Vela wrote:

Ridge Racer 4 is good choice though but doesn't really fit without analog sticks. Wipeout 2097 better be on there. But a lot of them will look very, very rough. Early 3d is ugly.

I used the D-Pad on it.

Yossarian wrote:

This is probably the console generation that I have least interest in revisiting. Early attempts at 3D have generally not aged well. Hard pass from me.

The PS1 didn’t feel like an early attempt at 3D, to me. Coming from the Atari/Amiga generation it just felt like about damn time a console got on board.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I've dabbled with PS games in the past couple of years, working through a stack of 50 or so discs with a couple of mates (inc @retroking1981).  It's not an era that suits much more than a fleeting nostalgia wallop imo.  Great at the time, but 3D experiences have been so refined plenty of games are a chore to play.  Save states would help a lot, which I assume will be supported here.  Good luck having the patience for something like Tomb Raider without them.

Yossarian wrote:

This is probably the console generation that I have least interest in revisiting. Early attempts at 3D have generally not aged well. Hard pass from me.

Yep, time has not been kind.

Its an era I have great fondness for and some of my best gaming experiences are still from that period.

Outside the top 10ish across the whole gen there's not much worth revisiting for me though. Plus a lot of the good 'uns have been re-released and improved since.

I feel I'd be better off cherry picking what I want from the PS store on my PS3 tbh. It would certainly be cheaper than £100 and wouldn't require another box under the TV.

Like the NES and SNES mini's I'll pass.

I'll be interested to see the other 15 games though, MGS, Driver and RE2 would be necessities for me.

Retroking totally on point there. Loved it all at the time, but not an era you could pay me to revisit.

With the right line up this could be great. I think the price is pretty much in line with Nintendo's efforts for what you get (an N64 mini will presumably be more costly than the SNES one).

But seeing stuff like Jumping Falsh and Wild Arms already mentioned when it's only a 20 game list doesn't bode well. Not that those are bad, but they're hardly the real classics. The lack of analogue also rules out Gran Turismo.

FFVII and Tekken 3 are a good start though.

For me it would also have to include most of:
Suikoden 2
Castlevania SotN
Ridge Racer
Bust a Move 2
Doom
Resident Evil 2
Metal Gear Solid
Front Mission 3
Tomb Raider

And maybe:
Silent Hill
Bishi Bashi
Breath of Fire IV

Definitely need some help from Konami then.

Trying to think what PS1 games I loved. It’s long enough ago that I struggle a bit.

Tekken
Tekken 2
Soul Blade
WipEout
WipEout 2097
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (can’t remember which version I preferred)
Gran Turismo
Bust-a-Move 2, 3, & 4 (again, can’t recall which was my favourite)
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Nobody Can Stop Mr Domino
Klonoa
Vib-Ribbon
Micro Machines
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
Re-Volt

It’s completely and utterly eclipsed by Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast, but it was a good bit of winner-stays-on fun at the time.

poprock wrote:

It’s completely and utterly eclipsed by Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast, but it was a good bit of winner-stays-on fun at the time.

It was the mission mode that blew my mind, up to then I'd only seen the 'fight everyone once' style of single player modes for vs fighters.  And the intro.

I'd rather they put the PSone Classics on the PS4 store, and of course make it b/c so if we already purchased one on PS3 it will be free to d/l on our PS4s.

JonB wrote:

seeing stuff like Jumping Flash and Wild Arms already mentioned when it's only a 20 game list doesn't bode well. Not that those are bad, but they're hardly the real classics. The lack of analogue also rules out Gran Turismo.

Agreed, they feel more like filler than headliners.

Good point on GT to.

Have none of you put GTA on your lists?

edit: Just looked back at the first page, fair play @Wookienopants

Actually, I’ll tell you what would make me bite:

Point Blank
Point Blank 2
As many Time Crises as you can offer.
Two working light guns.

I’ll take Virtua Cop as well as those, plus House of the Dead, plox.

retroking1981 wrote:

Stop dreaming lads, HDTV's killed the lightgun.

Wii brought it back for a while.

The games would have to be completely recoded to work on modern TVs.

The glory days of Time Crisis 2, and Point Blank are gone.

I gave up hope on the return of light guns after the fun but not 1:1 Wii era poprock mentioned.

Thinking more about the missing 15 games, one game from any of the following franchises seems likely...

Rayman
Crash Bandicoot
Croc
Spyro
Need for Speed
Driver
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
MGS
Destruction Derby
Wipeout
Tony Hawks
GTA
Syphon Filter
Medal of Honor
Cool Boarders
Twisted Metal
Castlevania
Silent Hill

Yossarian wrote:

Surely the hardware can cover this? There is actually a light gun setup you can buy for modern TVs, it includes a Wii-style sensor bar and should let you run light guns with MAME files. I’m not sure how solid the tech is, though. Edit: this thing [url=https://www.ultimarc.com/aimtrak.html

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If its anything like the Wii it won't be 1:1 and you'll need a rectile on screen to aim.

It's just not the same unfortunately.