Before I bought a Playstation I had the following impressions of it: long load times (five minutes or so)and major overheating problems. But now that I own a PSX, I know better. Load times are only a couple of seconds or at the most under a minute. As for the overheating, I guess it depends where you place your playstation. Mine's atop a cardboard box away from the satellite receiver and VCR. On the game Metal Gear Solid a CD icon is supposed to appear if the system is overheating or something, but that has never happened to me once. I normally play a game for 1 to 3 hours. One thing that I did notice, though, is that if you play a game for several hours, then take the game out and put another one in, you have to let the system cool down for an hour or two, otherwise you'll just get the main menu. The Playstation has a great library of games. For RPG gamers there's the Final Fantasy series with its GREAT graphics. The FMV sequences look like they came out of a big-budget special-effects-laden movie. N64 doesn't have such graphics, not that I've seen. For action gamers there's Metal Gear Solid, Vagrant Story, etc. TONS of great games. Remember, its not the graphics that make a system worth having, it's the games. I don't have the analog controller, but I love the regular controllers. They fit nice in your hand and ALL buttons are easily accessible, unlike N64. There are only two controller ports, but I seldomly play two player games and never play four player games. The system itself is very durable--I've taken it to college several times and hooked it up to the TV during my three-hour lunch. Overall a great system, but if mine broke sometime soon I'd probably save my money and wait for a PS2, although I would test the system first--see how it runs your old games--before making the big buy.