Sony has confirmed the list of games installed on its new, fun-sized PlayStation Classic console, prompting some inevitable controversy because why this Final Fantasy and not that Final Fantasy and what about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and who even likes Intelligent Qube and booooo, this sucks.
Launching in time for the holidays like it’s 1994, the micro console comes pre-loaded with 20 “generation-defining” games, but what exactly defines that generation is obviously going to be different from one person who remembers being a kid and staying up all night on the weekend playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 to the next. Because Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 isn’t one of those “generation-defining” games, apparently, and nor is Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, Spyro the Dragon, or Bust-A-Move, and your childhood was wrong.
So, according to Sony’s marketing team, what are those games? The US version of the PlayStation Classic – which is presumably the same version coming to South Africa – features these “generation-defining” games:
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Cool Boarders 2
- Destruction Derby
- Final Fantasy VII
- Grand Theft Auto
- Intelligent Qube
- Jumping Flash
- Metal Gear Solid
- Mr Driller
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
- Rayman
- Resident Evil Director’s Cut
- Revelations: Persona
- Ridge Racer Type 4
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Syphon Filter
- Tekken 3
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six
- Twisted Metal
- Wild Arms
The Japanese version of the console, however, has more RPGs and side-scrolling shmups, because, you know… Japan:
- Arc the Lad
- Arc the Lad 2
- Armored Core
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- XI (aka Devil Dice)
- Final Fantasy 7
- G Darius
- Gradius Gaiden
- Intelligent Qube
- Jumping Flash
- Metal Gear Solid
- Mr. Driller
- Parasite Eve
- Persona
- Resident Evil
- Ridge Racer Type 4
- SaGa Frontier
- Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
- Tekken 3
- Wild Arms
The PlayStation Classic is already up for pre-order on some local online shops like Raru, but pricing and availability are a blank for the moment. Also, shut up, Bust-A-Move ruled.
