The Difinitive List of Playstation 1 Games ... NOT!
1UP.COM just put up their list of the "definitive dozen" games that were the "pivotal representatives of what the Playstation was about."

Read it here.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3143465

WHAT?!?!? Jumping Flash made the list, but Twisted Metal 2 didn't?!?!? What a rip-off!!!

Aside from that, it's hard for me to disagree too much with the list. My favorite games for the PS1 were Final Fantasy VII, Tetris Plus, Midway's Arcade Classics (Arcade-perfect versions of Defender, Joust, Sinistar, and Robotron baby!!!), Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Toshinden (particularly the Japanese version - it wasn't the greatest great game, but I had a lot of fun playing it, and my wife got pretty good at it too...), Crash Bandicoot, and Wipeout.

Of them all, though, Final Fantasy VII was the one that blew me away. I was used to American-style RPGs - big adventures like the Ultima series (Ultima VII in particular - what is it about the seventh in a series?!?), Eye of the Beholder, Ultima Underworld (another of my all-time favorites), the Gold Box AD&D series from SSI, the Wizardry series, Diablo, and Daggerfall.

I'd played the NES Zelda, which wasn't much of an RPG (arguably, neither was Diablo), but I'd really had no experience with Japanese RPGs until Suikoden. My wife and I adored that game. Then FF7 came out, and that game literally became our entertainment for a month. We quit watching TV - after the kid was put to bed, we'd play Final Fantasy 7 for a couple of hours. Awesome game. It was magic.

Labels: Mainstream Games

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