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My Top 10 PS1 Games!
7 years ago
I'm bored, its time for a new journal =p As the title says, this is my top 10 games for Play Station 1 that I had growing up!
10. Apocalypse
A weird little game staring Bruce Willis as a scientist turned gun toting hero fighting against a nebulously explained religious technocracy. Gory and violent, but full of cheesy one liners and a cameo by System of a Down.
9. Alien Resurrection
Say what you want about the movie, the game was scary as fuck; with intense atmosphere and dread, it actually pushed the PS1 to its limits back in the day, and amusingly enough its control scheme, which is quite similar to modern shooters, was considered 'bad' at the time.
8. Hogs of War
A very odd game where Rik Mayall voices every single character, and every single character is a pig soldier fighting to control a pig shaped island's swill deposits. Turned based tactics and chuckles abound.
7. Destruction Derby 2
Vehicular mayhem! What else needs to be said?
6. A Bug's Life
Ah yes, Disney PS1 games. This was a really fun experience, full of great music and good gameplay. Now you have the menu theme in your head, admit it.
5. Toy Story 2
Here for the same reason as 6, fun as hell!
4. Small Soldiers
Great music, good atmosphere, amazing expansion on the movie by actually being set within the hinted at fictional world the Gorgonites and Commando Elite come from.
3. Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Could never get very far in this, but the atmosphere, character designs, themes and mood were amazing, many hours were spent trying to get further than Necrum Mines.
2. Crash 3
An improvement on Crash 2 (I never played the original, for shame!), with much more things to do and worlds to explore throughout history. Silly, fun and replayable, and probably one of my first full on furry games. Which brings me to...
1. Spyro
The original Spyro the Dragon was, to my knowledge, my first ever video game. While the sequels were much better technically and gameplay wise, Spyro 1 will always hold a place in my heart as my first ever game, and its colorful visuals, trippy music and sometimes hard to find dragon statues brought countless hours of play time for me. (Though the boss fights were...well, crappy, but nevertheless!)
10. Apocalypse
A weird little game staring Bruce Willis as a scientist turned gun toting hero fighting against a nebulously explained religious technocracy. Gory and violent, but full of cheesy one liners and a cameo by System of a Down.
9. Alien Resurrection
Say what you want about the movie, the game was scary as fuck; with intense atmosphere and dread, it actually pushed the PS1 to its limits back in the day, and amusingly enough its control scheme, which is quite similar to modern shooters, was considered 'bad' at the time.
8. Hogs of War
A very odd game where Rik Mayall voices every single character, and every single character is a pig soldier fighting to control a pig shaped island's swill deposits. Turned based tactics and chuckles abound.
7. Destruction Derby 2
Vehicular mayhem! What else needs to be said?
6. A Bug's Life
Ah yes, Disney PS1 games. This was a really fun experience, full of great music and good gameplay. Now you have the menu theme in your head, admit it.
5. Toy Story 2
Here for the same reason as 6, fun as hell!
4. Small Soldiers
Great music, good atmosphere, amazing expansion on the movie by actually being set within the hinted at fictional world the Gorgonites and Commando Elite come from.
3. Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Could never get very far in this, but the atmosphere, character designs, themes and mood were amazing, many hours were spent trying to get further than Necrum Mines.
2. Crash 3
An improvement on Crash 2 (I never played the original, for shame!), with much more things to do and worlds to explore throughout history. Silly, fun and replayable, and probably one of my first full on furry games. Which brings me to...
1. Spyro
The original Spyro the Dragon was, to my knowledge, my first ever video game. While the sequels were much better technically and gameplay wise, Spyro 1 will always hold a place in my heart as my first ever game, and its colorful visuals, trippy music and sometimes hard to find dragon statues brought countless hours of play time for me. (Though the boss fights were...well, crappy, but nevertheless!)
On the Crash front I feel the need to bring up Crash Team Racing which had such a good mechanic in wumpa fruit, that mario kart 8 got praise for making a watered down version of it in the form of coins.
Unrelated note, I want to bring up Ape Escape as another one that would be high on my list but when part of the list qualifier is "I had growing up" I completely understand our list differences. To be honest the only game I had while growing up on the list is the Spyro. The only crash games I had growing up were CTR, and Crash Bash. I have gone back and played the older Crash games and completely understand why Crash 3 is up there in second place.