Wobbly Polygons

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Lovely Wobbly Polygons! And not-so-wobbly polygons powered by Emotion Engines. The games, the mags, the culture! She/her. 🏳️‍⚧️ PS1/PS2-focused account. SysOp: @sharkabytes.bsky.social

A double-page ad for the Platinum range from PLAY Magazine Easter 1998's issue with an old lady leaning over and rgrinning with fluffy animal toys pegged on a washing line with the 'Tested on humans' tagline and a horrifying face with the face button symbols for features.
An ad for Project ZERO with rendered rolls of film and unrolled negatives, on which are game screenshots.
A crt screenie of a watery background ad polygon sealife, with Gran Turismo's demo represented by a starfish and gold wibblywobbly text
The title screen for t RAKUGAKI SHOWTIME with pencil/crayon drawn characters with chibi anime flair and some stick figure/emoji aesthetics that look like they've been cut out of a sketch book page with little white borders around them
A crt tv screenie of the Spider-Man title screen with ol' Spidey himself swinging away over a night-time city
A crt TV screenie of fighting the Alien Queen in Alien Trilogy, with its moody lighting and green glow from a first-person perspective.
A photo of the small news article from our copy of the EGM "Sony Details 32-bit PS-X!" Sony of the Japan officially announced their new 32-Bit game system, codenamed, PS-X last month. Here are the specs to date: Price - Under $480 Main CPU - R3000A 32-Bit Secondary CPUs - multiple DSPs and co-processors RAM 'More than 3DO' Plus more details about full frame video at 60 fps and 16.77m colours
Another snap of a different player character making an audio log as he stands by a similar arch airlock and lots of intricately detailed pipework and computer terminals, giving the base a lived-in industrial look.
A crt tv photo of gameplay under composite of a brassy-looking metal plated room under eerie red light with a space suit hung up on the wall and one of the playable characters stood by an arched door. Seen through fixed perspective ala Resident Evil
A photo of our copy of Crime Crackers's sticker sheet with logo, PlayStation, and character stickers
A photo of my hand partly in view holding up our ASCII Grip, the one-hand use vertical Wiimote-like controller with a rounded end and buttons arranged around it.
A photo of an official Sony periphs pamphlet from our copy of Crash 3. Shows a G-Con45 light gun, multitap, and the Dual Shock grey controller.
The colourful loading screen for Kingsley's Adventure with the young adventurous anthro fox brandishing sword and shield as he surges forward toward the viewer
A snap of the cover of OPMUS Issue 12 with renders of Eve and Aya on the cover and a cool close-up of half of Aya Brea's face on half the cover.
A promo for the PlayStation and playing Ridge Racer at a show booth with a spikey purple head in the middle of hypnotic circles
A screenie from a demo of Disruptor on one of OPMUK's demo discs, of an aerostat station with smooth gold and chrome glass and metal structure (if you're a Warframe player like me, you might feel its a bit orokin too!) with chunky robots being blasted by psi powers of energy blue-white lightning while a shoulder mounted rocket launcher stands at the ready,
One of the FMV cutscenes that sporadically play using old footage of Apache gunships banking over a coastline forest
A snap of Starblade Alpha's title screen, with its starfield background and logo. Copyrights and rights below, plus the Namco logo. 1991/1994.
A CRT screenie of a 3D polygonal F4 Phantom in jungle camo livery with various stats and a buy price.
A snap of a GAME brochure with FF7 for £44.99 and describing it as "The ultimate role-playing adventure with hundreds of levels and hours of gameplay."
A CRT TV screenie of a third-person cyberpunk racing game with a sci-fi metropolis beneath a red sky and with a chequered section of track ahead and spotlight gantries on either side.
A photo of the 3-game compilation with a mosiac style cover of all three game loogos
The cover of Official US PlayStation magazine with its Kingdom Hearts artwork and headline. Also, GTA Vice City revealed!
A close-up of the Medievil logo in all its goodness! Plus a good look at those gorgeous neon pads!
A photo of the title screren with cool neon dual shock wireframe pads in the background and game logos around the central game preview window. Plus some Pizza Hut blurb at the bottom and the names of their hottest pizzas.
Jan 1999's PSM cover with Chun Li, a Racoon Police zombie, Squal, and Raziel posed on the cover - plus Pocket Station, the first games!
An ad for the DTL-3000 Net Yaroze online starter kit with a photograph of the charcoal grey homebrew dev PS1 and two pads against a stark, classy white background.
A magazine ad with a skull skewered on a sword blade and game screenies and blurb below.
The main menu page for Digitiser with its cool teletext artwork of a blue mohwaked dude with shades, and 6 categories of text. Playstation assessed, plus an old game - Colony for the Spectrum. Retro nostalgia in the mid 90s!
The minimalisticc tutle scren with I S spelled out in rounded dots and a single a tube, with 1999 Square/positron at the bottom
A crt tv screenie under RGB Scart of model railway-esque depiction of an isometric Yokohama with a road network, buildings, and trucks and other vehicles traveling around at night.
Pleasse insert PlayStation format disc - white text on an ominous gradient red grid pattern background on a crt tv.
A CRT TV snap of one of the last levels in Ace Combat 2 with an F22 over a night time metropolis.
A photo of the included mini art book for the Japanese release we have with illustrations of the main cast, this one being blonde-haired Toxa Classico.
Left page of a coloiurful preview feature in GameFan magazine with a mix of character illustrations, screenies, and blocks of text
The trippy, chrome, green, and orange sliding biorganic panels of the demo selector
A photo of the PAL double case release of Crash Bandicoot
Another page of the feature with an array of game screenies, text blurb, and a photo of Hiroshi Kawai, a SIGGRAPH demo designer
A snap from GameFan magazine's 8-page FFVII feature with screenies and artwork, plus the exciting news that Squaresoft planned to release twenty titles on PSX before the end of 1997.
Dark Omen's cover
"Sound the charge, we go to war." The Shadow of the Horned Rat title screen with SSI and Games Workshop logos and a tusky orc
A crt tv screenie of a starscape battle with the star mecha blasting at high velocity as explosions and enemy drones buzz around them
A photo of Porsche Challenge for PS1 on a shelf. Classy white background with black frame case, and a smouldering image of a silvery-white boxster in a narrow box in the middle.
A photo fhe same card plugging into one of our PSOnes with a bright red 1 on the LCD
A photo of a late 90s third-party PS1 memory card, translucent blue with visible PCB and a bank-switcher LCD in the meiddle
A snap fo the search results for VRChat worlds with Namco Museums shown
A CRT snap of a black and white chequered floor room with low wooden beam ceilings. A polygonal spiky palm tree stands close to the viewer, while various display boards and picture frames line the walls.
A crt tv photo of Crash riding on a polar bear, seen from behind, as it barrels along at breakneck speed between two carved tribal bear idols amid snow.