My top 20 Playstation One games - Warning contains nostalgic ramblings that may cause adverse effects to the reader.
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My first copy of the game was entirely in Japanese so I had no idea what was happening in the story and had to guess my way through the plot. I only knew the game play was stunning and unique, and the score was out of this world. Getting the radio code took about as long as a typical cut-scene in MGS4 - a year.
I was barely 10 years old when the first Tomb Raider was released but I still remember the first level like it was yesterday. Tomb Raider was the first game that really introduced me to a strong female role model and very few games have come along since with that kind of impact.
When it comes to genuine terror the first zombie was always the worst. I remember it shambling forward and I just ran for my life, all the while an older friend was laughing hysterically.
Silent Hill is truly the stuff of a dark desperate nightmare, in fact getting to the finale of the game gave me just that. I lost many nights of sleep laying wide eyed in bed - while visions of Mr Pyramid danced in my head.
I like a lot of gamers had no idea that this top-down crime sim would ever become the world wide phenomenon that it is today. Apparently the original idea was to play as the police but due to a glitch they had to switch the roles around, they saw it worked better and developed the rest of the game that way.
I really liked Driver for two reasons, the first being you could drive through an entire city and cause all kinds of mischief. And the second, you could take the replays and cut/edit them, I wonder today if going to film school was influenced by the game or just a natural love of that medium. One thing is for sure the driving test at the start of the game was no walk in the park and showed up again in the more recent Driver San Francisco.
I really wish they rebooted the Syphon Filter series. The story was great and the game play was top notch. One of my fondest memories was using a tazer at long range on unsuspecting bad guys all the while thinking I'd have one of those in real life one day - and do I? no comment.
When the first Gran Turismo game came along I never really appreciated the driving simulator genre, so by the time 2 rolled around I was more than ready. Everything seemed more accessible and the extra layer of visual and technical polish did no harm either.
