What were people favorite PlayStation One games?

So far I've tried Havest Moon, Parappa Rappa, and Castlevania: Symphony of Night. All three piss me off.

Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
The only game ive played and finished more than 4x. EVER.
Ive got 9 or so under my belt, 2 in english, rest in japanese version.
Full 200.6% games.

Powershovel

GOTY ALL YEARS

I thought Resident Evil was pretty dang good and very innovative for the time even if the voice acting was sometimes laughably awful (e.g. "Jill, here's a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, THE MASTER OF UNLOCKING, take it with you. ", "...I hope it's not CHRIS's blood!"). Liked the follow up sequel almost as much.

Also, the first couple Tomb Raider games were really good. Yeah, I know they were ported to other consoles and PC, but I will always equate the early TR games to PSX, they were the best way to play them.

Great thread, btw.

Cool Boarders !!

I used so many hours of my life on that game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Boarders.

Fun thing, I got my self a new ps1 to day, so keep on posting games

Vib-Ribbon is pretty cool. Its a rythm game, that lets you pop in your own CD's.
The simplicity of it, makes it hilarious.

I'm using the pSX emu. Simple simple simple to use.
http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/

And a DualShock2 controller with a SmartJoy adapter.

ps. Power Shovel looks amazing!

Vib-Ribbon is one of the greatest import games for PSX- there are some amazing YouTube videos of it.

Looking up Power Shovel, seeing videos and reading that it was developed by Taito, there's little doubt in my mind it's a great game.

Sweet there is two sequels released in Japan for the PS2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vib-Ribbon


Currently I'm playing Klonoa : Door to the Phantomile. Overly cute 3D side scroller.

Tony Hawk anyone? Maybe I was just smoking too much pot at the time...

The Tony Hawk game was quite good, although I think I was playing the PC version? Not sure if I was playing the original or one of the early sequels (there were so many), but it was a good series of games.

For a long time I just had that demo disk with the 1 level of Tony Hawk on it. We'd just take turns doing point runs. Seems like with 3 or 4 of us, we'd end up playing all night.

ahh, when games were fun to play.

And things were easy.

I dunno man. I remember games whered you have to explore like final fantasy. you were perfectly capable of going into zones 20 lvls too early and getting your ass waxed hard.
then scamming to try and kill 1 or 2 to lvl.
now its a straight line and you lvl up at predetermined spots...

Lol, or games like Mega Man where you had to play perfect, because one screw up and you have to start the level over.

Fucking A, I still never beat mega man 1.
If Im not mistaken, ive never SEEN iceman.
Megaman 2 i would rox0r.
the one with gemini man. that was my first foray into hacking. I could never get up to em so for the password I kept tossing dots all over till I got lucky and found a code with him already dead, and just worked from there.
Hence im tempted to try the new rereleases on WII and what not. But im scared..
Really, games today are a boatload easier. to an extent. then, we had no difficulty options. now it seems default is low, which I dont like but hard can be insane.

Never understood Megaman its pure absurdity of hardness, and not in a good way. Feels like cheap shots forever.

I miss playing Road Rash, but I figure its not as fun as I remember.

If it's the same on that's for sale on the Playstation Network, I downloaded the demo it's H.A.R.D. like the originals.

Well, I haven't played any games in the last five years and the newest game I've played is probably UT2004. Gaming was just more enjoyable back then. I guess that now that I'm older it's lost its feeling. The late 80's and early to mid 90's were a great time for PC gaming. I dabbled with the PS1.

The original Megaman (1) was awfully unforgiving, the only way I'd recommend it to someone is running it in an emulator using save states.

It used to be I'd rent a game for three days and simply try and beat it during that time (junior high life was so simple . so it was very frustrating with a game like Megaman.

I do think good new games can be found today. I personally have to look a lot harder to find them. Mass Effect 2 wasn't a bad game, I still play UT 3 and I know I'll buy the next version whenever it comes out. Red Dead Redemption I haven't played, but I think I'll probably like it.

Mass effect is great but even 2 it was dumbed down from 1 in many ways. Free roaming type stuff, etc. Dragon Age let me down big. I have the diablo lootlust problem where you just want items. even if its crap, to sell em. to accumulate money that has no use or value. I love that. Dragon age makes you fail picking a chest, retry. lvl up picking, use enchants to boost skills. you pick it, $3.... REALLY paltry sums.

Yea megaman is hardkore. X1 is when it was just right I think.
and i started on all this when I was 6-7. I miss Old FF's...

Not to derail the thread, but that game is F*ING AMAZING. I haven't been able to stop playing it for about 2 weeks now. It's been quite a long time since a game has engrossed me like this. Funny thing is, it has a lot of elements from GTA, and I usually get bored with GTA (well, doing the missions) after a few hours of game play. But RDR has kept me going.

Not to mention, if you have even a casual interest in old westerns, the scenery, cinematography, themes and encounters are excellent.

I highly recommend it.

that pSX emu works really well... Good post.