As I play every PS1 game in chronological order, I'm going to rank them here by how much I liked my time with them. An explanation of this Sisyphean task can be found in the introductory post of the blog series.
Some games are going inevitably be technically unplayable for one reason or another. Those games are given a N/A and are not ranked. Those games are as follows:
Brain Dead 13 (Part 018)
Release Date: 9/9/1995?
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Time to Completion: 2.5 hours
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Port from arcade of 3D flight combat game. Enjoyable basic gameplay loop, wide variety of different planes, plenty of content, and a goofy premise.
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Featured in Part 001
Release Date: 11/1/1995
Developer: Exact
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to pulling up a guide: 35 Minutes
Time to I Think I Beat It?: 95 Minutes
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First attempt at a 3D platformer. Succeeds at its own concept, but needed twice as much content.
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Featured in Part 007
Release Date: 11/25/1995
Developer: Panther Software
Publisher: Atlus
Time to Completion: 10 Hours
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Weird FPS dungeon-crawling JRPG. Gameplay largely holds up but the appeal is in the bonkers dialogue and unfortunate voice-acting.
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Featured in Parts 011 and 011A
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Yelling at The Other Cars: 30 Minutes
Time to Topping the Leaderboard: 55 Minutes
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Port from arcade of the 3D racing game. Still fun and has a bangin' soundtrack. Too few courses, though.
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Featured in Part 004
Release Date: 11/16/1995
Developer: Id Software
Publisher: Williams Entertainment
Time to Played Enough Doom: 90 Minutes
**NOTE: This is the last game on the list that I enjoyed playing**
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Port/collection of Doom and Doom II. Preserves fun of originals, but d-pad controls are lame.
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Featured in Part 009
Release Date: 10/18/1995
Developer: Midway
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to Getting Suplexed or Something, I Don't Know: 25 minutes
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Port from arcade of a pretty alright fighting game with wrestling themed stylistic touches. Fun to look at.
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Featured in Part 006
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: THQ
Release Date: 3/10/1996
Time to Bullying The Jazz: 45 Minutes
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First PS1 release of EA's Basketball series. Graphically mediocre but plays better and is more fun than other contemporary sports games.
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Featured in Part 019
Developer: Parallax Software
Publisher: Interplay
Release Date: 3/12/1996
Time to Venusian Insertion If You Know What I Mean: 66 Minutes
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Port from PC of the original Six Degrees of Freedom Shooter. The base game is a classic, and it adapts well enough for the PS1.
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Featured in Part 020
Release Date: 11/14/1995
Developer: Probe Entertainment
Publisher: Time Warner Interactive
Time to Beating it a Couple of Times: 40 Minutes
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Port of very dumb 2D fighting game from arcade. Knock-off of Mortal Kombat but with claymation monsters.
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Featured in Part 008
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Genki
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Turning on God Mode: 30 Minutes
Time to Complete Disillusionment: 75 Minutes
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Dumb and poorly designed corridor shooter. Basically playable with funny dialogue.
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Featured in Part 002
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Seibu Kaihatsu
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Defeated by Raiden: 25 Minutes
Time to Defeated by Raiden II: 40 Minutes
Total: 65 Minutes
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No frills arcade collection of first two Raiden games.
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Featured in Part 003
WipEout
Release Date: 11/21/1995
Developer: Psygnosis
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Disqualified: 40 Minutes
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Stylish futuristic racing game that looks and sounds cool but isn't enjoyable to play.
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Featured in Part 010
Release Date: 11/30/1995
Developer: Sony Interactive Studios America
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Beating The Jaguars: 30 Minutes
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Sony's first Hockey game. Seems like a good one of these with some nice features.
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Featured in Part 012
Developer: Origin Systems
Publisher: Origin Systems
Release Date: 3/15/1996
Time to Looking Up The Manual And Restarting: 30 Minutes
Time to Being A Pathetic Descendent Of Monkeys: 2 Hours
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Port from PC of the 1994 Wing Commander sequel. This Space Sim was lauded in its time for its FMV and complex gameplay, none of which lands that well now. Still a fully featured and functional video game, even though it's on 5 discs.
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Featured in Part 021
**Reviewed as Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits**
Developer: Digital Eclipse
Publisher: Williams
Release Date: 4/10/1996
Time to Seeing Everything: 90 Minutes
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Collection containing Defender, Defender II, Robotron 2084, Bubbles, Joust, and Sinistar. I appreciate the documentary work included with the arcade accurate emulation.
