Editing PlayStation (console)

{{SimilarName|first video game console released by Sony|[[PSX (digital video recorder)|digital video recorder]] with the same name as the console's codename.}}
{{ConsoleInfobox
|name = PlayStation
|Multilmage: {{File:PlayStation SCPH 1000 with Controller.png}}
|Quote = ''Never Underestimate the Power of PlayStation.''
|Developer = [[Sony Computer Entertainment]]
|Release Date = Original<br><small>JP: December 3, 1994<br>NA: September 9, 1995<br>EU: September 29, 1995<br>AU: November 15, 1995</small><br>PS One<br><small>JP: July 7, 2000<br>NA: September 19, 2000<br>EU: September 29, 2000</small>
|Successor = [[PlayStation 2]]
|Competitors = [[3DO Interactive Multiplayer]]<br>[[Atari Jaguar]]<br>[[32X|Sega 32X]]<br>[[PC-FX]]<br>[[Sega Saturn (Good media)|Sega]] [[Sega Saturn (Bad media)|Saturn]]<br>[[Nintendo 64]]<br>[[Dreamcast (good media)|Dream]][[Dreamcast (bad media)|cast]]
|Generation = Fifth generation}}
The '''PlayStation''' (unofficially abbreviated as the '''PS1''') is [[Sony Interactive Entertainment|Sony]]'s first video game console and competed against the [[Nintendo 64]] and the [[Sega Saturn]], and was released in 1994. It was succeeded by the [[PlayStation 2]] in 2000 and was discontinued in 2006. It is the best selling home console of the fifth generation.

==Origins==
Nintendo and Sony had a partnership to work on a CD add-on for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], but disputes ended the partnership. Nintendo went on to work with Philips on the concept and that produced the [[CD-i]].

Sony, on the other hand, kept the technology they had developed and after being turned down by [[Sega]] of Japan, they decided to release the add-on as a standalone console, which would become the PlayStation.

==Why It's the Power of PlayStation==
#Over '''2.400''' titles were released for the system!
#It can play audio CDs. Many audiophiles claim a specific model (the SCPH-100x) is one of the best CD players ever made.
#Helped in the major shift of 2D gaming to 3D gaming, along with the [[Nintendo 64]].
#[[PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16|While it was not the first game console to use CDs]], it was the first to do so successfully and made CD use popular. Discs are now the standard game format for home consoles.
#While the Nintendo 64 introduced analog sticks, the PlayStation DualShock controller was the one that set the standard for future consoles' analog stick usage with the use of two separate analog sticks on the controller rather than one and on top of that it wasn't bad like the N64 analog stick.
#'''The startup sound.'''
# A huge number of role-playing games and platformer titles.
#It was very easy to develop for, thus gaining very strong third-party support, and later smaller homebrew support too.
#It is the first console in history to reach 100 million units sold.
#A smaller model called the ''PSOne'' was also released, which is a great option if you don't have much space.
#A large number of very good games (some of which were the beginning of franchises) including:
#*''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Final Fantasy VIII, & ''[[Final Fantasy IX|IX]]''
#*''[[Resident Evil]]'' franchise
#*''The Legend of Dragoon''
#*[[Tekken (1994)]], [[Tekken 2]], and [[Tekken 3]]
#*''Parasite Eve'''
#*[[Tomb Raider (1996)]], [[Tomb Raider II]], [[Tomb Raider III]], [[Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation]] and [[Tomb Raider: Chronicles]]
#*''Rayman''
#*[[Gokujō Parodius! ~Kako no Eikō o Motomete~|Gokujō Parodius! ~Kako no Eikō o Motomete,]]
#*Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius ~forever with me~
#*''Sexy Parodius''
#*''Gran Turismo 1'' & ''Gran Turismo 2''
#*[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater]] and [[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2]]
#*''Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee'', and its sequel, ''Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus''.
#*''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''
#*''[[Pac-Man World]]''
#*''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'', ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back|Cortex Strikes Back]]'', and ''[[Crash Bandicoot: Warped|Warped]]''
#*''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'', ''Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage'', and ''Spyro: Year of the Dragon''
#*[[PaRappa the Rapper]]
#*''MediEvil''
#*''Twisted Metal'', ''Twisted Metal 2'' and ''Twisted Metal 4''
#*[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]
#*''[[Namco Museum (1995-1998)|Namco Museum]]''
#*''[[Mega Man X4]]'', ''[[Mega Man X5|X5]]'' and [[Mega Man X6|X6]] (depending on your point view).
#*''[[Klonoa: Door to Phantomile]]''
#Many of its games are also available to download for relatively cheap from the PlayStation Store on the [[PlayStation 3]] (which is backwards compatible) and [[PlayStation Vita]].
#The PS One model [[PS One LCD Screen Attachment|has a screen add-on]], which adds more portability and saves you from having to buy a TV.
#Unlike the other controllers, which had their buttons called either by numbers ('''1, 2, 3, 4,''') or letters ('''A, B, C, D, X, Y''' & '''Z'''), the PlayStation's Dualshock controller uses geometric shapes ('''Δ, O, X''', & '''ロ'''), a format that's unique and exclusive to the PlayStation consoles even today.
#PS1 games use black CD-ROMs, which is a good and easy way to tell if a PS1 disc is real or pirated.
#Due to PS1 discs being CDs, you can insert the disc in any CD player and listen to the soundtrack normally.

