Too be honest I'm not a big PlayStation fan but you were right with rage racer. I loved ridge racer revolution and sorta tekken 2... some will say driver which pushed the system to the limit which i certainly enjoyed in the day - but i prefer games these days that stay within the PlayStation limits. Aka destruction Derby (even tho in the day I only had the Saturn version....oooh i know...) and the sequel too. Much love K.J Ps. I played the hell out of the demo of metal gear solid. "Huh? What was that noise??"
Sure they'll be plenty of my favourites in this video... I'm wondering whether Kurushi will make the list though? That was a puzzle game me and a mate put a lot of time into back when was new
Die Hard Trilogy. Is objectively the best game? No. Is it even subjectively the best game to me? No. It has a lot of rough edges. But I will never forget seeing it for the first time, and realising we just took a big step forward
@Newsbender II Sadly, I never found a compatible lightgun to use. I used to always get stuck at the same part, but one day, everything just clicked, and I managed to finish the whole thing using a controller. Never came close to finishing it again
Makes me feel mortal. I can remember it like it was yesterday, the hours spent playing these games, but when I look back at their release dates, some were 27 years ago! In another 27 years, I’ll be 69!!
@@christschin3708 I don't feel mortal. I think of the whole thing as being a hallucination from the start. Something can't die if it was never part of the world where nothing lives forever.
It's incredible how some very highly regarded and legit great games are so far down the list, then as the list continues you suddenly realise just how many damn classic games the system actually has!
@@MikeRox83 yeah, top 100 for Dreamcast is more than enough. But for ps1, there are around 4105 games (without homebrew), 70% of which are exclusives :)
@@yirmeskalnins yeah that's why I say this video just shows how damn broad the quality of the library is, could probably have 200 games in the top 100 depending what mood you were in.
Crikey, the announcer on Destruction Derby just put my brain into a time warp. "You've blown your radiator!" takes me right back to that fateful 90's Christmas.
Final Fantasy IX is my number one as an adult as I now appreciate RPG titles. As a kid I was hooked on Ultimate Doom, Alien trilogy, Resident Evil and Fifa. The Playstation was a literal game changer, going from a SNES to this! Thanks for the video Kim.
FF7 also is my favorite game of all time. My best friend and I picked up our pre-order copies at Best Buy and had our 14-year-old brains melted by the magnitude of it. It was a watershed moment for video game storytelling. And, to this day, no game has come close to giving me the feeling this game gave me with its characters and story.
It's like no other. Recently I played through the 'seventh Heaven' PC modded version...It was like playing It for the first time in '97. Recommended ;)
Yeah I feel the same I was a few years younger. I got so invested in the characters (I have never been since) so of course I cried when you know who died, I had fallen for this imaginary character. And from then on I was drawing fan art and doing fan fiction for FF7 while in middle school. Sadly the game got turned out by Square and it became a meme over time
I still remember how blown away I was at the games of the PS1. The first two I played were Magic Carpet and Resident Evil. I stayed up for a week to complete them both. I knew my home gaming life had changed forever!
Brilliant time for this video to drop. I set up DuckStation on my phone after a stay in hospital a month ago and have done the same now on my PC. Playing the classics I remember from back in the day. I completed Wild Arms (although I want to get 100pct on retroachievements, so still have some stuff to do) which is one of the best RPGs of all time imo. I'm now planning on winning Toca Touring Cars on Expert in the Renault Laguna. Thanks Kim.
So Kim, loved your 100 rundown and have grabbed absolutely tonnes of games based on your recommendations... Now let me add two of my own, and I promise you you won't be disappointed. I can only imagine these games weren't on your top 100 because you haven't played them. - Wild Arms. Looks like Alundra, as epic as FF. An absolute masterpiece, I implore you to play it. - Sheep, Dog and Wolf (Looney Tunes Sheep Raider in North America) Brilliantly done fun stealth game with all the classic characters and tonnes of charm, really quite unique. There are a tonne of PSX RPGs that I'm yet to play which I've grabbed based on recommendations. I want to play them all over the next year or so now I'm on a roll with this stuff again. I'm so impressed with DuckStation - I usually go to my PS1 connected to a little 14" CRT but with DuckStation I'm connected to my HDTV with a load of filters and clever stuff active and it looks simply amazing, it's how it looked in our minds eye back then when fresh. I've got an 8bitdo Pro 2 I'm using on both my PC and with a clip for my phone when I'm mobile. I went through the whole of Wild Arms over the course of a couple of weeks out and about staying away from home. All the best Kim, your time dedicated to this classic time in our lives never fails to bring a smile to my face!
Overboard! is a quality, unique little game, very underrated - always think of it in same regard as Hogs Of War for some inexplicable reason. Fantastic list Kim, thank you.
For Silent Bomber, did you know you can directly place bombs on the enemies? Holding the button brings up a targeting reticle, if you manage to get the end of it over an enemy it will lock on, and then you can tap the button repeatedly to attach the bombs.
Surprised that I didn't see some of my personal favorites on here: FF9, Chrono Cross, Jet Moto (and its first sequel... not so much the other one), Twisted Metal 2, MediEvil (that game deserves a LOT more love than it gets), Brave Fencer Musashi, and the Crash Bandicoot sequels.
Amazing video Kim. Like seriously, AMAZING. Honestly, when I clicked on this video I expected just a simple "slide show" of 100 games with just music in the background. And was really amazed that you actually commented on every single game. That's just top quality. I watched it all through and through with excitement. Thank you so much.
this console was major in my early teen years - what memories. what a system. the step up. it was like world changing to me back then. speaking of anniversaries, your channel's 10TH is coming up in just a week or so right?!! and long may you reign at the top of youtube's retro scene Kim!
