Classic PS1 GamesSony has announced that the company is taking a page out of Nintendo`s book and producing a mini version of an old console that plays classic games. Called PlayStation Classic, the console comes preloaded with 20 different PS1 games. Sony has already announced five of them, but the remaining 15 are still a mystery.We`ve got our own ideas as to what should be included on the PlayStation Classic. In the following gallery, we`ve laid out our choices for 14 games that we hope make it onto Sony`s upcoming console. We`ve left one spot open, so let us know in the comments below which PlayStation game should fill out that final slot and why it deserves to be there.The PlayStation Classic costs $100 / $130 CAN and will release on December 3, exactly 24 years after the original console launched in Japan. You can pre-order it right now. Currently, only Final Fantasy VII, Jumping Flash, Ridge Racer Type 4, Tekken 3, and Wild Arms have been confirmed for the Playstation Classic.First releasing in Japan in 1994, the original PlayStation spread across the world in 1995. For the following four years, hundreds of different games arrived on the console. The PlayStation would ultimately be superseded by the much more popular PlayStation 2 in 1999, but Sony`s original console set the stage for some of gaming`s longest running franchises and gave the Nintendo 64 some healthy competition. Castlevania: Symphony Of The NightIf Sony wants its mini console to be a time capsule of influential games from the PS1 era, itīs hard to find a better inclusion than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It seems as if every other week thereīs a slew of new `Metroidvania` games hitting the market, and half of that moniker is due to this masterclass in game form and function. It defined Castlevania for a generation, and it changed action-RPGs forever.But this is no staid relic or academic slog. Everything about Symphony of the Night holds up beautifully and is still fun to play to ...
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