==Bad Qualities==
#Games that predate the DualShock must be played entirely with the D-pad or controllers that have no analog sticks in the first place.
#The PS One model lacks the reset button from the original models.
#Due to the PS1 BIOS being very basic compared to Sega Saturn, [https://youtu.be/dHDYBafE2bY?si=Uf6G8lAkzAQ-2Twy The Fearful Harmony] is quite scary, although it's kind of easy, you need the PS1 to be modchipped and you have to insert a Windows game disc, the PS1 itself will struggle to read the disc, making loud noises like a car engine, after about 5 or 6 minutes a sound part will come out of the startup, but it is very slow and annoying.
#Games from franchises such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Parasite Eve'', ''Metal Gear Solid'', and ''Resident Evil'' now tend to sell for ridiculously expensive prices upwards of $50, even for well used discs.
#There are only two controller ports despite many games supporting four players. You need a Multitap to be able to plug four controllers in.
#*If you want to play multiplayer games like ''[[Doom (1993)]]'' or ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'', you need a link cable to hook up 2 PS1s together and 2 TVs as these games do not use split-screen.
#Memory cards only hold 128 KB (15 blocks for save files) of memory, and some games even take up ''two cards''.
#The early models from the launch SCPH-1000 to SCPH-5000 are notorious for skipping FMVs due to a poorly designed laser assembly. This was fixed beginning with the SCPH-5500.
#The laser can get damaged easily over time and depending on the model, replacements can be pretty expensive.
#[[Dust and video games|Dust]] can easily get into the disc tray.

==Reception==
With more than 100 million units sold worldwide, the PlayStation was the most popular and successful console of the fifth generation of gaming. It is also considered the console that made CD based gaming popular which is the norm now, despite not being the first console to use CDs, but it was the first to do so successfully.

