That love tail was touching man.
I was an earlyish PlayStation adopter. Early enough where Resident Evil, Zoop, and Warhawk were the longbox games I got with it.
The one thing I’ll say was a forever moment back then was the hype, the acquiring, and playing through Final Fantasy VII. I saw an early screenshot in EGM or something and I had to have it. Absolutely mind blowing moment in video game history. At that moment in time absolutely everything about it was fantastic. — same thing with Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2. Also Silent Hill.
Duuuude. Silent Hill was mind bending fantastic horror madness. The way they used the fog trick to hide the pop in? Meisterwerk.
While we’re in this time period let’s not forget ReLoad. Not Reloaded the sequel to Loaded but the Metallica album. I listened to a lot of it when it came out about the same time as Duke Nukem Total Meltdown. They are forever fused for me. Same deal with Suikoden 2 and The Wall. The Wall is the second soundtrack to that game for me which is awesome considering how fantastic the actual soundtrack is.
And PSM? That shit was my bible from issue 1. I believe my subscription started with issue 2.