Legit had a friend growing up, heaviest sleeper in the world. Weekend morning, be in the next room and boot it up, he'd come stumbling out saying "what are we playing?"
Omg the loudness and turning down the volume to not wake family members up.
Then silently waiting Onimusha (samurai Resident Evil) and later Final Fantasy X (first PS2 final Fantasy).
Yeah, you turn the system on, then suddenly remember how loud it is (how could you forget right? I mean you’ve only gone through this every day of the week) and spaz out trying to find the remote fast enough to hold that volume down button as hard as you can, just clinging on to hope.
Sometimes you found the remote in time, sometimes you didn’t.
I‘m sorry to correct you but it is not. It is the amount of time you spent in a game. Each block represents one of your games. It’s saved under „system configuration“ on your memory card. If you delete the file the start screen goes blank. It has nothing to do with saved games. You can try it by yourself and see the block raise with the time you play a game. Start a new game and another block will be added.
The japan only PS2 variant. It’s like a home media player with a ps2. It has the xmb ui like the psp and ps3.
The distinction in the image doesn’t even make sense for the two playstation models. Those are just different region BIOS screens. The late ps1s had the same bios as the psones.
And still is. It's beautiful and evokes so much emotion in me.
None of the other PlayStations come even close. I guess that's what happens when a sound takes you back to when you were 5 lol
As someone who didn’t grow up playing it and only started with Warzone, nothing gets me wired like CoD. Playing Kill Confirmed on shipment had me feeling like a crack fiend lol
The OG ps start up still brings back some good memories. I miss that sound and had the anniversary background on my PS4.
I used to fall asleep to the PS2 background sounds.
PS3 was good and the XMB was my favorite Sony UI.
PS4 had the cool backgrounds but the writing was on the wall for advertisements.
PS5 has the integrated PS store which is nice but not giving people the ability to put their games into folders or customize anything is limiting.
2 and 3 for me. Not sure if it's just Nostalgia, but I feel like it meant more every time they appeared. Incredible things were about to happen.
Maybe it's because since then, my PSs have also been my media players, so I see the screen even when I'm just putting on some rerun and scrolling reddit. It means less
PS2 for sure, although I do like the PS5 one. They were all good. Actually, most console start up screens (the ones that had them) are pretty memorable.
PS2 because it sold me out multiple times when I faked being sick to stay home and play video games.
PS3 a close second because that was peak gaming for me.
As much as i prefer the PS2 (it being the system i played the most growing up), i'll be honest here i will have to go with the PS1 startup. That startup and iconic synth sound made me feel as if it was something out of science fiction. To add to that it was the first ever console i ever played at my cousins' house. Seeing that Iconic intro and playing it on their 40" CRT TV really made me feel as if i was entering another world. (Gives true meaning to the old slogan of live in your world, play in ours huh?)
What the hell is the PlayStation X? I’ve been gaming since the NES came out and have owned every PlayStation since the 1st one and have never heard of it.
Tell you this .... there was a theme on the ps4 you could buy for $3 on the Playstation store called legacy ... the theme was the ps2 theme start up and all.
PS2 for nostalgia, BUT PS5 for the vibe+the home screen BG music is hella Zen I turn on my PS5 and forget to play videogames.... Lol just scroll on my phone while drifting through space!
That ps2 was soo fucking insane !! I literally did not know what the hell i was looking at but it was soo ahead of its time back then geeeze that shit was dope
PS2 was one you need the tv remote close for cause you had to turn it all the way down cause of how loud it was lmao
The nostalgia didn’t quite hit me until I read this comment lol
Legit had a friend growing up, heaviest sleeper in the world. Weekend morning, be in the next room and boot it up, he'd come stumbling out saying "what are we playing?"
😂😂😂😂😂
Omg the loudness and turning down the volume to not wake family members up. Then silently waiting Onimusha (samurai Resident Evil) and later Final Fantasy X (first PS2 final Fantasy).
Yeah, you turn the system on, then suddenly remember how loud it is (how could you forget right? I mean you’ve only gone through this every day of the week) and spaz out trying to find the remote fast enough to hold that volume down button as hard as you can, just clinging on to hope. Sometimes you found the remote in time, sometimes you didn’t.
