![]() (I also rented a Nintendo 64 from Blockbuster in 1996, but I didn’t buy one of those until summer 1997. In my mind, Twisted Metal 2 was the system’s killer app - until Symphony of the Night came out, of course. In 1996, my brother’s best friend bought a PlayStation and Twisted Metal 2 (released Oct 1996), and he brought it over to our house to play with us a few times. I remember playing as Hammerhead (the monster truck) and running over everybody repeatedly. (Although that was irrelevant to gameplay, it raised the system’s cool factor in my young tinkerer mind.) ![]() But I did enjoy putting the Loaded CD in my computer’s CD-ROM drive finding that it had a compatible file system on it, and that I could take a peek at the game’s file structure. I had read in a positive review in EGM that Loaded incorporated Gauntlet-like elements - overall, I was not too impressed with its gritty atmosphere or gameplay. I rented a complete PlayStation system from that Blockbuster not long after it came out, along with two games: Loaded and Twisted Metal. I think that two of the three games were Battle Arena Toshinden and Twisted Metal. A few months later, they upgraded to a new kiosk with a trio of PlayStations arranged in an outwardly-facing triangle formation (if that makes any sense), with each running a different playable demo. At first they had a single kiosk playing Battle Arena Toshinden. The first time I remember seeing a PlayStation in person was a demo unit at my local Blockbuster video rental store. Twenty years ago this week, Sony released the PlayStation in the United States - on 9/9/95, in fact.
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