Ranking The BEST PS1 Games of All Time - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

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Kinda Funny Gamescast: Ranking The BEST PS1 Games of All Time

Date: September 16, 2025
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Junior, Tim Gettys (“Lacroix Poppy”), Andy Cortez, (plus recurring references to Greg, Joey, and chat).

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the Kinda Funny crew tackles IGN’s recently updated “25 Best PS1 Games of All Time” list. The group dives into what defines a “best” PS1 game, debates the merits of exclusives versus all-time greats, predicts the top entries, and reacts in real-time as they unveil and critique IGN’s rankings. Packed with nostalgia, hot takes, and plenty of friendly clowning, this episode is a joyful walkthrough of PlayStation history — and a love letter to one of gaming’s most iconic eras.

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The Show Kicks Off: Banter, Audio Glitches & Nostalgia

Timestamps: 00:00–06:19

• Mic & Audio Weirdness: The show begins with Blessing confused by an audio echo he’s hearing (“I hear myself... I think it’s just where I’m sitting.” 01:02), leading to jokes (Andy: “Your centrifugal forces,” 01:09) and a rabbit hole about the challenges of sitting in the studio’s center seat.
• Classic School Pranks: Andy and Blessing swap stories about practical jokes involving teachers’ watches and pranks in high school biology class (“Me and Alfredo in high school... we thought it'd be hilarious to buy the same watch.” 03:28).
• Reflections on Childhood Karma: The hosts joke about the karma of being a bad kid and then growing up to become a substitute teacher (05:16).

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Setting the Stage: “The Shit List”

Timestamps: 06:19–08:56

• List Segment Explained: The crew introduces their recurring “shit list” segment — think “let’s debate IGN’s list for your amusement.”
• Criteria Debate: Should the “best PS1 games” be exclusives only, or all games playable on PS1? Tim: “I hate when people limit it to exclusives… Just keep it objective: the 25 best games on the platform, that’s my hot take.” (08:18)
• Consensus Reached: Everyone agrees third-party and multiplatform games deserve inclusion, especially since many of the system-defining classics weren’t Sony exclusives.

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Predicting the List: Heavy Hitters, Series, Genres

Timestamps: 08:57–21:38

• Early Locks:
  • Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are immediately cited as must-haves (10:06).
  • The group discusses third-party dominance: “Three third party games that defined the platform.” (10:09)
• Which Franchises/Publishers Dominate?
  • Square Enix is called out as a shoe-in for multiple slots: “Square Enix is gonna be fucking in this.” (11:24)
• Hot Takes and Franchise Arguments:
  • Which Crash and Spyro is best (Crash 2 vs. Crash Team Racing; Spyro 1 vs. 2 vs. 3)?
  • Debate over whether Parappa the Rapper deserves a spot: “It’s too iconic… But I don’t know that it deserves a spot on the list.” (14:15)
  • Is Tomb Raider overrated? Blessing: “I’m a known Tomb Raider hater.” (15:53)
• Genre Roundup:
  • Sports games (NFL Blitz, Game Breaker) are discussed but face skepticism.
  • Fighting game representation: Tekken 3 and Street Fighter Alpha 2 get nods.
  • Racing games: Gran Turismo 2, Ridge Racer, and later mentions of Need for Speed and Driver.
• Deep Cuts and RPG Love:
  • Love for Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Einhander (“I played the fuck out of Einhander, dude.” 17:19) and questions about which RPGs sneak in alongside the big Final Fantasies.

Notable Quote:
Tim on platformers: “Rayman and Klonoa are the Suikoden and Vagrant Story of the platformers.” (22:44)

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Filling Out the List & Super Chat Shout-outs

Timestamps: 21:38–41:00

• List Expansion: Blessing tallies up their predictions — about 27 titles, with broader genre and nostalgia picks, e.g., Spider-Man (“Neversoft Spider-Man in 1999 is what I credit my love to Spider-Man to.” 18:56), Parasite Eve, Grand Theft Auto, etc.
• Chat Participation: The crew turns to live chat and super chats for wild card picks like Rayman, Hot Shots Golf, Tenchu, Bushido Blade, Marvel vs. Capcom, and more.
• Passing on Certain Hits: Mega Man Legends, Ape Escape, and Soul Reaver are considered but not consensus locks.
• Buried Gems: There’s repeated lament for genre oddballs or cult titles that probably won’t make IGN’s official list.

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The Top 10 Prediction Game

Timestamps: 41:01–47:00

• Locking the Top 10:
  • HOT predictions: FFVII, MGS, Symphony of the Night as the top three. (24:13+)
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Resident Evil 2, Gran Turismo 2 and Tekken 3 fill out the next tier.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics, Crash 2, and a debate between FFVIII/FFIX and Silent Hill for final top-10 slots.
• Icon Status vs. Playability:
  • Warm debate over which games truly age well, and if “iconic” should outweigh gameplay (“FFVII is significantly more playable than Metal Gear Solid 1.” 70:44).

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Revealing IGN’s Actual Top 25 – Reaction & Commentary

Timestamps (Key Segments): 47:01–64:00

1. #25: Parappa the Rapper
   “Too iconic of a... It's one of the few old IPs that still just gets mentioned all the time because of how weird and unique it was.” – Andy (47:17)

2. #24: Um Jammer Lammy / Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

3. #23: Spider-Man
   “We didn’t even, like, organize them fully, which is fine. I think we were at a good point, though, because... after that top 10, it is kind of just like hodgepodge.” – Lacroix Poppy (47:52)

4. #22: Medal of Honor
   “This was like, back in the day when Storming Normandy was still a big deal, dude.” – Blessing (48:09)

5. #21: Ape Escape
   Debated inclusion; chat and metacritic vindicate its spot.

6. #20: Crash Team Racing
   “I feel like back when I first started talking about video games professionally, like, people would laugh me out the fucking room when I'd bring this game up. And now it's like, oh, y' all motherfuckers know this is actually a great racing game.” – Blessing (50:56)

7. #19: Siphon Filter

8. #18: Soul Reaver
   This kicks off debates about “representing the PS1” vs. “games that are now retro-critically adored.”

9. #17: Final Fantasy Tactics
   “Way lower than... [I expected], way lower.” – Andy (54:27)

10. #16: Ridge Racer Type 4

11. #15: Xenogears

12. #14: Final Fantasy IX

13. #13: Silent Hill

14. #12: Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage

15. #11: Driver
    Surprise! Driver snags a high spot. All admit to being a bit blindsided (“Was not expecting Driver on this list.” – Lacroix Poppy, 56:15)

16. #10: Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

17. #9: Vagrant Story
    “If they ever remade this game, I would lose my... This game is so much better and so much more amazing because it was such a... a late PS1 game. The level of production this game is on another level.” – Andy (60:29)

18. #8: Tekken 3

19. #7: Resident Evil 2

20. #6: Tomb Raider
    “You’re getting by on the name… this is another [Driver].” – Andy (64:23)

21. #5: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2

22. #4: Gran Turismo 2

23. #3: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

24. #2: Final Fantasy VII

25. #1: Metal Gear Solid

Key Discussion Points:

• Predictions landed many games but not the exact order; several “deep cut” inclusions and the high rank of Tomb Raider surprise.
• Series like Final Fantasy and Resident Evil, alongside platform mascots Crash/Spyro, dominate as expected.
• Surprise at Medal of Honor, Driver, Soul Reaver making the cut; some hand-wringing over “iconic” picks that might not have aged well.
• Debate: Do Metal Gear Solid and FFVII age well? Blessing: “FFVII is significantly more playable than Metal Gear Solid 1.” (70:44)

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Memorable and Fun Moments

• School Days Karma: “If you were a bad kid in school and then grow up to be a teacher, you have it coming to you.” – Lacroix Poppy (05:25)
• Genre “Duffy Pulls”: Deep cuts like Einhander, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, Klonoa, and Suikoden tossed in for “if you know, you know” nerd cred.
• Chat Jokes: “Tomba top three!” — Andy on the endless PS1 name debates (32:50)
• Delight Over Deep Cuts: “If they ever remade Vagrant Story, I would lose my…” — Andy (60:29)
• Reflecting on Impact: “Final Fantasy 7, there’s not even a question [it had more impact than MGS]. 7 is a phenomenon.” — Blessing (72:43)

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Community Interaction

• Multiple super chats and chat callouts throughout — hosts riff on audience picks (Legend of Dragoon, Tenchu, Bushido Blade, Rayman, etc.) and share personal stories in response.
• Hosts occasionally let chat sway or validate their picks, especially with deeper RPG and niche genre mentions.

