Once the PlayStation’s true mascot, Crash Bandicoot was “a marsupial on a mission!” From N. Spyro has since been featured in thirteen additional games, some good, and others not-so-great. Spyro may have been the smallest of all the dragons, but that sure as heck didn’t stop him from flaming pompous egg thieves, collecting colorful gems, releasing his captive brethren, and selling millions upon millions of copies around the world. Everyone wanted their chance to play as the little purple dragon that could, and for good reason. Spyro may have been kid-friendly, but he was parent-friendly, too! The game even boasted an original score from Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Widely hailed for its graphics and replay value, Spyro the Dragon was one of the most top-selling video games, not only on the PS1, but of its time. If you like a much darker and violent take on vampires, it’s likely this game is for you. Like MediEvil, this game is a story of revenge and redemption, and contains very similar Gothic elements.
Raziel, betrayed by his lord, is then cast into Nosgoth’s Lake of Souls to burn eternally, but is revived as the one and only Soul Reaver, a phantom of his former self. Kain becomes angered when Raziel surpasses him in strength and skill, and giant wings, like the wings of a devil, soon sprout from Raziel’s back. Although the game is a part of the Legacy of Kain franchise, this particular entry focuses on Kain’s first lieutenant, Raziel, who is also a vampire.
In this installment, which begins approximately 1,500 years after where Blood Omen left off, the vampire Kain has ascended into godhood. Like MediEvil, it is an action-adventure game, but what truly sets this game apart from others is its impeccable storyline. One of the most graphically impressive games on the PS1, Soul Reaver was the direct sequel to Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen. Control Daniel as he slays powerful demons and restores order to the land, in hopes of finally being able to enter Asgard’s gates as a true warrior. It all makes for an enthralling 3D hack n’ slash, but the best thing about MediEvil is its uniquely Gothic tone. Taking up his sword once again, the bony phony sets out to fight for the future of Gallowmere, and the memory of his valor, battling zombies and evil wizards along the way. One night, Dan is unintentionally resurrected by his old foe, Zarok. Until fate gave him a second chance at greatness, that is. Having been the first to die in the Battle of Gallowmere, poor Dan was somewhat of a laughing stock. Sir Daniel Fortesque was a cowardly skeletal knight, and the hero of the MediEvil franchise. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is a must-play, for all gamers. Plus, it looked pretty cool to say the least, and nothing was more satisfying than throwing one of your enemies into a meat grinder. The game has since been renowned for its challenging style of play, puzzles, and overall ingenuity. Molluck’s solution? Slicing up Abe and his slave buddies to be sold as food! One day, while spying on his boss, Molluck the Glukkon, Abe discovers the factory’s productivity has been going down due to a meat scarcity. The game follows the story of protagonist Abe, a mute Mudokon slave at a meat processing plant called Rupture Farms. Now the subject of a soon-to-come HD remake entitled “ Oddworld: New n’ Tasty”, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee was hands-down one of the strangest and most difficult games of an entire generation (until its sequel, Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, was released in 1998, anyway). So, as we continue to look forward to the future of gaming, and the overwhelming success of the PS4, let us not forget our past, beginning with what I’d consider five of the best PS1 games of all-time. Throughout the ages, the PlayStation has grown not only in processing power, but in its overall popularity as well. Nintendo then denied Sony’s involvement in the SNES project and made a deal with Philips, producing something known as the Philips CDi, but that’s an article for an entirely different occasion. Not too long after Sony split up from Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment had been born, along with its first console, the Sony PlayStation (or, as I’ll be referring to it from here on, the PS1). Sony, however, left the project and Nintendo for unknown reasons, and soon set off to make its own impression on the world of video gaming.
The project was to create a SNES console which would play CD-ROM discs, as opposed to the just the cartridges we’re familiar with.
As the story goes, Nintendo wanted to develop an expansion for its Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which was also called the Super Famicom in Japan. The year was 1989, and, believe it or not, now-competitive rivals Sony and Nintendo were actually business partners back in the day.
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