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A look at 100 lesser-known but fun PS1 games that are worth a play!
Many of these were roundly ignored at the time of their release (reflected by sales figures); others were fairly popular, but have faded into obscurity.
(Note that this is a slightly remixed version of a video that was posted to this channel a few years ago)
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COMPLETE GAMELIST:
The Adventures of Lomax (Psygnosis)
Alien Resurrection (Argonaut Games)
Apocalypse (Neversoft)
Auto Destruct (Neurostone)
Azure Dreams (Konami)
Battle Hunter (Success)
Beyond the Beyond (Camelot Software Planning)
Bishi Bashi Special (Konami)
Blast Chamber (Attention To Detail)
Blast Radius (Psygnosis)
Blaster Master - Blasting Again (Sunsoft)
Boombots (The Neverhood)
Brave Fencer Musashi (Square)
Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena (Hearty Robin)
Broken Helix (Konami)
Bust-A-Groove (Metro)
C-12 Final Resistance (SCE Cambridge Studio)
Carnage Heart (Artdink)
Chaos Break (Taito)
Countdown Vampires (K2 LLC)
Crime Killer (Pixelogic)
Crisis Beat (Soft Machine)
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Capcom)
Darkstone (Delphine Software)
Destrega (Omega Force)
The Divide: Enemies Within (Radical Entertainment)
Dragon Seeds (Jaleco)
Dragon Valor (Now Production)
Einhander (Square)
Ergheiz: God Bless The Ring (Dream Factory)
Eternal Eyes (TamTam)
Evil Zone (Yuke's Future Media Creator)
Firebugs (Attention To Detail)
Front Mission 3 (Square)
Future Cop: LAPD (EA Redwood Shores)
G-Police: Weapons of Justice (Psygnosis)
Gear Fighter Dendoh (Sunrise/Natsume)
Gekido Urban Fighters (NAPS Team)
Ghost In The Shell (Exact)
Gundam Battle Assault (Bandai/Natsume)
Herc's Adventures (Big Ape Productions)
High Brow Gag and Pure Shooting: Harmful Park (Sky Think System)
In Cold Blood (Revolution Software)
In The Hunt (Irem)
Incredible Crisis (Polygon Magic)
Invasion From Beyond (King of the Jungle)
Invasion (Microids)
The Italian Job (Pixelogic)
Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu (Genki)
Kensei: Sacred Fist (Konami)
King's Field (FromSoftware)
Kingsley's Adventure (Psygnosis)
Legend of Legaia (Prokion)
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider (Infogrames Lyon House)
LSD: The Dream Emulator (Asmik Ace Entertainment)
Micro Maniacs Racing (Codemasters)
Monkey Hero (Blam!)
Motor Toon Gran Prix (Poly's)
N20: Nitrous Oxide (Gremlin Interactive)
Necatris: Military Madness (Hudson Soft)
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! (Artdink)
Omega Boost (Polyphony Digital)
One Piece Mansion (Capcom)
Panzer Bandit (Fill-In-Cafe)
Poy Poy (Konami)
Rakugaki Showtime (Treasure)
Rapid Reload (Media Vision)
Return Fire (Silent Software)
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Nippon Ichi Software)
Robo Pit 2 (Altron/Mere Mortals)
Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme (Slippery Snake Studio)
Running Wild (Blue Shift Studios)
Sentinel Returns (Hookstone)
Shadow Tower (FromSoftware)
Shaolin (Polygon Magic)
Shipwreckers (Psygnosis)
Silent Bomber (CyberConnect)
Silhouette Mirage (Treasure)
Skullmonkeys (The Neverhood Inc)
Soul of the Samurai (Konami)
Speed Punks (Funcom Dublin)
Spider (Boss Game Studios)
T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (DreamWorks Interactive)
Tail Concerto (CyberConnect)
Team Buddies (Psygnosis)
Terracon (Picture House
Threads of Fate (Square)
Tiny Tank (Apaloosa Interactive/AndNow)
Trap Gunner: Countdown To Oblibion (Racdym)
The Unholy War (Toys for Bob)
Urban Chaos (Mucky Food Productions)
V2000 (Frontier Developments)
Vanark (Bit Town)
Vanguard Bandits (Human Entertainment)
Vib-ribbon (NanaOn-Sha)
Vs (Polygon Magic)
WarGames: Defcon 1 (Interactive Studios)
Warzone 2100 (Pumpkin Studios)
World's Scariest Police Chases (Unique Development Studios)
Zero Divide (ZOOM)
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I remember shipwreckers, but here it was called "Overboard"
Overboard is the PAL version (Europe) and Shipwreckers the NTSC version (USA)
Same here, used to play it on my demo disc
same here in New Zealand called overboard.
