a battle tetris type, but it's different. it's whereyou have to switch the blocks to match the colors. it's hard to explain because i haven'tplayed it that much myself but the game is only $5 and it's really addicting. it hasa versus mode, and a story mode, and an arcade mode. metal jesus: that's cool. never heard of it.
reggie: it's unheard of like one of thoselast playstation 1 games that came during the end of its lifeline. next game is a platformgame, rayman. you have to have this game if you're going to have a playstation system. metal jesus: okay, so this is the 2d platformrayman game before they switched over to 3d, which i definitely prefer the 2d ones. reggie: i do, too. metal jesus: okay, wow. i haven't played this.this looks awesome though. it's beautiful. reggie: the graphics are really like… theystand out really good. metal jesus: okay, cool.
reggie: starts off really easy then it getskind of hard. metal jesus: wait, before you show that one. reggie: okay. metal jesus: we had a challenge and that isthat the playstation 1 is known for so many role playing games. and so we're like, "dude,we've got to have a role playing game in this video. which one do you choose?" so we ranthrough all of them. final fantasy vii, viii, ix, xenogears. reggie: then we said one at the same time. metal jesus: yeah, we did. actually i wassurprised you said this one, because it's
one of my favorites. it's the first rpg iever played on playstation 1, and that is chrono cross, and i love this game. it's funnybecause a lot of people will say, "oh, chrono trigger is better," and that is a really goodgame but i really, really love this game. reggie: i like chrono cross better, and thechrono trigger, a lot of people hate me for saying that but there's reasons why that ilike this one better. metal jesus: for me, it just starts off rightoff the bat with the beautiful music that is in this game. that opening cinematic justsets the stage. i love the battle system in this game. i think it's one of my favorites. reggie: the battle system is… and one thingabout the battle system, if things get too
tough, no matter what, you could always runaway. there's no like you can't run away, which i hate when you're trying to get someboss. metal jesus: i know because it penalizes youfor sucking. i'm already hurting and you're going to make it hurt more. reggie: let me grind a little bit more andthen i'll come back okay. metal jesus: this game is massive, too, soit's definitely a huge value. not enough people talk about it, so it's awesome that you andi both picked it at the same time. it's so funny. all right, so the next one, we had to addthese through. that's right. the point blank
series and it's because the light gun gameson the playstation 1 are so much fun, so well made and i love these games. reggie: you could tell by what they put intothese games. i played the first two. i didn't play the third one that much. it's addicting.you really want to try to win. and then some of the games are funny, because you're tryingto save one of the guys being set on fire, and you're shooting all these items and thetime limit and everything. metal jesus: yeah, but lots of humor in there.this is the kind of game where if we have a party at my house and the light gun is setup, we'll put these in over like say time crisis, even though i love time crisis. peoplecan get into this that aren't even necessary
gamers just because, i don't know, it's justsomething whimsical about them. reggie: yeah, anybody could play it. it looksreally fun and something you could hop into and have fun. metal jesus: yeah, those are great games.the next two games here actually. i guess they're our last ones. so you originally hadmoto… what was that, motor? reggie: moto grand prix. metal jesus: that's right. metal jesus: it's from the same makers asthe next game we're going to bring up. metal jesus: but i was like, "dude, as awesomeas that game is, gran turismo."
reggie: gran turismo. the reason i didn'tchoose gran turismo at first because i never got out to it, but i remember all my friendswere into this game. i wasn't like into cars back then, so maybe that's why i wasn't... metal jesus: no, this is a simulator and thesegames definitely they can try your patience because they're are not arcadian, and so they'rea very different experience i think. reggie: because you're building up your carsand stuff like that. parts stuff like that. metal jesus: but i think for me back whenthe playstation first came out, i had a roommate who had a ps1 and he showed me gran turismoand i was a pc guy. i was a little bit of a snob. i was like, "oh, consoles, right?"dude, gran turismo blew me away. it's a hardcore
simulator and it really impressed me at thetime. reggie: tell me this. is it still playabletoday? metal jesus: it is, it is because it's sucha well-made game. you could probably argue that maybe the physics now are better in newerversions, and they probably are, but i think the thing is you can go too far with that.some games are unplayable because they're so hard to control say with a controller.this games is just the right amount of difficulty, plenty of content. i don't know. i just thinkthat they're definitely some of the best driving games on the ps1. reggie: i agree, man. i'm going to give itago.
metal jesus: you should definitely check itout. all right, so that is our quick, little buying guide to the playstation 1. althoughwe did forget one controller. it's the biggest controller of them all. actually i think theonly thing bigger would be like the steel battalion controller on the xbox one. metal jesus: so, dude, what is this? reggie: this is the analog controller whichwas used... it's actually used for quite a few games for this system. one game i rememberon top of my head right now is elemental gearbolt. you can use it for that. metal jesus: which i think is a light gungame.
reggie: it's a light gun game and you canplay this one. so can you imagine playing that game with multiple controllers? metal jesus: dude, this is awesome. i guessactually probably ace combat. reggie: ace combat, too. metal jesus: yeah, it has a little hat hereand everything. wow, it's so interesting. reggie: they took it out the function forthree for some reason. metal jesus: wow, it's cool. so as you cansee, there's an awful lot to collect for when it comes to the playstation 1. we've onlybarely touch on it. here is the mouse as well, which again it's like they had a mouse. it'sso awesome.
reggie: i know and the mouse is used for aclock tower point blank i'm assuming. metal jesus: also i'm looking over here discworld,so some adventure game as well. reggie: oh, discworld as well. metal jesus: yeah, so much to collect forwith the playstation 1. so this just the tip of the iceberg, but we'd love to know whatyou guys recommend for new collectors. what games do you think they should go out, getday one. we'd love to know, too, because there's some on that that we haven't heard of or wedon't have in our collection. reggie: yeah, and another thing, the mousecan't be used for point blank. i actually mentioned that earlier so just don't wantanybody get confused.
metal jesus: but it's kind of a hit and miss,and that's the other thing too on the back of these. it will tell you right down herebelow what they support and how much space they use up on the memory card and stuff likethat. all right, man, awesome video. thanks for coming on. metal jesus: all right, guys. thanks for watchingmy channel. thanks for subscribing. take care. reggie and i have done a bunch of playstation1 videos. so if you're new to collecting for the playstation 1 or you're just looking forsome hidden gems, we also cover some pal games and a bunch of stuff. so definitely checkout my channel. i release new videos every single week. so you're going to want to subscribe.thanks for watching.
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