In the year 1994 electronics company Sony would release a gaming console that would change the entire scene enter the PlayStation a powerful console known for introducing the world to the likes of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon but what if I told you there’s another title another title that almost no one has Heard of a title being called simply Minecraft now you’re probably screaming at your monitor right now Minecraft didn’t come out on the PlayStation until the PlayStation 3 release Minecraft has never been on the PlayStation 1 it didn’t come out until 2009 now that’s where you’re wrong and That’s where I was wrong too now see I thought I had every version of Minecraft I have the 3DS version the WiiU version the 360 version the PS3 version the PS4 version the PS5 version Java I can keep going on and on I have pocket edition Every version of the game but it’s not every version of the game in fact Java Edition isn’t even the original version of the game so like what’s the deal how was there this other version of Minecraft that no one knows about I didn’t know about It and how did I find out about it well here’s the story not too long ago I went to a retro game store and I just kind of have fun looking at old games old gaming consoles and seeing what I can find for cheap prices so when I took a look at the PlayStation 1 Section I happened to spum upon this case Minecraft PlayStation edition I thought that it was maybe a home brew some sort of joke but no it it was legit as far as I could tell now let’s go over this case real quick as you can see it’s kind of your Average PlayStation one case but one thing you’ll notice very quick is that it’s not a normal PS1 case in the sense that well it’s like something like Final Fantasy 7 where the game itself is actually stored on multiple discs this game has three discs the first one being to load the Overworld the second one for what is called the slip and the third one the end now I think it’s fairly obvious that the slip is some sort of early version of the nether just by looking at the dis you can see that and one of the strangest things I’ve noticed about this case is that on the outside of the disc and on the back of the case is just jumbled text now obviously I don’t know what it says it doesn’t look like any language I’ve ever seen before and it’s on the back of the case on the discs it’s kind Of everywhere but enough talking about the game let’s stop hyper analyzing the case and figuring all this out I think I think it’s time to whip out the PlayStation and put this game in here we Go Is well here we are the big moment Minecraft on the PlayStation 1 now I’m not really sure what to expect with this version uh other than what I’ve seen on the case but I’m I’m ready to try it out um it it’s definitely going to be an interesting Experience so I got my controller hooked up ps1’s ready to go uh yeah let’s just let’s just get right into this so this uh this already looks a lot like Java Edition okay that’s definitely not like Java Edition that’s different to even Bedrock Edition okay let’s See I suppose it makes sense the PS1 didn’t have like a built-in keyboard you know uh so we’ve got a bunch of the the kind of settings you’d expect here uh we’re just going to leave everything at normal cuz I want to get like right into this I want to see what The deal with this version is so let’s go ahead and name it after to after the elusive release year 1998 the real release year of Minecraft which is still crazy for me to say I I can’t believe that this game actually came out in 1998 and was effectively like hidden from the General public until 2009 but here we go let’s get right into this now the biggest thing for me is I want to find out why this game was hidden from the public uh and what reason they would have had to do that because um I can imagine that the game flopped Because if this is anything like like the Minecraft we know it’s probably ahead of its time and people probably weren’t ready for it yet but I I want to know more about this version of the game because it it it just intrigues me but first we have to sit through a PS1 load Screen so this could take a bit and oh God I am freezing the death so there’s there’s already stuff that that was not in the launch version of of java even so I I I don’t this is okay I I don’t really know what to expect here I mean it looks like Minecraft on the PS1 okay so the first thing I’ve noticed immediately uh there is there’s not your traditional Hearts uh above your hot bar it’s actually like a a little bar on the side here as well as hunger and armor it looks like Okay let’s see so we got the crafting menu here I’m going to go ahead and make some logs oh oh I just accidentally went into third person that is not what I was trying to do I like I’m in disbelief I kind of just can’t believe that this is a real Thing but let’s go ahead and just get this pickaxe made right here we want to make our way further down I think that’s ice down there the render distance is insanely low which I suppose makes a lot of sense for a game like this especially for a game that came out in 1998 oh Jesus I don’t actually want to stay here I don’t want to stay here Jesus Christ I’m not going to with uh with any skeletons right now I don’t think okay as for where I’m going to set up I’m actually really not sure so so far like First Impressions this Is it feels a lot like Um Legacy console edition but on the PS1 oh okay we got iron that is perfect so already just from playing like this looks a lot to me like okay so to be completely clear I have no idea if the same people were at Mojang when this game came out so it’s Highly possible that this this wasn’t even Notch’s game originally and he was the one who decided to bring it back or something I I don’t know one thing I am noticing is this has a lot of newer features which means that the whole time we were getting new content Mojang were actually Recycling old content from the scrapped version of the game which uh is pretty insane and uh I’m okay well we’re not even that far in I’ve already found something kind of strange I don’t like this this looks like it just happened too okay well I think Should we should we settle and build our house in this like near This creepy tunnel I mean I suppose we could right I I don’t know if I want to build here I that that tunnel is like creeping me out strange World Generation has always been something that’s like freaked me The out since I was a kid in Minecraft so I think the goal here will be to build just a a small house for now and then we can always expand later down the line we just want somewhere to spend the first night uh as I I have a Feeling playing Minecraft on the PlayStation One controller might be a little brutal what the those was not me who paused the game I suppose we could turn this into a m shaft but something something scares me about messing with uh with something I feel like I probably shouldn’t be messing With oh you gain levels for crafting things very interesting for now since it’s already getting quite dark I think I’m just going to oh I don’t like this I’m already really scared I just want to get this roof done boom okay give me this I want to make some chal I honestly don’t trust these windows as being as big as they are I don’t want like I I don’t want the potential of like a baby zombie or something