In Japan, the Playstation was released on 1994-12-03, in good time for Christmas; in the rest of the world, in September 1995. It was the first 3D console, and the first major CD-ROM console as well.
Changes in gaming were violent in the mid-90s, on the console side as well as on the computer side, and the differences between the two began to diminish. There had been instances of games that were released on consoles and on computers before, some Ultima games, some Wizardry games, Wolfenstein 3D, SimCity, to name a few examples, but usually with important differences.
On the Playstation, this crossover became quite common; every Final Fantasy game since has been released for the PC as well, and every Tomb Raider game for the PSX.
| 3D Lemmings | Puzzle | 95 | |
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| Myst | Adventure | |
Outside Japan 1996 | |
| Transport Tycoon | strat | |
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| Command & Conquer | RTS | 96 | |
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| Resident Evil 1 | Action | |
Original title Biohazard | |
| Tetris Plus | Tetris | |
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| Duke Nukem 3D | FPS | 97 | |
"Total Meltdown" |
| Final Fantasy VII | RPG | |
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| SimCity 2000 | strat | |
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| Warcraft II | RTS | |
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| Constructor | strat | 98 | |
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| Sentinel Returns | |
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| Resident Evil 2 | Action | |
Original title Biohazard 2 | |
| Chronotrigger | RPG | 99 | |
Re-Release |
| Quake II | FPS | |
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| Railroad Tycoon II | strat | 00 | |
The PSX is a lot harder to emulate than the older consoles. Partly because it uses a ROM, like the Mac, and this ROM is copyrighted. When I first researched this page in November 2001, there were only commercial emulators (using a clean room technique), in February 2003, there were at least two free ones, but only for Windows and Linux:
The Playstation was the first console for which commercial emulators have been made: bleem! and the Virtual Game Station by Connectix. Sony fought these for more than two years in court. In the end, Sony bought the Virtual Game Station.
Sony lost the battles but won the war. In November 2001, the bleem! company closed its doors; the legal fees had killed it. Connectix ported its previously Mac-only product to Windows after a legal victory, but has now discontinued the Virtual Game Station completely.
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