@@jonatanduelund9123 same in Spain... Good times...
Same in Portugal :) overboard (it was even part of the demo disk
Man this video unlocked a lot of hidden memories for me.
Glad you added G-police. Psygnosis is so underrated as a developer for their great unique and diverse library made on PS1.
I'm just glad people remember Wargames: Defcon 1 and The Unholy War.
Agree 200%
@@slowtalker Too true, time marches on. Oh, what was that saying about letting go of the past? Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. I'm just glad some of us do remember. As we make room for the future generations, let's all remember the good times we had so they can have theirs too.
Yup. Learned about them with the Amiga 500 & Shadow of the Beast 👍
When I was 13, I wrote in an assignment about my future that I hoped that I would work at Psygnosis. :(
Just found your channel. Wow you are great Mr Gary. The nostalgia hit hard with this. Thanks to you I've found many games from my childhood I forgotten or didn't know the name of. Awesome channel!!
Brave Fencer Musashi is one of my favorite games ever. A total underrated RPG/JRPG, so full of charm and didn't take itself too serious. Amazing soundtrack.
Gekido is one of my favorite beat'em ups ever.
Tail Concerto rocks my socks. Such a cute game.
Einhander is one of my favorite 2-3D side scrollers ever. I still play it from time-to-time and it has a rocking soundtrack.
Brave Fencer Musashi is my 4th favorite game of all time. I play it once or twice a year.
Silent Bomber & Gear Fighter Dendoh is amazing. I can't believe i missed those gems. Thanks to you.
Nice to see, Italian Job, Shipwreck and even World's Scariest Police Chases!!
Future Cop: LAPD... damn that brings me back
Best Mech based game ever on PS1
Musashi has an incredible ost
indeed
I use to play the heck out of C12 Final Resistance. What an underrated PS1 gem.
Very glad to see Skullmonkeys and Tiny Tank get some love. I had never seen footage of The Divide or Gundam Battle Assault but they both look killer!
Happy to see Evil Zone, Kingsley's Adventure Sheep Raider, Rakugaki Showtime, and *_especially_* Tail Concerto here.
Tail Concerto is currently my most wanted game and I am hoping Atlus and CyberConnect2 remake it at some point.
Legend of Legaia is so underrated, I hardly see anyone mention it when it comes to PS1 games. I really hope they either make a reboot or sequeal.
There is a Legend of Legaia 2.
Legend of Legaia is the Best Gem imo
Legaia 2 is more of same universe-ish. Good, but different feel. Bigger cast, but also not as much flexibility. Each character was locked to a single element, and the storyline wasn’t as good. At least that’s my opinion. One thing I didn’t like was the addition of racism and the backstabbing main villain. Avalon had one of the best themes ever, but he just didn’t feel like a real character.
Edit: Crafting system was god-tier. Best one so far , including Elden Ring. Only thing it lacked was attack items, but you can craft weapons, armor, accessories, and items, including stat boosts. Getting Avernus gems could only be done in the final dungeon, as it was a steal item. You could customize your characters, including bonus stat. The full crafting guide for accessories needs to be seen to be believed.
2nd Edit: Ps2 game.
Bold of you to want a sequel on current times
Legend of Legaia it's the best
Legend of Legaia is my favourite RPF of all time
Front Mission 3 - hidden gem? in Russia it is one of the most popular games on PS1......
Interesting
Mr. Putin has a plan
In Russia, Hidden Gem You.
From 2001 until now im still playing it 😊
I’ve still got Dragon Valor, love that it’s getting some love here, brilliant game. Thanks for reminding me some of these exist also, I’ve got an expensive eBay run to do now :D
Such an epic console with a vast library of rare classics that can be emulated flawlessly and always have something to play.
Wild 9 is super underrated. Used to love that game growing up
I'm tickled pink that you gave Speed Punks some acknowledgement. Too many people sleep on it because of the driving physics.
I'm so glad Evil Zone is here. Thanks Gary.
