A seriously underrated ps1 gem.

I love how as soon as you go into space, the boss battle track goes from this high energy, funky "He he! We're having a boss battle!" music to 12:10 these ominous, alien sounding low synths that gives you the feeling that you're shooting at something so overwhelming that *you can't even fully understand it.* I only learned about this game because of the PS1 Demo disk.

I’ve finally found it. Raystorm! I forgot the name to this game. Oh my the nostalgia

Ah.. this game, brings my childhood memories back.. sit down in my living room and play Raystorm with my brother. Good old time

10:09 - This was the level that was featured on one of the PS1 sampler discs that would come in the mail. This is how I found out about the game back then and bought it. By far the best level of them all, in my opinion. But I gotta lend some credits to the last level; between the soundtrack and finding out just how much of an impact your mission had on over 7 billion people losing their lives... very emotional level.

It's so cool that now we're gonna get a modern release of both this AND its sequel RayCrisissoon . In both original and HD version. Coming to the Switch and PS4.

Man i miss this game so much. It was one of my favorites along with Einhander

Great soundtrack!

Still got Raystorm, and it's one of the reasons I've kept all my PSX games.

That shiver-inducing start-up, yeeesssss

Ah, the good old 32-bit days...almost as good as the 16-bit days. Raystorm was a bit of a throwback to that era but only in the best of ways: straightforward gameplay, selectable difficulty levels for all ages from 9 to 99 years, comic-book style graphics, epic boss fights and an almost danceable soundtrack. Technically though the game was more than up to snuff, surpassing even games that came after, like Einhander, R-Type Delta or the disappointing Thunder Force 5.

Jesus the nostalgia hits hard

When Raystorm first came out, Working Designs had a contest. You had to play at a difficulty called Combat mode and if you beat the game you got a special code where you could enter in a contest to win money. Eventually the contest was over and Working Designs released a code that would allow the Combat Mode to be turn off and Free Play activated. The code is online if you search for it. They actually limited the levels you could play unless you were on higher difficulty and fixed many flaws that the original Japanese release had.

This game is really cool, i didnt ever get the full game but always played the demo version, it soon became an instant favorite. So a good nostalgia trip. 10:05

That soundtrack bro will remember it til death...

thank you for playing this brings back memories since its the first game i ever played

I played this game back in my Elementary days :) totally brings back memories

I kinda remember playing the demo of this on a PS1 disc sampler back then and this reminds me of something out of star wars!

First game I ever played. Still have the original PSX disc.

Remember playing this , sat on my bed back in s London growing up , ❤

Here after Cyberpunk 2077. Never realized this was the golden age of gaming where you were able to play the game with no patches on day one. How time have changed.

Another fine soundtrack by Zuntata

Soundtrack slaps. I wish the industry would go back to having actual music that you can remember instead of generic orchestral hollywoodisms and ambient

I wish you uploaded in 60 fps! Raystorm (and Raycrisis) are among the most impressive looking polygonal games on the system, due in large part to running at 60 fps even with all of the crazy explosions and effects they have going on.

wow, this really take me back

My first ever played game in the PSX!!!!

Bro the fact that you never used one credit at all just shows how good you are at this game. Mad props. What difficultly was this on?

Game was hard but awsome. I was amazed the first time playing this due to only playing the snes at the time.

I missed the original RayStorm. Now I'm playing the HD version of the game

This soundtrack is memorable

Holy shit I was looking for this game Forgot its name and wanted the soundtrack so bad :D

10:09 The most memorable level of this game (To me). Love this game and this level =D.

Shooter perfection. This game has it all!

Locking on multiple targets at once makes the game very addicting

One of my favorite games as a kid

I hope Taito re-releases this game someday.

The graphics haven't aged well but the soundtrack is easily one of the best ever made for a shmup! Second only to maybe Einhander...

this is better than asmr

This was my childhood.

Wow, this game takes place in 2219 which is 200 years away. I would be dead then.