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Final Reflections: Thumbs Up or Down?

• All hosts agree the IGN list is surprisingly well-rounded.
• Blessing: “I'd give it two thumbs up. There's a couple weird things... but I don't think there's any thing that I'm like, I can't believe that. It's like, all right, cool.” (73:58)
• Andy: “Tomb Raider being, like, [top 6] is one of those that I’m like, yeah, I’ll give it a strong thumbs up.” (74:15)
• Consensus: Minor disagreements, but overall the list “knows ball,” mixing critical darlings, icons, and nostalgia picks. “I’m not mad at it.” – Tim (74:29)

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Notable Quotes & Time References

• On the importance of third-party games:
  “There's so many good third party games… Consoles didn't work that way back then, specifically PlayStation.” – Blessing (08:09)

• Classic banter, on exclusivity: Tim: “If the exclusives aren't the best games? Just why do we have... just only play Elden Ring.” (08:59)

• On PlayStation’s RPG Heyday:
  “PS1, I feel like, was the RPG machine of the era.” – Lacroix Poppy (17:27)

• On Impact:
  “Final Fantasy 7, there’s not even a question [it had more impact than MGS]. 7 is a phenomenon, in terms of just characters and RPGs and FMVs... Not just one of them. It is another perfect example of impact in video games.” – Blessing (72:43)

• On deep cuts:
  “If you want to have a great list, you gotta have... the picks where it's like, if you know, you know.” – Andy (18:27)

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Episode Tone & Vibe

Irreverent, deeply nostalgic, and full of playful arguments, “Ranking The BEST PS1 Games of All Time” is both a celebration and a roast of PlayStation’s golden era. The hosts seamlessly blend deep-cut cred, love for mass-appeal titles, and endless meta-banter about the meaning and legacy of these classic games. It’s as much a group therapy session for millennial gamers as it is a podcast — and a great primer for anyone who wants to understand what made the PS1 such a legendary console.

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For fans of: Debates about “best of” gaming lists, PS1 nostalgia, game culture, podcast banter, and the inside baseball of video game history.

Transcript

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Foreign.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yo, what's up? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, September 16, 2025. I'm one of your host Blessing Adio Junior. Joining me is Lacroix Poppy, who I'm a little bit worried about Tim Yeties.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

If y' all watch games daily. There was an energy that was brewing that, like, I can't really explain, but, like, it's continuing here. And right before we went live and it's happening right now. I feel like I'm going crazy. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm sitting here and I'm talking and I hear myself. I hear my voice back, like, a millisecond after I say things, and I was like, Kevin, I think that the. The speakers are, like, coming through for my mic and they're like, no, it's not. And I was convinced it was Andy talk.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like, test, test, check, check. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't hear that? I was like, no, I don't hear anything. He's like, yeah, I'm hearing myself. Kevin, wait. I hear myself.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You're going like, tim, tap your mic. He taps it. Nothing. No feedback.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm here. I think it's just where I'm sitting. I'm getting some reverberations that are just with my, like, central core of my ears.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, your centrifugal forces.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, man.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Of course. Over there is the nitro rifle. Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Hello. That was a lot of. And that was insane to the point.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Where I was like. Like, I'm. I was so with Andy. It's funny because it was like, one other person sitting here then. It could be a back and forth kind of thing. I think me and Andrew are both in the mind of, like, we don't hear nothing going on, not hear any sort of echo. And Tim is so adamant.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, dude. I was ad. I mean, I. I still am. I still hear it, but I. I trust you guys. It is just the reverb. It is just.

[Lacroix Poppy]

This would be such a great elaborate prank if we're like, hey, if Kevin comes to us, hey, we're going to turn up Tim's mic.

[Andy Cortez]

Only his monitor.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Just don't acknowledge it, but I think.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's oncoming fatherhood.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Your.

[Andy Cortez]

Your scent, your ears get stronger.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's all happening here. The we. I think we got to the. The center of what the problem is. I never sit in the middle.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like, I never knew, like, pretty much on any show.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. So it is an interesting place to be. Real quick I want to hijack the show already.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Hijack it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Andy, after I went crazy, brought up a story about his dad. You want to give the. The quick version of that?

[Andy Cortez]

I was back home visiting my family a couple months, like a month or so ago. And my dad has this like, Timex watch, one of the old school dad watches. And an alarm was set on it, and it would. It would go off every night.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But.

[Andy Cortez]

The register of the sound is so high that my dad couldn't hear it, so he never knew it was going off. And I just thought I was like, dad, the one. He was like, what? I was like, you don't hear that? It's going off right next to you. So it was just like this whole funny thing of us always making fun of him because he couldn't hear it. But then he thought he disabled it one night and he was like, my watch isn't even here. I was like, dad, it's right. I hear it. He was like, oh, shit. So, yeah, it was just him having this watch issue with his hearing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And that just reminds me to what I'm going to call my glory days. They weren't. These were the days when I was a little piece of shit. Me and Alfredo in high school. All right, it was junior year, biology class. Mr. Donahue, R.I.P. okay. He was a great man. He did not deserve the shit that he got from anyone in that class, but specifically me and Alfredo. He also had a watch that every single day at noon would beep, beep, do some alarm. What it was for, I don't know. It was probably for medication. We probably shouldn't have been with him. I didn't know that. We were dumbass 16 year olds, right? So what did me Alfredo do? We thought it'd be hilarious to buy the same watch that he had.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You know, I knew where this is going. It's kind of funny, though, dude.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

For a week straight, we were just at different random times, just have it.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Go off at this point that's up.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

This poor man, he was like, what's going on? He couldn't figure it out. He's like, it won't turn off. And it wasn't his. Oh, that was.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So I thought, you're gonna, like, synchronize your time to be the exact same so that when his watch goes off, yours goes off the same time. Which I do think is funny. But for you to fudge with them.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And be like, so, dude, he was going crazy. He got so angry. I don't think I've ever seen a teacher like in front of the class start getting that upset. He wasn't blaming the kids. He was just getting mad.

[Andy Cortez]

Right?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You know?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Don't do that, kids. Don't judge your teachers.

[Andy Cortez]

Right here.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Be better. Of course. This is the kind of funny games cast where each and every weekday we get together and talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. Wow. Feels like different on the side of the table when you.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Does it?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Does it sound different?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, it kind of sounds. Is there an echo?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Maybe I'm not crazy. All right. Maybe the seats have differences.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Reverb. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us accord them live and get a deal Daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Some housekeeping for you. We're 11 person business all about live talk shows. KHD was about rumors of a state of play next week and then after. This is a skate stream. If you're a kind of funny member, you can get today's Greg Way, which is. Do we know what today's Greg Way is?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, we still don't know Greg.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Do we know who's doing today's Greg Way?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No one could possibly know.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, God. All right, well, you're gonna get a Greg Way, we promise.

[Andy Cortez]

I did have a panic moment the first time that question was asked today on Games Daily where I immediately looked at my phone on the counter. I was like, is it me? Like, no, it's not me.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's Mike.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's Mike.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Mike.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Caesia Bish in the chat says I was, I was a in school paying for it as a sub. Now take that sentence for how you will substitute.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I can't imagine what that karma would look like if you were a bad kid in school and then you grew up to be somehow become a teacher. Yeah, I feel like you're. I. I feel like you have it coming to you, whatever it is.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Like that's very brave of you to do that, especially a sub. Thank you to our Patreon producers. Carl, man, we're so. We're so messed up in the brain because I can't even say the word sub.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Without thinking it. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm twining. Today we're Brought to you by Shady Rays and Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with topic of the show. Were you listening to the stream when Nick kept bringing up Femdom?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, but I did get a slack from Joey Noel that said, hey, we can't let Nick travel anymore. He came back and said Femdom way too many times.

