Skippy B. Coyote

If we're going to do this, let's do it proper! The PlayStation was a phenomenally well supported console, and as such there's a huge array of great games to choose from in just about every genre you can think of. Top 10 lists and the like really can't do justice to the sheer enormity of the PlayStation's library of quality software, so with that in mind I decided to do what I've done in the past for the Game Boy & Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance and put together a list of over 350 games worth playing on the PlayStation! As with my previous Game Boy / Color and Game Boy Advance lists, the list below may not be a 100% all inclusive list of every last game on the PlayStation that any given person might enjoy playing but I do hope that those interested in the PlayStation find it to be a useful reference guide for the games released in North America that are generally considered to be good; or at the very least enjoyable representations of their respective genres. Whether you are new to collecting for the PlayStation or a seasoned veteran hunting for some new games to pick up, there should be a little something for everyone here. Also, as before with my previous lists, I have taken the time to include the average price of each game based on recent eBay sold listings for complete in box copies in the hopes that it will help make this list a handy quick reference guide for those who might stumble on a game they're interested in out in the wild but aren't sure whether or not the price is good. Just bear in mind that PlayStation game prices have been on the rise greatly in recent years so many of the prices listed below may not remain current for long. Now, without further ado... 350+ PlayStation Games Worth Playing

I have the only one with LED buttons in fact, or at least I used to have it. I take it you were the fine gentleman who just purchased it on eBay a few minutes ago?

Very sound advice atariloves you, very sound indeed... unfortunately, for better or worse, I don't have the patience to stuff something worth big $$$ in the closet for 6 months and wait on it. Maybe it's just that I've always been pretty poor and lived paycheck to paycheck my whole life or maybe it's just a personality quirk of mine, but I've never been able to hold onto anything worth a decent chunk of money if I wasn't enjoying it. That goes for game consoles, Magic: the Gathering cards, comics, and all sorts of other things. I've always had a "use it or lose" it mentality when it comes to anything of reasonable value. It probably also doesn't help that I'm currently attempting to stockpile cash for the Renaissance Festival, State Fair, and a *gasp* furry convention all coming up in August. So I'm cool with ripping the band-aid off so to speak, and I've already gotten started on it with eBay listings and doing a private sale of my copy of Donkey Kong PK to an AtariAge member earlier tonight. I'm feeling good about it too, since I had gotten really tired of the constant back and forth flip-flopping over whether or not I actually wanted to own an Atari 7800 (as evidenced by this thread's existence). It feels good to finally make up my mind and be done with it and I feel like a serious weight has been lifted off my shoulders. As far as where I go from here with collecting I've really narrowed it down to just the GameCube and Game Boy systems, along with the occasional Atari 2600 cart if I stumble on a good condition game I know I like for a couple bucks or less. I've got a really pristine GameCube with a matching colored Game Boy Player as well as a like new original DMG Game Boy with an olive green backlight, an equally nice condition custom Game Boy Color, and a custom AGS-101 backlit Game Boy Advance SP and all the usual accessories like padded carrying cases and link cables for all of them. So I'm completely set on hardware at this point and can just focus on building my game libraries, and I don't feel any desire at all to own any more systems. I can see myself potentially building a nice Atari 2600 arcade stick at some point to replace the Edladdin Super Twin 78 I'm selling, but that's pretty much it for any sort of hardware I could want at this point and I'm definitely done exploring new systems. I'm happy with what I've got. I do have a soft modded Wii that can emulate nearly everything for the Atari 7800 along with half a dozen other systems perfectly, and the Classic Controller makes playing those games really comfy, so if I ever want to revisit some 7800 games I can do that no problem. The Wii was what kept me from ever buying a ColecoVision and after this go around with the 7800 I'm fully certain that it'll scratch that itch too. Anyway, I may be starting to ramble at this point so I'll just wrap this up by saying thank you for taking the time to provide your perspective on the matter atarilovesyou. It was appreciated!

