Top 10 Playstation (PS1) Games

It’s interesting to see what was supposed to be the Super Nintendo’s CD add-on carried itself to be one of the most important consoles of all time. Having Sony trying to compete against Nintendo in the gaming market was a daring move because Sony has never done business with video games. But the original Playstation started out with no audience and many competitors already in the 32 bit era like the Sega Saturn, 3DO, and more. Years later, the Playstation became better over the years, gaining so much popularity because of the third party developers (at the time) developed their best efforts right on the Playstation’s library. There’s something about Nintendo’s hatred and disgust with the disc based games as the Nintendo 64 remained on a cartridge and many developers were upset with the N64’s limitations. It was the right place for the right time for Sony’s Playstation console to have developers like Square Soft to have Final Fantasy VII as their killer app to show what the system was made for. FFVII blew everyone’s minds and the Playstation many of the 3rd party developers on board in developing a brand new line of game library unlike any other. Many of the gamers who grew up from the NES were getting older and the Nintendo 64 wasn’t getting any games catering to the older audience. Suddenly, the Playstation became a console that offered mature titles that offering a great number of role-playing games, survival horror games, and types of games that had violence, sex, profanity, and many more that appeals to the older audience. At the same time Playstation offered titles that were also made fore younger audiences competes with anything that the N64 was offering like the platformers, action adventures, and many more. There were old classics making a big installment for the Playstaion (like Metal Gear, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, etc.) and brand new titles (like Crash, Spyro, Syphon Filter, Silent Hill, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, and many more). There’s something for everyone on the Sony Playstation, and as well with any Sony console. Because of its world-wide appeal during its lifespan, the Playstation made video games a pop culture phenomenon. It created many amazing ideas to keep its audience interested like dance dance revolution, better stories told in video games, new gameplay innovations being made in the 3D world, good selling games can be on shelves again as “Greatest Hits,” and Sony even made a redesign of the console calling it the PSOne. The PSOne is THE best console redesign ever as it was made for a LCD screen attached to it making it suitable to carry it around with you. With the Sony PlayStation, gaming had finally grown up. I have great nostalgia for the Sony Playstation at it was the console that got me into gaming more so than any of the Nintendo console that I owned. Just looking at the old gray machine and turning it on just hearing the console’s start up screen always give me nostalgic joy.

 

And to even carry out the legacy of the system, the Playstation 3 proudly release PS1 games as downloadable on the Playstation Store and many Sony fans still bought those classics. Now only counting ten of the console of the 1990s was some of the toughest list to make. Each months, during it’s lifespan, had games that kept me interested and it always worth coming back to the games that I missed out on, only to be surprised and in awe. That’s how good the Playstation really is!  After given some time with this list, I was able to just pick ten of my favorite of all time! These are the Playstation games that has shown me that video games are more than just a hobby, it’s an experience that gradually taught me to the importance that games should tell you a great story, amazing visuals, and fantastic gameplay. And here are the ten PS1 games that seized it all!

Top 10 Video Games of 1998

Video games has come a long way. The stuff that kids were playing on their consoles and computers decades ago, has gaming changed all that much? Of course they have, and they changed all the way back to 1998, the single greatest year in the entire history of gaming. Yes, 1998 really is the best year in gaming because many of the titles released in this very year turned video games into the pop culture phenomenon that it is today. 1998 was a well established year where popular games and genres were defined or redefined. These are instant classics proceeded to shape to define gaming forever after. This is personally my favorite year ever because this was around the time I entered the 3rd grade with a better elementary school teacher, we moved to a new two story villa, and this was the year that we got the Sony Playstation for the first time. So when it comes to making my Top 10 favorite games of this very year, it’s really hard for me to pick only ten that I still continue playing and still continue to hunt down. I love those 365 days so passionately that I would want the time machine to exist so I can just go back to those times when these games were new and people everywhere were obsessing over it. That’s part of the reason why we it’s a lot more fun to play these games when it was released in opposed to playing them now when everybody forgot about them. These are the times where I’m in a great mood to once again Gotta Catch ‘Em All, Travel Through the Land of the Dead, Obtaining the Tri Force in 3D, Having Psycho Mantis reading memory cards, escaping Black Mesa, torching Gnasty Gnorc, getting all Jiggies, collecting 25 crystals, destroy the zergs, this was all gaming in year 1998!