[Lacroix Poppy]

He said a lot.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

He said a lot during that stream.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Our topic of the show is a shit list for you. We are Talking about the 25 best PS1 games of all time. Of course, if you don't know about the shit list, the shit list is our segment where I go online, I find a top 10 list, or a top 25 list in this case, and I bring it back to the panel here and we judge it for your amusement. The 25 best PS1 games of all time. It comes from IGN. It was written by the IGN staff and it went up September 15th, I think. Is that 16th? But that's a lie. I think I just wrote that as today. It went up a few days ago. I want to say bless.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I already told Andy this, but when I was in Paris, I was with a bunch of games media people, meeting a couple of them for the first time and there was this very nice gentleman, we're getting to know each other. And he was asking me, he's like, what's your name? What outlet you from? And I was telling him, I was like, what's your name? What outlet you from? And he's like the gamer. And I immediately was like, oh. Like, I really just. I. I apologize. Like, I hope that I haven't offended you. You seem cool.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But was he aware of like the.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, I didn't, I didn't actually bring it up. This was more of an internal dialog. But yeah, it. I. We've done a lot of damage here.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, we've talked a lot of.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We've talked so much. But that's also the spirit of the show. And also they should know when they're putting up those lifts. They put up like 10 lists a.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Day and every once in a while they're good. Oh yeah, they're good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But then every once in a while it's like we got to have a conversation here and that's what we do on about to have a dialogue. So I pulled up the article. It was originally posted August 21st. It was updated September 15th. What that update was, there's a new PS1 game that came out. They had to add it to the list. Where do we start from here? Where do you boys want to top 20?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We have to kind of define the criteria, right? Top 25 PlayStation 1 games, to me means it's going to be all games that came out on PlayStation 1, third party, exclusive or otherwise, right?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Because I don't think we're getting just 25 exclusive games.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No, no.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Consoles didn't work that way back then. Specifically PlayStation.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Right.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

So I feel like there's a couple of heavy hitters.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Can I give a hot take when we're Talking about the 25 best PS5 games or the 25 best Xbox games? I hate when people limit it to exclusives. I'm like, just keep IT objective. The 25 best games on this platform, that's my hot take.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's not. I think that that's a fair take.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I don't like it.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like it either. I'm glad you said it because I wasn't gonna say it because like, what.

[Lacroix Poppy]

If the exclusives aren't the best games? There's so many good third party games.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I. But I, I feel like if I'm.

[Lacroix Poppy]

If I'm Talking about the 25 best PS5 games, Elden Ring better be top two on the list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, but then is. Is Elden Ring supposed to be top on every list? Don't say yes, boys.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Fine.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Top Xbox games, Elden Ring, top PC games.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Just why do we have Ring? Elder just only play Elden Ring.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That's all. That's all I'm going to say.

[Andy Cortez]

Why not? So then on the list as well.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We'Re talking about criteria. Yeah, I think we're, we're bringing in third party because I think. Yeah, you're right. That this is the era where Tony Hawk Pro Skater on PlayStation is different from Nintendo 64. Resident Evil on PlayStation is different from Nintendo 60.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Totally, totally. And I think that even then it's just like, like PlayStation Studios didn't even exist then as a title. But like they weren't dropping hits. You know what I mean?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like it was like a lot of. There were some. But it's not like it is today where it's like when we start the bidding of like, what are the top games on this list? And we just jump to the Naughty Dogs. Well, I guess here you kind of do, but Naughty Dogs are insomniacs or whatever. It's like, it is more just like what are the big games.

[Andy Cortez]

But do you think at the end of the list we'll notice, okay, they gave a Bit more favor to PlayStation Studios. No, there, there's Parappa the rapper there, there's no.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

You don't think so by the end of it we'll be like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Because I don't think. I think on PlayStation the most defining games of that platform were necessarily PlayStation like published games.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Because let's start there, right? Metal Gear solid, Final Fantasy 7, Castlevania.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Symphony of the Night, three third party games. I define the platform because.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I look at this list now I'm like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And they were exclusive to be fair. Those three.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Which one of those weren't exclusive tonight was on Saturn?

[Lacroix Poppy]

You're right. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But we don't count that. We don't count that.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Cuz like now I'm just thinking of all of the 989 game like 989 Studios. 989 Sports. Like those are just those weird sort of defunct publishers and.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But I don't think any of those make this list.

[Andy Cortez]

If MLB 2001 with Chipper Jones on the COVID isn't on the list, I'm gonna go crazy right now.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Gonna go sit Jones.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, come on.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So I think it's easy to start listing off like the. The games that are for sure going to be on the list. There's going to be a crash. Multiple crashes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I imagine Crashing Team Racing would be the multiple.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh I see, I see.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Crash to.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Be there.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think in modern times, especially if they're updating this list, I think Crash 2 is the one that gets the most critical reverence.

[Andy Cortez]

What franchise do you think has the most entries potentially? Final Fantasy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is on the list.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I agree. See, I would even question what publisher has the most entries because I think Square Enix is going to be fucking in this. In this.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Absolutely. Final Fantasy tactics. I mean let's talk about. Let's talk square.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Do we talk about Chrono trigger as a PS1?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, because that was part of Final Fantasy Anthology and I don't. I hope they don't put that on the list. Those are just straight up ports of games together like that. I don't think that that should count.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh man. Are they gonna put My Baby Vagrant Story on there?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Are they gonna put Brave? Fancy Musashi? Oh man, I love Brave.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I can, I can. I mean top 25. Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Fair enough. Hyping it down. Final Fantasy 7, 8, nine.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Twisted Metal 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Is that the only Twisted Metal?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yes. Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean it's the only great One.

[Andy Cortez]

There's just one. I mean, when I. Yeah, I think if I would feel more like that if there were this were a top 10 list, but 20. Like there's a lot to fill out this list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, but like the PS1, twisted metals, like there's twist. Only two of them were made by Incognito and then the rest of them were 99 studios. Like 3 and 4 were bad games.

[Andy Cortez]

9 8.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

1 was like a launch title or close to. I don't remember. And then. But two was the good one. So I think just TM2.

[Andy Cortez]

Do we get any sports love?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Do we have our blitz?

[Andy Cortez]

Do we have a blitz? Yeah, Blitz is kind of the main one I can really think of.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's funny because.

[Andy Cortez]

What about game breaker 98?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, man, I think I have the double disc for that.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

To me is such an arcade game that I know there were ports, but if. And maybe I don't know why I associated more with N64.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The multiplayer side, I don't know.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But I already wrote down Tekken 3.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, for sure, for sure.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Which Gran Turismo to Gran Turismo 2.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That's the thing. I think we, I think there's enough easy ones here that like, if we get to like the past 20 and we're like digging for things, then I think we're talking about Blitz.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, Silent hill, Resident Evil 2, probably Resident Evil 1.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Resident Evil 1 as well. What about Siphon Filter and our pal Gabriel Logan?

[Lacroix Poppy]

I saw somebody. So my friend Eric, he was at a bar yesterday and he sent me a picture of the TV at the bar. There was like a random video game on there. He was like, hey, what's this video game? And I looked at it and I was like, I have no idea what the this video game is. My best guess is Siphon Filter. And I went and googled Siphon Filter. It was Siphon Filter.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Nice, dude. That's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

That game rocks. I don't want to be Gabe Logan though.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So so far we have 15 games written down.

[Andy Cortez]

The rapper gets mentioned.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. I think at like number 25.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think it's too iconic. That's my thing. 25, sure. It's just like, I don't know that it deserves a spot on the list. I, I and I love rap.

[Andy Cortez]

The rapper.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. What it is.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But like, yeah, iconic. It'll it fits. But otherwise not so much is I.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Forget what the Street Fighter library looks like on PS Alpha games. Yeah. That Street Fighter Alpha 2 or 3, maybe.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think it was Alpha 2.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Alpha. Okay. Alpha 2 was the one I played by. I played it on Super Nintendo. That rocked.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Good ass game. I'm writing it down.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm trying to not look at chat. I'm trying to like get into the depths of this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I know we have. We have so much stuff written down. Spiral.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yes, but which one? And this is like. I. I'm not.

[Andy Cortez]

One.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I'll say. Three.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, it's not.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Year of the Dragon. Come on, man.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's simply not. You're the dragon friends.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I just. With Spyro 3, let me play as that kangaroo.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think might be Spyro 2. Ripto's rage.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Ripto's Rage.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I. To be real, though, I'm not in on this early Spyro games enough to.

[Andy Cortez]

I think. I think one would be mentioned. I would go with. If I was to pick a spiral game, it would be one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

One. I'm just going right now. One. Spiral the Dragon.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I feel like the quality of two is the critical one, but I feel like that's the case for most of these games. But I don't know who the IGN staff is at this point. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know how Rebirth. Right.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I also associate that with Dreamcast, but still. Really?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, did we say Tomb Raider?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, shit. Yeah. No, we did not.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I don't have to read it written down.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm a known Tomb Raider hater.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm also a Tomb Raider hater, but also it's gonna be on here.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And that's another one. I don't know which one.

[Andy Cortez]

God, I played the beginning of Tomb Raider so many times.

