Is PSX Worth Collecting For?

[Hitachi]

/\ ditto. I posted the youtube video so maybe people would watch it and understand the difference between psx and ps1.

[high voltage]

I have actually built quite an extensive PSX game and system collection without ever intending to. The games and spare systems/controllers can be had all the time at thrifts all around me.

 

So, I guess I am wondering if anyone collects large quantities of PSX stuff, and if there will be any future value in any of it. Some of it seems so common, I am wondering if the market is simply over-saturated.

 

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

 

Moving on, currently there's not a lot of value in collecting for it but there could be in the future.

 

But that PSX came much later.

PSX established itself as the PlayStation abbreviation from very early on, here's even a magazine with that title:

 

Anyway, a revolutionary console which is well worth collecting for. The rare titles are already appearing.

Edited August 22, 2010 by high voltage

[Video]

I think PSX came about when the PSOne was released, and you needed a means of telling which one you were talking about. But plenty of people, including Sony, referred to the Playstation as the PSX....and I doubt you could consider the ones that make the damn thing 'wrong'.

[ninjarabbit]

Good luck finding games that aren't completely scratched up and PS1 drives do eventually wear out and they wearn't really built to last to begin with.

 

I'd actually say that the N64 is a better system to collect for. Games are made out of carts so the games should be playable, N64s are much more durable than PS1s, and it has a smaller and generally less expensive library so getting a full collection will be easier. The main issue you'll have with the N64 are that the controllers will wear out faster than a PS1 controller.

[CGQuarterly]

 

"PSX" has been the 3-letter designation for the Playstation since well before the "PSX" Playstation 2 existed. IGN's website for the original Playstation (which was around before the PS2 was ever announced) was, and still is, psx.ign.com.

 

Chris

[endrien]

 

"PSX" has been the 3-letter designation for the Playstation since well before the "PSX" Playstation 2 existed. IGN's website for the original Playstation (which was around before the PS2 was ever announced) was, and still is, psx.ign.com.

 

Chris

Regardless it's not the systems name, and there is a system with that name which completely throws people off when someone mentions psx as you don't know which they are referring to.

[GregadetH]

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

 

 

You know what drives me nuts? When people site Wikipedia as their source for factual information.

Edited August 23, 2010 by GregadetH

[christianscott27]

I'm gonna go with "no". Something about how PS1 stuff ages poorly and tends to be beat up. Then there are things like the greatest hits reissues that mess up the collecting, never mind the huge size of the library itself. I logged many hours on the console back in the day, really loved it, but it has zero collecting appeal for me. When I see a game in the wild its always so beat up, just the jewel cases alone would be a chore. I'm not a cart purist either, I have extensive collections for the Saturn, Sega CD, 3Do etc but I draw the line at PS1. Its like do I really wanna be spending money on some sports game with blockbuster tags on it?

 

Perhaps a limited focus collection like all of a certain publisher or genre maybe but the whole package, nah.

[GregadetH]

I'm gonna go with "no". Something about how PS1 stuff ages poorly and tends to be beat up. Then there are things like the greatest hits reissues that mess up the collecting, never mind the huge size of the library itself. I logged many hours on the console back in the day, really loved it, but it has zero collecting appeal for me. When I see a game in the wild its always so beat up, just the jewel cases alone would be a chore. I'm not a cart purist either, I have extensive collections for the Saturn, Sega CD, 3Do etc but I draw the line at PS1. Its like do I really wanna be spending money on some sports game with blockbuster tags on it?

 

Perhaps a limited focus collection like all of a certain publisher or genre maybe but the whole package, nah.

 

 

My thoughts exactly.

[Lendorien]

The only thing I'm interested in collecting for the PS1 is RPGs. The PS1 was sort of the golden age for JRPGs. The PS2 has a lot too, but there were some outstanding PS1 titles.

 

But I can certainly see the appeal. PS1 games are fairly cheap and easy to find right now. I will say I avoid sports games for ALL consoles. I'm to a completist so I don't care. Do I really need all 8 years of Madden? or NBA basketball? Nope.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Lendorien

[endrien]

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

 

 

You know what drives me nuts? When people site Wikipedia as their source for factual information.

 

I wasn't linking factual information, I was showing what a PSX is. Just so happens wikipedia has some pictures of it.

Isn't that convenient?

