Owned a PS1? Prepare to nostaldge..

In 1998 a young developer called James Shaughnessy designed a game for Sony's black, PS1-shaped development console, the Net Yaroze.

The space-based racer/shoot em up was released via 'demo disc' on the cover of Official Playstation Magazine; a series of waxed paper pages onto which written features and details of upcoming games were printed before the whole thing was stapled, folded and distributed nationwide each month.



With satisfying physics and rewarding pick-up-and-gameplay, Shaugnessy's GRAVITATION became something of a cult hit among people who were cool at the time but who are now too old to use contemporary slang unironically.



James now runs Demon Studios, and last year he released the long awaited sequel, Super Grav, to near-silent acclaim, partly thanks to the fact that it's hard to nudge every PS1 owner at once and remind them of the original game's existence, and also because he changed the name and charged too much.

Thanks to James you can actually play the original Gravitation for free. But if you were playing in 1998, you surely owe him whatever pennies Steam is prepared to kick his way, in return for a discount copy of Super Grav. It's also available on android and in the appstore (thanks badasschris).

You know what I'm talking about. Pshhhh pchew pchew BOOM, oh yes.

1998__________________2017