I still play Evil Zone (I have all three regions) my survival mode score is highest 32, lowest 26.
I typically play the Japanese version for its intro music, and also to hear the original dialog of the game.
Really wish it got its sequel like it was planned, I always thought Ihadurca would reincarnate into another host but have to fight for good this time, like how she kept trying to absorb Karin, what if that causes her to reincarnate as a good entity?
Random ideas but I still wish they happened.
Have a good day all!
Criminally underrated indeed. Such a simple and addictive play style, and OTT in an Anime way. 😁
@@divinefallfromgrace someday I hope they figure a way to have systems linked online similar to the ps1digital tcp/ip serial port function. Just imagine two player versus on Evil Zone (Eretzvaju) over the Internet.
Have a good day!
@@haloslayer255 Thanks dudo, you too! Hopefully that comes to fruition for ya. Me, I just want Yuke's to make a successor for the current generation of Consoles; imagine how lush they could make it now! 😉
@@divinefallfromgrace that would be awesome, Ihadurca in 4k modern graphics 😍 cheers!
superb list as always, sir. love to see that N2O got some love
I only knew about 6% of the games, and the rest of 'em looked so fun. I adore PS1's unique graphics still.
8:07 PS2 shape prediction 😅
The Square era before Enix....
Legend of Legaia is one of my favorite games, even now. Ehergeiz: Enter the ring was good, and had a rpg storyline with the fighting game. Silent Bomber was decent, but Nintendo Hard is an understatement. Tai Fu : Enter the tiger was good, but platforming was up to That One Level in Crash bandicoot.
The Adventures of Lomax is such a beautiful looking game, but it is so hard because of the hitboxes for some of the obstacles.
this is my favorite PS1 game 0:12 starring _Bruce Willis_
Vib Ribbon is one of the most underrated design games ever made..still love this game and still gaming it with my hold ps
Great collection of some forgotten gems.
Warzone 2100 actually has a freeware release for the PC. when the company shuttered, the liscense holder published the source code and a dedicated group of fans have been updating and balancing the game ever since. plays well on modern systems and only takes up a GB of space.
Thank you so much for putting C-12 Final Resistance you saved my time, been looking for it for ages but i couldn't remember the title.
I still play Front Mission 3 to this day. One of my favorites of all time
So many options
Was looking for zero divide for 5 years. Thanks
Wow seeing battle hunter on this list makes me happy! A friend and I put our money together in high school and walked down to toys r us to pick out a game to buy. We ended up with Battle Hunter and loved it
Brilliant list !
PlayStation 1 games with the many hidden gems and forgotten years discovery of very rare obscurely on the local and internet.
I wanna try check some of those out
I've already tried a few of these, and I must say, Threads of Fate is one of the best games I could ever find, it's an extremely fun adventure with LOADS of gags
2:36 This is the placeholder music for Dragon Valley in Freedom Planet (you can hear it in early betas when the game was a Sonic fan game and Lilac was a hedgehog)
I kinda wanna cry when I remember the old days with these games
Yeah Lomax, Apocalypse, G-police .... all time Favorites.
Finally Team Buddies is on a list. It is a must try.
Also Star Ixiom is a pretty good space shooter.
Team buddies is one of my all time favourites. It just wouldn't get made today 😂
@@cheddar6738 indeed I really wonder why there are no sequels to such good game
@@YuzuOtonashi It comes from a time when studios used to have smaller teams making games like this and more free reign to include things like swearing etc. I think it just wouldn't be a safe bet to make it now. Maybe an indie dev might make something similar. It's hard to even find any info on the making of team buddies.
Played a lot, never heard of a lot. Was looking for a bunch I forgot, thanks!
Psygnosis was featured quite a bit here. I remember them from when they made Lemmings.
I’ve been trying to figure out for years what RPG I played and loved as a kid and you mentioned it, Beyond the Beyond! I can’t wait to play it as an adult 😄 Thank you so much for this video🫶🏻
Chaos Break and Crisis Beat were two of my very very favourite games in PS1! EDIT: OMG Shaolin as weird as it was, was one of my beloved gems too! And Kensei! And Gekido! So many good memories...
Omega boost is dope!
Very well done list,if only a bit more of time on the samples but great work,beautiful games .
One additional fun game for anyone interested would be Trap Gunner. In single player its OK, but if played with someone that is fun as hell. Its like a bit more complex version of bomberman that focuses on 1v1 matches.
