uber unknown JPN (or not) PSOne games that must be played

RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:51 pm

hrm... im revisiting the PS1, so, what games (that are "unknown") should i try out?

not necessarily Japanese game, but any game which are "hidden gems" for the pop console

hrm?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:09 pm

On the shmup front there's the underappreciated Harmful Park, if you haven't tried that...

I don't know if it's underrated/obscure enough, but you might also want to try Landmaker (released as "Builder's Block" in the US), I sought it out via the "Puzzle Games Thread" here, and while it's not perfect it's fast become a favorite puzzler of mine. The arcade version is playable in MAME if you want a taste of it: the PS1 port is pretty close, but has an unfortunate amount of load time.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:43 pm

You might want to give Agetech's budget PSX release, "Top Shop", a try on your PSX/PSone setup...it's a very fun game, especially with more than one player, all the merrier. ^_~

If you haven't tried out Squaresoft/positron's "iS: internal section" Tempest-like shooter for the Japanese PSX, then you're in for a very special treat via silky smooth 60 frames-per-second presentation in 16-bit graphics mode & 640 x 480 "high" resolution mode. Welcome to devil's kaliedelscope is the tagline of internal section... Squaresoft USA was planning on releasing internal section for the USA market but never did so... it would've been regarded as a uber-cool PSX underground title for it's overall graphic-designer revsionist stylistic presentation..... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:46 pm

I'm about to work on a big and fairly comprehensive (by my personal standards of course) list of PS1 games worth owning over at Fanitsu. I'll dig up this thread and post a link when I'm done. This will take a couple weeks at best.

Pa

rolins · Post by **rolins** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:36 pm

Policenauts (jpn) - outstanding digital comic thats the prequel to Snatcher.

Image Fight & X-Multiply (jpn) - Irem shooters, worth it just for X-Multiply.

Armored Core: 3D mecha battles, classic.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:40 pm

rolins wrote:Policenauts (jpn) - outstanding digital comic thats the prequel to Snatcher.

Image Fight & X-Multiply (jpn) - Irem shooters, worth it just for X-Multiply.

Armored Core: 3D mecha battles, classic.

Yeah, I've heard good things about Policenauts, and I'd love to get my hands on IS.

It'd be great to have a PS1 Shooting Special, now that we have one's for the Saturn, DC, and Neo Geo.

BeauZilla 002 · Post by **BeauZilla 002** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:51 am

Wow I was just thinking about this on the way to work today.I really dig Silent Bomber,a 3-D explosion-fest from Bandai (?) but I'm not sure how obscure that is.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:35 am

lots of good shit for PS. Crap that I like, off the top of my head:

Metal Slug X
Mr. Driller G
Landmaker
Money Puzzle Exchanger
Umihara Kawase (thanks Undamned and 05pro for helping me get these)
Toaplan Shooting Battle 1 (Tiger Heli)
Raiden DX
G. Darius
Pop 'n pop
Donpachi
Rainbow Islands

Have yet to try the Puyo Puyo Sun port

Sad thing is, I only have decent scores in the puzzlers. Not enough hours in a day. Argh.

benj · Post by **benj** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:44 am

Neon posted lots of great stuff already, so the only game I can think of right now would be Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzledama.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:15 am

Captain Commando
Adventure of Little Ralph
Kyuiin (Vaccum Kids)

Middlemoor · Post by **Middlemoor** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:44 am

"The Unholy War" by Crystal Dynamics.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:56 am

Metal Slug X for PS is the worst port of it, tho still a fine game of course.

Didn't care for Unholy War.

More for the list:

Kitchen Panic
Geppy X
Panzer Bandit
Gunners Heaven (absolutely essential for action gamers)

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:08 am

disruptor, broken helix, blood omen, syphon filter, crusader no remorse, ghost in the shell...

just 6 of many many underappreciated PSX classics.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:22 pm

The way the character runs in Syphon Filter is ghetto.

Skullmonkeys is pretty sweet.
Trap Gunner is ok too.
No One Can Stop Mr Domino was good last time I saw it, been ages tho.

RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:44 pm

omg! someone mentioned UMKShun!!

prolly one of my favorite platformers for the PSOne ever (next to SOTN i guess

) and i also played Panzer Bandit back in the day..

hrmm, iS:internal Section? sounds a lot like Rez

thesuperkillerxxx · Post by **thesuperkillerxxx** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:03 pm

Kings Field Games rock, and Shadow Tower is pretty good too. Incredible Crisis. Will post more later

Middlemoor · Post by **Middlemoor** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:16 pm

Well I didn't care for the games you listed either, NTSC-J.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:27 pm

Interesting stuff. I'd like to get Toaplan Shooting Battle 1, but I'm pretty sure it only works on a J-PS1, and my PS1's modded.

Kitchen Panic looks interesting; what does that involve? Anyone played Death Wing?