[CGQuarterly]

 

"PSX" has been the 3-letter designation for the Playstation since well before the "PSX" Playstation 2 existed. IGN's website for the original Playstation (which was around before the PS2 was ever announced) was, and still is, psx.ign.com.

 

Chris

Regardless it's not the systems name, and there is a system with that name which completely throws people off when someone mentions psx as you don't know which they are referring to.

 

You seem like the type who has to go out of his way to correct people when they say "Ninja GAY-den" instead of "Ninja guy-DEN".

 

I'm sorry that the Playstation shares a moniker with an obscure, Japanese-only Playstation 2 variant. Hopefully you won't have *too* much trouble figuring out which one people are referring to when they talk about PSX games. If you do, maybe you should consider a less intellectually taxing hobby, like coloring. Of course, then you'd probably just get pissed when someone referred to the "burnt sienna" crayon as "brown".

[endrien]

 

"PSX" has been the 3-letter designation for the Playstation since well before the "PSX" Playstation 2 existed. IGN's website for the original Playstation (which was around before the PS2 was ever announced) was, and still is, psx.ign.com.

 

Chris

Regardless it's not the systems name, and there is a system with that name which completely throws people off when someone mentions psx as you don't know which they are referring to.

 

You seem like the type who has to go out of his way to correct people when they say "Ninja GAY-den" instead of "Ninja guy-DEN".

 

I'm sorry that the Playstation shares a moniker with an obscure, Japanese-only Playstation 2 variant. Hopefully you won't have *too* much trouble figuring out which one people are referring to when they talk about PSX games. If you do, maybe you should consider a less intellectually taxing hobby, like coloring. Of course, then you'd probably just get pissed when someone referred to the "burnt sienna" crayon as "brown".

 

There's no need to be a dick. I could care less if someone pronounces a game wrong. But if there's a system that's clearly labeled, and another system that's also clearly labeled, why give it the wrong name?

[ls650]

Good grief.

[akator]

"PS" for PlayStation, and "X" because X is totally cool. You know, like the X games, Generation X, all of the awesome cool X stuff from the 90s. When it actually mattered and the original PlayStation was relevant, the cool gaming kids (those journalists, programmers, and industry insiders) used the PSX acronym. It was started by Sony during development and stuck. If you were a cool kid, or wanted to sound like one, you accepted and used the term PSX.

 

These days, some of us remember the term PSX and laugh about the silliness of 90s X-ness. We don't throw tantrums because a later console was actually called PSX, since after all, the Japanese PSX console was released after the X-coolness of the 90s, and based on a PS2 which makes even less sense. PS2 + DVR = PSX? That's just retarded.

 

The real PSX, not the bastard PS2/DVR joke, is definitely worth collecting for.

 

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm still as awesomely X as I was in the 90s and I'm going to keep calling it PSX no matter how many conformists keep telling me not to.

 

The following message is intended only for those who DO NOT get upset when seeing the PlayStation referred to as the PSX.

 

 

PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX PSX

 

I bet someone read it anyway and his head exploded...

 

Edited August 23, 2010 by akator

[GregadetH]

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

 

 

You know what drives me nuts? When people site Wikipedia as their source for factual information.

 

I wasn't linking factual information, I was showing what a PSX is. Just so happens wikipedia has some pictures of it.

Isn't that convenient?

 

Funny. I use Google image search, just like a billion other people. How's that for convenience?

Edited August 23, 2010 by GregadetH

[Video]

Sorry, double post

Edited August 23, 2010 by Video

[Video]

 

 

 

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I bet someone read it anyway and his head exploded...

 

 

To many truths.

 

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

 

 

You know what drives me nuts? When people site Wikipedia as their source for factual information.

 

I wasn't linking factual information, I was showing what a PSX is. Just so happens wikipedia has some pictures of it.

Isn't that convenient?

 

Funny. I use Google image search, just like a billion other people. How's that for convenience?

What a dull looking piece of shit. And conveniently, if you type in PSX into google image search, they still show the traditional PSX within the first page of photo's.....providing you don't look for a specific size image (try large, just for kicks )

Edited August 23, 2010 by Video

[mattyg]

It's important to know the difference for a few reasons:

 

Firstly: The tension between Sony US and Sony Japan at the time was important from an historical point of view and the arguments over what the playstation was to be called were discussed in length by interviews Edge magazine did in their anniversary edition 18 months ago.