Trap Gunner is actually in the video. 8:48
@@GaryRetroGamer oh, you're right! must have missed it
Terracon is really awesome, I'm surprised how it flew under the radar for so many people.
Graphics, sci-fi, mechas, music, a lot of good stuff here !
The 4 multiplayer experience of Team Buddies was AMAZING.
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Can you do an xbox version
im so happy that i could see omega boost, poy poy and rakugaki showtime in here haha
einhander and World's Scariest Polices Chases
damn what a good games ♥
So many of these games I had completely forgot about, kingsleys adventure, i played the demo for hours! and crime killer! xD
Thanks for the smiles mate 🤙🏿 awesome videos. Nostalgic forsure
i dont know any of these games but they all look SO GOOD
oh I miss the golden age of gaming
Dragon Valor and Future Cop are AWESOME games.
Azure Dreams, G-Police, Ghost in the Shell... I miss the PS1 games so much 😄
I can't believe you put team buddies but missed hogs of wars
Thank you so much i was looking for that game for years found it here all i remembered of it is the cover, and it contain robots and female protagonist
I have vivid memory of it
I was playing it when i was 7 or so and one time i said "damn i died" in front of my late grandma and she gasp and say "God forbid" it is one of the few memories I have with her and it connect with this game Silent Bomber i found it now after all this years thanks to this video
A minha revolta é de que eu não conhecia esses games de PS1!!! Por vou pegar os nomes de todos e testar😁🥳👍
What A amazing list Gary. Now I can go and check them out 👍👍❤❤❤❤
Legend of Legaia is the
Best Hidden Gem 💎 !!!
man, alot of these still look like youd have a blast.
Gekido was really fun. But I do remember that game as a not fighting game, but like Street of rage. Still can hear the “Gorrrila” hahaha!
I also expected to see Steel Reign. Was one of my favorite
8:12 one of my all-time faves. Desperate need of a remake.
If you look closely, you will see From Software trying to make first Demon Souls :D
I remember Incredible Crisis.. good times.. but where Tomba 1 & 2?
Pretending to be sick to not attend school and just playing playstation and eating junk foods the whole day. Those were the good old freaking days. Lol!
Happy new year, Gary 👍
I am glad to see Brave Fencer Musashi and Blast Chamber on here, but I am suprised that both Bugs Bunny games aren't here.
You get my like simply because of Team Buddies.
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Wow the best hidden gems video ever. All of them are really good
Never heard of any of these games shown here before.....but they do look cool for what they were
Gekido is a great beat em up to play especially co-op
Legend of legaia great rpg
Loved the names as closed caption. Better to see the games
Blast chamber may of been the game i was searching for
I knew a few of these games, but i didn't realise sony developed C12, now that's a surprise!
Glad to see team buddies here
i remember some of these from the Playstation 1 magazine each month, 5 pounds, would have a lot of demos...
When I first bought the ps1 when it came out, I was always slightly jealous that I didnt have an n64.
The pricing of the n64 games always put it out of my league. Some games were £80 if I remember correctly.
Looking back now, I think I made a wise decision.
The catalogue of ps1 games blows the n64 away.
I consider the n64 overrated to be honest.
Great video as always Gary.
I still remember a Madden NFL game being sold at Walmart new for around $120.
Wow chaos break has some fluid third person animations especially for a ps1
Xenogears legend of legaia and brave fencer Musashi were my favorite games
Back then when games are fun and have a lots of genres.
Brave Fencer Musashi was goated
I described Tail Concerto once to a friend who after very patiently listening to me for two minutes asked, "Are you sure that was a real game?"
Go play fifa then
These games seem wayyyyy more creative than the handful of game types regurgitated these days.
I only played a demo of Sheep Raider but has to be one of the best Looney Toons games ever. I need to play through it soon
Great job👍🏻❤
Destrega is so simple yet so fun same with unholy war. I miss these games
Sooo many good memories
Damn. I found 3 games here that I was looking for years
Haha nice to see Boombots in there!
If it has Lomax, it gets my like
In The Hunt was on Neo Geo. I remember it in the arcade
No Devils dice? That game deserves a spot!
Sadly, I’m not seeing anyone else talking about Tai Fu or Running Wild. These games are my childhood; some of my all time fave rentals back in the day of the video store
I used to play omega boost over and over