![It’s been 25 years since the launch of the original PlayStation, and while games have evolved by leaps and bounds in the two and a half decades since, it’s impossible to deny the lasting impact Sony’s flat grey box had on the industry and pop culture at large.
From Bandicoots to battle-hardened super-soldiers, the PlayStation is single-handedly responsible for some of the most iconic characters and franchises of all time, and while there are so so many to love, we wanted to look back at the very best the console had to offer. These are the greatest PS1 games of all time.<br />What’s your favorite PS1 game, and what was on your list that didn’t make ours? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to check out our picks for <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/best-ps2-games-ever-top-playstation-2-games-ranked">the best PS2 games</a>, too, or for a more modern library, our picks for the (current) <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/best-ps4-games">best PS4 games<a>!” src=”https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2020/05/27/topps1games-slideshow-1590616813416.jpg?width=888&crop=16%3A9&quality=20&dpr=0.05″ class=”jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-294430442 rounded expand loading”></div>
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Armed Fantasia takes place in the wild west setting of Londenium and follows a young man named Ingram who loses his grandfather. He’s a Pathfinder, an adventurer who wields a weapon called ARM, to fight enemies called Anomalies that infest Londenium.
The game is a turn-based RPG where characters can land successive actions to disrupt enemies’ turn order. It also features a large world map where each party member possesses a unique Gadget that can help overcome obstacles when exploring.
Penny Blood is a dark gothic RPG that takes place during the 1920s during the Roaring Twenties time period and follows a man named Matthew Farrell, a private detective in New York working for the Bureau of Investigation.
An incident leads him to investigate a mental asylum but he finds it filled with monsters. Using transformation abilities he inherited from his father, he takes them down. The story will take Matthew all across the world through Asia and Europe. The game is turn-based as well, but with some reaction-time elements.
Both Kickstarter campaigns will share a “combo meter” that affects the stretch goals of both games. Pledging for one game will also contribute to the other’s stretch goals. Reaching the full funding goal will confirm both games for a PC release. Additional stretch goals will see the games being ported to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo’s most recent hardware at the time of release. No launch window has been revealed yet for either game, should the campaign reach its goal.
The Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes campaign was the most recent high-profile Japanese Kickstarter campaign, in which the game was billed as a successor to Suikoden. The campaign also stated that it would release on whichever Nintendo system was relevant by the time it was released, but a Switch version was recently confirmed this year.
George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey
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