[Lacroix Poppy]

A Tomb Raider is what I. What I've written down. Did you know? Actually, no. I'm gonna say this for a game show.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you know?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Did you know? Because Roger asked me a question about Tomb Raider and I answered. I was like, it has to be this. And he was like, no. And he told me the real answer. I was like, that's going straight to game showdown. Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wow.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Let me tell you, there's more to Tomb Raider than you know. Oh, man. Okay. We have written down 19 games. I still feel like we're flowing. I feel like we're still.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Dude. Yeah. We still got.

[Lacroix Poppy]

If we're going by genres.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So Andy mentioned sports. I feel like. I don't think we had much there for sports unless we do the NFL blitz thing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I don't think a Jet Moto makes it. Even though I really like Jet.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Racing. We have Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, a Ridge Racer.

[Lacroix Poppy]

A Ridge Racer.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And that's another problem where, like I played the PSP one the most. So like, I don't know which one was popping like that, but yeah, PlayStation Ridge Racer.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Is this too early for the need for Speed era?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think so.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Feeling need for Speed peaked on PS2.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Really peak PS2, but people liked it on PlayStation 1. Legend of Dragoon. People like a lot.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm gonna write it down.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, that's. That's more of like. I wouldn't bet on it.

[Andy Cortez]

I have an old school call out.

[Lacroix Poppy]

What's that?

[Andy Cortez]

Einhunder.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Wow. This guy's in.

[Andy Cortez]

I played the fuck out of Einhander, dude. Yeah, it was like. This is a German word.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think I put that in. I put that in like the brave, fancy Musashi.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Of like. Like if you know, you know. Yeah, but like, is it gonna make a top 25 Xenogears? Oh, yes. See, RPG was gonna be the next one I bring up because PS1, I feel like was the, the RPG machine of the era.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We already have final fantasies written here, which was dominant. But like, do we, do we have anything else from Square or beyond for RPGs?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, that's like Vagrant Story.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Like, and I said Chrono Trigger earlier, but Chrono Cross.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, Chrono Cross. I mean it was not nearly as well received as Trigger. But like, I do think that it's still a good game and people have love for it.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, put it, put it on the list.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's also. I think it's also important to note that like, it's not. We're not just going for the most popular thing because I think some of these answers will be very deep in the Duffy of like, oh, you chose that. That was a very specific choice because you know that that game didn't get as much critical or as much like, you know, monetary level, financial success that it should have. But that's like a. That's a low key banger.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I feel like for. If you want to have a great list, you got to have. Yeah. The picks for nerds. The picks where it's like if you know, you know that this is what.

[Andy Cortez]

Totally to me, that's Vagrant Story nine Hander. Like, those are two games that I feel like will get that.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That sounds right. But I think that at the same time, because of how many were Talking about on PS1. Xenogears I think is the lock.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like that game I'm ran down. Vagrant Story, Spider Man, Never Soft Spot I love that. I hope it's there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I hope it's there too. I'm writing it down for the time.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Dude, that was so good now. Really tough.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

God, that's like, so special, though. I mean, honestly, like, Neversoft spider man in 1999 is what I credit my love to Spider man to. Yeah, like, I. I watched the cartoon and stuff and really liked it, but that game made me fall in love with, like, the world and the character Stan Lee being the vo. That's so sick.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Jumping off of Spider Man. Licensed games. What does the licensed library for PS1 looks like?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Look like 102 Dalmatians.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Jackie Chan Adventures. Yeah, Come on. Jackie Chan Stunt Master is what it was called. Great Chain Adventures was the cartoon. Jackie Chan. Stunt Master.

[Andy Cortez]

Stomp master. Stunt stunt Master. Okay.

[Lacroix Poppy]

What do you think I said at first?

[Andy Cortez]

The first one I heard? Stump. Stump.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah, he loves stumps.

[Andy Cortez]

Master Stumps. I can't really think. I. I was just thinking of old school GTA games. Do any of those get a. A shot?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The dot was probably there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, you think so?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, I think that's one of those games that like. Like two has been retro, like, retconned of, like, hey, everyone thinks three is where it all started, but really, this was a great game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And also Greg always surprised me. I. I'm just being young here. I'm very old. But, like, for the context of the conversation where Greg always surprised me, where he played Grand Therato, the og, like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Pre three years old, he's sold.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Isn't that crazy?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. That's nuts.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Unbelievable.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Speaking of that, though, Driver.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, I feel like Driver wasn't that great. At least I don't remember it. Excuse me. Being that great. We're playing that at a friend's house. Yeah, Driver. And I was like, what is this?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I hated it, but I loved it. But there was something about, like, the way it controlled that. I feel like fucking. I. I felt like, oh, man. Like, real gamers know how to play this. I just don't.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But I feel like maybe it was that at the time.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Like, I've. I've looked at gameplay of Driver recently in, like, previous seasons. The game showdown prep. And I'm like, this game does not look good.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, here's a big kind of callback for Bless Parasite Eve.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah. We gotta write it down. We gotta write it down. Shout out to the goat.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a deep that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. One day I'll play it. All right. I mean, we got 27 games written down here. I'll just go through them and do any last picks. So right now I have written down Final Fantasy 7, MGS, Castlevania and Symphony of the Night, Crash 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Crash Team Racing, Tony hawk, Pro Skater 2, Final Fantasies 8 and 9, Twisted Metal 2, Tekken 3, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill, Resident Evils 1 and 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Spyro the Dragon, Prappa the Rapper. A Tomb Raider. A Tomb Raider, any Tomb Raider, a Ridge Racer, Legend of Dragoon, Xenogears, Chrono Cross Vic, Vagrant Story, Spider man, and that's 25. And then it goes on GTA question mark. And in Parasite Eve we have 27 games written down here. And so far I think a lot of these look good.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, I'm. I'm really trying to think of like, okay, empty my mind going to a friend's house. Cause I didn't have a PlayStation at the time. What do they have? What are we playing? Ridge Racer for sure.

[Andy Cortez]

I just stumbled across another real deep cut that I feel like will be on there for the. Oh hey, we, we know ball type of pick.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So we could in.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, that's good. That's a good, good pull.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

WWF smackdown.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, I think so for top 25 though. I mean because like that wasn't no mercy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It wasn't no mercy, but it was PlayStation's close thing.

[Lacroix Poppy]

They had Smackdown.

[Andy Cortez]

If that's other than than blitz better be there, you know, like that's the type of level game I'm thinking of.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Because Smackdown Iconic, but like.

[Andy Cortez]

And then NCAA Game Breakers. Just going to the sports games that I played.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Man.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, chat saying Rayman. That's a good poll, Ray. Man one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think we're two in the Duffy. I think the ones that we have is great.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But yeah, I mean it's.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I feel like the ones that we have I'm putting above the ones that we're adding right now.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Klonoa. Yeah. God, there's some good. That's more than like Rayman and KLONOA are the suikoden and vagrant story of the platformers.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, people in chat are mentioning Mega Man.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

God no.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

What was it?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, eight ape escape. I wouldn't put it in the top.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

25 escape out of here.

[Andy Cortez]

Roger.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Don't bust in this fucking door.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No, I'm also kind of a hate. Well, I'm not even Ape Escape hater.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, Abe's Odyssey, the Odd.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah, that's a good Call.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That is a PlayStation game, man.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Ape Escape, Tim. Number 23 on the highest Metacritic scores for PS1.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think Ape Escape should be on, like, has to be on this. We're not supposed to look at that list, by the way.

[Andy Cortez]

To 90. Oh. I mean, hey, I'm not on the show enough. So this is.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, put away your laptop.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And also, I don't remember things we've written.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We've written down a lot of games here. 31 games. What I want to know for you from you guys then are. Oh, and also, I meant to ask for super chats at the beginning of this super chat in with your favorite. Okay, first of all, we're just the names of games now.

[Sponsor/Ad Reader]

We're not.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We're not talking about the top Star wars masters of Terracost.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We're just saying Super Chat in with your favorite PS1 games is what I was going to ask at the top of this. And I'll check and we'll talk about them. But what are the evil. What are the guarantees for top ten?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Let's work through the top ten. Let's try to order it.

[Andy Cortez]

Number one of this list, the top.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Three we have locked.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yes. Final Fantasy seven. Mel. Solid Castlevania.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I'm.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Before we do the top three, I'm gonna lock number four is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater two.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, damn, that's good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Tony. I think Tony Hawk one also gets it. No, in this 25 list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I don't think so. I really don't think.

[Andy Cortez]

Pizza bet.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Pizza bet.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I think you're right. Because I'm looking at everything else on this list and I'm like, it's hard for me to put anything else above.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Pizza bet. Pizza bet.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Pizza bet. Wait, what's this bet that we're making.