0:49 No enemy command ship below the R-Grey 1:12 R-Greys are already over the command ship

I just played through Arcade mode on Duckstation for the first time since I played it on my PS1 (I still have the original game in mint condition but that's more or less a showpiece now).. Anyway I had it in my head for some reason that this game was easy, but the latter bosses are certainly not! I only had 4 credits remaining when the end credits rolled, but I suppose that's not too bad after not playing it for 20 or so years. Default settings/ship number/difficulty in the middle/combat mode. Still, it kicked my ass pretty good, and overall I didn't like it as much as I used to, certainly not enough to get good enough to be able to one CC it again. I really prefer the first 2D game and I don't like Ray Crisis either. I had it in 4K with all geometry fixed and it looked amazing I will admit. If you want to play this game on a modern computer, use Duckstation with PGXP correction on and a 16x Upscale if you have anything from a 3060 onwards. It looks like a modern game! But for me it was one of those situations where I should have just enjoyed the memory as the game is not the amazing game I remembered.

I love the arcade game this is great too!

I need to steal my father's wallet again to play this on rental, then got beat up by a metal belt while back to home 😂😂

That PlayStation start up

O button, R1, R2, L1, L2 has no use 😂 But still was one of my fave back then

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this is almost 20 years ago...

Damn, this shit looks awesome. Kinda like a mix of Nanostray and Ikaruga (or Radiant Silvergun).

Awesome aircraft design ^.^ I feel like...that this game was remade?

Gosh! I always died at zone 5 where got lots of stones.

G Darius and raystorm? perfect.👌😑👌

i swear in my memory it was in 4k graphic and not pixelated like this :DDDDD

In RayStorm HD, pressing both laser and shot at the same time will trigger SP Attack

no wonder GUNDAM OO-Raiser looks familiar

ps1 ?

a prrro infancia a dios :,v

i rember in a old gamepro they showed this game and the way they described it i was like i want this game but i couldnt find it at my local shops. something about it made me want a new shooter. but after searching i did get xevious 3d so i could play as tekken charecters flying

It's weird not seeing the "push 1 or 2 player button" screen.

Anything from Stage 4 is brutal, i keep dying many times to the enemies

Playing RayStorm. Not using R-GRAY 2. How are you so casual?

Looks great

OMG THAT INTRO

i used to hate these games cuz they were so hard.. i haven't played one of these since the 90s though so i'm not sure if i would still hate them or not

tell me the blue mecha name in that intro

cheat mode on ? / anyway my favorite is R-Gray 2 for top score.

Aww you are nice! I have play... 7 age. The end game. :')

can you do syphon filter for psx?

20:01 how !?

Infancia total

I never really liked early 3D. Graphically, Rayforce, the predecessor , was more pleasant to look at. Also noticing that it sounds like they took Rayforce's soundtrack and only slightly rehashed it.

ooooooooooooooh, chiiiiiillddhoooooooooooooodddd!!

Yea I couldn't get past the Red gear....shit was impossible to beat

What the Hell is a PSX?

I cant even tell wtf is happening!!!

laf my ass off is just like starfox or how uthers call it lylat wars in europe i think

I could never get past the first level

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Estoy buscando un juego anterior al año 2003, que se le parece pero no consigo encontrarlo, tenia un máximo de 4 naves donde escoger, la principal era el verde, y el primer nivel era equivalente a este videojuego, así con las montañas ⛰ , los disparos eran en forma de flechas, y aumentaban si recogias las recompensas por el camino, como máximo había 3 vidas, por lo que se hacía un ranking, y ya por último, el 2 mapa era un escenario como en marte, con arena y casi ibas a ras de la superficie, y si, tenia mejores graficos que este juego, creo recordar.

i thought this is gonna be a perfect run..

sonic psx playstation 1 .😅🐥. q

Being a kid and owning this game, of course I beat it 50 times over the course of years.

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