I haven't made any updates to my list on here since January and kept meaning to do individual write ups on all the games I've beaten thus far this year, but since that would take a good half a page or so at this point I think I'll just post the list of games that I've beaten since my last update in January then get back to doing game write ups for everything I beat from here on out. 18. Alien Hominid (GameCube) 19. Star Fox Adventures (GameCube) 20. Doom (Game Boy Advance) 21. Syphon Filter (PlayStation) 22. Metroid Prime (GameCube) 23. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Genesis) 24. Kung-Fu Master (Atari 2600) 25. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (GameCube) 26. Star Fox Assault (GameCube) 27. Mortal Kombat (Game Boy) 28. Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy) 29. Super Mario Land (Game Boy) 30. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy) 31. Choplifter! (Atari 7800) 32. Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Game Boy Advance) 33. Double Dragon (Atari 7800) 34. Ninja Golf (Atari 7800) 35. Tomb Raider: The Prophecy (Game Boy Advance)

Thank you again to everyone for the great advice, everything that's been said so far makes perfect sense and it's all totally reasonable. I know that I definitely have anger management issues when it comes to playing arcade and arcade style games. I almost never get gamer rage when I'm playing any games that are just about completing a level or getting to the ending of the game, even really tough ones, but whenever I'm playing something focused on getting a high score I always find myself getting angry and frustrated really easily. I don't mind this so much when it comes to the Atari 2600, since that system and all my games for it (Harmony cart aside) are dirt cheap so I never feel like I wasted a lot of money on something that irritates me when I play it; and I grew up with the 2600 so I have a fair bit of nostalgia for it that tempers my frustration as well. The 7800 has been a very different story though, so after reading all the replies and taking them all to heart I've decided to rip off the band-aid so to speak. I just finished listing my custom led lit Edladdin Super Twin 78 controller on eBay and I'll be following suit with my composite modded 7800 and all the games for it over the next day or two. It'll be a big relief to finally be done with it, and I'm guessing that someone out there who missed out on the Donkey Kong PK production run is going to be a very happy camper in the not too distant future.

It was a good week for gaming around here this past week, with my wife's PlayStation making a return to form at the top of my household's charts and a much needed revisit to an old favorite handheld for me. Ineligible Tomb Raider: The Prophecy (Game Boy Advance) - 392 minutes Arcade Pac-Man (played on Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary for GameCube) - 28 minutes Atari 2600 Lead - 133 minutes Oystron - 38 minutes Venture - 16 minutes Wall Jump Ninja - 93 minutes Atari 7800 Food Fight - 10 minutes Joust - 17 minutes Mario Bros. - 75 minutes Ninja Golf - 34 minutes Pac-Man Collection! - 11 minutes PlayStation Tomb Raider - 432 minutes Total Play Time This Week 1,279 minutes (21 hours 19 minutes) [887 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week PlayStation - 432 minutes Game Boy Advance - 392 minutes Atari 2600 - 280 minutes Atari 7800 - 147 minutes Arcade - 28 minutes I started off the week by playing the Atari 2600 High Score Club games for the week along with a couple Atari 7800 games, but playing any game for a high score tends to be an activity that I find a lot more frustrating than relaxing; so when I finally got too frustrated with them to continue playing I decided that it was time to call it quits on arcade style games for a while and play something that I would find more relaxing instead. I knew that I wanted to play something with a light to moderate challenge and story to go with it, but I wasn't sure exactly what to play until the spousal unit suggested that I try out a Tomb Raider game since they're all reasonably long and offer a bit of challenge while still being fairly relaxing to play. I thought her idea was a good one and remembered that I have had a copy of Tomb Raider: The Prophecy for the Game Boy Advance sitting in my game drawer for a good couple years now, so I decided to give it a go. I ended up having a great time playing through Tomb Raider: The Prophecy for the GBA and spent the majority of my time with it playing on the big screen via the GameCube's Game Boy Player, though I did take my game on the go with me a couple times using my Game Boy Advance SP á la an old school Nintendo Switch. All in all I thought that the developers did a remarkable job downscaling the Tomb Raider experience to work within the limitations of the Game Boy Advance's hardware, and after 6 and a half hours or so of thoroughly satisfying gameplay I was able to finish the game. I enjoyed the whole experience so much that I actually went on eBay and picked up a copy of Tomb Raider: Legend for the GameCube as soon as I finished the GBA game, and I should be receiving Legend in the mail later this afternoon. As far as the misses' gaming time for the past week goes it was pretty heavily focused on a Tomb Raider game as well! She got back to playing the original Tomb Raider for the PlayStation with some serious determination, and aside from a few occasional games of Mario Bros., Joust, and Wall Jump Ninja on the Atari systems it was pretty much all she played this week. I'm not sure exactly how many levels she has left in it at this point, but I know that she reached Atlantis last night so she must be pretty close to the end. Looking ahead to next week I know that I'll be diving head first into Tomb Raider: Legend on the GameCube later this afternoon once the mail arrives, and I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume that the misses will be finishing up her game in the original Tomb Raider on the PlayStation. Tomb raiding for everyone!