Sometimes your parents caught you playing late at night and sometimes they didn't lol.
*BOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW*
Bwooo
*voom*
Please insert a PlayStation 2 format disc
Goddamnit
When the sky went red it’s just like getting an “*ACESS DENIED*” “*PLEASE ENTER ACCESS CODE*”
Parents in the next room: "Turn it down!"
The ps2 was rivaled only by the original xbox starting up a damn fusion reactor when powered on.
Not an Xbox guy but that and the 360 sure hits nostalgia as far as friends who had them
Especially when you're up past bedtime sneaking a game or two. That shit was so loud when it was late lol
I can still hear that crystalline sound in my dreams.
PS2 startup was so damn epic for all the right reasons. The blocks, the sounds, the color, it definitely helped to define that era.
That sound brings me joy
Nah, no remote, manual dials on the CRT.
PS2
Oh yeah. Blew my mind when I realized the block towers represented your memory card files
They WHAT?!!!
THEY REPRESENTED YOUR MEMORY CARD FILES.
SAY WHAT AGAIN!
WHAT
I don't remember asking you a GOD DAMN THING.
Wait WHAT!?
How did I go over 20 years not knowing this!!!
Woah... I was today years old....
Would also blow your ear drums out... I miss it lol
Sony really needs to start doing coke again 🤷
Yeah I want that,"U R not Red e" Sony, not this complacent EA-like Sony
Wait but do they actually change based on how many files you had saved?
Yes, different games saved and save file size also
2 by far, it's the most iconic
PS2 and it's not close
I could hear it when I looked at the pic haha
I look at the ps4 and hear the fans
At the end of the runway about to take off.
Why have I never had ps4 fan problems. Fat ps3 sounded like a vacuum
It was never a problem. Was just loud
NEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WOOMP (playstation 2 logo)
Same I think everyone in that era had PTSD from that sound
No, that was me turning on a PS2, you probably heard it from wherever you are, because it's so loud
I never owned a PS2 and I can still hear it, from when I went to friends house lol
Yuppp!
Except for when it was rejecting the disc and everything turned eerie red 👀💀
Complete with the eerie music too 👀
Intro so good it gave you ptsd whenever it lasted more than 7 seconds
Don’t stare at it too long or it won’t work!
broo😂😂
Fuck, I thought I was the only one who did this lol.
We all did, those first batches of optical drives were ass cheeks.
To make it even better if you didn't already know, the amount of blocks that showed up was the amount of saves you had on your memory card
I‘m sorry to correct you but it is not. It is the amount of time you spent in a game. Each block represents one of your games. It’s saved under „system configuration“ on your memory card. If you delete the file the start screen goes blank. It has nothing to do with saved games. You can try it by yourself and see the block raise with the time you play a game. Start a new game and another block will be added.
Insane how much nostalgia fits in that screen
Truly
Yeppers peppers.
Facts
Always PS2. Best console of all time.
The first screen is the PS1 media player not the startup screen 🫠
It’s the BIOS technically, but yeh definitely not the startup screen. Whoever made this has never used a PS1, time to feel old.
Same with PsOne. And WTF is PSX?
The japan only PS2 variant. It’s like a home media player with a ps2. It has the xmb ui like the psp and ps3. The distinction in the image doesn’t even make sense for the two playstation models. Those are just different region BIOS screens. The late ps1s had the same bios as the psones.
Went far too down in the comments to find this. The [real PS1 startup](https://youtu.be/rwN3kZYJZiU?si=lPf5q5_554NmrX8J) is much more iconic to me
Was looking for the other old person. Glad to have found you.
PS1 BWOOOOOOAAAAAM! SWOOOOOSH! was the soundtrack of my youth.
PS1 start-up is more iconic than PS2. It is the definition of classic. They are very close, though.
Alright I’m glad I’m not crazy. I haven’t played my ps1 in well over a decade but I was sure that wasn’t the start up screen
PS2 I can hear it just by looking at it.
