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Top 20 best-selling PS1 games of all time

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The original PlayStation was like a jukebox stuffed with classics, and these are the tracks everyone kept replaying. Here are the top 20 best-selling PS1 games of all time, based on widely accepted lifetime sales figures:

Top 20 Best-Selling PS1 Games

  1. Gran Turismo – ~10.85 million
  2. Final Fantasy VII – ~10+ million
  3. Gran Turismo 2 – ~9.37 million
  4. Tekken 3 – ~8.3 million
  5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – ~8 million
  6. Crash Bandicoot – ~6.8 million
  7. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back – ~5.17 million
  8. Crash Bandicoot: Warped – ~5.7 million
  9. Driver – ~5 million
  10. Resident Evil 2 – ~4.96 million
  11. Final Fantasy VIII – ~4.86 million
  12. WWF SmackDown! – ~4.97 million
  13. Spyro the Dragon – ~4.83 million
  14. Metal Gear Solid – ~7 million
  15. Tomb Raider II – ~8 million
  16. Tomb Raider – ~7 million
  17. Crash Team Racing – ~4.79 million
  18. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater – ~4–5 million
  19. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 – ~5 million
  20. Frogger – ~3.7 million

A few fun patterns hiding in the data

  • Racing royalty: Gran Turismo wasn’t just a hit, it was basically a second operating system for the PS1.
  • Mascot mayhem: Crash and Spyro carried the “Saturday morning cartoon energy” of the console.
  • JRPG golden age: Final Fantasy VII and VIII turned memory cards into emotional storage devices.
  • Genre-defining legends: Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2 didn’t just sell, they rewired what games could be.

 

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Rise and fall of the Twisted Metal series

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Ah yes, Twisted Metal — the video game series that asked the all-important question:

“What if Mario Kart had a midlife crisis, bought a flamethrower, and started listening to Nine Inch Nails?”

🚗💥 What is Twisted Metal?

Imagine a demolition derby, except every car has rockets, machine guns, and deep emotional trauma. It’s vehicular combat meets psychological horror meets…a 14-year-old’s sketchbook full of fire and skulls. You don’t just race to win — you blow up an ice cream truck driven by a flaming clown while dodging missiles fired from a haunted hearse.
So… Tuesday in the ’90s, basically.

🧠 The Premise (yes, there’s lore)

Twisted Metal revolves around a tournament run by Calypso, a mysterious cryptkeeper-meets-used-car-salesman who grants one wish to the last vehicle standing. Sounds cool, right? Plot twist: he’s a genie with a legal team. Your wish always comes true, but in the most ironic, monkey’s-paw way possible.

You ask for eternal life? He buries you alive.
You wish to be famous? Boom — you’re wanted in every country.
You ask for peace on Earth? Everyone else dies.

Classic Calypso!

🎮 The Gameplay

Pick a car, get a weapon, and start wrecking people. Your opponents include:

  • A killer clown named Sweet Tooth, driving a flaming ice cream truck (soothing!).

  • Mr. Grimm, a literal death biker with a scythe and no chill.

  • Axel, a man fused between two giant wheels because apparently walking was too mainstream.

  • And other emotionally unavailable vehicles with serious firepower and even deeper issues.

Levels take place in beloved landmarks like Paris, LA, and the apocalypse. The controls are tight, the explosions satisfying, and the soundtrack pure early-2000s rage.

📉 What happened to it?

Like a rock band that peaked at Ozzfest 2001, Twisted Metal had its glory days on the PS1 and PS2, then sort of… spun out. There was a reboot on PS3, and now there’s a Peacock TV show, which somehow exists and stars Anthony Mackieand Will Arnett as a clown. It’s both baffling and completely on-brand.

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Battle of the Ports – Gunbird (ガンバード) – Arcade / Saturn / PS1 / PS2 / Android

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Gunbird is like stepping into an arcade fever dream where the only rule is “fly fast, shoot faster, and try not to question why a witch on a broom is battling robots.” This classic vertical-scrolling shooter drops you into a world where ancient treasure hunters don’t bother with shovels; they prefer high-powered airships and endless waves of absurdly hostile enemies. You’ve got a roster of eccentric characters, from Marion, the aforementioned witch with zero chill, to Ash, a grumpy adventurer whose solution to everything is “more bullets.” The plot? Something about gathering magic mirrors to summon a wish-granting bird. But let’s be honest, you’ll be too busy dodging neon death rays to care.

The gameplay is pure chaos—screen-filling explosions, relentless bosses, and enough flying projectiles to make you wonder if dodging should be an Olympic sport. Power-ups drop like candy, giving you temporary godlike firepower before the game humbles you with a well-placed laser to the face. And the humor? Top-notch. The bosses shout ridiculous one-liners, and your characters respond with quips that make you question their life priorities. It’s the kind of game where you’ll laugh, cry, and probably scream when you lose your last life to a pixel-sized enemy you swore you dodged. Gunbird doesn’t just test your reflexes—it tests your ability to survive pure, unadulterated mayhem with a grin.

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Sony PS1 Buying Guide + Great Games & Hidden Gems!

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Radical Reggie is back w/ a brand new Sony PlayStation (PS1) BUYING GUIDE: Main Consoles, HDMI video solutions, Accessories + Best Games & HIDDEN GEMS!
Reggie’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@The_RadicalOne

The original Sony PlayStation, launched in 1994, was like a magical box of pixie dust and rainbows for gamers around the world. Imagine a sleek, gray spaceship that landed straight from Planet Awesome, equipped with a controller that looked like it could double as a boomerang in a pinch. This legendary console was the life of the party, introducing us to CD-based gaming, which was like trading in your tricycle for a rocket-powered skateboard. It had more bits than you could shake a stick at—32 of them, to be exact—and boy, did those bits make a difference! The PlayStation brought characters like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon into our living rooms, turning us all into couch-bound adventurers and heroes in our own right.

And let’s not forget the PlayStation’s greatest trick: the memory card. This little piece of wizardry was about the size of a pack of gum but could hold onto your precious game saves like a digital dragon guarding its hoard. You could swap them with friends, ensuring that your gaming legacy lived on in multiple households. The PlayStation also had the audacity to introduce us to the magical world of FMV (full-motion video), making us believe that our TVs were secret portals to another dimension. In short, the original Sony PlayStation was the gaming equivalent of discovering that your boring old lunchbox was actually a transformer with a built-in laser show.

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PS1 Japan Import Hidden Gems – No Language Barrier!

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This is a selection of some of my personal favorite PS1 Japan imports from my collection. I tried to pick games that can be easily played without the need to know Japanese. All games are accompanied by gameplay, box art and the most commonly translated name for the game (if applicable).

Games featured in this video (in order of appearance): 1. Gear Fighter Dendoh 2. Odo Odo Oddity 3. Lucifer Ring 4. OH NO! 5. EGG 6. Kaze No Notam 7. Granu-Shimai Daibouken 8. Ten Made Jack