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Featured in Part 022
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: 6/10/1996
Time to Hi Felicia: 36 Minutes
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Port from Arcade of the 1994 Fighting game. Generally pretty good, but it's weird that it was ported after its sequel.
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Featured in Part 026
Release Date: 9/9/1995 (9/5/1995?)
Developer: Midway Games
Publisher: Midway Games
Time to Tired of Being Dunked On: 20 minutes
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Port of NBA Jam arcade re-release. Single-player mode isn't that fun.
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Featured in Part 003
Developer: Tecmo
Publisher: Tecmo
Release Date: 6/1/1996
Time to Flipping The Birdie: 45 Minutes
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Golf game with an absurd amount of content and fundamentally playable game systems. Visually underwhelming, though.
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Featured in Part 024
Release Date: 9/15/1995
Developer: Mindscape
Publisher: Mindscape
Time to Equally Flummoxed and Infuriated: 40 Minutes
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Bizarre futuristic racing game with dead-end design innovations. Doesn't work that well in execution. Tries too hard to be funny.
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Featured in Part 005
Release Date: 9/23/1995
Developer: Hitmen Productions
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Uninvited to The Masters: 35 Minutes
Time to Making it to an Hour: 60 Minutes
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Old school golfing game with FMV golfers and bad UI.
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Featured in Part 005
Release Date: 11/8/1995
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Time to "Fuck it, I'm using cheats": 30 Minutes
Time to Admitting I Will Never Improve at Fighting Games: 2.5 Hours
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Port from arcade of the first entry in what would become the premier 3D fighting game franchise. Looks nice and is basically playable. AI is brutal.
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Featured in Part 008
Release Date: 1/15/1996
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Time to Finally Winning A Match: 25 Minutes
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First entry in the Winning Eleven franchise and first Soccer game that I enjoyed in any way.
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Featured in Part 015
Release Date: 10/15/1995
Developer: Bullfrog Productions, Ltd.
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Annoyed by the Barf Sounds: 60 Minutes
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Port of the first ever park management sim from PC. Controls and menu navigation don't translate well to a controller.
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Featured in Part 006
Release Date: 2/7/1996
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Time to Taking An Uppercut To The Face: 40 Minutes
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Port from Arcade of the follow up to Street Fighter II. Improves the look and feel, and made several high level changes that are inaccessible to inexperienced players.
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Featured in Part 017
Developer: High Tech Lab Japan
Publisher: Namco
Release Date: 4/27/1996
Time to Blowing Up The Not Death Star: 40 Minutes
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Port of a port from arcade of the earliest polygonal Rail Shooter. Very straightforward and primitive by PS1 standards, but still highly playable.
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Featured in Part 023
Release Date: 2/15/1996
Developer: Rage Software
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to What A Crunching Tackle: 33 Minutes
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Also-ran Soccer game that balances its low production values with being basically enjoyable.
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Featured in Part 018
Release Date: 11/22/1995
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Trounced By The Canadians: 25 Minutes
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First polygonal soccer game. Seems to work well enough for what it is.
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Featured in Part 011
Release Date: 11/15/1995
Developer: Perfect Entertainment
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Soft-Locking The Game: 5 Minutes
Time to Realizing I Soft-Locked The Game: 30 Minutes
Time to Soft-Locking Again After Restarting The Game: 60 Minutes
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Port of PC adventure game based on Terry Pratchett novels. Decent humor with voice acting by Eric Idle. Controls are bad and design is janky.
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Featured in Part 009
Release Date: 10/18/1995
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Not Wanting To Play Anymore: 30 Minutes
Time to Seeing What It Would Take To Win: 50 Minutes
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Port of basic arena combat arcade game. Works well enough for what it is.
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Featured in Part 006
Release Date: 12/16/1995
Developer: ZOOM Inc.
Publisher: Time Warner Interactive
Time to Whooped By a Monkbot: 30 Minutes
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Otherwise unremarkable 3D fighting game with an interesting aesthetic and alright music.
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Feature in Part 014
Release Date: 1/10/1996
Developer: G Artist
Publisher: SCEA
Time to Looking up Cheats: 23 Minutes
Time to Fertilization Complete: 65 Minutes
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Interesting Shoot 'Em Up / Rail Shooter hybrid with a rote but decently handled sci-fi horror plot. Doesn't do any one thing particularly well, but it ends up being greater than the sum of its parts.
