With many gamers owning a PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and even the Nintendo Switch it is easy to forget just how amazed gamers were when they first saw 3D games like Tekken on display at superstores all over the world running on the original PlayStation during the mid-nineties.
Visually, gamers today are spoilt with titles like Uncharted, Horizon Zero Dawn, or The Witcher series. However, as good as those games are, old-school gamers still appreciate the games that pushed hardware limits from 20 years ago.
The PlayStation was a 32bit machine that managed to outsell more powerful consoles like the Nintendo 64 and even the Sega Dreamcast before the PlayStation 2 was even launched. This was partly because the developers were able to work around the machine’s limitations and squeeze every last drop of power that the machine was capable of.
Unfortunately, not all games faired so well, because even though there were developers that accomplished great things on Sony’s little grey box others were not so fortunate. This was partly due to the rise and demand for 3D gaming, so the transition from 2D sprites to polygons wasn’t always a smooth one.
So while some games looked amazing for their time it was only nostalgia that kept some of these titles relevant today, many games from the PS1 era still look and play as well as they ever did.
