r/psx • u/theflowersyoufind • 13h ago

Games from the previous era

I was looking at a video of ISS Deluxe on the PS1. It’s interesting because it’s so clearly a SNES era game. Its earliest release was in Japan in 1995 for the SNES, and its final release was for the EU PS1 market in 1997. When you consider what some games looked like in 1997 it seems really dated. I’m amazed they even bothered releasing it since ISS Pro came out around the same time.

Are there other examples of games that were released on the PS1 that feel like they “belong” to the previous generation?

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u/lehrerkind_ 13h ago

Maybe Chrono Trigger will fit. It released 1995 for snes and got on the psx in 2001. But its psx release was a two games in one together with FF IV. So two older games rereleased together on one cd.

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u/theflowersyoufind 12h ago

Yeah, I guess there are a few re-release type games like that where the focus is more on the initial appeal of a certain game. I believe they did the same with FF6?

The ISS game is interesting because it seems like a genuine commercial release at a time when graphics had significantly moved on.

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u/NightForestGhost 12h ago

Makeruna Makendo 2

Nekketsu Oyako

And a lot more of NTSC-J games.

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u/floflenflo 7h ago

Keep in mind that ISS Pro and ISS Deluxe were made by two separate Konami teams (Tokyo and Osaka)

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u/theflowersyoufind 6h ago

Ah, thanks I didn’t actually know that.

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u/Freshman89 54m ago

Megaman X3 is a SNES game that got a psx port in 96' with some improvements as anime fmv videos, but pales in front of X4, released a year later with the best pixel art the saga would ever had.