Every PS1 Game – Policenauts
Hideo Kojima has worked on dozens of games, with credits like Director, Producer, Game Designer, and Writer. For the first thirty years of his career, when those all happened on the same game, it would be about one of two things: cyberpunk investigators or Metal Gear. But while the Metal Gear series stretches past twenty games, there are only two cyberpunk releases from Kojima: Snatcher and Policenauts.
Every PS1 Game – Mission: Impossible
I kicked off this series with one of the most epic Playstation games, one that changed my gaming life. So where do we go from there?
How about a mediocre third-person spy adventure? This is Mission: Impossible.
(more…)Every PS1 Game…Starting with Revelations: Persona
I had an odd dream last night. Somehow I achieved surprise financial independence (Lottery? Inheritance? Dreams never explain these things) and decided I was going to quit my job so I could drive through every US state and write about Playstation games. There are like, thousands of games for the original Playstation, which was originally released in Japan in 1994 and still received new games well into 2004. If you wanted to do five games a week, it would still take over 10 years. I pictured myself on a never-ending 50 state road trip where scenic backroad jaunts were punctuated by bouts of emulation and writing, and it was all published on my site: EveryPS1game.com (which, as of this writing, is actually available).
Okay, stripping away the fantastical elements, there’s actually a good idea in there.
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