The original PlayStation was one of th🍎e best consoles ever released, with a wide array of fantastic games that many players still remember fondly today. The PS5 may be a modern-day marvel but kids growing up in the 90s were floored by how "advanced" the original console was. Needless to say, it has a lot of fans, even today. So it's no surprise that some people are still trying to get their hands on the original ♒games ported to the console. But some of these games can be hard to find and downright expensive.
5 PS1 🌃Games That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time (& 5 That Were Just Too ♏Generic)
When PlayStation 1 came out, the gaming wo💟rld was revolutionized. Take a look back at the most innovative games and those that were too generic.
To keep things fair, the aforementioned titles will be priced "new." That means completely sealed 💎and unused. There’s a big price difference for some of these depending on if the game is loose, used but compl🍒ete in box with everything, and then actually new. This is according to , the most-recommended site for tracking these things down. As with any collectible, prices can vary and will fluctuate!
Updated December 26, 2024 by Matt Arnold: While many of the games on our list have been holding steady, there have been some notable changes to keep an eye on. Diablo, Clock Tower, and Suikoden 2 are all down since we last updated this list in December, while Thousand Arms seems to be climbing. Most shocking, though, is that Final Fantasy 7, of all titles, seems to have plummeted! There's no telling yet whether this is a short-term drop - check out our updated list below
28 ✃ Legend Of Dragoon 🃏
$180
If you're a fan of JRPGs, then chances are you hold the Play♋Station 1 in high regard. The console's heyday was a golden age for the genre, and true aficionados will remember the gorgeous .
A sealed copy of the game isn't exactly cheap, but compared to the other entries on this list it's a great starter piece for an aspiring collector, a🍰nd ✨it shows that you know your stuff when it comes to classic RPGs.
27 Diablo
$185
The PS1 port of Blizzard's seminal action-RPG was published by EA. Between being a licensed port and the overwhelming popularity of the PC version,🀅 comparatively few PS1 copies were made. $185 may be a lot to pay for what's not even the best version of , but it could be worse... it could cost your soul.
PS1 Diablo seems to be coming off a brief high that likely coincided with increased interest from the release of Diablo 4ඣ in 2023.
26 ❀ Final Fantasy 7𓆉
$200*
seems to have dropped off massively in the last few months, ba𝕴sed on the data at PriceCharting. Sealed copies of the original, black-label version went for over a grand just a few months ago, but now the game is in the same league as its cousins, FF8 and FF9.
While we don't claim to🌊 know what's behin𓂃d this sudden shift, we also wouldn't go rushing to sell our sealed copies just yet either (if we had any, that is - they're hard to find!). If you have a sealed original FF7, getting it professionally graded might be the best way to help keep its value intact.
*We'll be keeping an eye on this one, so check for this list's next 📖update to see if the price rebounds over the next few months!
25 ♈ Team B🎀uddies
$235
You'll be forgiven if you've never heard of . Not only was it unimpressive in every regard, but it also launched just before the PS2, causing it to fly far under the radar. Still, those fa♏ctors led to it being a hard game t🅠o find nowadays, and completionists will need to shell out more than four hundred dollars to add a sealed copy to their collection.
24 🌳 Castlevania Chronicles
$250
Everyone's heard of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Symphony Of The Night, but did you know that there were actually two 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Castlevania games on the PlayStaꦦtion? is a port of a remake of the original NES Castlevania. This remake was originally made for the obscure Sharp X68000 cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚomputer.
10 Terrible-Lo𓃲oking PS1 Games With Amazing Gameplay
While plent✱y of PS1 games feature hideous visuals, some of them also happen to have awesome gameplay.
Castle🍸vania Chronicles had two major stumbling blocks: for one thing, it was no Symphony of the Night. Second, it released in 2001, a full year after the PS2 made any PS1 launches effectively dead on arriv♐al.
23 Castlevania🍷: Symphony Of The Night
$285
changed the Castlevania series forever and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:introduced a new genre that's still beloved today. As PS1 games go,🦩 it's fairly easy to get your hands on, which is good because it belongs in every fan's collection.
Gameply from 1997 doesn't always age well, but Symphony of the Night is still a joy to play. Just be sure to play an open physical copy or digital version, and leave your sealed ℱcopy intact!
22 ♓ 🅘 Mega Man Legends 2
$300
Like Castlevani🎐a Chronicles, , was a late PS1 release. In fact, it launched just two days before the PS2 launched, which was on October 24, 2000. Talk about bad timing. It suffered from hitting the console too late, which is a shame considering it's such a fun and interesting entry in the franchise.
Like many games that are beloved bu🎃t didn't do well 🎶commercially, Mega Man Legends 2 can be hard to find since so few copies sold when it was on shelves.
21 Spyro Collector's Edition
$300
This in one neat little package. The third gam🐻e, Y🎐ear of the Dragon, released two days before the PS2’s launch in 2000. This particular collection released a couple of years later in 2002. Because of its "package deal" style, it can fetch a pretty hefty sum in the modern-day.
20 Alundra
$305
If you're wondering who the elf-eared character was that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot was referencing, you're not alone. Alundra was a short-lived series of action RPGs on the original PlayStation, and was obscure enough✅ that fans were very pleasantly surprised to see it get a shoutout in 2024's Game Of The Year.
Luckily for collectors, brushing up against gaming's newest mascot hasn't made a sealed copy of Alundra any harder to come by; it's been holding steady around the $300 mark for years now.
19 Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete Collector's Edition
$365
Nowadays, collector's editions with extra swag for devoted fans come with many major releases. Lunar and Lunar 2's collector editions, on the other hand, were largely unique at the time. Containing an art book and cardboard standees of the characters, knew full well that its target audience was the hardcore JRPG fan. If you can f൲ind 🔴an intact copy today with all the extras, it will run you about $365.
