Was anyone here alive and purchasing games in the Mid 90s to witness the change of buying cartridges to buying Playstation discs?

I was. We used to buy cartridges and then we started buying discs

>>11879802 (OP)
You know everyone here is like 40 right?

In a number of less developed countries, the whole reason for buying a PlayStation in the first place was because you knew someone who knew someone who could sell you a bootleg copy of Tekken 2 for cheap

>>11879910
Yeah, but how did it change your habits?
Depending on the time and place you could get 4 disc based games for the price of one cartridge.
And the format of CDs not requiring approval from a central authority like Nintendo or Sega meant a lot of new games were entering into the market you didn't have access to before on catridge consoles

i got my ps one for christmas in 2000, when i was 15. so there was already a five year catalogue for me to look through for games, and i got some good stuff cheap used.

>>11879802 (OP)
yes, i had a snes for several years before i got a ps1 in '97.

No. I stuck with Nintendo.

>>11879970
What was your favorite SNES game
What was your favorite PS1 game?

>>11879997
I'm an rpgfag, so Lufia 2 and Xenogears.

I miss the female protagonists of the PS1 era

Sure. I just moved from buying pirated cartridges to buying pirated PlayStation discs — just like I had moved from buying 3.5-inch disks to buying PC CDs two years earlier.

>>11879802 (OP)
At first it felt lame because CDs were more flimsy and fragile than carts and added load times. But the PS1 games were sooooooooooo much better than N64 that I quickly accepted it.

>>11879802 (OP)
How's it any different from switching from switching from optical media to (500GB) downloads on consoles?

>>11879928
PS1 games were never cheap enough that you could buy 4 for the cost of an N64 game. They retailed for $10-20 bucks cheaper than a cartridge.

I remember getting Gran Turismo for the equivalent of 20 bucks when GT2 had just released for 60

>>11879802 (OP)
yup. what do you want to know?

>>11879802 (OP)
Partially but in christmas 1993 it felt like there were dozens of amazing cartridge games, 1994 much less games but some really good ones, 1995 3 really awesome cart games and the rest being shovelware.
Its why people wanted to move onto ps1 so much, ok you can bring up some hidden gems but people only saw what was in the catalog and not stuff like Chronotrigger. Its like saying actually Sega CD has some pretty good games but really the catalogues just had fmw games.
Just reading the mags from about 1994 the attitude is that things are getting pretty stale with all these crap licensed games.

>>11879802 (OP)
PC's had cd-rom and music was switching over to cd's so you were probably already familiar with the format. It was a little jarring to go from carts which can be handled quite roughly to cd's which are fragile. It was a good feeling though, it felt like video games were growing up and becoming more serious and not so child proof.

Yes, I am that old. Putting the disk in my cd player and playing the soundtrack or secret message was the best. Zoomies will never understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBVDVr_IDc

it was just changing from one machine to other it was a big deal but not A HUGE deal

>>11879802 (OP)
yes

>>11879802 (OP)
I was probably intruiged that you could take the CD out when you were playing Ridge Racer and the game still worked. Although not really because I had a PC and had installed stuff from CDs before 1995.

>>11880391
Greatest Hits were $20 each and some N64 games went all the way up to 70 or 80 dollars.

>>11880469
i remember having an audio cd that had like 99 blank tracks when played in a ps1. mightve been tool's aenima

>>11880453
What does Redbook audio mean?

>>11881325
Audio that can be played in any standard CD player.

>>11879802 (OP)
No, we were a PC only household. We went from floppies to CDs. Someone bought a CD burner at the company where my dad worked and they all made a CD filled to the edge with their pirated enterprise applications.

>>11879910
This. I was there too and this is exactly how it went down, except for N64 owners who I've considered to be outside the fold of the gaming community ever since.
>>11879928
>Yeah, but how did it change your habits?
We stopped blowing on games and started wiping them with the edge of our shirts.