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Featured in Part 015
Developer: Microprose
Publisher: Spectrum Holobyte
Release Date: 6/1/1996
Time to Taken To The Danger Zone: 56 Minutes
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Semi-remake of the 1995 PC game. Basically competent Flight Combat gameplay with laughable FMV and a plot that bizarrely ties to the movie.
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Featured in Part 025
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: 3/30/1996
Time to Becoming A Jill Sandwich: 20 Minutes
**NOTE: This is objectively the best game on this list**
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Classic Survival Horror game that created the genre. It's importance to gaming is matched only by how miserable it is to play. Truly hilarious writing and voice acting, though.
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Featured in Part 021
Release Date: 11/10/1995
Developer: Sony Interactive Studios America
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Completely Losing Patience: 25 minutes
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Sony's first attempt at a Football game. Looks decent enough but I never figured out how to pass the ball.
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Featured in Part 008
Release Date: 12/1/1995
Developer: Bullfrog Productions
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Slightly Irritated: 45 Minutes
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Slapdash futuristic racing game that works because the experience is greater than the some of its half-baked parts.
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Featured in Part 012
Release Date: 2/1/1996
Developer: WARP
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Time to Stuck: 23 Minutes
Time to Looking Up ZP's Blog: 30 Minutes
Time to Learning A Valuable Lesson About Multi-Disk Emulation: 70 Minutes
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Ported from 3DO. Bizarre early Horror Adventure game with fully pre-rendered graphics. weighed down by terrible interface and arbitrary puzzle design.
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Feratured in Part 016
Release Date: 11/20/1995
Developer: Hookstone
Publisher: Viacom New Media
Time to Looking Up Instructions: 15 Minutes
Time to Getting Zooped: 25 Minutes
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Also-ran color-matching puzzle game that tries and fails to be the next Tetris.
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Featured in Part 010
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Release Date: 6/10/1996
Time to Exiting Through The Gift Shop: 55 Minutes
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Collection of Namco arcade games from the early 80's (Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Rally-X, Bosconian, and Toy Pop) with a weird polygonal museum front-end.
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Featured in Part 026
Developer: Taito
Publisher: Acclaim
Release Date: 6/1/1996
Time to My Best Friend Harry Has A Brother Larry: 35 Minutes
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Port of the 1995 Arcade Puzzle game. The basic concept is good and looks decently good. On the other hand, the physics of the gameplay don't work that well.
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Featured in Part 024
Developer: Koei
Publisher: Koei
Release Date: 3/10/1996
Time to Ambushed By Bandits: 20 Minutes
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First entry for the PS1 of the long-running Grand Strategy franchise. It's a very obvious previous gen game, though it works well enough for what it is.
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Featured in Part 020
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to Getting My Ass Kicked So Hard That The Next Chronogaming Wannabee Feels It: 50 Minutes
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Very silly and janky reskin of Street Fighter 2. Runs poorly.
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Featured in Part 004
Release Date: 11/16/1995
Developer: Reflections Interactive
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Getting Wrecked: 50 Minutes
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Racing game with interesting car damage system. Damage model is too severe in practice.
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Featured in Part 009
Developer: Funcom Dublin
Publisher: THQ
Release Date: 3/15/1996
Time to Torpedoed: 28 Minutes
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Port from Arcade of the side-scrolling Shooter. This is one of the conceptual precursors to the Metal Slug series, and it gets a lot of the way there.
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Featured in Part 020
Release Date: 12/10/1995
Developer: Technos Japan
Publisher: Technos
Time to Owned By Lisa: 35 Minutes
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Almost competent attempt at a 3D Tetris.
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Featured in Part 013
Developer: Iguana Entertainment
Publisher: Acclaim
Release Date: 6/5/1996
Time to Ground Ball: 35 Minutes
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Licensed Baseball game with sprite based graphics and basically competent gameplay.
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Featured in Part 025
Release Date: 12/29/1995
Developer: Buzz Puppet Productions
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Whacked Over The Head: 70 Minutes
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32-bit remake of Road Rash II that was originally released on the 3DO. Plays well enough but has a trash aesthetic.
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Featured in Part 014
Developer: Neversoft Entertainment
Publisher: Playmates
Release Date: 5/22/1996
Time to Not Making That Jump: 43 Minutes
**NOTE: This is the last game on this list that I might recommend for any reason**
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Generic Side-Scrolling Action game in the style of the previous generation. Based on a short-lived and already defunct toy line.