In my opinion the PlayStation 1 was the most important console of all time and marked a turning point in gaming and 3d graphics. I didn't even own one but it really was something very special.
Agreed that it was and is a very special console that changed gaming, and even changed society to some extent, but your point about it being the console that single-handedly changed the gaming world is debatable. I say this because the N64 was the first truly popular console capable of lifelike 3D graphics. But I have to admit that the PS1 had a larger and better library. I would also argue that the Pong console was the most important console of all time, simply because it was the first.
3d turning point happened with 3dfx's Voodoo graphics card on PC. All of these games are better looking on it. Just for example look at GTA, it looks horrible on playstation.
Played it quite a lot when I was a kid and I'm still pleasantly surprised to find out about great titles on it that I had never heard of before, it's a great console even though tank controls make it hard to enjoy many of its games for me.
19:45 You know what, the LAPD is so absurdly well-funded (like, possibly better funded than your army) that I fully expect them to roll out something like that right before midterms.
I'm one of those 90's twenty somethings you referenced Kim, but if I remember correctly, I was always too wasted coming back from nights out to be sitting with friends to play games haha. Actually I never owned a PSX, so i'm enjoying watching for the recommendations to fire up on DuckStation :)
That demo disc music at the end. So many memories...
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Thanks for the compilation Kim, great video. Also spot on for capturing all the game footage in high resolution! Bishi Bashi Special doesn't get mention often at all and it's probably the more fun couch co-op videogame ever
Great video. International Track and Field is the best game in this genre. They've messed with the balance of these things since by adding stat upgrades so they aren't a level playing field anymore.
Thanks Kim! The PS1 is awesome! Some of my favourites are Resident Evil 2, Tekken 3, Pandemonium, Micro Machines V3, Croc, Metal Gear Solid and as for a hidden gem i would say Agent Armstrong or Rosco McQueen.
I'm alaways amazed how much you pored over so many games that ranking top 100s for so many platforms is a no-brainer for you, Kim. You're truly hardcore. Always a spectacle whenever I see one of these!
Weird. I opened this video and was like "where is Syphon Filter?" Then I randomly clicked on a part of the video (57:32) and it was talking about Syphon Filter. Just a weird occurrence. Happy viewing!
Great list! I would add Doom (great unique soundtrack), Abe's exoddus, Destruction derby 2, Wild arms, Breath of fire III, Exhumed, o and i prefer Tekken 2 over 3.
This is an absolute dream video!!! Hoped for years you would do this as love your PS1 perspective and previous Top 100s, so so glad, you're amazing, thank you!
God this video is so good, as always. Not only were the picks amazing and perfectly summarized, but you also surfaced a bunch of stuff deep within my memory that I’m kind of shocked I still remember. That taser in Siphon Filter broke me as a kid. I could not understand how such a weapon existed and if it did why it wasn’t the first choice of every army.
Nice list and very nice to see someone unafraid to put the best game at no. 1. I feel it’s become somewhat fashionable in recent history to say FFVII is overhyped. Since there is only so much you can play, I’m guessing you’ve never played any of the following games since they could easily make this list. FFIX (No. 2 in my list of FF games) Circuit Breakers (The best Micro Machines style game) Croc (Often overlooked due to Crash and Spyro) Demolition Racer (The pinnacle of Destruction Derby style games) Little Big Adventure (A game that very few people have played which leads to it being massively overlooked) Warhammer: Dark Omen (A fun RTS that wasn’t widely played either)
I was never into consoles and cut my "computing teeth" on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga - but it's always interesting seeing what I missed out on on the console side of things and there's definitely a few games in your list that I will trying in an emulator or two. But I guess that original PS1 "Mental Wealth" advert did its job on me because I still remember and loathe it as much as I do today as I did back then - definitely in my "Top Ten Most Annoying Ads Of All Time" being just so incredibly "up its own arty-farty bottom". Thank you for all of your great content, especially in what have clearly been some difficult times for you recently.
Oddly enough hearing the PS magazine tune at the end reminds me most of what I remember the PS1 for: Magazine demos. We had relatively few games, but every month we got that magazine with about 4 or 5 demos on it. MGS, Tombi, Soul Reaver, Syphon Filter, Ape Escape etc... I remember them less as full games and more the one or two levels you got on the PSM cover disc. That said my favorite game this video lacked was without doubt Vagrant Story. It was fiddly to get into, but it was primetime Squaresoft pushing the system to its limits and with a fantastic story to boot!
Tombi had probably the biggest PS1 demo I've ever seen, it let you play up until getting the pig bag from the dwarf elder. I never got to play Vagrant Story until it was on the PS Store and I really like what I've played of it but I don't understand the weapon crafting at all
I remember playing Command and Conquer Red Alert for the first time with a link cable...Absolutely incredible to play against another Human, every kid in the neighborhood was crammed in the room. Twisted Metal 2, Resident Evil, The Need For Speed, Road Rash, Loaded, Einhander, GTA...so many classics.
Glad to see Soul Blade so high up on the list. It's my pick for the most underrated fighting game of all time due to how much people just think of Calibur 1 and 2 and that seems to be it.
It’s like some people think only Soul Calibur 1 exists.. But I’m a fan of every installment I own which is Soul Blade, SC2-4, 6 and Broken Destiny.. And I’d have to admit the PSX version is the most charming..
Watching Driver from about 42.25 - it's amazing to see how far games have come, when you could see the buildings gradually "popping up" in the background. It's been a privilege to see it all change so much over the years. Alas - I am now old.
