when i bought my PS 1 it was just a snap decision, then i spent hours circulating the area trying to locate one (as it was just after Christmas), i managed to find one at a tiny electrical shop near Catterick (massive army base) - i was lucky cos it was only there due to the person who reserved it hadnt come back to pay for it.

As for the way it fit into my social life, we would go round to a friends house on a saturday as his wife would be out for the day with her friends. A crate of beer would be bought and we would hammer stuff like Gran Tourismo all afternoon, then go out pubbing or clubbing on a night before returning to the ps1 for a couple of hours.

How we ever passed the licence challenges in Gran Tourismo i will never know - i could barely manage to co-ordinate my hands and eyes let alone drive a car on a tv screen.

Good find Willow.
Agree about the 20 something's and disposable income.
My first major purchase at 21 years of age, just after being posted to my first RAF base in London, with my newly acquired 'Solo' credit card? Yep.......A PlayStation one.
I can testify to the after bar sessions til stupid o' clock the following morning.
You know one time as my first psone had gotten older and over used , the discs weren't reading and I ended up chucking it on the floor. I ended up going to town the next morning and buying myself another one like it was a Pont of beer. ! What it was to be a professional, young and single.
Great times 😁

I found this article on the Sega Saturn take a look

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/14/sega-saturn-how-one-decision-destroyed-playstations-greatest-rival

Its a great system for 2D games ! Games were released with a 4MB Ram cart that increased the Ram of the system and the quality of the conversions. Xmen vs Streetfighter ran brilliantly on Saturn with the tag team action working great on PS1 it was heavily watered down as it did not have the ram to fit the animation frames into its memory

Saturn had a total of 4MB of ram or 8 with the cart seems nothing now when phones have 2 or more Gig of Ram !

i remember back in late 1994, i had bought my second car which had a cassette player in it. I spent hours crafting a small box filled with foam cushioning to allow my technics cd player to sit on the seat without skipping during songs. This was then hooked up to the tape deck via a 3.5 mm jack plug in the cd player headphone socket which ran to a tape you put in the tapedeck.

How cool was i cruising round with music on CD? Probably not very, as nowadays i have 20 times the amount of songs, on a 1cm x 1cm USB stick. 


I still think Boom Boxes were **** hot though, in the early 90's i would hang out in the local town on a night listening to some awesome music on an assortment of kick ass equipment.

Released in the amazing 9/9/99 now that is special and easy to remember!

Dreamcast is 15 years old in USA today, such a classic system and EA's Peter Moore pays tribute to one of the BEST systems of ALL time

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/476121/peter-moore-pays-tribute-to-dreamcast-on-its-15th-anniversary-in-the-us/