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Featured in Part 023
Release Date: 12/4/1995
Developer: Core Design
Publisher: Core Design
Time to Winning The Drug War: 45 Minutes
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Helicopter action game that feels like an up-modelled SNES game.
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Featured in Part 012
Release Date: 1/17/1996
Developer: Mindscape
Publisher: Mindscape
Time to Checkmate: 21 Minutes
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Semi-ported from PC. Console version of first polygonal entry in the long-running Chess franchise. Technically dense Chess software.
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Featured in Part 016
Release Date: 3/1/1996
Developer: Colossal Pictures
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Village Idiot: 36 Minutes
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Truly bizarre Interactive Movie port from PC. Combining narrative compromises inherent to run-based gameplay with the intentional and unintentional disorienting effects leads to a fever dream that is memorable for the wrong reasons.
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Featured in Part 018
Developer: Silent Software Inc.
Publisher: Time Warner Interactive
Release Date: 4/12/1996
Time to WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS ISN'T AN AMIGA GAME: 45 Minutes
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Port from 3DO of the top-down Vehicle Shooter. Unremarkable in just about every way, other than the annoying use of public domain music.
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Featured in Part 022
Release Date: 12/6/1995
Developer: Taito Corporation
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Time to Bored and Frustrated: 30 Minutes
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Uninspiring fully polygonal Rail Shooter
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Featured in Part 013
Release Date: 2/1/1996
Developer: Psygnosis
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Entering Arener: 40 Minutes
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Mediocre hover tank Arena Combat game. Floaty controls and grating art design don't help the middling level layout and combat.
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Featured in Part 016
Developer: Tamsoft
Publisher: Takara
Release Date: 5/23/1996
Time to We Have Virtua Fighter At Home: 36 Minutes
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Port from Arcade. Sequel that improves on the first in every way to some extent, though that isn't saying much.
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Featured in Part 024
Developer: Mindspan
Publisher: Accolade
Release Date: 4/15/1996
Time to Struck Out: 38 Minutes
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Port from SNES of the penultimate game in the venerable old Baseball series. Plays well enough, though it feels outdated for its time.
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Featured in Part 023
Developer: Genki
Publisher: SCEA
Release Date: 6/14/1996
Time to Tripping The Alarm: 17 Minutes
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Direct sequel to Kileak: The DNA Imperative. While more technically advanced, the new gameplay features make it a worse experience.
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Featured in Part 026
Developer: Epic MegaGames
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 3/28/1996
Time to Gutter Ball Or Something I Don't Know: 26 Minutes
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Port from PC of the barely anything Pinball game. Contains four tables of moderate to low quality and has questionable ball physics.
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Featured in Part 021
Release Date: 2/10/1996
Developer: Iguana Entertainment
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to A Boring Megadunk: 15 Minutes
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Lazy reskin of NBA Jam: Tournament Edition using the NCAA license. Loses all sense of style in the transition, but plays mostly competently.
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Featured in Part 017
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 3/20/1996
Time to Winning Literally Anything: 55 Minutes
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Port from 3DO of the first entry in the long-running Racing series. Gets the series off to an inauspicious start with bad Sim Racing gameplay and overemphasis on looking at the cars.
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Featured in Part 021
Developer: Any Channel
Publisher: Accolade
Release Date: 4/10/1996
Time to More Bored Than Pissed: 50 Minutes
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Port from 3DO of the mildly rude First Person Shooter. Terrible platforming and severe texture warping bring down an otherwise competent Doom-clone.
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Featured in Part 022
Developer: Tonkin House
Publisher: Acclaim
Release Date: 6/1/1996
Time to DOUBLE FAULT: 25 Minutes
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Barebones Tennis game that is mostly playable.
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Featured in Part 025
Release Date: 11/2/1995
Developer: Psygnosis
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Apathy: 30 minutes
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Port of a barely anything rail-shooter from the Sega CD. First two disc PS1 game.
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Featured in Part 007
Developer: London Studio
Publisher: SCEA
Release Date: 3/10/1996
Time to Offensive Foul: 24 Minutes
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First Sony published Basketball game. Also the first fully polygonal 5v5 Basketball game on fifth gen systems. Plays poorly.
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Featured in Part 019
Release Date: 9/29/1995
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Crystal Dynamics
Time to Not Being Worth the Effort: 50 Minutes
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Port of ground-based rail shooter from the 3DO. Mediocre gameplay with offensively redubbed FMV cutscenes.