Great video Kim, I can't even imagine the hours of work that must have gone into making this. Thanks for bringing up so many happy memories. Going to have to fire up a emulator or something and replay some of these. Oh, why oh why did I sell my games collection??!!
i love ur content kim , im a 43 year old sony playstation fan i was 20 when i bought my first used ps1 from funcoland (its gamestop nowadays) and my first game imformer with ape escape on the cover
Great work as always Kim. I remember that one track in Rage Racer where you had to pick that car with a huge top speed, but awful acceleration. It took ages to catch up with the other racers, but once you did, you'd go flying past them. However, you had to make in around the circuit (3 laps I think) without any crashes, or you wouldn't be able to catch up with the other cars again due to the poor acceleration. Was a good challenge that one.
Brilliant list! I think it's telling of our slightly different ages because I was 6-10 when I originally owned and played my PlayStation. As such I think my faves reflect that: Kula World - One of the first 3D games I ever played and the graphics and physics of this "world" blew my mind as a kid and it still holds a place in my heart. Crash 3: One of the few games I not only completed, but actually bothered trying to get the hidden collectables. As a total non-completionist, it's really saying something. CTR: You basically said all that needs saying in the vid. Spyro 3 - My favourite of the Spyro series. Colourful, varied gameplay and I got to play a little dragon charging at guys and breathing fire. The other characters and NPCs were really fun and memorable, too. MediEvil 1&2 - Great action-adventure fun where I played a skeleton. Yes, yes, yessss. Micro Machines V3 - My other favourite racing game on the system. I still remember many of the jingles, the tracks and the fun powerups. And who could forget Cherry's Driving School 😂. Tombi! - swallowing and regurgitating items was never not amusing to child me! Rayman - I still remember the end of level jingle. Brilliant stuff Final Fantasy 9 - This was the only one that appealed to me style-wise as a kid and as blasphemous as it sounds, I've never gone back to play the other two 😬. But I absolutely adore this game, my favourite of the FFs I *have* played Resident Evil 2/Dino Crisis - put together as they're the only more "mature" games I really played on the system back in the day but they were very effective in scaring me. The atmosphere really was good, especially in the latter imo.
Nice video and I am pleased to see Tenchu in the top 10. One football game I have never heard you talk about is Super Shot Soccer (Bakuretsu Soccer. I'm not into football, but I really enjoyed the interesting take that this game has.
@@donnydarko7624 That's bc it was a sweet spot of a gaming era. Lot of smaller or even start up companies and they were willing to take risk just to make a great game. It'll never be like that again
Yeah, I loved Pandemonium. First game I completed on PlayStation. Along with X2 shooter it was the most fun I had with the five game pack from Toys R us. It was criticised for not being full 3D, which is a shame as it was very playable and looked great.
Cheers Kim. Tomb Raider 1 encouraged me to get a PS1, really happy I did. Nice to see Bushido Blade and G Police high up on your list :) I guess personal mentions are in order. I put a lot of time into; Vagrant Story, Assault Rigs, Breath Of Fire 3 and Front Mission 2.
Excelent video as always, but just a little observation, tempest x3 was a semi-port (if you can call it that) of tempest 2000 in atari jaguar by interplay and had nothing to do with jeff minter as minter himself critices the game at the time for various reasons and the fact that none of its input and/or ideas from tempest 2000 were converted correctly to ps1 (tempest 2000 its the definitve tempest in my opinion but x3 its not bad), anyway excelent video and a big thumbs up, greetings from Venezuela.
I found Road Rash: Jailbreak to be the superior Road Rash game on the PS1. It has an awesome soundtrack filled with west coast garage bands, most of which no longer exist, and it was technically open world meaning you could drive around outside of the predetermined race course.
I was obsessed with 3D platformers back in PS1 & N64 era so I spent more time on the N64 than PS1. I realise now that PS1 was the more consistent and objectively better gaming machine but it didn't have Mario 64 or ocarina of time, Banjo or golden eye. MGS, Resi2 Ape Escape, spyro and iss Pro are amazing games and would love to replay Croc again even with the tank controls. So much PS1 nostalgia as an early 3D console
Sad you didn't include the strike games, not only are they the definitive one but they also held up perfectly, soviet and nuclear strike are the only games like this, perfectly blending FMV, realisticish setting and fun gameplay. Future cop LAPD is a nice game but isn't a strike game at all. More people should know about those games.
Future Cop was/is one of my fave PS1 games. Never played the Strike games themselves but it’s great that FC is featured here over its more famous siblings.
Must add that in Cold Blood was the first 3D adventure by Revolution, the guys who made Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky and other games (I see no adventure games are present in the list, so you must dislike the genre). Of course it is also their most forgotten game, even more than Lure of the Tempress.
I notice from the footage you're having trouble emulating PS1 games with Redbook audio. My personal favorite PS1 game is Klonoa, it's one of the only games I can call a masterpiece and I absolutely cannot wait for the upcoming remake collection 19:41 Because this actually was originally going to be a Strike game 20:23 I'd say a mixture of things, namely the extra input lag from HDTVs (that thankfully can be compensated for now on modern emulation) and the game itself is very random in what it considers good/bad when you're playing freestyle. Um Jammer Lammy holds up much better 1:19:17 You need to play the sequel IQ/Kurushi Final, it's basically the first game but with more content/unlockables and it gets rid of the small delay when you detonate bombs which makes the game flow much better You covered pretty much all my favorite and big nostalgic PS1 games short of Speed Freaks and Tomba and MediEvil, holy crap this was a really good list
Really great video. Almost never see most of these mentioned before. For me the PS1 was the start of the JRPG so my favourite is Suikoden 2. A JRPG that I still don't really feel has been matched
Gunner's Heaven was almost released in the US, they even had the boxes printed. Legend has it that Bernie Stolar called up the factory at the very last minute to cancel the disks the day he took over and that Sony USA ended up paying for that first run of disks that didn't get printed due to the last minute cancellation. Apparently he preferred to pay for the disks and not release it, then to release it.