 

Secondly: western journos at the time shared Sony US's belief that the name playstation was" too feminine" and with no regard for its actual name continued to call it PSX despite it being wrong. It worked well for a number of plublications that aimed their patronage at a "hip" demographic. It also meant that they could use the term without legally having to pay Sony any royalties.

 

Thirdly: If I ordered and payed a substantial sum for a PSX and what I got was a "Playstation" I would be royally pissed off.

[Austin]

I think I've said this here before, but I thought it was possible that one reason they dubbed it the PSX was due to the design of the old PlayStation logo, where the P and the S cross like an X. Of course, I'm probably looking into it too deep and any of the above theories are more-likely to be correct.

[MagitekAngel]

I don't care what any of you call it. I only collect what I play, and i only play what's fun, and I doubt anybody will argue that there's a goddamn lot of fun games for playstation. So for me, it's a system worth collecting for. And for those of you for whom it comes down to dollars and cents, you're right: most playstation stuff isn't well preserved... So doesn't that mean that 10-20 years down the road, what few playstation games that are still left in good condition will begin to accumulate value?

[tz101]

I'm gonna go with "no". Something about how PS1 stuff ages poorly and tends to be beat up. Then there are things like the greatest hits reissues that mess up the collecting, never mind the huge size of the library itself. I logged many hours on the console back in the day, really loved it, but it has zero collecting appeal for me. When I see a game in the wild its always so beat up, just the jewel cases alone would be a chore. I'm not a cart purist either, I have extensive collections for the Saturn, Sega CD, 3Do etc but I draw the line at PS1. Its like do I really wanna be spending money on some sports game with blockbuster tags on it?

 

Perhaps a limited focus collection like all of a certain publisher or genre maybe but the whole package, nah.

 

There is not too much to do in order to get used PSX games in like-new condition. Many of the "beat up" ones I come across are mainly the jewel case in bad shape. Often, the game disc is nearly pristine condition. My solution: I buy 10-packs of replacement old-style CD jewel cases at K mart or Meijer (Wal Mart only sells the newer slim cases), and, presto, my PSX games are in new condition. Most of the manuals are in nice condition because the original user never bothered to remove it from the front cover.

 

 

I'm gonna go with "no". Something about how PS1 stuff ages poorly and tends to be beat up. Then there are things like the greatest hits reissues that mess up the collecting, never mind the huge size of the library itself. I logged many hours on the console back in the day, really loved it, but it has zero collecting appeal for me. When I see a game in the wild its always so beat up, just the jewel cases alone would be a chore. I'm not a cart purist either, I have extensive collections for the Saturn, Sega CD, 3Do etc but I draw the line at PS1. Its like do I really wanna be spending money on some sports game with blockbuster tags on it?

 

Perhaps a limited focus collection like all of a certain publisher or genre maybe but the whole package, nah.

 

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

As for Blockbuster tags, a razor scraper and some Goo Gone work wonders.

 

 

I don't care what any of you call it. I only collect what I play, and i only play what's fun, and I doubt anybody will argue that there's a goddamn lot of fun games for playstation. So for me, it's a system worth collecting for. And for those of you for whom it comes down to dollars and cents, you're right: most playstation stuff isn't well preserved... So doesn't that mean that 10-20 years down the road, what few playstation games that are still left in good condition will begin to accumulate value?

 

Agreed. There are so many fun games for the system, how can a person go wrong?

[Classic Pac]

I say if you love it...play it

[cimerians]

It's important to know the difference for a few reasons:

 

Firstly: The tension between Sony US and Sony Japan at the time was important from an historical point of view and the arguments over what the playstation was to be called were discussed in length by interviews Edge magazine did in their anniversary edition 18 months ago.

 

Secondly: western journos at the time shared Sony US's belief that the name playstation was" too feminine" and with no regard for its actual name continued to call it PSX despite it being wrong. It worked well for a number of plublications that aimed their patronage at a "hip" demographic. It also meant that they could use the term without legally having to pay Sony any royalties.

 

Thirdly: If I ordered and payed a substantial sum for a PSX and what I got was a "Playstation" I would be royally pissed off.

 

This is exactly what happened.

 

I used to buy PSM magazine from the first issues in 1997 and they were calling the Playstation "PSX". The term PS1 or PSONE did not exist. IGN jumped on the bandwagon and called it PSX as well. I also always refered to the original Playstation as PSX until the PS2\PSone machines came out.

 

If your an RPG fan or if you want the original Metal Gear Solids, Resident Evils and offbeat Square titles....you got lots of goodies to collect.