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Featured in Part 005
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: 6/15/1996
Time to Developing Carpal Tunnel: 23 Minutes
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First PS1 entry in the long-running Track & Field series. While it has competent graphics and four-player, the gameplay has advanced little since the NES days.
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Featured in Part 026
Release Date: 9/9/1995 (8/30/1995?)
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Crystal Dynamics
Time to Getting a Little Bit Tired: 35 Minutes
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Port of mediocre rail-shooter from the 3DO. Annoying level design and the bullets are too small.
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Featured in Part 004
Developer: Artdink
Publisher: Maxis
Release Date: 6/5/1996
Time to Needing The Manual: 7 Minutes
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Port from PC of the fourth game in the A-Train series. Largely incomprehensible without prior experience with the series.
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Featured in Part 025
Release Date: 11/24/1995
Developer: Millennium Interactive
Publisher: Data East
Time to Killed By Aliens: 30 Minutes
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Odd pseudo-roguelike with not much going on except managing a computer OS.
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Featured in Part 011
Release Date: 2/29/1996
Developer: Probe Entertainment
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to Facehugged: 22 Minutes
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Mediocre Horror FPS that attempts to combine Doom style gameplay with the aesthetic from Aliens. Partially successful in the aesthetic and a complete failure in the gameplay.
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Featured in Part 018
Release Date: 11/5/1995
Developer: SingleTrac
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Getting Tired of This Shit: 40 Minutes
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First interpretation of 3D car combat game design. Combat and aesthetic are obnoxious.
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Featured in Part 007
Release Date: 12/14/1995
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Time to Barely Beating the Nets: 30 Minutes
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Middling first entry in Konami's series of middling basketball games.
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Featured in Part 014
Developer: SSI
Publisher: SSI
Release Date: 3/10/1996
Time to More Like Shitzkrieg: 52 Minutes
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Port from PC of the 1994 Turn Based Strategy game. An important game in development of strategy genre, but it was very long in the tooth by the PS1 release. Also has a problematic subject matter.
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Featured in Part 019
Release Date: 12/5/1995
Developer: Advanced Technology Group
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Sick of Being Negged: 45 Minutes
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Semi-on rails flight combat game ported from the 3DO. Has bad FMV, plays poorly, and frequently insults the player.
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Featured in Part 012
Developer: Left Field Productions
Publisher: Crystal Dynamics
Release Date: 5/10/1996
Time to Wanting To Do Anything Else: 14 Minutes
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Sequel to the 3DO Basketball game. Completely unlicensed save for the two title players, and almost unplayably bad.
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Featured in Part 023
Release Date: 10/7/1995
Developer: Midway
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Time to Crushed by an Arcade Machine: 30 Minutes
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Port of original arcade release of MK3. Arcade quality version of a frustrating dud.
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Featured in Part 005
Release Date: 11/10/1995
Developer: SingleTrac
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Low-Key Furious: 2.5 Hours
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Flight combat game with solid graphics. Bad level and encounter design breaks enjoyment.
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Featured in Part 008
Release Date: 2/15/1996
Developer: Psygnosis
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Dead In The Desert: 31 Minutes
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Mech-based FPS with terrible, moderately racist FMV. Cookie cutter level design and boring visuals don't help the experience.
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Featured in Part 017
Release Date: 9/9/1995 (9/1/1995?)
Developer: SPS
Publisher: Ocean Software
Time to First Fault: 5 Seconds
Time to Completely Done: 30 Minutes
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Barely anything Tennis game. Looks ugly and sounds bad. Timing for shots feels off.
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Featured in Part 003
Release Date: 1/4/1996
Developer: Software Creations
Publisher: Acclaim
Time to Desert Bus For Bullshit: 33 Minutes
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Poor conversion of the 1994 Arcade game. Bad Light Gun game with Aerosmith branding and campy everything.
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Featured in Part 015
Release Date: 12/22/1995
Developer: Jaleco Entertainment
Publisher: Jaleco Entertainment
Time to Owned By Kurt Schilling: 35 Minutes
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Poor attempt at bringing the Bases Loaded series to new consoles. Failed badly enough to kill the series.
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Featured in Part 014
Developer: Millennium Interactive
Publisher: Vic Tokai
Release Date: 5/31/1996
Time to Fumbling The Menu Navigation: 32 Minutes
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Remake of the disastrous PC Adventure game. While functionally superior to the original, it still falls apart in just about every way possible without the entire experience coming unglued.
