Does Era have fond memories of the PSP?

[TheMadTitan]

Metal Gear, Star Ocean, Crisis Core, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (which I still suck at), and homebrew. Yes, I have fond memories of it.

Until I got a smartphone large enough and a controller, it was my main source of portable emulation. I've long since ditched the actual system in favor of playing the games via PPSSPP, but it's the system that gave me the third best Metal Gear Solid story (Portable Ops, yeah I said it), so I'll always love that thing.

 

[Philippo]

Hell yeah man, getting one was a journey!
I ended up gettin a Fat from my mother's ex, one with the analogue stick missing the top, it was already shit when I got it but I loved it!

oh jfc, not only the games. I loved the homebrew scene for the PSP.

I remember spending hours setting my own custom themes; the crazier, the better.

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This honestly.
I know piracy is illegal and all, but at the time the homebrew scene actually got me into looking how it works, navigating forums, doing kernel stuff and so on, such a formative experience! And I got to download games that otherwise would not have been accessible for me, either because of budget or region.

 

[Chibs]

Hell yeah, I took it with me everywhere I went!
It was a great console, so many great memories of playing Crisis Core, KH: Birth By Sleep, Dissidia, Persona 3 Portable, etc.

 

[Croc Man]

I miss the psp collectors editions of games, just looked up my persona 3 portable order and it cost £25.

The digital version still costs that in the store.

 

[DanteMenethil]

I hate the undeserved no games reputation the psp had back in the days. Finally people are waking up on how good the library actually was.

 

[Davilmar]

Played my cousins PSP along with my friends back in 2004-2006, and it was amazing. Didn't get one myself until about 2009, but the hacked version was mind-blowing to me.

 

[It’s Time To Go]

Oh and the PSP did remote play with PS3, and could play downloaded PS1 games. Don't remember if it supported all PS3 games, but it was still cool.

 

[NotVeryFriendly]

I had a few games for it which I enjoyed (Chains of Olympus, Patapon, FF7 Crisis Core, and the Metal Gear Solid games), but overall don't have any real memories with the system.

It seemed like quite an outdated design at the time and I never thought there were any games that really made me want to own the system. The best thing about it was getting to play the PS1 games.

 

[fulltimepanda]

How can I forget the machine that had me doing this

Unfortunately I can't remember too many games outside of MH, patapon and crisis core. I remember trying to like Jeanne D'arc. I still probably put in over 2000 hours between Freedom 2, Unite and portable 3rd though. Playing with mates and trying to get on with xlink kai.

 

[Deleted member 23850]

I'm definitely going for replacement now. The PSP is one of my favorite consoles of all time and hands down the best handheld ever.

 

[Snormy]

Falling through the city for the first time was like walking in 3D space for first time in Mario 64. Other than Gravity Rush 2 there hasn't been any other game that quite gets the same feeling. Little did I know it will become one of my favourite Sony IPs.

Edit. I'm an idiot. Mod shame commence!

 

[retrosega]

Love the PSP. Still use a custom firmware 2000 as my goto emulator machine.
I actually own a few PSP's. It's my favourite "classic" handheld.

 

[RankFTW]

Peace Walker was such a great game. I had CFW on my PSP and used it to play all of my SNES backups which was great back then compared to any other solutions.

 

[Temascos]

I got my PSP in 2008 and had plenty of games on there like Half Minute Hero, MGS Peace Walker as well as Ac!d!

Overall it wasn't my favourite system but it was great fun to play, Vita I think is a better system that improved on almost everything but sadly that didn't work out sales wise.

 

[Dan Thunder]

I loved mine. I remember it didn't come out in the UK for ages so I ordered an import model with a copy of Ridge Racer. I remember being blown away by the quality of it. Not only that the machine itself was fantastic. It felt like a really premium piece of electronics, not just a games machine.

 

[toastybanana]

Looking back the only notable stuff I remember is Lumines and later on MGS. Everything else is just a blur to me.

 

[apocat]

Playing Lumines on release day was a revelation. It looked like something from the future. I absolutely loved that machine.

 

[Deleted member 23850]

Looking back the only notable stuff I remember is Lumines and later on MGS. Everything else is just a blur to me.

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Lumines is better than Tetris.

There, I said it.

 

[Buttons]

I loved mine. I was hyped for months leading up to the release, I had the money saved up and ordered a release unit. I remember sitting on the couch and playing PoPoLoCrois and just loving every second of it.
My PSP collection is actually pretty large, the system had so many good games. I also bought a white PSP 2000 down the line and it's still one of my most played consoles I think.

Sadly the batteries in both my PSP bloated and I had to toss them.

 

[icecream]

Falling through the city for the first time was like walking in 3D space for first time in Mario 64. Other than Gravity Rush 2 there hasn't been any other game that quite gets the same feeling. Little did I know it will become one of my favourite Sony IPs.

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Isn't Gravity Rush on Vita, not PSP.

 

[Kunka Kid]

I was much more of a DS guy, and still am, but the PSP had a TON of awesome games when you look back on it.

And playing games like SOCOM online with friends on a handheld was mind blowing at the time.

 

[remanutd]

You forgot to add Motorstorm Arctic Edge.

 

[Joltik]

I really loved the PSP. Even though I generally used it as a game machine, it was my main portable music/comic/video/net browser prior to getting an iPad Touch several years later.

Too bad it's hard to get a decent battery for it.

 

[Snormy]

Isn't Gravity Rush on Vita, not PSP.

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You know what you are right. My bad. I went from PSP straight into the vita. Guess my PSP highlight was Tactics Ogre and MHFU. So many hours of commutes flew by playing those.

 

[Pyro]

I beat God of War: Chains of Olympus so many times on there. Also had a UMD copy of Borat lol.

 

[newmoneytrash]

I had a DS Lite and a healthy amount of games but my house got broken into and someone stole the DS but left the majority of the games, so I took them to EB and traded them in and got a used PSP with Crisis Core. It was the only PSP game I ever played and kind of forgot. I moved to a house that was very much a party house where we would just have open house parties every week and I guess at some point someone stole it because I just never saw it again.

Great console

 

[BKLorenzo]

What a sexy piece of hardware...and with a great list of games!

Mine still works perfectly and I use it to play Yu-Gi-Oh :)

 

[MrChillaxx]

Loved the console to death, too many underrated games unfortunately and the rampant piracy destroyed its chances of everlasting glory. I clocked over 2000h on MHFU+Portable3rd alone, playing with friends on the AdHoc app on PS3.

Lots of quirky games like Patapon, then you had the "serious business" games like Peace Walker, the Megaman and Ghouls n Ghosts.... the VITA could've been *THE definitive* handheld (for it's time) if only Sony was smart enough to build on the PSP strenghts... but alas.

 

[g-m1n1]

With PS3 remote play, listening to music, watching movies, etc. Some great games that were way too much criticised because they didn't look as good as PS3.

Damn the PSP was an incredible device, in many ways more futuristic than my actual Switch.