to come through also what is that that is not the normal way it looks when placing things it’s interesting All right let’s get a bit of charcoal going wait did I not fill these in this is such a scuffed house I I thought I filled those blocks in oh no it’s cuz it’s cuz those were the the leaves right okay that’s fine okay I don’t really want to leave The house while it’s dark although I’m not sure what I would want to do what the am I hearing okay this is probably a really bad time but I I’m not liking the noises I’m hearing right now okay I really need to go to the toilet and this is probably a bad time To do so but I’m going to go do that real quick h uh e okay I’m back uh I don’t know if leaving the game on pause is the best idea but I’m still alive so there’s not really much to worry about I don’t really know what to Work on because I don’t want to leave the house cuz I already feel uneasy because of that like tunnel I found uh giving me like PTSD from when I was a kid uh finding strange stuff like that so I might just wait it out until it’s day although I could maybe startop Mining or at the very least clearing the ground out we could make the ground out of cobblestone I think Cobblestone might look good I don’t have too much more to add right now but you know Cobblestone Works actually I’m going to take it back for a moment I think we will use that Tunnel uh to to turn it into a mine we are going to want to try and find diamonds or whatever else this version of the game has to offer I guess uh I I I actually have like insane chills playing this game I think it’s starting to get brighter outside The did I just hear even something about the music in this version of the game feels uneasy I hear water but like not like rain just I’m extremely confused I’m going to want to get a door in here there we go so first of all I’m just going to Completely block this section off I don’t I don’t want that there I really don’t know if with something like this was a good idea cuz I I I don’t know it it scares me but it’s probably just weird World Generation there’s probably not too much else to It it it’s probably just the child version of me screaming that it’s herobrine right now uh maybe we want to go look for some surface Coal or sheep I imagine there’s beds in this version now I’m not going to lie before I realized that this version of the game had three separate discs I kind of just assumed that I would be playing like uh like something like the the Prototype of the game like cave game it Is possible that because the game was written in a different like coding language and it was still 2009 maybe that’s why Minecraft went through such significant updates in those early years because porting all of this stuff might have been a nightmare or it was maybe just remade entirely from the ground up because Hello okay I am glad I covered up my windows I’ve actually just realized that we were on top of a mountain that whole time now one thing I’m curious with the with posting this stuff online is uh if anyone else has any physical copies of this game because um I don’t know it’s It’s kind of intriguing to me because like I said this is my first time seeing or even knowing about Minecraft on the PS1 oh there’s a wolf here are this foxes Oh I thought the wolf was going to attack me there’s still no sheep though is this all powdered Okay we’re good there’s a planes biome here or at least it looks like a planes okay we need one more look if we get a bed set up I’m totally happy and then I can go back home wait I’ve just realized oh the blue veres are in this oh I need to Eat that’s another thing sprinting is in this game which is kind of wild for a version of the game that came out so early that Java didn’t even have that that feature I do not want to deal with night time I I was legitimately too like this This brings me back to like old Minecraft like I I am but I mean I guess it is old Minecraft I don’t like that the screen goes entirely black when sleeping so I think home was this way somewhere I hope we can find our way Home it’s very hard to tell like where I have and haven’t been with this uh this low render distance yeah I got I got to say one of the most like wild things uh about this version of the game is that something like a decade later after This game came out the uh the game would then re-release as if it was a completely new game with this old version of the game being completely covered up and the new version being literally one of the best selling games of all time I guess it just kind of goes to show That it it it really matters like when you release your games the first time around they kind of didn’t succeed and the second time around I guess they they captured lightning in a bottle am I even going the right way I heard it again and this is why you always take Note of your coordinates which are literally on screen for me in this version and I still got lost oh ah we found home cool we’ve done it we’ve made it home oh wait I should probably place my bed I guess I can’t set my spawn oh it is dark outside oh no it’s Not I think it is starting to get dark so I think I’m going to have to just live off of choo because uh I I’ve have not been able to find any normal coal all right well there is another night survived my third night I think if I’m counting correctly Um I don’t know why it does that I’m going to make a uh a second furnace I’m going to cook some of the pork chops I got Here all right cool and we’re going to make some torches too oh there’s a sort button I didn’t even see this why is this not in Java Edition or B okay um I don’t know what happened but uh my my recording crashed so I just I backed out of the world And I think we’re going to call it here but if anyone has any more information on this version of the game please let me know uh obviously we got the comment section for that uh I think I’m just going to continue like documenting my experience with this Game uh I will say I feel very uneasy playing it and I I don’t know exactly why that is but I’m going to call it there so um I guess I’ll see you guys in the next one Video Information
This video, titled ‘Minecraft PSX, The game you’ve never heard of’, was uploaded by Minecraft PSX Archive on 2023-12-31 00:19:55. It has garnered 26074 views and 1935 likes. The duration of the video is 00:32:12 or 1932 seconds.
“Minecraft Playstation Edition” is a game developed by Mojang Studios in the Year 1998 in a partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment for the Playstation Console released in 1994, this game was a pre-cursor to the classic ‘Minecraft’ of 2009, although not many people are aware of it due to it being pulled from store shelves just a year after release with only a 1000 or so copies ever being sold, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a copy at a retro game store about a month ago, here’s my experience with the title.
If you’d like to play the game yourself via emulation here’s a link to a rom to download as finding a physical copy like myself is nearly impossible to do: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/mcsx-minecraft-ps1-edition
Thanks to xKazIsKooIx for ripping the game files to allow others to play the game
Any help to learn more about the game would be appreciated as I’m still learning about it myself and plan to continue my exploration into the title more on this channel