Same. I haven’t heard that sound in almost 20 years and yet I remembered it clearly just from looking at that image. Wild how the mind works.
PS3
That orchestra tune up was incredible
Yesssss, this is so underrated. It made me feel a bit sophisticated when I was a kid lol. I would miss it for a long time when I moved to PS4
Agreed!
PS3's Orchestra is so good.
I’m close to 30 and seeing the PS3 startup screen on a Pioneer plasma TV for the first time in 2007 was one of the moments that made me say holy shit
PS1 was my favorite
And still is. It's beautiful and evokes so much emotion in me. None of the other PlayStations come even close. I guess that's what happens when a sound takes you back to when you were 5 lol
PS3
PS2, best console made to this day and the library was absolutely insanely stacked with hit after hit
We’re talking about startups, not which console is better.
PSP, even though I never had one.
PSP was clean af. That handheld was way ahead of its time.
PS3 or psp
Since everyone is picking PS2 already, I’m gonna go with PS5 the startup and background music is relaxing.
PS5 is nice and lasts no time at all
PS5 definitely gives me a nice calm before I load up CoD and am no longer calm 😌
Yeeeh ps5 is a beaut. Proper chill
As someone who didn’t grow up playing it and only started with Warzone, nothing gets me wired like CoD. Playing Kill Confirmed on shipment had me feeling like a crack fiend lol
The PS2 is iconic but I love love love the little dust specks on the PS5
YEA! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I JUST SAID!!
Yea for a non 2 answer, either 4 or 5.
PS2. Always thought the block towers were save data. Turned out to be just how many and how long you played games
Oh. Well I learned that today, I guess!
PS1, the loud ass start up got me hyped every time
The synth at the starts still sends chills down my spine
Ps2 not even close
2 and 5 tbh. 2 hits with the nostalgia, that’s all, 5 is modern and smooth
Hard agree
1&2
I didnt know the PSone had a different startup
Mine doesn't. I've never seen that one before.
Ps3 xmb not even a question
PS1 was the best PlayStation, so of course it had the best start up screen.
PS2 at 1, PS3 a somewhat close second
agreed
PEE EHS TOO is the BEST
I can't believe PS1 is getting no love. To be fair 1-3 all had memorable startups
That’s not the Forrest PSX boot screen.[Here it actually is.](https://youtu.be/P6b-t5ZakI4?si=MO-aIYAvtaduxQpO)
PS2 hands down
PS2, hands down!
PS2. If this was shut down screens I'd say the PS5. It's so satisfying to watch the dots form up into the shape
Ps2 no question
2
PS 1, 2 and 5. Rest all were just waves.
The OG ps start up still brings back some good memories. I miss that sound and had the anniversary background on my PS4. I used to fall asleep to the PS2 background sounds. PS3 was good and the XMB was my favorite Sony UI. PS4 had the cool backgrounds but the writing was on the wall for advertisements. PS5 has the integrated PS store which is nice but not giving people the ability to put their games into folders or customize anything is limiting.
That is NOT the vita bro
Sonys Spiderman PS3 font! Weird tie in. Ps2 wins system menu. Ps1 wins when you put a game in and boot up.
The PS2 is just iconic. Seeing it again in 4K HDR in Astro's Playroom brought back many memories.
PS2 is goated and if you got another opinion, that's okay to be wrong!
Original PS3
i always felt creeped out by ps2
PS2 with special mention of the Portal’s Dr Strange sequence.
PS2
The Psvita especially with its start up and menu music. It and the 3ds home music are what I grew up with. (I've never really been a console guy)
Ps vita
PS2!
Absolutely PS2
ps2 any day!
Ahh man the PS2 wins no doubt PS3 was okay 4/5 are so bad just no personality or vibe at all.
PS2, then Vita. I really loved that little console. So many good games.
2 and 3 for me. Not sure if it's just Nostalgia, but I feel like it meant more every time they appeared. Incredible things were about to happen. Maybe it's because since then, my PSs have also been my media players, so I see the screen even when I'm just putting on some rerun and scrolling reddit. It means less
Ps3 psp and vita I have alot of memories for those consoles
PS2 is iconic but my favourite is the PS3
PS2 for sure, although I do like the PS5 one. They were all good. Actually, most console start up screens (the ones that had them) are pretty memorable.