Felony 11-79 was known as Runabout in Japan and was the first game in a fairly popular series. When the sequel came out in Europe in 2003 not only was it 3 years after the American release (and nearly 4 years after the Japanese release!) it was called Runabout 2. There was a game on the Dreamcast that actually came out before the Playstation sequel (Super Runabout: The Golden State).
I've added 400 plus PS1 games to my SNES mini already, thought my 'hidden gem' hunting was finished but will now have too add at least another dozen, many thanks
Kim, it's nothing short of a miracle how you just keep posting these wonderful long-form videos. I love it helps me so much. I just listen while I work 👍👍❤️❤️
I love the diversity of this system. My top games differ drastically, but this is an amazing list of games I should finally give a proper go. Thanks for the time and effort. Cheers!
As soon as I saw the creepy "conquer worlds" kid, I knew I was gonna sit through the whole video in one sitting. The memories are flooding back, thanks Kim!!! 😍♥️♥️♥️
Great video enjoyed it. Would disagree strongly on both the medal of honor games, MoH underground was an absolutely fantastic game. For me, I would have had Crash Bash, Panzer Front in there as well!!!
Wow don't know why but I think this one is going to be very special. I loved all my systems that I had growing up and feel very privileged to been able to have those memories but the PS1 there's going to be many games on this system. Also having had a pc as a kid things like Command and Conquer and Doom I will get to experience on the PS1. Many many happy memories thanks for Kim I can't wait to watch all of this..🥰
Great video! As an unapologetic nintendo/retro guy, i totally skipped PS1. Having a video like this allowed me to make a list of ones i might be interested in. Stuff like Vib-Ribbon and Colony Wars look good---i took a few notes. Thanks!
Ah, you kept me waiting for Bushido Blade there - was nearing panic stations that it hadn't show up yet, but very glad to see it reach a high spot. Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve are up there for me and the only two I missed - nice to see Tenchu make the grade too.
Quake II I'll give you, but I will respectfully disagree with excluding Doom from consideration, purely because Williams went the extra mile in carving out a unique identity for their PS port with new graphical features, new audio and Aubrey Hodges' frankly unsettling dark ambient soundtrack. Granted not as much of a departure as their N64 version, but definitely its own thing in terms of feel.
One really weird but memorable game is Tail of the Sun. An early game from 96 where as a caveman you took care of your tribe and built up strength to kill mammoths and collect enough tusks to reach the sun.
Ghost In The Shell. Absolutely top draw, great graphics, soundtrack, cutscenes and most importantly gameplay. If you haven't played this one check it out, it's very immediately entertaining.
What a great video, so many games I had forgotten about, and so many memories, will be digging some of these classics out, thank you for the video Kim, love you and your content xx
What are your favourite PS1 games? Hopefully you enjoyed this list. :)
Too be honest I'm not a big PlayStation fan but you were right with rage racer. I loved ridge racer revolution and sorta tekken 2... some will say driver which pushed the system to the limit which i certainly enjoyed in the day - but i prefer games these days that stay within the PlayStation limits. Aka destruction Derby (even tho in the day I only had the Saturn version....oooh i know...) and the sequel too.
Much love K.J
Ps. I played the hell out of the demo of metal gear solid.
"Huh? What was that noise??"
Final Fantasy IX is my personal favorite PS1 game. Twisted Metal 2 is probably a close second.
Sure they'll be plenty of my favourites in this video... I'm wondering whether Kurushi will make the list though? That was a puzzle game me and a mate put a lot of time into back when was new
Die Hard Trilogy. Is objectively the best game? No. Is it even subjectively the best game to me? No. It has a lot of rough edges. But I will never forget seeing it for the first time, and realising we just took a big step forward
@Newsbender II Sadly, I never found a compatible lightgun to use. I used to always get stuck at the same part, but one day, everything just clicked, and I managed to finish the whole thing using a controller. Never came close to finishing it again
the older i get, the more i'm haunted by my memories of this stuff. The past seems so close, but also so far.
Makes me feel mortal. I can remember it like it was yesterday, the hours spent playing these games, but when I look back at their release dates, some were 27 years ago!
In another 27 years, I’ll be 69!!
@Alex Mit Thanks for that mortality check mate 😐
Stop. Damn man, why you gotta remind me how old I am? Sheesh. Lol. Anyways, yeah man. The PS-X was my teenage years. Awesome memories.
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I don't feel mortal. I think of the whole thing as being a hallucination from the start. Something can't die if it was never part of the world where nothing lives forever.
Life is finite- play more games
It's incredible how some very highly regarded and legit great games are so far down the list, then as the list continues you suddenly realise just how many damn classic games the system actually has!
top 100 is definetely not enough for such a great system. I dont see here many of jrpg the ps1 is famous for. Top 250 would be more appropriate
@@RunplaysinHD its funny because a top 100 of my beloved Dreamcast would be nearly half the library >_
@@MikeRox83 yeah, top 100 for Dreamcast is more than enough. But for ps1, there are around 4105 games (without homebrew), 70% of which are exclusives :)
There are no definitive list greatest games per console as opinions will vary and I agree.
@@yirmeskalnins yeah that's why I say this video just shows how damn broad the quality of the library is, could probably have 200 games in the top 100 depending what mood you were in.
Crikey, the announcer on Destruction Derby just put my brain into a time warp. "You've blown your radiator!" takes me right back to that fateful 90's Christmas.
"watch out for those barriers, they'll only slow you down!"