[Andy Cortez]

That I think Tony Hawk one will be in the top 25? Oh, like just somewhere. 24, 23. Wherever.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. Because. Yeah. Like, what would the other contenders be then? Like, Final Fantasy tactics? Grand tourismo 2, Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3. Yeah, but I think Resident Evil 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Re 2.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Re 2. Is re 2 the number. The number 5 we're talking about then?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yes. Gran Turismo number 6. Tekken number 7.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I like this. Dude, you're fucking crushing the top 10 right now.

[Andy Cortez]

God. Dadville just got you. It Elevated you. Holy shit.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay, and then 1, 2, 3. Metal Gear Solid.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You don't think Final Fantasy.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Final Fantasy 7. Metal Gear Solid. Castlevania. 1, 2, 3.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think they put Final Phase 7 above. Yeah, GS.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't. I think it's possible, though I don't agree with it. That's not what I would pick. But that's what I think they'll go with.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Tim is so deep inside.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, man. I just, you know, I want to get it right. I want to get it right. There's no.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You're trying to nail this top.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, you want to nail this top. There's no wrong. Right. We're just in a good place.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I like seeing a Tomb Raider, an average racer.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, I think for sure the top two is seven and Metal Gear. Right? Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I get your guys argument. Even though you didn't really make an argument besides saying it's definitely one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No, I get it. I think the argument is icon status and popularity, which I know Metal Gear Solid has as well. But I think there's something about Final Fantasy 7 that's bigger than life, Especially for what it did for like RPGs in the west, like the Final Fantasy JRPG, environmentalism, what it did for the planet.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm with it. I'm with it. 7. Metal or solid? Symphony of the night.

[Andy Cortez]

Top three.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. And then you're saying THPS 2, resi 2. Gran turismo. I forget which one too. And then Tekken 3. We need 8 through 10.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I feel great about that.

[Andy Cortez]

I need you to crush this eight through ten, though, Tim.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I need you to send this shit.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Home right now, Big Dog, because we have Crash two. We have Tactics. We have Crash Team Racing. We have other final fantasies. Silent Hill. A Tomb Raider.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, looking at this, I think. I think we go Crash two.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And number eight.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number eight. Number eight.

[Andy Cortez]

And then volunteer Tactics at number nine.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And then. What's your ten?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna go.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I.

[Andy Cortez]

Part of me really just feels like Final Fantasy 8 gets like that sort of retcon.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, I think a 8. 7, 9, 8. If we're talking place.

[Andy Cortez]

7, 9, 8.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. There was one.

[Andy Cortez]

One time, and maybe it's just Ben Star.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

There's too much divisive things about 8. The junction system isn't for everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Ben Star just got in my brain.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. Nine is like. I think it's so different. Like seven and eight have more similarities. Nine is like, you know, that totally different look and vibe.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And one time when I was like 18, 17, 18, um, we had Internet issues at home and so I called the Internet Comcast dude to come help fix shit, and he comes through and he needs to use my Laptop. So I get my laptop. He sees that I have games installed. He's like, oh, you're a gamer? He was like, you ever play Final Fantasy 8? And I was like, no. And he was like, best game ever. And that's my. It's my complete impression of Final Fantasy 8.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The people that love 8 like, they love.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Based on that guy, I'm like, Final Fantasy 8 might be top 10.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Based on my podcast, I'm.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Going to tell you this right now. Like, y', all, you boys right now, you're now very familiar with Tifa Lockhart.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Right. Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You're very familiar with Aerith. Right. Whatever you want to call her. You know, you understand the feelings that these digital characters have made you feel.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You haven't met Renoa. Like, you also know what Renoa can do to a man. Renoa and any man that's learned what Renoa could do from eight.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I started up eight on my. On my retroid pocket, allegedly. And that intro was just not the most explosive start.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Well, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I fell off pretty quickly, and that's when I started Vagrant Story and got really deep into it.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Is number 10, Silent Hill? Yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It could be.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm say yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think that's a good bet.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Because I feel like that would complete this top 10 fairly well.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, put it there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So our prediction, hoping to nail this top 10. I feel like by the time we get to number 10 on this list, we're already gonna.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this is like picking, like, predicting what the NFL draft is going to be.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

So hard, so fun, though.

[Lacroix Poppy]

From 10 to 1, our prediction for the top 10 is Silent Hill at number 10, Final Fantasy Tactics. Wait, is that right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. He said.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. So I think, yeah, Final fancy tactics at nine. Then we get Crash 2, Tekken 3, Gran Turismo 2, Resident Evil 2, Tony Hawk, Pro Skater 2. Man, a lot of great sequels. Castlevania, Symphony in the night. At number two, we get Metal Gear Solid. And at number one, we get Final Fantasy 7. That's the prediction.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Feel real good about that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

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[Andy Cortez]

Shout out to a super chat from the homie Jace with a two dollar super chat who really just throws a wrench into this whole top 10. Even top three I would say $2 super bad says Tumba top three which is like, you know, I always call it Tumba and some people were like annie, it's tomba. Tumba would be o o t o o m b and I was like oh you nerds.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

If you, if you call that tomba, get out of here. It's Toomba.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I don't care if I remember.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You're right back.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Why did.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Why did I play it recently? Because they re released it. It's rough, dude. Most old games like that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But why? Why did we all collectively call it Tumba? Because it's not like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Because it's the one about it. You look at it, it's the word tomb. Like, where you bury somebody with an A at the end.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But, like, that's weird that our brains did that because, like, I don't know why it's not tomb.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You're right. I never thought about it like that.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a thousand percent. It's for sure.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Like, all except.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay, the chat has thrown things into a tizzy. All right, everybody. Hot Shots Golf freak thrown out there. Marvel versus Capcom out there. Oh, whoa.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, but like, whoa. I feel like that's a Dreamcast situation. Right?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That was marvelous. Capcom 2.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Wait, which one are we talking about?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Marvel. Capcom 1. I don't think it makes New age of superheroes. I don't even.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Was that more of a PS1 game, I think?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Well, it was a PS1 game. It was an arcade game.

[Andy Cortez]

Hot Shots Golf does really.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Hot Shots Golf, I think, is somewhere on the list as well.

[Andy Cortez]

23 for Hot Shots Golf. Taking it right now.

[Lacroix Poppy]

23. So we're gonna push down. What are we pushing?

[Andy Cortez]

Nice on.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So we're gonna push down. Xenogears for Hot Shots.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We haven't organized. We haven't organized.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Which one of these games are you removing for Hot Shots Golf, huh? Final Fantasy 9, Resident Evil 1, Spyro the Dragon. We've only organized one to ten Legend of Dragons. Yeah, but, like, putting one in means we got to take one out.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think that Xenogears is top 15.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I can see that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. Okay. We got a whole bunch of what about super chats in here. Let me go through your super chats real quick. We got one from Scarlet Libra, who says, hey, Tim, how was Lincoln Park? Saw them live also for the first time ever last month in Chicago with. Oh, with Paris opening. It's Paris spelled with a V with Paris like churches.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Pavaris Chorus the game chorus. Cores core.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Whatever happened to Corps?

[Andy Cortez]

I heard it was good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Whatever happened to Jet the Far Shore?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wow.

[Lacroix Poppy]

2020 was a different time announcing anything this PlayStation showcases.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, Lincoln park was fucking awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you know who.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, the headliner was? You know or not headliner. The opener was no. Jpeg Mafia.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Damn.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That sounds like it would have been great.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It was awesome.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Holy. Jim C writes in and says Spyro 2 and Crash Team Racing would be at the top of my list. They're two of my top five favorite games of all time to this day. And I still have my original PS1 copies that I got the year they came out. Later Storm, says, the Legend of Dragon.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Why did that echo and reverberate through the world?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Legend of Dragoon is better, says later storm. Riley 21 says Tenchu or Tekken 3. Of course we got to Tekken 3. 10 shoe we didn't really talk about.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, you know, Tenchu. Tenchu is one that I just. I don't have enough.

[Andy Cortez]

That'd be, like, a top 40.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Kevin loves 10.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Kevin loves Tenshu, which is the one where Dynasty warriors.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

He loves Dynasty.

[Lacroix Poppy]

What game had realistic, like, slicing physics?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Metal Gear Solid Red, the PS1 game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, chat, you got me on this. It was, like, kind of a fighting game, but, like more like a bloody roar. No.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Blade.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I saw gameplay. Bushido Blade for the first time, like, a few months ago on TikTok. I don't know how this happened. The algorithm is just crazy. But I saw it, and I was like, what the is this magical video game?