YouTuber [[AlphaOmegaSin]] owns nearly every RPG on the system and claims he became a fan of the genre because of the PlayStation. Caddicarus focuses almost exclusively on this system as it was his first console growing up.[[File:Sony console 1970.jpg|thumb|A picture of Sony's 1970's prototype console.|267x267px|alt=]]
==Sony's prototype console from the 1970s==
Sony, the creator of the console, originally had plans to release an older game console back in the 1970s (Yes, the same decade the [[Atari 2600]] came out!). Although it was displayed at Tokyo around 2004 or 2005, there is little knowledge about this unnamed prototype. It would use cards to play games and has no controller ports. It's spectulated that instead of using controllers, the console instead has buttons on itself, the red ones being for answers (こたえ/Kotae) and the blue one for proceeding (すすめ/Susume). There is also a wheel on the side of the console that would be used for scrolling vertically. So this supposedly would've been a console designed for quiz games. The console would use motion graphics for the games.<ref>https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sonys-1970s-unreleased-gaming-console-couldve-been-the-first-console-ever.1573195/</ref>
== Good/Decent Examples of PlayStation Games ==
=== First-Party Titles ===
*''[[Ape Escape]]''
*''[[Tekken (1994)|Tekken]]''
*''[[Tekken 2]]''
*''[[Tekken 3]]''
*The ''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash]] [[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back|Bandicoot]]'' [[Crash Bandicoot: Warped|trilogy]]
*''[[Crash Team Racing]]''
*''[[Crash Bash]]''
*The ''[[Spyro the Dragon (video game)|Spyro]] [[Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!|the]] [[Spyro: Year of the Dragon|Dragon]]'' trilogy
*''[[Final Fantasy VII]],'' ''[[Final Fantasy VIII|VIII]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy IX|IX]]''
*''[[Chrono Cross]]''
*''[[Parasite Eve]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Parasite Eve II]]''
*''[[Xenogears]]''
*''[[Gran Turismo (video game)|Gran Turismo]]''
*''[[Gran Turismo 2]]''
=== Third-Party Titles ===
*''[[Twisted Metal (video game)|Twisted Metal]]''
*''[[Twisted Metal 2]]''
*''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''
*''[[Tomb Raider (1996)|Tomb Rider]]''
*''[[Tomb Raider II]]''
*''[[Tomb Raider III]]''
*''[[Bomberman Land]]''
*''[[Mega Man 8]]''
*''[[Doraemon 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni]]''
*''[[Doraemon 3: Makai no Dungeon]]''
*''[[Mega Man Legends]]''
*''[[Lemmings series|Lemmings (and Oh No! More Lemmings)]]
*''[[SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge]]''
*''[[Gokujō Parodius! ~Kako no Eikō o Motomete~]]''
*''[[Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius]]''
*''[[Nicktoons Racing]]''
*''[[Mortal Kombat 3|Mortal Kombat Trilogy]]''
*''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]''
*''[[Klonoa: Door to Phantomile]]''
*''[[Mega Man X4]]''
*''[[Mega Man X5]]''
*''[[Pac-Man World]]''
*''[[Rayman (1995)|Rayman]]''
*''[[Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness]]''
*''[[NFL Blitz]]''

== Bad/Mediocre Examples of PlayStation Games ==
=== First-Party Titles ===
*''[[Twisted Metal III]]''
*''[[Twisted Metal 4]]''
*''[[Crime Crackers]]''
*''[[Motor Toon Grand Prix]]''
*''[[2Xtreme]]''
=== Third-Party Titles ===
*''[[The Great Battle VI]]''
*''[[Hugo: Quest for the Sunstones]]''
*''[[Power Rangers Time Force (PS1)|Power Rangers Time Force]]''
*''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (PS1)|Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]''
*''[[Phix: The Adventure]]''
*''[[Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout]]''
*''[[Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22]]''
*''[[Doraemon: Nobita to Fukkatsu no Hoshi]]''
*''[[Ojamajo Doremi Dokkan: Nijiiro Paradise]]''
*''[[Casper: Friends Around the World]]''
*''[[Mega Man X6]]'' (depending on your point view)
*''[[Hugo and Hugo 2 (PlayStation)|Hugo and Hugo 2]]''
*''[[Fantastic Four (PlayStation)|Fantastic Four]]''
*''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (video game)|Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]''
*''[[NFL Xtreme]]''
*''[[NFL Xtreme 2]]''
*''[[The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure]]''
*''[[Mortal Kombat: Special Forces]]''
*''[[Shadow Man (PS1)|Shadow Man]]'' (the PSX port)

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