Final Fantasy IX is my number one as an adult as I now appreciate RPG titles. As a kid I was hooked on Ultimate Doom, Alien trilogy, Resident Evil and Fifa. The Playstation was a literal game changer, going from a SNES to this! Thanks for the video Kim.
FF7 also is my favorite game of all time. My best friend and I picked up our pre-order copies at Best Buy and had our 14-year-old brains melted by the magnitude of it. It was a watershed moment for video game storytelling. And, to this day, no game has come close to giving me the feeling this game gave me with its characters and story.
It's like no other. Recently I played through the 'seventh Heaven' PC modded version...It was like playing It for the first time in '97. Recommended ;)
Yeah I feel the same I was a few years younger. I got so invested in the characters (I have never been since) so of course I cried when you know who died, I had fallen for this imaginary character.
And from then on I was drawing fan art and doing fan fiction for FF7 while in middle school.
Sadly the game got turned out by Square and it became a meme over time
I still remember how blown away I was at the games of the PS1. The first two I played were Magic Carpet and Resident Evil. I stayed up for a week to complete them both. I knew my home gaming life had changed forever!
Brilliant time for this video to drop. I set up DuckStation on my phone after a stay in hospital a month ago and have done the same now on my PC. Playing the classics I remember from back in the day. I completed Wild Arms (although I want to get 100pct on retroachievements, so still have some stuff to do) which is one of the best RPGs of all time imo. I'm now planning on winning Toca Touring Cars on Expert in the Renault Laguna. Thanks Kim.
So Kim, loved your 100 rundown and have grabbed absolutely tonnes of games based on your recommendations...
Now let me add two of my own, and I promise you you won't be disappointed. I can only imagine these games weren't on your top 100 because you haven't played them.
- Wild Arms.
Looks like Alundra, as epic as FF. An absolute masterpiece, I implore you to play it.
- Sheep, Dog and Wolf (Looney Tunes Sheep Raider in North America)
Brilliantly done fun stealth game with all the classic characters and tonnes of charm, really quite unique.
There are a tonne of PSX RPGs that I'm yet to play which I've grabbed based on recommendations. I want to play them all over the next year or so now I'm on a roll with this stuff again. I'm so impressed with DuckStation - I usually go to my PS1 connected to a little 14" CRT but with DuckStation I'm connected to my HDTV with a load of filters and clever stuff active and it looks simply amazing, it's how it looked in our minds eye back then when fresh. I've got an 8bitdo Pro 2 I'm using on both my PC and with a clip for my phone when I'm mobile. I went through the whole of Wild Arms over the course of a couple of weeks out and about staying away from home.
All the best Kim, your time dedicated to this classic time in our lives never fails to bring a smile to my face!
Overboard! is a quality, unique little game, very underrated - always think of it in same regard as Hogs Of War for some inexplicable reason.
Fantastic list Kim, thank you.
For Silent Bomber, did you know you can directly place bombs on the enemies?
Holding the button brings up a targeting reticle, if you manage to get the end of it over an enemy it will lock on, and then you can tap the button repeatedly to attach the bombs.
Surprised that I didn't see some of my personal favorites on here: FF9, Chrono Cross, Jet Moto (and its first sequel... not so much the other one), Twisted Metal 2, MediEvil (that game deserves a LOT more love than it gets), Brave Fencer Musashi, and the Crash Bandicoot sequels.
CHRONO Cross and Brave Fencer Musashi both didn’t come out in PAL territories so were easily missed if you didn’t import 😥
2 mins in and i saw comment no ff9 and chrono cross? thanks for comment, i'm skipping this video
I'm sure we'll all be devastated by your absence @@Bijuklich
@@SuperMookles as you should 🤣😂
Amazing video Kim. Like seriously, AMAZING.
Honestly, when I clicked on this video I expected just a simple "slide show" of 100 games with just music in the background. And was really amazed that you actually commented on every single game. That's just top quality. I watched it all through and through with excitement. Thank you so much.
this console was major in my early teen years - what memories. what a system. the step up. it was like world changing to me back then. speaking of anniversaries, your channel's 10TH is coming up in just a week or so right?!! and long may you reign at the top of youtube's retro scene Kim!
Really glad to see places for Overboard, Alundra and most of all Bushido Blade. But also loved Syphon Filter, Rage Racer and TR2.
In my opinion the PlayStation 1 was the most important console of all time and marked a turning point in gaming and 3d graphics. I didn't even own one but it really was something very special.
Agreed that it was and is a very special console that changed gaming, and even changed society to some extent, but your point about it being the console that single-handedly changed the gaming world is debatable. I say this because the N64 was the first truly popular console capable of lifelike 3D graphics. But I have to admit that the PS1 had a larger and better library. I would also argue that the Pong console was the most important console of all time, simply because it was the first.
3d turning point happened with 3dfx's Voodoo graphics card on PC. All of these games are better looking on it. Just for example look at GTA, it looks horrible on playstation.
After ps2, everything gone downhill. Gaming console turned more into business $$$ making device. But we now have Meta Quest 2 which is the modern ps1
Ps1 was a hell of a machine and a massive step up from the Megadrive. Snes was great too though.
Played it quite a lot when I was a kid and I'm still pleasantly surprised to find out about great titles on it that I had never heard of before, it's a great console even though tank controls make it hard to enjoy many of its games for me.
Thank you Kim, asked for this ages ago and you delivered, love your take on games!
19:45 You know what, the LAPD is so absurdly well-funded (like, possibly better funded than your army) that I fully expect them to roll out something like that right before midterms.
I normally find list videos tedious but yours are always very well put together. I really enjoyed this one, thank you.
I'm one of those 90's twenty somethings you referenced Kim, but if I remember correctly, I was always too wasted coming back from nights out to be sitting with friends to play games haha.
