Recommend me some good PS1 games

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I've got a PS2 and I'm kinda bored with the games I have now, but I can't quite afford and/or have little interest in most of the recent releases out now. Also considering I never got a Playstation until late '01, I'm guessing I missed out on a ton of cool shit. I've got the first two games in the Gran Turismo series and am a big dork for racing games in general. I also have Bushido Blade 2, which I like even though I am total ass at most fighting games. I suppose I'd be open to RPGs. Not sure what to think of stealth games like the Metal Gear series, though.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Metal Gear looks the absolute bollocks and is obviously really cool, but I can never be arsed to do anything more than the virtual practice missions.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

Final Fantasy Tatics.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

Parappa the Rapper is genius.

― Al_Ewing, Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

Wipeout 2097 - also the soundtrack is all Nate-dance!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm, I don't know since Metal Gear and Final Fantasy VII are my favorite games evah (apart from some Nintendo and Super Nintendo games).

The Resident Evil games are pretty great too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

Earthworm Jim?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

ISS Pro Evolution 2.
Spiderman.
Tekken 3.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Harvest Moon! You will not like it Nate but it is a good PS1 game, I wish I had a copy.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

Bust-A-Move 2
Mr Driller

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

Tekken 2
Chrono Cross
the first Tomb Raider game
you can also head to IGN.com and check their top-rated PS1 games. Those can be good places to start.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

SUPER PUZZLE FIGHTER!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link

I second Chrono Cross and FF7.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

SUPER PUZZLE FIGHTER! SECONDED!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link

Fifa 2000.

Don't buy any of those Olympics games that just involve hitting the buttons as fast as possible.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

I learned my lesson with those things back in 1983

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

god, I wish I could play super puzzle fighter again! just one last time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

I had a turbo controller and still couldn't beat Summer Games, grrr.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

you can play a short super puzzle fighter demo here:

http://www.capcom.com/online_games/spf/

― Shep, Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

Micro Machines

― Berkeley / Sackett (calstars), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago) link

racing games:
Rage Racer, the best Ridge Racer variant ever!
Wipeout 2097 and Wip3out.
Colin McRae Rally (& the sequel, 2.0)
Micro Machines V3
any of the TOCA Touring Car games

not racing games:
ISS series (any of 'em)
Vib Ribbon (the awesome puzzle game where you put any of your CDs into the Playstation and it randomly generates a course for you to negotiate with your... wireframe rabbit)
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Metal Gear Solid

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

You know, s1locki, Super Puzzle Fighter is now out on GBA.

― antexit (antexit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Final Fantasy 7 dude.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

good call on Rage racer - that's a winner, I played that for ages when I first got my PS2.

There's a really god tank game too, called Panzer something or other and is oneof the most atmospheric games I've ever played.

― chris (chris), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Wipeout 2097 is Wipeout XL in the states.

If you like platform/collecting games, the Crash and Spyro series are without equal.

FF7, Metal Gear, the first Tomb Raider seconded. I played through Resident Evil 2 over christmas: it still hold up pretty well.

Tico: I thought Harvest Moon was the most evil game ever made. Which is not to say that it was bad at what it did, just that what it did was cause me to spend hours accomplishing nothing! Er, a different quality of nothing than every other game, that is.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

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