System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1998 Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation is the game that made stealth cool, made cutscenes feel like proper cinema, and made an entire generation genuinely afraid of a cardboard box. This Metal Gear Solid title from Konami dropped Solid Snake onto Shadow Moses Island with a simple brief -…
System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1996 Crash Bandicoot on the PlayStation is the game that gave Sony’s console its own mascot to plant firmly on the shop shelf next to Mario and Sonic. This Crash Bandicoot title from Naughty Dog took a genetically mutated marsupial with a bad haircut and a worse attitude, dropped him…
System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1997 Tomba! on the PlayStation is one of the most charming, inventive and criminally overlooked games the platform ever produced – and the fact that original copies now sell for hundreds of pounds proves that the people who found it knew exactly what they had. This Tomba! title is a…
System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1995 Jumping Flash on the PlayStation is the game that looked at the first-person perspective, decided it wasn’t being used ambitiously enough, and gave it to a robotic rabbit who can jump three times in mid-air and look straight down at the ground below. This Jumping Flash title arrived as…
System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1998 MediEvil on the PlayStation is the game that gave us a hero who was killed by the very first arrow fired in battle and spent the next hundred years getting quietly more embarrassed about it. This MediEvil title dropped you into the skeletal remains of Sir Daniel Fortesque -…
System: Sony PlayStation Release date: 1995 Wipeout on the PlayStation is the game that walked into 1995, looked the entire games industry in the eye, and told it to grow up. This Wipeout title wasn’t just a racing game – it was a statement. Psygnosis built an anti-gravity racer set in 2052, handed the visual…