Actually I never owned a PSX, so i'm enjoying watching for the recommendations to fire up on DuckStation :)
FF7, Star Ocean Second story, Azure Dreams, Devils Deception, ISS 98.
This is really an amazing video encompassing the personal best 100 PS1 games . I hope you will soon upload your best 100 PS2 games as well
That demo disc music at the end. So many memories...
Thanks for the compilation Kim, great video. Also spot on for capturing all the game footage in high resolution!
Bishi Bashi Special doesn't get mention often at all and it's probably the more fun couch co-op videogame ever
Another hour and a half of Kim? I don't even care anymore what it is about, it's always interesting 👍🏻
Kim, one of the best (if not the best) gaming channels and personalities on this platform. Thank you so much for everything!!!
Great video. International Track and Field is the best game in this genre. They've messed with the balance of these things since by adding stat upgrades so they aren't a level playing field anymore.
Thanks Kim! The PS1 is awesome! Some of my favourites are Resident Evil 2, Tekken 3, Pandemonium, Micro Machines V3, Croc, Metal Gear Solid and as for a hidden gem i would say Agent Armstrong or Rosco McQueen.
Excellent list Kim, your content just keeps getting better and better.
Excellent video Kim, enjoyed it very much.
The legend of dragoon, Xzenogears, suikoden 1,2,Mgs,ff7,9,Resident Evil and too many more.ps1 started the big jrpgs era and stealth.
I'm alaways amazed how much you pored over so many games that ranking top 100s for so many platforms is a no-brainer for you, Kim. You're truly hardcore. Always a spectacle whenever I see one of these!
Weird. I opened this video and was like "where is Syphon Filter?" Then I randomly clicked on a part of the video (57:32) and it was talking about Syphon Filter. Just a weird occurrence. Happy viewing!
Alien Girl for those of you who are wondering is Fiona Maclaine, her face was altered for this commercial by none other than Chris Cunningham.
Great list that touches on a lot of titles that slipped under the radar.
Great list! I would add Doom (great unique soundtrack), Abe's exoddus, Destruction derby 2, Wild arms, Breath of fire III, Exhumed, o and i prefer Tekken 2 over 3.
This is an absolute dream video!!! Hoped for years you would do this as love your PS1 perspective and previous Top 100s, so so glad, you're amazing, thank you!
I'm a minute in and i already know this is going to be a barn burner. this hour and a half is gonna fly by
Still remember getting my ps1 & been blown away with graphics n how nice games looked
God this video is so good, as always. Not only were the picks amazing and perfectly summarized, but you also surfaced a bunch of stuff deep within my memory that I’m kind of shocked I still remember. That taser in Siphon Filter broke me as a kid. I could not understand how such a weapon existed and if it did why it wasn’t the first choice of every army.
Can’t wait to watch. This is going to be great.
Nice list and very nice to see someone unafraid to put the best game at no. 1. I feel it’s become somewhat fashionable in recent history to say FFVII is overhyped.
Since there is only so much you can play, I’m guessing you’ve never played any of the following games since they could easily make this list.
FFIX (No. 2 in my list of FF games)
Circuit Breakers (The best Micro Machines style game)
Croc (Often overlooked due to Crash and Spyro)
Demolition Racer (The pinnacle of Destruction Derby style games)
Little Big Adventure (A game that very few people have played which leads to it being massively overlooked)
Warhammer: Dark Omen (A fun RTS that wasn’t widely played either)
I was never into consoles and cut my "computing teeth" on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga - but it's always interesting seeing what I missed out on on the console side of things and there's definitely a few games in your list that I will trying in an emulator or two.
But I guess that original PS1 "Mental Wealth" advert did its job on me because I still remember and loathe it as much as I do today as I did back then - definitely in my "Top Ten Most Annoying Ads Of All Time" being just so incredibly "up its own arty-farty bottom".
Thank you for all of your great content, especially in what have clearly been some difficult times for you recently.
Love you lists its all I watch retro games thank you keep it up........we need more!!!
Oddly enough hearing the PS magazine tune at the end reminds me most of what I remember the PS1 for: Magazine demos. We had relatively few games, but every month we got that magazine with about 4 or 5 demos on it. MGS, Tombi, Soul Reaver, Syphon Filter, Ape Escape etc... I remember them less as full games and more the one or two levels you got on the PSM cover disc.
That said my favorite game this video lacked was without doubt Vagrant Story. It was fiddly to get into, but it was primetime Squaresoft pushing the system to its limits and with a fantastic story to boot!
Tombi had probably the biggest PS1 demo I've ever seen, it let you play up until getting the pig bag from the dwarf elder. I never got to play Vagrant Story until it was on the PS Store and I really like what I've played of it but I don't understand the weapon crafting at all
without demos my love for games would not have been possible. Vagrant story is one of my favourite games ever.
I loved this video. Thanks. Really nice to see Tenchu ranked so high I love that game.
I remember playing Command and Conquer Red Alert for the first time with a link cable...Absolutely incredible to play against another Human, every kid in the neighborhood was crammed in the room. Twisted Metal 2, Resident Evil, The Need For Speed, Road Rash, Loaded, Einhander, GTA...so many classics.
The concept of playing an RTS using a controller when I actually finally played one on a PC I was like oh this is how you play them lol
Glad to see Soul Blade so high up on the list. It's my pick for the most underrated fighting game of all time due to how much people just think of Calibur 1 and 2 and that seems to be it.
It’s like some people think only Soul Calibur 1 exists.. But I’m a fan of every installment I own which is Soul Blade, SC2-4, 6 and Broken Destiny.. And I’d have to admit the PSX version is the most charming..
