In previous Castlevania games, you controlled members of the vampire-hunting Belmont family. It was the franchise’s defining moment, as the game radically expanded the series’ platforming with RPG loot, progression and non-linear exploration, lending its suffix to the subsequent “ Metroidvania” genre as a result. The Castlevania series was over a decade old by the time Symphony of the Night arrived.

Action Castlevania: Symphony of the Night In this list, we’ll go through 50 of the best PS1 games of all time. The system’s library might not hold up as well as you’d remember, but there’s no denying its importance. It paved the way for the PlayStation brand, leading to millions of consoles sold worldwide and three more successful home consoles thereafter. Many of these beloved series began on the original PlayStation and still feature new entries to this day. It featured some of the most important and influential games of all time, from Metal Gear Solid, to Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo, and Final Fantasy VII. Ranging from novel-length, narrative-driven RPGs to fast and furious races to mind-bending puzzles, games for the original PlayStation offered a wildly diverse lineup over its 11-year production run. And we all know that the success of this console has now led to the PS4 and PS5. Not only was it home to some of the most impressive games at the time, it also offered a convenient way to play music using CDs, which was quite novel in the mid-90s. In 1995, the system was released worldwide, and it took gamers by storm.

In 1994, the PlayStation launched in Japan, giving its players a way to enjoy beautiful (at the time) 3D games using discs, instead of the expensive price tag that came with cartridges. It was the result of a cancelled collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, leading to somewhat of a feud in the mid 90s. The original PlayStation almost didn’t happen.

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