Yep, I am allergic to VG and my kidneys can't process PG. I've tried them both separately and VG makes me break out in rashes all over and PG makes my kidneys hurt like crazy and causes me to feel very, very sick.

Yeah yeah, I know. I'm actually allergic to the two base liquids used for e-cig juice so those aren't an option for me, but I am going to be making a serious attempt at quitting smoking once my current medical situation of recovering from thyroid surgery and getting the related hormones all leveled out is done. That'll probably be sometime around September or October, but it's definitely on my agenda for later this year. I've been smoking about a pack a day for 19 years at this point and I've dodged the big "C" bullet so far, but I don't know how long my luck is going to hold out in that regard so I know it's time to give it up sooner rather than later.

Thank you very much for that reply! Your story and how you handled your own similar dilemma makes perfect sense to me, particularly the band-aid analogy. I think I already knew what I should do when I was writing the original post, I was just looking for someone to confirm it. Thank you Tanooki.

Thanks Flojo, I appreciate your thoughts on the matter. I've actually been keenly interested in the study of happiness for a long while, so I already know that real lasting happiness comes from things like having a sense community, relationships with friends and family, helping others, partaking in social events, and so on; but we all have our vices. You do make a good point about the money though. I don't drive but I do smoke cigarettes habitually, so I have had well over $650 literally go up in smoke over the last year. Still, it's a lot of money to me and $650 is what I calculated my 7800 collection's resale value at rather than what I spent on it. What I actually spent was probably closer to $800. But as you said, "It's just a game system." I'm probably way over thinking this whole situation because I'm so emotionally wrapped up in the financial aspect of it and all the other systems I've ever collected for have been super cheap to collect, and needless to say the Atari 7800 hasn't been. I guess it's kinda like a disgruntled fan who paid a bunch of money for concert tickets going to a disappointing show then ranting about how they want their money back afterwards. You also make a good point about emulation, since I can emulate every Atari 7800 game other than Centipede with a trackball perfectly well on my Wii without spending a penny on it. I'm not sure any of this brings me any closer to making up my mind about what to do, but it is all good stuff to think about while I try to chill out a little.

I've got a gaming related problem, and it's a pretty big one (as far as gaming related problems go at least) so I've decided to turn to the fine folks at AtariAge for advice. The problem is that I literally cannot go a week without seriously contemplating selling my Atari 7800 system and game collection. I've got around $650 invested in it at this point, which is quite a bit of money for me since my usual gaming budget is around $50 a month, and I don't even want to play it most of the time. The reason for that being that 90% of the time I play any game on it I just end up getting frustrated and pissed off; which quickly leads to major regret for all the money I spent on this system and games for it. That's more my problem of not being able to play arcade style games geared towards getting a high score without getting irate than it is anything wrong with the system, and there must be something that I like about the 7800 because I've bought, resold, then later re-bought an Atari 7800 system and all my games for it twice now. I've never had this problem with any other system before and have always been happy with my other system and game purchases, but the Atari 7800 has certainly been a continuous loop of want, regret, want, then more regret for me. I think I keep coming back to this system because it seems like the best way to play Centipede with a trackball, Robotron 2084 with twin joysticks, and a few arcade game ports like Pac-Man Plus and the Speed-Up version of Ms. Pac-Man that as far as I know can't be found on any other system. And I do have fun playing those games sometimes, but more often than not playing anything on the Atari 7800 just results in a whole lot of swearing and wishing I had spent the money on Game Boy or GameCube games instead. When I think about the small mountain of great games that I could have bought for my favorite handheld and boxy home console with the money that I dumped into the 7800 it really does make me want to put the Atari 7800 system and all my games for it up for sale on eBay as soon as possible. So... what do I do? Do I sell off my Atari 7800 setup one last time and firmly tell myself "Never again!", putting the money from the sales into other systems that I know I won't regret spending it on, or do I try to stick with the 7800, accept the financial loss, and know that I'm stuck holding onto something​ that is going to drive me nuts most of the times I play it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Is that stucco on the disc?

A very remarkable coincidence indeed, right down to the exact point.

I always loved the demo discs back in the day. I remember having a subscription to Official US PlayStation Magazine and and getting those demo discs with the magazine in the mail was like the highlight of my month as a kid. I'd spend a ridiculous amount of hours exploring each and every one of the playable demos until I had found and done everything that you could possibly find or do in them, and even then I'd still go back and replay them again and again while I waited for my parents to buy me a new game; since I only got a few games a year most of the time. As an adult I never went back and collected the demo discs again, mostly because my wife collects PS1 games and already has 90% of the games I'd want to play the demos of, but I still have a lot of fond memories of those monthly demo discs.