What a brilliant video Kim, and thank you for including obscure gems like Felony 11-79 and Kurushi, not to mention Liberogrande.
Watching Driver from about 42.25 - it's amazing to see how far games have come, when you could see the buildings gradually "popping up" in the background.
It's been a privilege to see it all change so much over the years.
Alas - I am now old.
I think I would have added Ghost in The Shell and Abe's Exodus. Great list, great video and great channel.
brilliant video, it was great to reminisce about some of my childhood games.
Great video Kim, I can't even imagine the hours of work that must have gone into making this. Thanks for bringing up so many happy memories. Going to have to fire up a emulator or something and replay some of these. Oh, why oh why did I sell my games collection??!!
F1 1997 was the F1 game that got me more into that sport, despite having played Monaco GP and even the previous F1 from Psygnosis.
i love ur content kim , im a 43 year old sony playstation fan i was 20 when i bought my first used ps1 from funcoland (its gamestop nowadays) and my first game imformer with ape escape on the cover
Heck yes - love these vids 🥰
Great work as always Kim.
I remember that one track in Rage Racer where you had to pick that car with a huge top speed, but awful acceleration. It took ages to catch up with the other racers, but once you did, you'd go flying past them.
However, you had to make in around the circuit (3 laps I think) without any crashes, or you wouldn't be able to catch up with the other cars again due to the poor acceleration. Was a good challenge that one.
Brilliant list! I think it's telling of our slightly different ages because I was 6-10 when I originally owned and played my PlayStation. As such I think my faves reflect that:
Kula World - One of the first 3D games I ever played and the graphics and physics of this "world" blew my mind as a kid and it still holds a place in my heart.
Crash 3: One of the few games I not only completed, but actually bothered trying to get the hidden collectables. As a total non-completionist, it's really saying something.
CTR: You basically said all that needs saying in the vid.
Spyro 3 - My favourite of the Spyro series. Colourful, varied gameplay and I got to play a little dragon charging at guys and breathing fire. The other characters and NPCs were really fun and memorable, too.
MediEvil 1&2 - Great action-adventure fun where I played a skeleton. Yes, yes, yessss.
Micro Machines V3 - My other favourite racing game on the system. I still remember many of the jingles, the tracks and the fun powerups. And who could forget Cherry's Driving School 😂.
Tombi! - swallowing and regurgitating items was never not amusing to child me!
Rayman - I still remember the end of level jingle. Brilliant stuff
Final Fantasy 9 - This was the only one that appealed to me style-wise as a kid and as blasphemous as it sounds, I've never gone back to play the other two 😬. But I absolutely adore this game, my favourite of the FFs I *have* played
Resident Evil 2/Dino Crisis - put together as they're the only more "mature" games I really played on the system back in the day but they were very effective in scaring me. The atmosphere really was good, especially in the latter imo.
A thoroughly enjoyabe hour and a half, thanks Kim!
Thank you Kim. Just about to go out to tidy the garden. This is the perfect companion ❤️
Nice video and I am pleased to see Tenchu in the top 10. One football game I have never heard you talk about is Super Shot Soccer (Bakuretsu Soccer. I'm not into football, but I really enjoyed the interesting take that this game has.
There was so much innovation that took place between psx, N64, and PS2, never had a dreamcast
@@donnydarko7624 That's bc it was a sweet spot of a gaming era. Lot of smaller or even start up companies and they were willing to take risk just to make a great game. It'll never be like that again
@ I think it has a lot to do with the transition from 2D to 3D and devs experimented with a lot of new ideas because it was uncharted territory.
Yeah, I loved Pandemonium. First game I completed on PlayStation. Along with X2 shooter it was the most fun I had with the five game pack from Toys R us. It was criticised for not being full 3D, which is a shame as it was very playable and looked great.
Yeah everyone was obsessed with the 3d graphics at that time, to the point of thinking 2d was going by the wayside lol. I'm sure glad it didn't.
Cheers Kim. Tomb Raider 1 encouraged me to get a PS1, really happy I did. Nice to see Bushido Blade and G Police high up on your list :)
I guess personal mentions are in order. I put a lot of time into; Vagrant Story, Assault Rigs, Breath Of Fire 3 and Front Mission 2.
NES Strider was great in its own way: collecting power ups, discovering the huge maps, unraveling the story. Any fan of Strider should try it!
Some great picks here Kim. Excellent list, really enjoyed it!
Excelent video as always, but just a little observation, tempest x3 was a semi-port (if you can call it that) of tempest 2000 in atari jaguar by interplay and had nothing to do with jeff minter as minter himself critices the game at the time for various reasons and the fact that none of its input and/or ideas from tempest 2000 were converted correctly to ps1 (tempest 2000 its the definitve tempest in my opinion but x3 its not bad), anyway excelent video and a big thumbs up, greetings from Venezuela.
I found Road Rash: Jailbreak to be the superior Road Rash game on the PS1. It has an awesome soundtrack filled with west coast garage bands, most of which no longer exist, and it was technically open world meaning you could drive around outside of the predetermined race course.
I was obsessed with 3D platformers back in PS1 & N64 era so I spent more time on the N64 than PS1. I realise now that PS1 was the more consistent and objectively better gaming machine but it didn't have Mario 64 or ocarina of time, Banjo or golden eye.
MGS, Resi2 Ape Escape, spyro and iss Pro are amazing games and would love to replay Croc again even with the tank controls. So much PS1 nostalgia as an early 3D console
Sad you didn't include the strike games, not only are they the definitive one but they also held up perfectly, soviet and nuclear strike are the only games like this, perfectly blending FMV, realisticish setting and fun gameplay. Future cop LAPD is a nice game but isn't a strike game at all. More people should know about those games.
