Let's wind back the years to look back on some of the best PS1 games from Sony's ground-breaking games console, the original PlayStation.
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00:00Ready to go back to the 90s? And yes, we mean even more than the current trend for bucket hats and crop tops.
00:19It's time to turn back the clock and travel back to the birth of PlayStation with Sony's original little grey box.
00:25How many of these classic PS1 games do you actually remember?
00:29And hey, remember how cool it was that the discs were black?
00:36Let's kick things off with a nostalgic heavy hitter.
00:39Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was a formative PS1 game.
00:42If you didn't have the muscle memory to get all of the goals in Hangar in under two minutes, were you even alive in the year 2000?
00:49Not only had we never seen anything like these levels, but the incredible mixtape of her soundtrack is what cemented Tony Hawk's 2
00:55as a stone-cold classic that no remake can truly recapture the magic of.
01:00Admittedly though, the new one does come pretty close.
01:03Yes, our next game is a rabbit bouncing along a string in a minimalist black and white world, and hopefully you remember it.
01:16Incredibly, Vib Ribbon actually started life as part of a tie-in promotion for a Mercedes car.
01:22The promotion was dropped, but Papa the Rapper lead Masaya Matsura took over and the rhythm platformer was born regardless.
01:28Vib Ribbon epitomises the weird joy of the sudden potential of the PS1, and even better, you could play your own music CDs.
01:37The game was so small it loaded onto the PS1's RAM, so you could swap out the game's disc for your own albums and platform across your favourite tracks.
01:54Say it with me now, Cool Borders!
01:57It didn't quite do for snowboarding what Tony Hawk's 2 did for the wheeled variety, but Cool Borders was a chilly solid addition to many a demo disc back in 1996.
02:07Even if you never played the full game with its various tracks, chances are that you got a chance to hurtle down a polygonal slope and choose between a selection of colourful boards.
02:16It's probably, err, borderline unplayable now, but games like Cool Borders and its sequels pave the way for many solid winter sports games we love today.
02:28Let's face it, whenever anyone talks about their first classic Silent Hill experience, it tends to be James' misty trip in Silent Hill 2.
02:35Some of us though found our nightmares much earlier, playing as Harry Mason when we headed to the infamous town in search of his daughter Cheryl.
02:43It's in much more pixelated form, but everything terrifying about the series was born here in the first game.
02:48Deformed creatures stumbling in the darkness, twisted screaming fire babies chasing you through dim basements, and a complete inability to run for any length of time.
02:57Survival horror in 1999 was truly scary, and that definitely isn't just because we were about 10.
03:02Don't move!
03:05Is this the first time you ever pointed a gun at a person?
03:12Your hands are shaking.
03:14It is official, it's against the laws of the internet to make a list of best PS1 games and not mention Metal Gear Solid.
03:21It might sound like the start of it, but MGS was actually Hideo Kojima's third edition to the Metal Gear series,
03:27but was specifically designed to make the most of the fresh 3D tech inside of the PS1, hence the solid part of the title after two previous 2D games.
03:36Among many other gifts, it gave Kojima the ability to smash down the fourth wall, with Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and forcing you to change controller ports to keep your mind free of invaders.
03:46Such was the impact, Snake's stealth adventures on PlayStation are considered a historic achievement that changed the way the world received video games.
03:53If kick, punch, it's all in the mind has instantly appeared from nowhere in your brain, then you definitely remember Parappa the Rapper.
04:06The surprisingly tricky rhythm game, one of the earliest of the genre, follows young Parappa as he trains in the art of rhyme with none other than Chop Chop Master Onion.
04:27The game spawned a spin-off with Um Jammer Lamy, and a sequel was released for PS2 in 2001, but we'll always remember the true frustration of thinking we were hitting the beat, and well, just not.
04:37As Parappa would say, we've just gotta believe.
04:46Another PS1 game, more revolutionary game design, and another astonishing soundtrack.
04:51No wonder we all have such good music taste. Wipeout 2097 was the second in the now legendary series, and didn't just feel like the future because of the 21st century title.
05:00Whether you were flying Vector, Venom, Rapier, or Phantom, the speed of these futuristic craft felt genuinely game-changing.
05:07Soaring through the air, risking boost zones, and carefully handling turns with air brakes meant Wipeout was a whole new level of racing games.
05:14And now we're off to listen to Firestarter.
05:21Truthfully, the PS1 was a golden era of brilliantly colourful platformers.
05:28And move over Rayman, Spyro, and Crash, because we want to talk about Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear to the rescue.
05:34Here was Traveller's Tales already showing off the skills that would become the lifeblood of the LEGO adaptations.
05:40But in 1999, it meant taking on the role of everyone's favourite space ranger, and diving through the Technicolor world of Pixar to save the rest of Andy's toys.
05:48I am Buzz Lightyear. I come in peace.
05:51The result is a dizzying platformer that you can still play on the PlayStation Classic Store, if you want to go and play it now.
05:57Well, actually, maybe wait until this video's over.
05:59Okay, this next game has a slightly different title depending on where you are in the world.
06:10But, regardless of whether you know it as Twisted Metal 2 or Twisted Metal World Tour, we're sure you're in agreement that this demolition derby was absolutely the best in the series.
06:19Twisted Metal 2 was many people's first introduction to the terrifying Needles Kane, driver of an ultra-deadly ice cream truck known as Sweet Tooth.
06:26Don't worry if you still get panicked when you hear one in real life.
06:29Single-player was brilliant carnage, but the local split-screen offering meant things could get truly personal.
06:34Sorry, not sorry.
06:39Let's end on a fiery curveball with Roscoe McQueen, Firefighter Extreme.
06:43If you're wondering why you're so at home playing Power Wash Simulator, it might be because in 1997 you were handling high-pressure water and putting out fires in various towering infernos.
06:52The intrepid Roscoe didn't review particularly well at the time.
06:55Okay, badly actually, he reviewed very badly.
06:58But we have fond memories of battling robots with our fire axe and collecting water bottles to keep our house topped up.
07:04Hindsight is a dangerous thing, hey?
07:06So hopefully we've stirred up some PS1 nostalgia to send you into the cupboard looking for your original PlayStation.
07:13And wires that definitely don't have connection to modern TVs.
07:16Good luck with that!