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Featured in Part 024
Release Date: 11/28/1995
Developer: Visual Concepts
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Time to Obliterated: 12 Minutes
Time to Getting Further In The Original Version: 4 Minutes
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Isometric shmup with unique style that was disastrously ported from the NeoGeo.
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Featured in Part 011
Release Date: 10/25/1995
Developer: MicroProse
Publisher: MicroProse
Time to Getting My Squad Wiped Out: 100 Minutes
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Port of turn-based strategy game from PC. Unfair difficulty and insane controls ruin the experience.
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Featured in Part 006
Developer: Mirage
Publisher: Acclaim
Release Date: 3/6/1996
Time to Insane Wins: 23 Minutes
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Port from PC of the truly awful Mortal Kombat knock-off Fighting game. Looks bad, sounds bad, and plays terribly. Still somehow better than Criticom, and I couldn't bring myself to hate it.
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Featured in Part 019
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: 4/4/1996
Time to Completely Enraged: 28 Minutes
**NOTE: This is the first game on the list that I actively hated**
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Konami's first Baseball game for the PS1. Despite its competent production, the haphazard implementation of its gameplay innovations create an infuriating experience.
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Featured in Part 022
Developer: Krisalis Software
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 3/15/1996
Time to Looking Up The Manual: 20 Minutes
Time to Killed By Birds: 45 Minutes
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Port of the PC game that tries to blend RTS and Flight Combat gameplay. A supposedly seminal game in the history of polygonal gaming, but it's a miserable chore to actually play.
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Featured in Part 020
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Tamsoft
Publisher: Sony
Time to pissed off: 5 minutes
Time to rage quit: 30 minutes
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Low-quality 3D fighting game. Movement feels bad and style offers no appeal.
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Featured in Part 001
Release Date: 9/9/1995
Developer: Sony Interactive Studios America
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Time to Full Irritation: 45 minutes
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Extremely misguided and poorly executed racing game. Has no redeeming qualities.
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Featured in Part 002
Release Date: 12/13/1995
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Crystal Dynamics
Time to [Insert Poorly Aged Reference]: 30 Minutes
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Below average 2D Platformer crammed full of corny jokes told badly.
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Featured in Part 013
Release Date: 11/15/1995
Developer: Kronos Digital Entertainment
Publisher: Vic Tokai
Time to Utter Bafflement: 25 Minutes
**NOTE: This is objectively the worst game on this list**
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Bizarre attempt at a 3D fighting game. Plays poorly and AI is almost impossible.
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Featured in Part 009
Release Date: 1/2/1996
Developer: Xatrix
Publisher: Interplay
Time to Losing All Patience: 36 Minutes
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Port from PC of the 1994 Adventure(?) game. Attempts a cinematic presentation using entirely pre-rendered CG. Some of the worst gameplay I've yet seen on the PS1.
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Featured in Part 015
Release Date: 9/9/1995 (9/7/1995?)
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Time to Holding This Against The French: 40 Minutes
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Poorly designed and aesthetically nauseating 2D platformer. Its sparse redeeming features are drowned out by shoddy gameplay and misguided style.
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Featured in Part 004
Release Date: 12/12/1995
Developer: Gremlin Interactive
Publisher: Interplay
Time to Nibbled By Rats: 50 Minutes
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Subpar Top Down Shooter with uninteresting gameplay and sensibilities so gross I had to take a shower afterwards.
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Featured in Part 013
Release Date: 2/15/1996
Developer: Arc Developments
Publisher: U.S. Gold
Time to Going Bazooka Tone Deaf: 22 Minutes
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Low rent and highly incompetent 2D Action Platformer. Attempts and fails to have a music themed gimmick. Also fails in every other way imaginable. There is nothing to recommend.
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Featured in Part 017
Release Date: 11/21/1995
Developer: Clockwork Games
Publisher: Psygnosis
Time to Figuring Out The Controls: 15 Minutes
Time to Holding It Against The British: 30 Minutes
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Half-assed port from PC of the first attempt at a 3D interpretation of Lemmings gameplay. Fails in every way.
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Featured in Part 010
Release Date: 11/21/1995
Developer: Black Ops Entertainment
Publisher: Virgin Interactive
Time to Shot Down by Drug Terrorists: 50 Minutes
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Janky combat sim with terrible undertones and no redeeming value. This game looks bad, sounds bad, feels bad, and was a mistake in every way.
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Featured in Part 010