Future Cop was/is one of my fave PS1 games. Never played the Strike games themselves but it’s great that FC is featured here over its more famous siblings.
@Nicolas Desert strike on the SNES is lit 🔥, necer played the 3D games 🎮 🕹, EA should bring the strike franchise back
The amazing thing about this list is seeing how often sequels would actually improve upon their predecessors
Aw brilliant. Cannot wait to get time to watch this. Thank you
Must add that in Cold Blood was the first 3D adventure by Revolution, the guys who made Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky and other games (I see no adventure games are present in the list, so you must dislike the genre). Of course it is also their most forgotten game, even more than Lure of the Tempress.
I notice from the footage you're having trouble emulating PS1 games with Redbook audio. My personal favorite PS1 game is Klonoa, it's one of the only games I can call a masterpiece and I absolutely cannot wait for the upcoming remake collection
19:41 Because this actually was originally going to be a Strike game
20:23 I'd say a mixture of things, namely the extra input lag from HDTVs (that thankfully can be compensated for now on modern emulation) and the game itself is very random in what it considers good/bad when you're playing freestyle. Um Jammer Lammy holds up much better
1:19:17 You need to play the sequel IQ/Kurushi Final, it's basically the first game but with more content/unlockables and it gets rid of the small delay when you detonate bombs which makes the game flow much better
You covered pretty much all my favorite and big nostalgic PS1 games short of Speed Freaks and Tomba and MediEvil, holy crap this was a really good list
That was a real treat kim , forgot about so many of them amazing titles , Alundra was a favorite of mine and still have my copy in the collection ~
Really great video. Almost never see most of these mentioned before. For me the PS1 was the start of the JRPG so my favourite is Suikoden 2. A JRPG that I still don't really feel has been matched
Became much more of a pc gamer around this time, but the PS1 still holds a special place in my heart
Great video. I was trying to remember the game silent bomber for years. You have done me a huge favour
Gunner's Heaven was almost released in the US, they even had the boxes printed. Legend has it that Bernie Stolar called up the factory at the very last minute to cancel the disks the day he took over and that Sony USA ended up paying for that first run of disks that didn't get printed due to the last minute cancellation. Apparently he preferred to pay for the disks and not release it, then to release it.
Felony 11-79 was known as Runabout in Japan and was the first game in a fairly popular series. When the sequel came out in Europe in 2003 not only was it 3 years after the American release (and nearly 4 years after the Japanese release!) it was called Runabout 2. There was a game on the Dreamcast that actually came out before the Playstation sequel (Super Runabout: The Golden State).
I've added 400 plus PS1 games to my SNES mini already, thought my 'hidden gem' hunting was finished but will now have too add at least another dozen, many thanks
Just wait until you start looking into Japan-only games
Kim, it's nothing short of a miracle how you just keep posting these wonderful long-form videos. I love it helps me so much. I just listen while I work 👍👍❤️❤️
I love the diversity of this system. My top games differ drastically, but this is an amazing list of games I should finally give a proper go. Thanks for the time and effort. Cheers!
As soon as I saw the creepy "conquer worlds" kid, I knew I was gonna sit through the whole video in one sitting. The memories are flooding back, thanks Kim!!! 😍♥️♥️♥️
Great video enjoyed it. Would disagree strongly on both the medal of honor games, MoH underground was an absolutely fantastic game. For me, I would have had Crash Bash, Panzer Front in there as well!!!
"What a joy" indeed. Thank you once again, Kim!
Wow don't know why but I think this one is going to be very special. I loved all my systems that I had growing up and feel very privileged to been able to have those memories but the PS1 there's going to be many games on this system. Also having had a pc as a kid things like Command and Conquer and Doom I will get to experience on the PS1. Many many happy memories thanks for Kim I can't wait to watch all of this..🥰
Great video! As an unapologetic nintendo/retro guy, i totally skipped PS1. Having a video like this allowed me to make a list of ones i might be interested in. Stuff like Vib-Ribbon and Colony Wars look good---i took a few notes. Thanks!
As far as I'm concerned, the list is only missing Vagrant Story, Front Mission 3 and FF9. Nice list.
Ah, you kept me waiting for Bushido Blade there - was nearing panic stations that it hadn't show up yet, but very glad to see it reach a high spot. Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve are up there for me and the only two I missed - nice to see Tenchu make the grade too.
What's that ending song used for the credits? Kinda dig it. Great video as always!
So pleased to see Kurushi on the list!
Soul Reaver is without doubt my favourite ps1 game, deserves a remake or reboot.
Thanks for this great countdown Kim I was only gaming on PC and N64 during the late 90s and missed most of these games
Just seeing Rage Racer included in a video fills me with joy!!!!
So many great memories especially Fifa 99, Smackdown 2 and GTA
Interesting list. So many classics. I will have to make one sometime
Quake II I'll give you, but I will respectfully disagree with excluding Doom from consideration, purely because Williams went the extra mile in carving out a unique identity for their PS port with new graphical features, new audio and Aubrey Hodges' frankly unsettling dark ambient soundtrack. Granted not as much of a departure as their N64 version, but definitely its own thing in terms of feel.
We came here for Kim's, subjective, list, not for yours.
One really weird but memorable game is Tail of the Sun. An early game from 96 where as a caveman you took care of your tribe and built up strength to kill mammoths and collect enough tusks to reach the sun.
Ghost In The Shell. Absolutely top draw, great graphics, soundtrack, cutscenes and most importantly gameplay. If you haven't played this one check it out, it's very immediately entertaining.
What a great video, so many games I had forgotten about, and so many memories, will be digging some of these classics out, thank you for the video Kim, love you and your content xx