I am totally stealing someone elses blog and bringing it here. Godmodeenabled from GS made a PS1 blog. I will post it below with my response to follow. Just comment with your own memories.
This is GME:
My very first experience with the Playstation was renting it (remember doing that) from the video store (and these?) with my brother. We also rented Ridge Racer and I think The Bouncer. We were both pretty impressed with the game (Ridge Racer not so much Bouncer) and the system overall.
A few months later one of my best friends was first to get the system, it wouldn't be until a year or so later that I got mine and man did we play a lot Of Kings Field. Kings Field was a first person rpg made by From Software that would spank Demons Souls upside down and sideways and then teabag it. I still remember getting murdered by living trees and to this day I keep my distance from all trees. Coniferous? Mo like conspicuous.
Here are some of the games I remember the most from the PS1 era:
Resident Evil
Remember the PS1 longboxes and the badass artwork this game had? Chris Redfield on the front cover has like the angry rrrr Doom guy face and it looks nothing like him, but it's still awesome. Ahhh man Resident Evil, god this game was so good back in it's day!! I remember the classic running down the long hallway... "there sure are a lot of windows here" *CRASH* *eaten by a dog*
YOU ARE DEAD.
lol WTF just happened? My controller is on the other side of the room and I may have peed myself a little. Ooooh dirty Capcom. I remember just being terrible at the game for several tries at it, running out of ammo, getting stuck forever on a puzzle. So many great memories of this game. The sequel of course was even better, and a game that was played in our circle for years. I still remember running to the police station without killing a single zombie in order for the special helicopter zombie guy to appear (and he had a key or something) Tomb Raider 3
Tomb Raider 3 was one of the first games I ever owned for the system (renting and borrowing from friends was big), and man do I fvcking hate that game. This was the first Tomb Raider game I ever played, it was a popular series and I got it as a gift from my dear old mom for a birthday a think. You pop the game in and the first damn level literally has you sliding down a hill, you have three seconds to press jump or you fall into a spike pit and die. lol. WTF. I just pressed start and now i'm dead. This sets the precedent for the rest of the game too. Prepare to leap blindly off cliffs to your imminent demise as the camera dances around wildly like a drunk zebra on fire.
Final Fantasy 7
I remember my friends older cousin being the first to have it and WHOLLY SH1T 3 DISCS THIS GAME IS AWESOME. We sat floored by the cinematics, excited by the gameplay and generally enthralled. We took turns playing the game into the late hours of the night gettiing out of Midgar on our first go. I still remember the laughs we had during the crossdressing part with cloud. FF7 isn'y my favorite RPG (or even my favorite FF hello 3) but it was a magical game for its time. It is up there with some of my favorite jrpgs.
Metal Gear Solid
I first got my hands on this game from a demo disk that came in an official playstation magazine. The demo only let you play up to the point to where you get into the facility but man I must have played it hundreds of times. I was all over this game the first chance I got to have it and it is still a masterpiece and one of my favorite games. This may come as a surprise to some as I hate the modern Metal Gear Franchise a lot, but the early ones were perfection. This game... DIS GAYME.
It had this engaging storyline, that at times a little crazy played out like a great action movie. You had so much innovation and love in this game. The boss battles are still talked about today. Everyone remembers their first time against Mantis and what no internet? Man you were stuck on him for a while! I remember sneaking up to guards and planting c4 on their backs and then randomly blowing them up... ahhh this game.
Driver
I played this one before Grand Theft Auto i'm pretty sure. And man does this game really feel like realistic driving. The car chases in this were NUTS. This game was soo much fun. This was one of my favorite games for the system I played through it so many times. Sometimes when you got going at really high speeds the physics would go crazy and you had this "record" option to record part of your runs or whatever for fun. I remember the last level is driving the president to a safe spot in his big ass clumsy limo and secret service coming at you at 400 miles an hour, sometimes the physics would go nuts and they would hit you juuuust right while you were full speed going down a hill and you would catapault spiraling into the stratosphere and reappear like two dozen blocks away upside down. MISSION FAILED.
