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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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..🥰
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!!! 😍♥️♥️♥️
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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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
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.
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 👍👍❤️❤️
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
Great list. Tomb Raider 2 - I remember ringing a cheat line to get help with the Venice level - still don't think my mum believed it was a "cheat line" when she saw the phone bill 😂😂
I like that you're able to tell something about every game, i like that it's indeed more personal list rather than some generic youTube lists that are all over pretty much the same :) Thanks :) I never had Playstation but thanks to RG351, i'm building my rom database and thanks to such list i can now have more unique titles. (everybody knows Tekken 3 etc. ;) )
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.
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'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
Thanks for the great vid Kim, brought back some memories & nostalgia! 😉 Personal favourites not mentioned: FFIX, Um Jammer Lammy, Star Gladiator Wip3out.
Great video Kim. I look forward to one day seeing your top 100 ps2 games in the future! Games not on this that I recommend everyone play: FF9 (The true greatest Final Fantasy game! 😉) Parasite Eve Driver 2 Soul Reaver Dino Crisis 2 Xcom Enemy Unknown (The OG one of course) Bust-A-Groove ISS Pro Evolution 2 Um Jammer Lammy Spyro 2
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
Real nice to see Gekido and Silent Bomber so high up, two great and under-appreciated gems. Also nice to see some love for Heart of Darkness and Klonoa. Big omissions for me are: Soul Reaver Mega Man X4 Monkey Hero (pure nostalgia here) Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf Worms MDK (PC version is probs better but still) Sled Storm Chrono Cross FF9 is the big one for me though, my favourite piece of art in general. Would love to see you do a long-form retrospective for 9 like you did for 7 and 8, just to round off the PS1 trilogy.
This is a great video with a lot of really uncommonly mentioned titles! I know putting together something like this is a lot of work, so thanks for this.
Some of my favorites that I played back in the days: Suikoden 1 & 2, Twisted Metal 2, Gran Turismo, NHL 98, Crash Team Racing, Crash Bandicoot 3, Final Fantasy 7,8,9, Tony Hawk 2, Syphon Filter 2
Just wanted to say before watching this video that if this list doesn't have Alundra, that is criminal. My favorite game of all time and the most underrated game of all time.....Okay it has haha
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!
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.
So many great games on this list that I'd forgotten I'd ever played. I'm really glad you mentioned Cool Boarders though. Me and my friends were all fully in the aggressive roller blading scene at the time and this game was exactly what we wanted at the time. Preluded Tony Hawks by quite a few years and so so many other snowboard games followed too.
Absolutely enjoyed every second of this list. Fantastic stuff. Your videos are so well done Kim and I watch your chanel constantly you are excellent! For me as a sports nut I would have included Brian Lara Cricket and Jonah Lomu Rugby on here. Both in the top 3 games of these sports ever made. Arguably Jonah Lomu is the best rugby game ever made. Both excellent and would be in my list. Terrific stuff as ever and a great watch...
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
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!"
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.
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
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.
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!
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 🤣😂
Another hour and a half of Kim? I don't even care anymore what it is about, it's always interesting 👍🏻
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
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 :)
Thank you Kim, asked for this ages ago and you delivered, love your take on games!
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 normally find list videos tedious but yours are always very well put together. I really enjoyed this one, thank you.
Still remember getting my ps1 & been blown away with graphics n how nice games looked
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.
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..🥰
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!!! 😍♥️♥️♥️
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
Love you lists its all I watch retro games thank you keep it up........we need more!!!
Great list that touches on a lot of titles that slipped under the radar.
FF7, Star Ocean Second story, Azure Dreams, Devils Deception, ISS 98.
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.
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
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!
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.
Thank you Kim. Just about to go out to tidy the garden. This is the perfect companion ❤️
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!
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
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.
That was a crackin lil set of games I loved the ps1 and some games Came up I have yett to play. Cheers, good job.
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 👍👍❤️❤️
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.
What a brilliant video Kim, and thank you for including obscure gems like Felony 11-79 and Kurushi, not to mention Liberogrande.
I loved this video. Thanks. Really nice to see Tenchu ranked so high I love that game.
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.
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.
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.
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..
Can’t wait to watch. This is going to be great.
Really glad to see places for Overboard, Alundra and most of all Bushido Blade. But also loved Syphon Filter, Rage Racer and TR2.
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.
A thoroughly enjoyabe hour and a half, thanks Kim!
So many great memories especially Fifa 99, Smackdown 2 and GTA
Great list. Tomb Raider 2 - I remember ringing a cheat line to get help with the Venice level - still don't think my mum believed it was a "cheat line" when she saw the phone bill 😂😂
I like that you're able to tell something about every game, i like that it's indeed more personal list rather than some generic youTube lists that are all over pretty much the same :) Thanks :)
I never had Playstation but thanks to RG351, i'm building my rom database and thanks to such list i can now have more unique titles. (everybody knows Tekken 3 etc. ;) )
Aw brilliant. Cannot wait to get time to watch this. Thank you
Just seeing Rage Racer included in a video fills me with joy!!!!