[Andy Cortez]

That's awesome.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And I looked it up. I was like, yo, Bushido Blade is kind of different. We don't talk about Bushido Blade.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Can you pull up some footage of Bushido Blade and Bloody Roar, please?

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Hell yeah, dude. Bloody Roar. If you don't know, do you know what Bloody Roars.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That's another fighting game, right?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's a fighting game where each person turns into a different animal, which is cool. It's like, the coolest thing ever. So we just don't do it like we used to.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Cozy Bear says Star Wars Masters of Terras. Kasi Trevor says, I loved Rayman to the Great Escape as a kid.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Well, that's the thing. I mean, Rayman and Raymond, two very different games. 2D platformer, 3D platformer, and both top tier. I think remand 2 is, like, in the conversation of, like, best 3D platformers of its era. Whereas Rayman 1, I just think, you know, you're not comparing it to, like, 2D Mario and shit, but there weren't that many 2D platformers on PS1.era.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. This is Bushido Blade. First of all. The esthetic just brought me back. I was like, man, this is what games should look like. This is what we should be putting out. Did you all see that?

[Andy Cortez]

Did you all see that? Twitter thread where some old game, or rather some new sort of indie title. It was like a game dev talking about the process of the. Of the making of this old. Of this new indie game that is doing, like, old aesthetics. And they were trying to replicate the PS1 wobble. Whoa. So whenever you see PS1 games and there's always solid, like, weird textures type stuff happening, and then I forget who it was, but it was somebody from, like, the old school development on PS1 that was like, we spent so much time trying to get rid of this, and you all are, like, trying to bring it back. Like, I spent so much, so many hours of my life trying to not have that PS1 wobble thing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I. I'm sorry, Andy. I saw a chat that just literally made me burst up laughing. Sweet Joseph says bloody Roar turned me into a furry. That's a joke. It was Star Fox.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

It's good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's good. Kebabs writes in and says, the Emperor's New Groove by Argonaut Games. And then in parentheses says Croc. I don't get it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Croc.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Nope. Emperor's New Groove. Was that a PS1 game? Wiki year. Emperor's New Groove.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wait, 2001.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Is that. It's based off of, like, the animated movie on the PS1. Yeah. There's no way that lined up.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

PS1 games came out after PS2.

[Andy Cortez]

We did forget about Dino Crisis.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Did we, though? I.

[Andy Cortez]

But again, because of what these lists are, I think that some of these games will get more love than they deserve.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I get it.

[Andy Cortez]

But because of what they are, it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Could be on the list. It could be on the list.

[Andy Cortez]

And I'm also going to throw out another prediction that Soul Reaver will be on the top 25.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It should. I think so, too.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Nina McKee says Spyro, Year of the Dragon, the third one. I'm right there with you, Nina Overseer. Jeff says Digimon Rumble Arena, Frogger 2, DBZ Ultimate Battle 22. If I see.

[Andy Cortez]

If I see fucking Frogger on this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

List, it's on Mag.

[Andy Cortez]

There will be. There'll be hell debate.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I need everybody to understand that I've been gaming my whole life and there's never been a single video game that I bought and absolutely hated and forced myself to play for countless hours because I'm like, there's no way. I hate this.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like, I have to like this. There has to be something here. Digimon World and the people that love that game. I bet if I played it now, I'd still hate It. But I'd play it and be like, okay. Y' all are the type of people that, like, fucking ultimate.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Got you. Not really elderly. But, like, just not my type of games. It is such a fucking deep ass, like, RPG in a way that's like, no one's asking for this. I just want to fight with wargreymon. And my Pokemon's out here pooping wargreymon.

[Lacroix Poppy]

By the way. War.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Greymon.

[Lacroix Poppy]

What are they doing with these?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wargreymon. Second only to Black wargreymon.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Let me guess. Does wargreymon have weapons? Like, does wargreymon have a gun?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

So that's Greymon.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Armor.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And he has Wolverine claws. Dude, it's so sick. He's a big ass claw.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And this is the game that you hated this game.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. Hated this game.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks really cool. Kind of cool. Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I never got this far, though. Like, you're. I'm in the beginning when my poke. My Digimon's just fucking pooping everywhere. And I'm really happy. You guys just, like, breeze right past me. This big hardcock.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Oh, I didn't hear that. I didn't realize you said that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Can you imagine this? But, like, Pokemon.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

What? Tim, just say.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't realize that you said that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I missed that.

[Andy Cortez]

I can't. Well, I was more stuck on the fact that you were just throwing shade at Elden Ring. Like. And I think that's just your sort of repressed issues.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Don't bring it up.

[Andy Cortez]

I think you're dealing with the fallout of me. I'm mad at Andy just saying that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, it's a Metroid Dread.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a good game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm like. Because, yeah, I think I'm with Andy where, like, I like Metroid Dread game, but, like, games that are better than my Trojan.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm not saying there aren't.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm not saying.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Where's, like, the. What's the disconnect?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Just this word good being thrown around. Kevin, can you bring up the kind of funny scale.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You know what I would say? Great. I would say great.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And I don't want to hear any numbers. I don't hear any fucking words from you boys. But I just want you know that Andy said good seven times.

[Andy Cortez]

It's great. Ish.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's good ish.

[Andy Cortez]

It's, you know, good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Point five. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's not bad. It's not a bad game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think it's at least great.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's.

[Lacroix Poppy]

All right. Now you're Going lower down to a five. That's nuts. Sekiroze. We haven't even gotten a list yet. Castlevania Symphony of the Night brought me back into gaming this year. I was on the verge of quitting because of expensive content. Thin Modern Games. Proud owner of a physical copy. There you go. Shout out Symphony of the Night. But then also, I feel like we could find you some modern games that you'll like. There's Modern Metroidvania.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

There's never been a better time for Castlevania Symphony of the Night fans.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Motorworld Hype says not in any order. Ridge Racer 4, best of the PS1, Ridge Racer games, Tekken 3.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I like that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I don't have that information. So let's change our Ridge Racer to four to four.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. And then they also say Castlevania, Marvel versus Capcom and Grand Turismo too. Luis Castillo says Tim announced a new baby on Mexican Independence Day. You know that you mean to do that?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It was very purposeful.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Is that what happened in Mexico?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Hey, man, a lot happened in Mexico.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Congratulations.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like, you know, somebody do the.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Math on when to win Mexico.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

When did you go? BG 2580 says, what about Brave Fancy Musashi? I mean, come on. I don't know if it's top 25, but like, if it's there, I'll be happy.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a top 10 in my heart.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Sky Forceland says, do we see Madden or traditional sports game? Who knows?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Here's my thing. I don't think so. I don't think so because, like, I'm not a sports game guy necessarily. Like, there are certain ones that do, like NBC Volume 2 and whatever are standouts to me. But like, even I am a fan of video game history. And like, it's not like we're talking about like NHL 94 on the Genesis. Like there's certain. We're not K4 2K5.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And if NFL 2K5. Right. Like, there's certain games that I'm like, those are the ones. And I don't think there's any PlayStation 1 sports game that's like, that was.

[Andy Cortez]

The one always at Randy Moss.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Was it to. I used to play college.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It was developed by989. So I think it was college.

[Andy Cortez]

It was game breaker.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Game breaker? Yeah, it was like 99 or something like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Game Breaker.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I was hooked on that. I was hooked on that. What was the school? Was it Duke? Was Duke good those years?

[Andy Cortez]

No. What was. The Dukes was never good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm thinking basketball.

[Andy Cortez]

Basketball oh, yeah, March Madness.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay, maybe it was March Madness. Duke was.

[Andy Cortez]

Has always been. Yeah. Very good at basketball.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, I remember, like, because I'll always go with University of Illinois because I'm from Champaign. And then Duke would always be the one where I'm like, yo, this. Yeah, get these hands, North Carolina.

[Andy Cortez]

It was. It was all the rich white kids. Really, really good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. The more you say, the more it doesn't sound like a real place. Was that always around?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, we would always make fun of this dude in. In middle school who. I don't know, like, they held him back, but we call them flunkes. Like, if you. If you flunk. If you flunked a grade, you got held back and they were called flunkes. And he.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Crazy. But, like, so he played. He still played basketball. So he was like a year older playing basketball. But we would always make fun of him because he. To this day, me and my friends will just go, yeah, I'm going to go to Duke. And we're like, you're not fucking going to Duke, bro. Like, you got to be like, it's a. It's a private school for smart people. And you. I'm going to go to Duke. No, you're not, bro. You got held back a year. You got held back a year.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Go play a Duke. And then we have one last super chat from Random piece who says Mega Man Legends belongs in this list. Shout out to hidden gems like rc. RC to Go. Rising, Zaun, the Samurai Gunman, and the Port of hydro. Thunder on PS1. I have no idea.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Arc this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, is that.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I've read a lot.