I really dig Neo Geo's Double Dragon, but, AFIK, the PS1 port is inferior to the Neo Geo CD port. (Diddo with Powerslave, compared to the Saturn port.)

I will be getting Star Ixiom soon, but I've read that it's heavy on Japanese.

Ridge Race Revolution is my fav. RR game on the PS1, and Star Blade Alpha is very cool. It doesn't control as well as the arcade rev. but there is a rapid fire cheat.

At any rate, this is a great thread! I'd love to know more about any of the rare PS1 games from this site:

http://www.digitpress.com/archives/didy ... shmups.htm

that have not already been mentioned in this thread.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:44 pm

RoninBuddha wrote: hrmm, iS:internal Section? sounds a lot like Rez

Sorta, you have Rez visuals but a Tempest clone in gameplay.

Anyway, for graphical adventures, on the US end, I think Discworld is one of the few that stands out and actually motivated me to figure out the puzzles. And I feel that Exodus Guilty is the only non-Konami JP adventure that has an interesting story (and no dating/schoolgirl crap).

All the lesser known JP shooters on the PS range from weak to mediocre really. Note that the bottom half of the games on that page by Greg Wilcox are rail shooters.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:54 pm

Two words:
Gussun Paradise

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:20 am

Ganelon wrote:
RoninBuddha wrote: hrmm, iS:internal Section? sounds a lot like Rez
Sorta, you have Rez visuals but a Tempest clone in gameplay.

In fact, iS: internal section was one of the few PSX shooting titles that was the inspiration for the cult classic of Rez for the DC & PS2 platforms. The other two PSX games that play similar to internal section are Nanotek Warrior & N2O.

Squaresoft did release an official internal section strategy guide to get the most out this uber-cool shooter for the Japanese market. ^_~

N2O has some cool graphic design visuals worth checking out. And it even some Japanese kanji script was placed there as well to give it a cool overall presentation. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

kong · Post by **kong** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:35 am

Slap Happy Rythm Busters
Gamera 2000
Ore No Ryori
Omega Boost (released in US but definitely a sleeper)

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:59 am

Am I the only fan of the Yaru Drama series? Double Cast in particular...

RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:26 am

kong wrote:Slap Happy Rythm Busters

i actually have that, great unique game, one of the few (only?) cel-shaded psone games

since everyone is mentioning it, im wanting Toaplan shooting battle now

Gussun Paradise

i've heard great things about it, i have Gussun oyoyo 2 for SFC, i've been meanign to get that as well..

raiden · Post by **raiden** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:29 am

Interesting stuff. I'd like to get Toaplan Shooting Battle 1, but I'm pretty sure it only works on a J-PS1, and my PS1's modded.

my PS1 is modded, too, and it runs perfectly on it.

my recommendation:
N2O aka Nitrous Oxider - same principle as Tempest X3 and Internal Section, but a lot better, not only graphically, but also with a challenging score system. Also, it´s a lot cheaper than Internal Section.

Soulo · Post by **Soulo** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:19 am

I think Tomba! and it's sequel are pretty solid platformers, it reminds me a bit of Super Adventure Island 2 on the SNES in the way it's a platformer combined with RPG elements (collecting/using items, weapon upgrades, talking to ppl) with a kind of tropical setting to it. The games were made by a company called Whoopee Camp, which was founded by by Tokuro Fujiwara; the man responsible for the design on classic games like Bionic Commando and the Ghost n Goblins series.
I think they're quite underrated since I haven't read a lot about it or hear gamers mention the quality of these games.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:46 pm

Forgot to post this.
This thread is your friend.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:53 pm

Ganelon wrote:
RoninBuddha wrote: hrmm, iS:internal Section? sounds a lot like Rez
Note that the bottom half of the games on that page by Greg Wilcox are rail shooters.

I know, but I love rail shooters.

What I have against N2O is the fact that I've never listened to any music from the Crystal Method. So if it's bad, then I'm stuck with it for the entire game!

Tomba does sound pretty interesting-if it's anything like SNES Super Adventure Island 2, then I would assume it has some RPG elements in it?

Thanks for the great link, Gaijin! Didn't know there were any Goemon games for the PS1; I've only played the two Famicom titles. I have read that Silhouette Mirage is a lot better on the Saturn.

It would be interesting to know what all the games on all 6 Sunsoft Memorial Series discs are.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:20 pm

Silent Bomber and Tail Concerto.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:13 pm

TSB1 definately works on a modded PSone perfectly. I had it for years with no problem.

Its the PS2 systems which have backwards compatibiliity issues with the game. I think it runs one of the games at half speed.

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uber unknown JPN (or not) PSOne games that must be played

uber unknown JPN (or not) PSOne games that must be played

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Several PSX titles were the inspiration for Sega's Rez...