Breath Of Fire 3
Fishing! This game had the best fishing minigame ever! I literally put 50 hours of my life into just fishing with this game. It was awesome. They sold for lots of money and healed you if you ate them so it gave me quite an edge to have so many tunas. Another fun thing about this game is that at the very end you are wandering around the same three areas over and over stuck inside your characters mind and there was only one solution to progress to the end of the game. Are you ready for this? You had to set the controller down for five minutes and not touch any buttons or literally do anything, and an event would occur that took you to the end. It took me and my friend over a year to beat this game, remember pre internet and we knew noone else who played it. I gave up completely, but he would try playing it a couple hours a week to try and figure out what to do. One day he says "fvck this game imma take a dump" and throws the controller in the corner and leaves the system on. After the time elapsed the character started talking and was teleported so I was like "umm your game just played itself and you are in a new area wtf" Cue my friend running out of the bathroom pants down tripping over himself to see. Almost a year of playing the same three screens and all you had to do was nothing for 5 minutes..
They don't make games like this anymore! 
I'll end this here cause I don't want this to get too long but there are so many games I missed its ridiculous. I could talk about how fun playing horse in Tony Hawk was, Triple Triad card game in Final Fantasy 8 that I got every card for and spend 100 hours on, Suikoden 2 and it's great story, Burning sheeps bums in Spyro The Dragon, impaling fools in Legacy Of Kain: Soulreaver, that godamn saggitarius puzzle in Silent Hill that I was stuck on for months and soo much more.
The PS1 is probably the most legendary console of all time, I would argue only the SNES has the balls to stand next to it. So how about it, were you a PS1 fan? What are some of your great memories surrounding the system? Will there ever be a system this good again?
I credit the PS1 for making me see the error of being a one console fanboy. In 1998, my sister bought a PS1, surely urged by her current boyfriend to do so. After many months of making payments, via layaway, she finally had one, along with D, Resident Evil, Crash Bandicoot, Road Rash and Twisted Metal. My friend and I just got home from college for the summer and spent many nights in my sister's room, playing Twisted Metal and Road Rash. Forget RE, who needed those clunky tank controls? D was too short, but those two games were just our style. We spent hours trying to kill each other in TM. We spent hours listening to Soundgarden while killing other motorists with chains in RR. It was gaming bliss. I wasn't completely won over by the PS1, the N64 was my one console of choice, but it paved the way for a whole new world of gaming for me.
The game that came closest to winning me over, nearly making me buy the console for myself, was Metal Gear Solid. I loved the original MG on NES and enjoyed Snake's Revenge to an extent, but I was completely caught by surprise by this PS version. I never experienced gameplay like this, such variety. I couldn't just run through and shoot bad guys like in other games. I had to completely outmart them, outwit them, sneak past them. Sneaking in a game? What the hell is that? I had just finished OoT, it had variety, but not quite like this. Who could ever forget the battle with Psycho Mantis, easily the craziest, most inventive boss battle in history. Hands down.
I never bought my own PS1, just borrowed my sister's from time to time, but it started me on this new path. I never fully embraced it and became a multiconsole owner until the next gen, but this system is where it started.
P.S. I finally finished Resident Evil with the REmake.
But as ardent as I was against Playstation before I bought one, that had to have been the biggest (and last) time I was so loyal to a single manufacturer -- though I was quite biased toward the Gamecube and XB for a while too).
Oh and Vader. Did GME get more comments here or on GS for this blog?
Like........ your finger?
The PSX was actually what really pointed out to me what a fanboy I was, but not necessarily for a console maker. I bought it strictly because I learned that Square had their falling out with Nintendo and was going to become exclusive to Sony. That was the company that I was a fanboy for, and that generation I was pretty nuts for them. I bought all but three games they released for the PSX - Tobal #2, Einhander, and Threads of Fate. Looking back on it, I picked up quite a bit of crap from them that gen... and for the record I'm still bitter over buying SaGa Frontier 2 the game it launched.
The PS1 broke my Sega fanboy mentality. Now I enjoy all consoles.
Its close but we are in the lead.
What's with all the fanboys?
If anything the PSX made me into a Sony fanboy! But not really; I always loved and wanted other consoles too. I just preferred the PSX's library.