[Lacroix Poppy]

They might have. This might be a typo because they write RC to Go.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Write RC to Go. I don't know what that is, but, yeah, there was like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

You mean like Arc the lady.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, yeah. Which I don't know if that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm gonna type in RC to Go, and I'm gonna type in our. No RC to Go exists. Oh, it's an RC game.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, okay. Yeah, no, that's not gonna be on the list. But Mega Man Legends is a good poll as well. As I see in the chat. Mega Man X4, that's also a good poll, but we're getting to the point where it's like that there are. These are great games. Will they make the top 25? They definitely could.

[Andy Cortez]

They'll be on a top 100 list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But, like, X4, though, is a standout of the X Games. But the problem with Mega man is you get to that point where there's just like. There's a lot of really good ones and then there's a couple standout bad ones.

[Andy Cortez]

I think X2 was, like, the last one I played.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I never even, like, tried out three and four. Although I did try out Maverick Hunter and, like.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

PSP remake of one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Boo.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Boo.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I need the top 25 N64 games list. That's all I'm going to ask. Because I had fun doing this. We're going to hop into the list proper. But, like, I want to do this conversation again with N64 games because I feel like I'm more of an expert in that realm. And, like, I think we've done that.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Before, but fuck it, let's do it.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Let's do it again.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Always fun.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Because, like, I feel like PS1 needs a ready to rumble box and that's what we need here. You know what I mean? It probably came to PS1. I just don't remember. But that was like a cousin game where every. Every time I went to somebody's house, they always had rated Rumble boxing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And, like, that's a top 25. Anyway, they're hopping into IGN's list, the 25 best PS1 games of all time, as determined by the staff. And coming in at number 25, Parappa the rapper. Fucking called it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

All right.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think we said this is a 25. It's too.

[Andy Cortez]

Brother. It's too iconic of a. Like, it's one of the few old IPs that still just gets mentioned all the time because of how weird and unique it was.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. Big punch on the mind.

[Andy Cortez]

If you can't test it, I'm sure you'll. I forget the words.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Number 24, we got, um, Jammer Lammy. Odd World, Abe's Odyssey.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

All right. We're nailing it so far.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I like this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number 23, we got Spider Man. Well, I gotta check our actual list because this might actually be lining up pretty well.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We didn't even, like, organize them fully, which is fine. I think we were at a good point, though, because, like, I do think that, like, after that top 10, it is kind of just like hodgepodge of, like, these games.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. You know, at number 22, Medal of Honor. Oh, did y' all play Medal of Honor?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I didn't play it, but this was a. This was a big hit, you know, this was like, back in those. The day when it's like, Storming Normandy was like, still a big deal, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, man. My dad bought me.

[Lacroix Poppy]

What do you say?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Video game fashion.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because Savior Private Ryan had just come out and it was like a big deal for us to see that in video games. Because I was like, otherwise, how do I know that, like, they actually did that?

[Lacroix Poppy]

You know, how much crazy shit do you think Tim says while we're not listening? I feel like when it's me and Andy, you know that. You know that we're not listening to every single word. And so Tim just. Just gets some crazy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'm right, though, dude. I'm speaking for facts.

[Lacroix Poppy]

At number 21, we got APE Escape.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I'll allow it for so far.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I fuck with this as a top 21 through 25 so far.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yes. But this does mean some things are not going to make the list. Will that upset us, you think?

[Andy Cortez]

Because this game is this low.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, just be like. Like Medal of Honor. We didn't have that on our list. Which means that the 30 games we have aren't going to make a top 25.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That's true. That is how that works. That's how math works.

[Andy Cortez]

That's this game. Medal of Honor, by the way, is where the first time I learned about the potato masher grenades, and those are the ones that were like a big cylinder with like a handle. And you would just toss these fucking grenades. It was like the first time I'd ever seen those things. Shout to my dad. It was like this. I never was given games ever, like, for my birthday maybe. But this is one random one where I dad was like, let's go to Best Buy, bought a game. I was like, nice then. Thank you.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Published Medal of Honor for psy. Yeah, really?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

In the game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And I assume they still have the ip, right?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Oh, yeah. They try to bring it back every, like, five years.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Because I was going to ask.

[Andy Cortez]

They brought it back like six or seven years.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Was there like a Medal of Honor VR game that came out?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Used to. Fuck.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That's what I was gonna ask. Like, how mad do you think they are that, like, this isn't Call of Duty? But then when you say it's ea, where I'm like, okay, well, they also have Battlefield. They try to turn into Call of Duty all the time.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. I mean, Call of Duty wasn't hitting on PlayStation.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I mean, I mean, this early. Yeah, you're right.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I don't think there was a Call of Duty on PlayStation.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Medal of Honor also was just such a World War II thing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, Normandy. Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I'm just saying you were there early with the war with, like, the first person shooter, War ip. And like, the biggest game in the world now is that it's like, man, I feel like when I was that early to it, it's the Skype thing of, like, how did you not Clutch. Clutch up.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

At number 20, we got crash Team.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Racing A. I mean, I love this. This feels right to me. It could be a little higher, but, like, I love that it's here. I am also just very happy that over time, this game has earned its love. I feel like back when I first started talking about video games professionally, like, people would laugh me out the fucking room when I'd bring this game up. And now it's like, oh, y' all motherfuckers know this is actually a great racing game.

[Andy Cortez]

People learning.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number 19, we got siphon Filter.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Which, like, we didn't really explicitly bring up.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, we talked about it and we didn't put it on the list. Yeah, Like, I kind of stand with that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. I tried it for the first time when they did the whole PlayStation plus revamp where they added in the old. The classic games and they had Siphon Filter in there. I was like, oh, let me give that shit a try. Oh, I did not like that. I did not like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Because Siphon Filter is on the list. Because Ape Escape is on the list. I think they are definitely going for not a whole lot of multiple game entries, but, like, the names that meant something.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, maybe. But the thing is, because I see.

[Andy Cortez]

Siphon Filter, I'm like, there will be Soul Reaver here.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Ape Escape, though. I think there's like a critical reception and reverence that Siphon Filter doesn't have.

[Andy Cortez]

And Siphon Filter just has a name. And that's why I'm like, it's one of those names that does mean something to the hardcore audience.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, sorry, I'm reading a chat that says, you ever think about how silly our lives are? Bless just said it's like the Skype thing. Like, how can you not clutch up? Here's the thing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You said that and you didn't need to explain. We all just know. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You fumbled it at the one yard line.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number 18, we got Soul Reaver. Yeah, there you go. Andy called it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. A little lower than I'd expect for if this is going to be on the list, I think it'd be higher, you know, But I also do think that it wasn't best on PlayStation. And I think that when we're talking about these top things, that stuff does come into consideration. Like, if a Game was on multi platforms and was clearly superior somewhere else. Like that is going to affect the.

[Andy Cortez]

Way that I'm looking at this list now is what games best represent the PlayStation 1 as opposed to like the. The highest rated type stuff. Because like throwing out this antiphon filter and prep of the rapper, I'm like, that's what I think of when I think of the ps.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But those three things aren't alike though, man.

[Andy Cortez]

No, well, I mean, in what way? What do you mean?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, I feel. I get what you're saying. In the sense. I mean. No, no one's thinking PS1, Soul Reaper 1, like Soul Reaper 1 was not associated with PlayStation 1 in the way that Ape Escape or. Oh, I disagree, Filter were. I just think I definitely, to me.

[Andy Cortez]

It'S just like a name representation. Like they are representative of what the PS1 is rather than.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

These are the best, man.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I do. I think. I think now we're just at that point where it is for the hardcore is that if you know Ball, if you know the PS1's lineage, then you know that Soul Reaver was a game that didn't sell a shitload. Was it the most popular thing? But it's like we're kind of hitting all of these marks. We hit the cipher filter, we hit that mark, we have per rapper, the rapper, and we'll see less games. I. I think we will see a lot more misses in our list the rest of the way. And we will see more like Parasite Eve type shit. Dino Crisis type, you know.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Interesting. Yeah, I was more on Tim's side, but I'm seeing a lot of people in chat say, no, Andy's right.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like, they're doing retcon stuff. I'm telling you, dude. Like, like back in the day, Soul Reaver on PlayStation 1. That was not representative of PlayStation 1.