To put it simply, I don't collect anything that I won't have a practical use for. I only buy games that I know I'll actually play, and when I do buy games I only go for loose cartridges or cartridge + manual copies. I do like reading the instruction manuals and find it helpful to have the original paper manuals around, since reaching into a drawer and pulling one out for reference is faster and more enjoyable than trying to look up digital manuals online. I do occasionally buy a complete in box Atari game if the price is really good, but in those cases I always just resell the box afterwards since I only have use for the cartridge and manual. As far as hardware and such goes, the same applies. I only buy systems and controllers that I think I'll use regularly and whatever ends up sitting around unused for a while gets resold. I'm fairly utilitarian when it comes to collecting.

Lead (B/B Difficulty, Default Settings, No Continues): 4,706 The reason I like this game so much is that it requires you to master a variety of different vertical shmup disciplines, and there are a few tips I'd like to share for those having trouble with it: The most important thing to know in Lead is that collecting ship power-ups are absolutely essential. In every level you'll see a little bee shaped thing coming down the screen towards you at one point or another, usually towards the end of the level. If you collect it by flying over it then it will increase your ship's firepower, and that extra firepower will be needed for eliminating enemies in a timely manner in later levels. The power-ups you collect can also be used as bombs to clear the screen of all enemies or objects by pressing down during the Fire stages or the button during all other stages, though this should only be used as a last resort in the event that you know you're going to collide with something or miss an enemy that you need to shoot. Hope that helps!

Ooh pretty! I would like! PM incoming!

Not to nitpick, but wouldn't that give you an unfair advantage playing the game at 5/6th of the normal speed when your emulator setup is capable of running it at normal 100% speed? I know lots of members here have PAL systems and TVs that can only play games at 50 Hertz and that's just fine, but since you've always played all the other games this season at 60 Hertz you kinda made it sound like you intentionally dialed down the speed of this one game and I guess I'm just a little confused at how that wouldn't be a violation of: I know it's not my job to be the rules police here and that we're supposed to keep the competition fun and friendly, but the way you worded your decision to play this particular game at 50 Hertz just made it sound a little fishy. My apologies if that was not your intention.

Honestly I'd be really surprised if the store owner didn't know what Ninja Golf was worth, since I stop in there and shoot the breeze with him once or twice a month about Atari games and he's always been very knowledgeable about pretty much everything relating to Atari. I actually bought my Light Sixer model 2600 that I use almost every day from him and most of the 2600 games I own are from that store as well. So if I had to venture a guess I'd say he probably did know what Ninja Golf was worth and just gave me a ridiculously good deal on it because I've bought so much Atari stuff from him in the past, and I'm guessing he was feeling sorry for me since I had just had surgery and was in pretty rough shape.

lol You got it RJ! The story goes like this... Last Thursday morning I had surgery to have a total thyroidectomy done, and I was stuck in the hospital for a day because of it. I got out of the hospital on Friday, came home, and slept for a good long while. When Saturday morning rolled around I decided I needed to get out of the house and stretch my legs for a bit so the misses, myself, and our housemate all took a trip out to the suburbs to browse around the local retro game stores. At the first store we went to I asked if they had any Atari 7800 games and was told that all they had was Hat Trick, which I wasn't interested in. I did buy a copies of Venture and Frogger for the 2600 from them though, then we headed off to a couple other stores. But while in the car between stores I noticed that the copy of Frogger I bought had someone's initials scratched into the label, so after we hit up a few other stores I went back to the first store to see if I could exchange Frogger for a different game with a better condition label. The store owner said sure, then mentioned that after I left they checked in back and found one other Atari 7800 game: Ninja Golf. My eyes perked up right away, since I had been looking for Ninja Golf for a long while, so I asked the store owner how much he wanted for it. He said that if I wanted to trade Frogger back to them towards Ninja Golf then $7.50 should be about right, since he knew that Ninja Golf was a pretty rare game. I did my best to keep my complete and utter shock in check, said that his asking price was totally fine by me, then paid the $7.50 and walked out with my new copy of Ninja Golf. Since then I've played through and beaten Ninja Golf on Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties and I'm totally thrilled to have this added this awesome game to my Atari 7800 library; and for an insanely good price no less.