>>11881396
Is that when you started blowing dudes as well?

>>11881397
It was when you were in the womb and your mother contracted syphilis resulting in permanent brain damage.

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>>11879393

>>11879802 (OP)
who were these people buying playstation discs? all we did was rent them from blockbuster and make copies

Yep. I started with CD-ROM games on PC in mid 94.
Hated loading times, I realized cartridges were the superior format back then.
Time only cemented this truth even further when the novelty of FMVs wore off.

ps1 games felt extra special at the time because of the long boxes. it just felt so different and new. loading sucked but oh well. snes to ps1 was probably the most substantial leap. ps2 to present has been diminishing returns of the same thing

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>>11884924
Based

>>11879928
One thing that changed
Cartridges for games were like VHS tapes for movies - You didn't need the case. If you lost the case it meant nothing, the sturdy plastic box could sit next to the console on the floor or in a plastic tub by itself. Same with music tapes.

Discs got scratched up unless you were careful, everyone lost a few good discs through damage. So people bought CD wallets or put two discs in the same case to protect them
I had some good spray for cleaning discs at one point, because you got your finger grease on them. I also had a laser lens cleaning kit that was a special CD with a tiny brush on it for cleaning the Playstation itself

Game shops had disc buffers that could get minor scratches out, you could pay some change for them to do that for you quickly, and it means 2nd hand games got cleaned up and were pretty reliably playable

Discs were much better in terms of storing data but they were much more delicate

>>11879924
We had that stuff going on in the developed countries too

>>11879802 (OP)
Yes.
What a fucking stupid question.
>>11879928
Why not ask what you really want to know on the OP, is this some zoomer disease where you can’t operate properly?

>>11879802 (OP)
The jewel cases were trash and too prone to cracking. The Sega Genesis game cases were much better. Although it was better than Nintendo who just gave you cardboard. It was very nice when PS2 came around and they started using cases that felt more like the Genesis but thinner.

>>11879924
People from developed countries also pirate a lot.

>>11886037
No. No one in a developed country has ever pirated anything. And I don't care about whatever metric or stat you have that claims otherwise.

>>11879802 (OP)
I was.

>>11879802 (OP)
What the hell is with all the threads by gen z kids asking questions like we're their grandpa?

>>11879924
Being able to play imports is what sold me on buying a modchip. The games themselves were only sold at one store around here for 2-3x what it cost, while they also ironically also rented said games. So I did just that and copied a bunch of imports I wanted to play.

>>11879802 (OP)
I remember first getting my SNES from Kiddie City, but had to buy the edition without Super Mario World, because the only edition they had of that was a return. And they said if it didn't work I couldn't refund it. So my first game was Final Fight and controller was the Asciipad turbo controller. It was worth it.

>>11886510
I'm just glad when they take an interest in what our generation has to say.

>>11886035
>when PS2 came around and they started using cases that felt more like the Genesis but thinner.
They are regular DVD cases

>>11879802 (OP)
Holy fuck 70 fucking dollars for home console Mortal Kombat and licensed apehoop game #43723. What a fucking rip off.

>>11886042
Do you own any video game magazines from that era?

>>11879802 (OP)
I'm from the 1900s and I was there. Playstation was not the first for videogames on discs. There was already home computers and both the PC-Engine and Sega MegaCD pushing the multimedia "advantages" of the CD-ROM format. I even remember going to a trade show, entering the wrong building and Phillips had rows of CDi machines showing off various games and software. In those days I associated the CD-ROM format for better music, voices, and more amazing pixel art cutscenes. Loading times may be bad for some titles, but for the ones I played, it was nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be.