Kim, one of the best (if not the best) gaming channels and personalities on this platform. Thank you so much for everything!!!
Is that how you pronounce Galaga?! Shouting galaga galaga galaga, shouting galaga galaga galaga!
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.
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.
Excellent list Kim, your content just keeps getting better and better.
"What a joy" indeed. Thank you once again, Kim!
Love you top 100 games lists. ISS Pro 98 was my favourite.
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
Thanks for the great vid Kim, brought back some memories & nostalgia! 😉 Personal favourites not mentioned: FFIX, Um Jammer Lammy, Star Gladiator Wip3out.
A great trip down memory lane Kim. Top stuff 👍
Great video Kim. I look forward to one day seeing your top 100 ps2 games in the future!
Games not on this that I recommend everyone play:
FF9 (The true greatest Final Fantasy game! 😉)
Parasite Eve
Driver 2
Soul Reaver
Dino Crisis 2
Xcom Enemy Unknown (The OG one of course)
Bust-A-Groove
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Um Jammer Lammy
Spyro 2
@David Nash Somehow they made the game even worse on the Switch remaster, load times for battles are over twice as long
OG Xcom was on Amiga/pc.
@@fandangobrandango7864 It was, but it also released for the original PlayStation.
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.
Resident Evil, first play... When the dogs jumped through the windows in the corridor was my first game jump scare I ever experienced. 👍😜
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 ~
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
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
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.
so many of these are part of my childhood memory
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
Became much more of a pc gamer around this time, but the PS1 still holds a special place in my heart
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.
So pleased to see Kurushi on the list!
Real nice to see Gekido and Silent Bomber so high up, two great and under-appreciated gems. Also nice to see some love for Heart of Darkness and Klonoa.
Big omissions for me are:
Soul Reaver
Mega Man X4
Monkey Hero (pure nostalgia here)
Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf
Worms
MDK (PC version is probs better but still)
Sled Storm
Chrono Cross
FF9 is the big one for me though, my favourite piece of art in general. Would love to see you do a long-form retrospective for 9 like you did for 7 and 8, just to round off the PS1 trilogy.
The PlayStation is such an amazing console. A PS1, an ODE and an SD card packed with disc images and you’re set for life.
Amazing video Kim, you mentioned a few I haven't played, I shall check them out!
This is a great video with a lot of really uncommonly mentioned titles! I know putting together something like this is a lot of work, so thanks for this.
Some great picks here Kim. Excellent list, really enjoyed it!
Awesome video Kim nobody does it like you! PS1 was Janie's first machine so we love it x
Nice list, there was a few games in here that I wasn't aware of, but look fun to play.
Some of my favorites that I played back in the days: Suikoden 1 & 2, Twisted Metal 2, Gran Turismo, NHL 98, Crash Team Racing, Crash Bandicoot 3, Final Fantasy 7,8,9, Tony Hawk 2, Syphon Filter 2
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 wanted to say before watching this video that if this list doesn't have Alundra, that is criminal. My favorite game of all time and the most underrated game of all time.....Okay it has haha
Excellent video Kim, enjoyed it very much.
nice one, your bredth of knowledge and experience is incredible
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!
Heck yes - love these vids 🥰
I remember a mate blowing a big chunk of his student loan on a Playstation. We didn't leave the house for weeks.
I think I would have added Ghost in The Shell and Abe's Exodus. Great list, great video and great channel.
Great vid ! I recently modded my ps1 to run games off an SD card - so this has given me some great inspiration for games to try 😄
Great list. Personally, I'd have in Urban Chaos, Total Drivin (so underrated) Lifeforce Tenka and a few others. Thanks again.
Great list Kim, thoroughly enjoyed watching that. Mine would be more rpg heavy but this is not my list. Great work.
The PS1 was my childhood console. Thank you for this video. So many memories.
Oh my word. The day has come. I'm excited!
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 surprised you don't have Parasite Eve on here. Pretty good list overall. Lots of variety which is nice to see.
It should have been in the top 20. Oops.
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.
FF8? Soul Blade? Everybody’s Golf? Incredibly based list.
This is just Kim's top 100 though. Had it been my top 100 there wouldn't have been any sports games at all and many more JRPG's.
So many great games on this list that I'd forgotten I'd ever played. I'm really glad you mentioned Cool Boarders though. Me and my friends were all fully in the aggressive roller blading scene at the time and this game was exactly what we wanted at the time. Preluded Tony Hawks by quite a few years and so so many other snowboard games followed too.
Absolutely brilliant video as per Kim, many thanks for this gem 👊
Absolutely enjoyed every second of this list. Fantastic stuff. Your videos are so well done Kim and I watch your chanel constantly you are excellent! For me as a sports nut I would have included Brian Lara Cricket and Jonah Lomu Rugby on here. Both in the top 3 games of these sports ever made. Arguably Jonah Lomu is the best rugby game ever made. Both excellent and would be in my list. Terrific stuff as ever and a great watch...
Yep, JLR is an absolute classic, best rugby game ever by a mile, and still brilliant in 2 -player mode.