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[IbizaPocholo]

Welcome back to another LONG overdue deep dive into the PlayStation back catalog. Where this channel's lovely viewers have submitted a whole bunch of Obscure and/or Forgotten PlayStation games to highlight today. What PlayStation/PS1/PSX games you ask? Only the Wheel has the answers! Four answers to be exact... I'm not doing five again that was rough. (Wheels spoilers below)

Obscure & Forgotten PS1 Games Vol.16 | Sean Seanson
Elemental Gearbolt
The Mission
Nascar Rumble
Space Debris

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-Timestamps for each part of the video.

0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Game 1
25:14 - Game 2
44:20 - Game 3
1:13:49 - Game 4
1:32:04 - Outro/Ranking

 

[Punished Miku]

Yeah, Elemental Gearbolt was a hell of a cool looking physical package at the time with the holographic reflective cover. One of those games I found working at a used game store, and it was the only copy I ever saw and bought it instantly after someone sold it. Very rare game.

 

[CGNoire]

ONE

 

[nial]

Each of those Alfa System X SIE collabs on PS1 was fucking gold.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

ONE

Was going to post this, loved it. I'll add:

Pandemonium
Nightmare Creatures
Azure Dreams

Just off the top of my head.

 

[coffinbirth]

N2O

 

[CGNoire]

Was going to post this, loved it. I'll add:

Pandemonium
Nightmare Creatures
Azure Dreams

Just off the top of my head.

Was def one of my favs...still holds up too.
Nightmare Creatures was also one of my favs as well.

Great Minds and all...

 

[Soodanim]

I don’t have time to watch the video yet, but I’ll quote myself from an older thread to contribute a game that I rarely hear anyone else mention but I have a huge soft spot for.

Here's a unique answer for you:

Hard Edge

AKA T.R.A.G. in the US, it's a fixed camera angle game with puzzles a la Resident Evil, but the setting is futuristic and much brighter/lighter in tone. It also matches if not beats RE1 at points for bad VA. It's also janky in places, lacking polish. So why do I like it?

The gameplay is a good start. You can swap between 2 (later 4) characters at will, each with their own movesets (1 has guns, 3 are varying melee sets), capabilities (one small enough for a vent, one strong enough to push things, etc), and your choices impact how the game plays out from the very beginning where your 2 characters split up, with you choosing who goes where.

If you make certain choices in the story, you can also unlock extra weapons that play differently.

There's also the soundtrack, which I'm fond of (playlist link, skip through and hear the variety):


I'm not saying it's my favourite game on the PS1, but I'm still fond of it after 25 years. On PS3 I bought it from the Japanese store and played it in Japanese because I don't have any of my old PS1 games.

Speed run:

 

[Perrott]

Love & Destroy

 

[nial]

Love & Destroy

This one was weird even for 1999 SCEI standards, still one of the most unique art styles in the console.
Also, PS1's certified before PS2 launch-swan song, Addie no Okurimono.

 

[Doczu]

Oh shit another Sean Seanson video dropped?

Gonna grab a cup of coffee for this one

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Panzer Front, one of my fav ps1 games.

 

[tommib]

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Is his middle name Seano?