>>11888998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TurboGrafx-16_games
There was 389 TurboCD games (45 released in America)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_CD_games
Sega MegaCD had 207 games, with 62 unavailable in America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_(console)_games_(A%E2%80%93L)
While the Playstation had 4074
And they sold many times more as the console had a wider install base.
It's not that the playstation was the first video games on discs, it just hit the mass market early on

>>11886014
>>11886510
whats with the bitter losers in this thread lol, imagine gatekeeping an activity for kids while you're in your 40s - why are you so angry? Are only boomers and millenials allowed to be manchildren? Those pesky zoomies gotta work, no fun allowed? Yeah you look real mature right now Unc

>>11879802 (OP)
I was alive, but a kid. I remember owning more playstation games than N64 games, and only when I was older did I realize why. PS1 games were cheaper.

>>11879802 (OP)
It happened pretty gradually from what I remember so it wasn't like a big sudden switch. I saw discs a lot on PC first when I was younger, so I was used to them by the time consoles and portable CD players began using them.

>>11889635
I'm old and I honestly don't know why he does that, I guess he thinkgs it's "le epic trolling", either that or he's just being the gaming equivalent of the disgruntled angry old man yelling at kids, I guess he has nothing better to do

>>11889641
I will say though the first disc console I saw/played on was a Sega Saturn, that did feel pretty cool coming from SNES and N64 at the time.

>>11880225
like the thing about it is
it's not even something to think about, they're just 'hot' and in good games

>>11886037
I saw modchip piracy but it was usually when the systems were getting 2-3 years past their soft finish and it was almost like abandonware piracy. Didn't feel like anyone would get too mad at you for playing a burned copy of Resident Evil 3 in 2003.

>>11879802 (OP)
I was. What got me noticing discs was PC gaming magazines came out with game demos first. Then Sony a console started doing it too. That was different than having to rent every last game you wanted to try. Plus the prices where the PS1 games were noticably cheaper than the Nintendo ones, and disc games were noticably longer than cart games.

Then FF7 and TR2 came out, and fuck everything else Sony won the console war.

>>11879802 (OP)
>>11879928
It was the same thing but discs were 5-10 dollars cheaper. Those "4 for the price of one" games were all shovel ware. PlayStation had it's "greatest hits" collection, but again those were older games and you could find N64 games from the same time frame at 5 or 10 dollars more. The only real difference was demo discs in video game magazines. Playing through the Dollet mission with Leviathan and Selphie was cash, not to mention the Tony hawk 2 demo that had the best course and music on it which meant if you had the demo you didn't needed to buy the game. I may be misremembering because those were my most played demos but those may have even been on the same disc

>>11879997
>Rpg
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
>Action
Castlevania X
MegaMan Legends 2

>>11879802 (OP)
>Was anyone here alive and purchasing games in the Mid 90s
It's within living memory, like what the fuck is wrong with you zoomers?

>>11880816
>Mega drive
As a PALfag looking back with the benefit of being able to play games at 60hz now, which would you say was the better experience relatively speaking? I would imagine the PSX since most games didn't run at 60fps anyways, but still I'm curious

>>11891034
>Prices were not THAT cheaper on PS1 GAIS

Stop. posting. Canadian prices.

Games sold overall much cheaper on PS1 and we had MORE MONEY and prices were lower on the cost of living

>>11881882
When the PS2 came out I chopped a hole in the top to run burned games because the system only checks for copy protection when you close the tray, so you could just load up a game shark, swap the discs from the top and pirate away with no modchip

>>11891057
>Canadian prices
What schizophrenia is this? Just look at any magazine from the time and you'll see that on average new (quality, not shovel ware) games were 5-10 bucks cheaper than their N64 counterparts.

>>11879802 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhf8sh1_S4&list=RDYRhf8sh1_S4&start_radio=1

>>11881240
This is what I remember. Even non Greatest Hits games that were out for a year hovered around 20-30. It was easy to get a PS1 collection going whereas N64 games maintained their price right until the end of the console. I had about 10 N64 games and around 100 PS1 games by the end of that generation.

>>11879802 (OP)
fuck imagine hoarding pristine SNES controllers for $15