6 PS1 Games That Need Sequels on PS4

After Steve decided to reminisce (something I didn’t know he could do) about PS2 games, it seemed only fair to also look at the PS1 to see which games need to come back. Here is a completely non-definitive list of games I thought of in a 15-minute period.

I’ve put PS4 in the headline for SEO purposes, but many of these could feasibly arrive on Xbox One, PC and Nintendo platforms. I love all platforms equally (some of the time).

Future Cop LAPD

I rented this from Blockbuster Video (I definitely didn’t get a dodgy pirate copy off a ‘friend’) and remember it being quite cool. You shot things up with big guns attached to a big robot cop, so yeah, it was a bit like a RoboCop game, but instead of playing as Robert Cop you stomped around as the mad one that went gun-crazy in the boardroom.

This was essentially a futuristic entry in the Strike series (Desert, Jungle, Urban etc), but today it could use VR and harness the cloud to allow for full environment destruction. It’s probably about time for a nice arcade-action mech game.

Jumping Flash

To be honest, I can’t remember much about this other than I liked it a lot, it was the first PS1 game I owned (bought from Electronics Boutique before my PS1 was delivered) and you jumped around a lot.

Obviously any modern sequel would probably need the main character, Robbit, to be wearing Beats and listening to Drake, on a mission to plank (do kids still plank?) on top of as many city bankers as possible before house prices breach the Earth’s atmosphere.

Point Blank

The death of the lightgun shooter is one of the saddest events to hit the video game industry, so the chance of any releasing on new-gen consoles is slim, but, if they did make a comeback, surely Point Blank needs to be at the forefront.

While most lightgun games centred on shooting bad guys (generic thugs or zombies, usually) as they popped up before making you shoot a boss character repeatedly, Point Blank was an altogether more varied and quaint affair. I have such fond memories of trying to shoot a falling feather that my childhood must have been really rather dull.

Bishi Bashi Special

If you didn’t play Bishi Bashi Special on the PS1 you’ve missed out on one of the craziest gaming experiences ever devised. It wasn’t too dissimilar to the WarioWare series, but felt a bit more insane and frenetic. Yes or No, Cake Muncher and Puck Attack are just three of the weird and wonderful mini-games included, and I’m sure a modern sequel released on digital stores could rekindle some of this greatness.

Hawk Fury, Person Walk, Dove’s Tail, Crab or Man. There are four mini-game ideas I’ve just come up with in about 10 seconds, so developing the sequel wouldn’t be hard.

Wild 9

While this 2D side-scroller isn’t an all-time classic, I really enjoyed its mixture of platforming and gunplay, and it looked really nice for the time, too.

Developed by Shiny, the main character had a kind of electric whip, making the gameplay feel pretty similar to Earthworm Jim, but with a sci-fi grunge aesthetic. The chances of this making a return are super slim, but a digital-only release via crowdfunding perhaps isn’t beyond the realms of possibility.

Dino Crisis 2

Everyone knows that Dino Crisis 2 was loads better than the original, even though it was a Secret Numbers Game (TM Steve Burns/Simon Miller). Everyone also knows that Dino Crisis 3 on the Xbox was a load of piss and a complete waste of a good franchise coming exclusively to Microsoft’s new console. So, considering anyone who has any taste would rather that game didn’t exist, I’m going to erase its existence from my memory, as well as Dino Stalker, and claim we haven’t had a new game since the PS1’s swansong.

How can people not want a new survival horror game in which you fight off dinosaurs? Jurassic World made over $1 billion. People love dinos eating people.