Into the Aether IX: The Sony PlayStation

It's finally time for the NINTH season of Into the Aether, a low key video game podcast! To kick this one off, we played and discussed 40+ of the most important games from Sony's first home console: The PlayStation.
Thank you all so much for listening to and supporting the show throughout the years, and especially for your patience while we work on episodes like these.
Discussed: The Sony Playstation
The full PS1 Playlist (backloggd.com/u/Stephen_Hilger/list/ita-ix-the…)
The games that won the community poll (backloggd.com/u/Stephen_Hilger/list/ita-ps1-po…)
Our episode with Chris Plante about Dreamcast history (intothecast.transistor.fm/episodes/an-introduc…)
Dom's interview with Tony Hawk (esquire.com/lifestyle/a33918244/tony-hawk-inte…)

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Timecodes:

• () - Into the Aether Season 9

• () - Prepping for this ep and how it has changed over the years

• () - The PlayStation is cool

• () - Histories with the PlayStation

• () - How the ep is gonna go

• () - "Turtle Woods/The Pits/Night Fight" Josh Mancell, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

• () - 1995

• () - Tokimeki Memorial

• () - 1996

• () - Tomb Raider

• () - 1997

• () - PaRappa the Rapper

• () - Wild Arms

• () - Bushido Blade

• () - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

• () - Final Fantasy VII

• () - "The Highwind Takes to the Skies" Nobuo Uematsu, Final Fantasy VII

• () - Final Fantasy VII

• () - Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

• () - Colony Wars

• () - Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

• () - 1997 is OVER

• () - "Title Screen" Stewart Copeland, Spyro the Dragon

• () - Into the Eather

• () - 1998

• () - Einhänder

• () - Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

• () - Mega Man Legends

• () - Tomba

• () - Resident Evil 2

• () - Xenogears

• () - Tekken 3

• () - "Heihachi Mishima Theme" Nobuyoshi Sano and Keiichi Okabe, Tekken 3

• () - Tekken 3

• () - Parasite Eve

• () - "Arise Within You" Yoko Shimomura, Parasite Eve

• () - Parasite Eve

• () - Brave Fencer Musashi

• () - Metal Gear Solid

• () - "Main Theme" Tappi Iwase, Metal Gear Solid

• () - Metal Gear Solid

• () - Spyro the Dragon

• () - Goin' out with a bang

• () - "The Lost Land ~ Primordial Ooze" Soichi Terada, Ape Escape

• () - 1999

• () - Legend of Legaia

• () - R4: Ridge Racer Type 4

• () - Gran Turismo 2

• () - Suikoden II

• () - Silent Hill

• () - "Silent Hill" Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill

• () - Silent Hill

• () - Um Jammer Lammy

• () - Ape Escape

• () - Crash Team Racing

• () - "Main Menu" Josh Mancell, Crash Team Racing

• () - Crash Team Racing

• () - Onto the new millenium

• () - "Menu Theme" Dennis Martin and Takeo Miratsu, The Legend of Dragoon

• () - 2000

• () - Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

• () - Incredible Crisis

• () - Vagrant Story

• () - "Recollections" Hitoshi Sakimoto, Vagrant Story

• () - Vagrant Story

• () - Vib-Ribbon

• () - Threads of Fate

• () - Chrono Cross

• () - "Fields of Time ~ Home World" Yasunori Mitsuda, Chrono Cross

• () - Chrono Cross

• () - The Legend of Dragoon

• () - Jackie Chan Stuntmaster

• () - Breath of Fire IV

• () - Final Fantasy IX

• () - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

• () - That's the PlayStation 1!

• () - "A Place to Call Home" Nobuo Uematsu, Final Fantasy IX

• () - Not *quite* the last console retrospective

• () - The Community Picks

• () - Making the Aether Top 5

• () - The Into the Aether Top 5 Video Games for the Sony PlayStation 1

• () - That's it!

• () - Thank you so much for listening<3

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