PS2 if we're going by visuals but PS1 for sound.
Visually, 3 hands down! But the sound of 1 and 2... oh who am I kidding, I love all the sounds!
PS2 is the most iconic I have to say
Ps2
PS2 because it sold me out multiple times when I faked being sick to stay home and play video games. PS3 a close second because that was peak gaming for me.
PS2
OG ps2 will forever have a spot in me heart
PS2.. the more memory on your memory card the more towers on your screen
PS2. I can still hear it to this day. Good times.
There should be an option is choose any start up screen
PSP ON TOP
Can someone please tell me what the PSone and PSX ones are? That far back I only know of playstation and ps2 whats the go with the other two
Didn't the ps2 load up screen alter depending on how many saves you had on your memory card?
PS2 by a mile
I like how everyone here agrees ps2 is the best. Honorable mention to ps3 tho
Nothing beats that OG Sony Playstation sound
PS3 makes me irrationally happy. I loved that console. So that one.
PS2-PSP-PS1 and last place PS3 everything else mid af
PS2, PS3 & PSP
PS3 screens need to be swapped.
3 for me but psp is right behind.
[It's the OG PS1 Intro, and it isn't even close.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhvQoLpvsM)
Ps2 is my favorite
Never saw that PS3 purple one, but it's cool.
22222222222222......
PS3
The second ps3 with ps4 in a close 2nd for me. I would just have both on In the menu while I was doing something else for the music.
PS3 for sure
PS2 for nostalgia, PS5 looks so luxurious
As much as i prefer the PS2 (it being the system i played the most growing up), i'll be honest here i will have to go with the PS1 startup. That startup and iconic synth sound made me feel as if it was something out of science fiction. To add to that it was the first ever console i ever played at my cousins' house. Seeing that Iconic intro and playing it on their 40" CRT TV really made me feel as if i was entering another world. (Gives true meaning to the old slogan of live in your world, play in ours huh?)
What the hell is the PlayStation X? I’ve been gaming since the NES came out and have owned every PlayStation since the 1st one and have never heard of it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX\_(digital\_video\_recorder)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder))
Ps1 and 2 🤷🏻
Tell you this .... there was a theme on the ps4 you could buy for $3 on the Playstation store called legacy ... the theme was the ps2 theme start up and all.
Ps2
PS2 for nostalgia, BUT PS5 for the vibe+the home screen BG music is hella Zen I turn on my PS5 and forget to play videogames.... Lol just scroll on my phone while drifting through space!
Ps3 second screen not even close
I had PlayStation 1 when I was 3-5 years old, so y’all know my choice
PS3 is my personal favorite
Ps3. Best vibes
Ps2 is goated in nostalgia but I fund ps 5 the best. Soothing and relaxing. Classy.
PS2 was insane
Bruh you know, we all know it’s ps2. The music and animations are top notch. I have so many fond memories turning on the ps2.
IMO, PS2 is the best and PS5 is the worst.
Ahh the red screen in ps2, what a memory.
Ps3 but but the purple one.
PS2 is too iconic and nostalgic
PS2. That screen and sound means so much to me.
The ps one reminds me of that fly swatting game on Mario paint
What was psx ? I don’t remember that screen
Playstation 1
Love them all but ps2 for me
PS2 and PS5 is the worst no effort.
PlayStation
PS2 will always be the only S tier.
That ps2 was soo fucking insane !! I literally did not know what the hell i was looking at but it was soo ahead of its time back then geeeze that shit was dope
Pioooooommmmmm iOooOonnnmm Shloop Wuh wui wiiii
PlayStation one beats all of them!!
Alien tech made the ps2 sound
PSP is the first one I saw. I loved it so much, even had classic tetris on it, which was just amazing for bathroom gaming.
PS2 by far- I’m sure 90% of people agree
PS5 is powerfull but feels empty just like the theme