It’s 1995 on Christmas day. It’s 8am. You got your playstation. What games did Santy get you?

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  1. It was 1996 for me, Ridge Racer, Rayman, and Crash Bandicoot.

    The playstation was behind the chair in the living room for a month and I never noticed.

  2. I think it was the Christmas of 96 and my parents got me a Mega Drive because it was a fraction of the price, I was delighted with it to be fair even tho all my friends got PlayStations

  3. I had to wait until summer 1997 to get a PlayStation. Resident Evil, Command and Conquer and Mortal Kombat Trilogy were the first games I played on it.

  4. Christmas 97, the value pack including two controllers and a memory card. Two ‘platinum’ games – Tekken 2 and Ridge Racer. Unfortunately there was a storm on Christmas Eve, and there was no electricity until the evening on Christmas Day.

    Those decorations though, hated them as a child, but now put them up every year and everyone has the same nostalgic revulsion reaction when they come over.

  5. Santa didn’t come until summer 1996, and he did take my bass guitar as a trade, but it was worth it. He left Darkstalkers, Doom and Tomb Raider.

  6. Can’t answer as I didn’t exist in 1995 but we still put up those things on the ceiling every Christmas!

  7. Think i still had the Snes or Megadrive or was worrying how many girls was deciding was shifting for the week cause the braincells arent the best at the min so was probably still playing streetfighter 2/turbo or mortal kombat the 1st 3 of them had the playstation as well so would have played crash and tekken as well on top of them

  8. I had to wait until 1998, but it was World Cup 98, Hercules and Chill.

    In 1995 I did get a Mega Drive though. So many Sonic rentals, I was not capable of saving up enough to just buy one of them outright

  9. We still have these at my house, that and an absolute shedload of Disney ornaments from ‘93 that go up every Christmas and predate me and my sister by years – my ma just **really** liked Disney stuff back then

  10. Was the Playstation even available in Ireland in 1995?
    *Checks notes* yep. Apparently it did.

    Anyway like a few people the game I got was Hercules. The Demo 1 with Abes Odyssee, Overboard! Rapid Racer, Kurushi, and that Dinosaur tech demo also get in.

    Later down the line there is the demo with Tomb Raider 2, Coolboarders, Armored Core, Crash Bandicoot 2 and F1 97.

    Amazing time with amazing games that likely have aged poorly bar the soundtracks.

  11. I didn’t get mine until spring of 1998 and I had to go on a waiting list at the local electronics shop for it.

    I think Crash Bandicoot was my first game for it. I still remember picking up Final Fantasy VII in Quinnsworth and having no idea what kind of game I was letting myself in for.

  12. I think it was Spyro the dragon was my first game. All I remember is my dad bought a chipped ps1 from the local black market which let us play a lot of pirated games.

  13. 1997 for us but it was Toca Touring Car Championship for the dad

    and something for the kids, myself (4) and brother (10) – Duke Nukem 3D

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