[Andy Cortez]

But that's what I mean. Like, I think Filter.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

I think this list is doing a lot of like, hey, they weren't popular now back in the day, but they are so like iconic now. Even though iconic is definitely a big word to throw out there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But moving on to number 17 on the list, we got Final Fantasy Tactics.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Damn. Way lower than.

[Andy Cortez]

Way lower.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, that.

[Andy Cortez]

With the top 10 already.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, does that. Yeah, yeah, we had that at number nine on the top ten. Moving on to number 16, ridge racer type four. Okay, there you go.

[Andy Cortez]

Average Racer was on the list and.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We got there with the help of chat. They nailed out number four.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really nice.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number 15, we got Xenogears Wow.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Another one. Wait, we put that at 15, didn't we? No, we put that at 10.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Did we put that in the top 10? We didn't put.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That way. We didn't get there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, you know Gears, we never actually get there.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, that's perfect, though. I. I think I might have just said that would have been top 15.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Specifically 15. But this works.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, you did say that. You didn't say that. Coming in at number 14, we got Final Fantasy 9. Okay. This isn't the one that my Comcast guy said he loved.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, no, no. But, yeah, I mean, so is this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

The one that has the character that you're talking about that's gonna make us go crazy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, fuck, I'd be shocked if 8's higher than 9 on this list, but I almost feel like 8 might not be on the list then. But that's crazy. With only 13 spots left. But that's good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I mean, we got a lot of games to talk about. We'll get there when we get to the top 10. But coming in at number 13, you got Silent Hill. Coming in at number 12. We got.

[Andy Cortez]

We had it at number 10, by the way.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Spyro 2, Ripto's Rage.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I told you. It's gonna be 2 rip, though.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We still got. We got room for Year of the Dragon. I love that game, y'. All. But. Yeah, you said, Andy, that we had.

[Andy Cortez]

I said we would get one as well, and it's not there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah. And Silent. You're right. Yeah. Silent Hill, we had a number 10 in our list, so we're off with that as well. Coming in at number 11, we got driver. Oh, wow. Was not expecting Driver on this list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wow.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the type of list that I thought it was gonna.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Actually. That might be kind of insane. Hey, maybe I'm doing. Maybe I'm. Maybe I'm disrespecting Driver.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Here's my thing. But when we were talking about earlier, these are games that I never enjoyed. Like, I was saying, like, they're way too complicated for me. Specifically Driver San Francisco. That's the one. I'm like, this is kind of donkey doo doo.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Well, Driver San Francisco, that was the one for PS3, right? Wasn't that the one where you're hopping between cars?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Maybe. I think about Driver London, Driver Lost. It was a PlayStation 1 driver game that I played a demo of, and I really didn't like it.

[Andy Cortez]

I played the shit out of this game. But I wonder if it's just this high because it is one of those names that you throw out and say, I know what I'm talking about.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Funny enough to Indies Point earlier, I think I kind of throw this into like the, you know, Ape Escape. I forget the other games you mentioned, but like, we're hitting the marks. Rapper. The Rapper. Right. Like, Driver isn't necessarily as iconic as either of those. Right. But I think there is a level of association. Yeah. You go to a friend's house and they have a PS1. If they have Driver, that's going to be the afternoon.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So that brings us to the top 10. Before we get there, what do we think is now. Now that the list has been shaken up. Right. We've already seen Silent Hill. We've already seen Final Fantasy Tactics. That shakes up the. At least our number nine and ten that we had in our original list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, let's just ask this. The other eight, do we think they're all here? Because I still do.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So the other eight we had written down are Crash 2, Tekken 3, Gran Turismo 2, Resident Evil 2, Tony Hawk, Pro Skater 2, Castlevania Symphony tonight, Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy 7. That's in ascending order.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. I think they're all.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think they have to all be there. The question is, honestly, what is the other two that we're missing? The Tomb Raider, probably to me in.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The top 10 because to Andy's point of the.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like it's becoming a nameless.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It has to be there. But then what's the people did like those games back at the time.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

So then everything. The other one is Resident Evil 1. Are we thinking Rayman? We think Smackdown. Sweet it in Parasite Eve, gta, Vagrant Story. I'm gonna say gta.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think GTA might be the one.

[Andy Cortez]

GTA is a very representative thing. Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

All right, well, coming in at number 10, we got crash two.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Cortex strikes back lower than expected because I put it at 5.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Well, now. Well, now I'm thinking, are there Multiple crash at 8?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Crash at 8. Crash 2.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

So not that far.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. I don't think there's multiple crashes.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Because again, I think the two is the one that critically, like when we're talking about, like, how good the game is, looking back at it all, I do think it's the best. Least gimmicks, best gimmicks expanded. Not as weirdly difficult as one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But then we got Crash twinsanity that. That up the ante on the entire franchise.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

My first crash, the soundtrack to Crash Twin Crash Twinsanity was entirely made with mouths.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Lacroix Poppy]

No way.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Kevin, can you bring up Crash Twinsanity soundtrack?

[Andy Cortez]

It's like smooth McGroove.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's like that dude. It's Timbaland. He's doing the beatboxing. I thought you're gonna say it was done by Michael Jackson. I was like, tim, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, I had something. I lost it. Oh, I was gonna say my first Crash game. What was the other one that came out on PS2? It was like, probably the first PS2 one. That was my first Crash.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Wrath of Cortex.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Wrath of Cortex.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The first non Naughty Dog one.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That was my.

[Andy Cortez]

So sorry.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That was my introduction to Crash Hamster Ball. I'm pretty sure that ruined Crash for me forever. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't even realize that wasn't a Naughty Dog one.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

No, it wasn't.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, because now I. Now I hate Crash. Like, not even a joke. I don't fault Crash Bandicoot.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I don't like this game.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

The whole game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

This reminds me of early 2000s YouTube. Yes.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We're in the group.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, is that what the reference is? Yeah, I was thinking of, like, isn't there one called, like, Pentatonix or something like that?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You like an incredibly popular, like, Billboard Top Hundred Acapella Group. Very different than Smooth McGroom on YouTube.

[Andy Cortez]

Isn't there one?

[Lacroix Poppy]

All right, coming in at number nine. Vagrant Story.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

If they ever remade this game, I would lose my. This game is so much better and so much more amazing because it was such a. It's a game that I rented back in the day for reference, and I never got back to it, but I was always just so fascinated by the key art and the look and everything, and replaying it on the retroid pocket. I have like eight or nine hours into it. I do want to pick it back up again, but it was one of those where I showed it Tim, he was like, oh, shit. This is like a really late PS1 game. The level of production. This game is on another level. It is crazy how advanced all of the. Like, it was like the first time seeing Metal Gear Solid cutscenes with the camera work and all that. She was like, I can't believe how awesome this shit looks. And it's got like turn based combat, but when you want to fight and when you go into combat mode, a big orb goes around you, and if an enemy's in that orb, then you can attack them, but you can attack either their head, their Arms, their torso or their legs or whatever, and different things do different damage. But then when they attack you, if you have a parry set to one of your buttons, you can real time mash that shit. Just like Expedition 33.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

And.

[Andy Cortez]

And when the hit hits, and if you have Perry set to B and. Or circle or whatever, and circle does that. Perry.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, it is crazy how good this game and how, like, far ahead of its time it was. And this is one of like, oh, my God, if they ever decided to remake this, I would just lose it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, I knew it was showing me and it's like, dude, it's cool. Like, this is a cool text box, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, it is just. It's so wild. That wobble you're talking about, there's that PS1 wobble.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's crazy, like, the amount of, like, how far advanced it was for its time.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, a little bit. They have basically the far cry or not far cry fallout vat system with the aiming. Yeah. Each of the limbs so sick.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so cool, dude.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Well, that's number nine coming in. And number eight, we got Tekken 3. Lower than I would have thought. What did we have it on a seven.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Five. Oh, did we?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, we did have it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

We're pretty good.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Okay. Yeah, that's close.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

What a game.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Dude, honestly, like, talk about a advancement, right? Tekken 1. Good. And that's for the time.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Compared to then two, it's like, oh, up in the ante. And then three. My boy.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Come on, Eddie.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Gordo.

[Andy Cortez]

Come on, man.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Teach me about Capoeira. A word I still can't say I'm hearing my voice again. Everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

I knew all about Capoeira because of Only the Strong, the movie with Mark Dukakis. Watch that movie on HBO all the time.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I never saw it, but I want to now.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, dude, it was all. It was all about this teacher who, like, went to this. I think it was one of those, like, sort of white savior movies. He's not even white, I don't think, but it was like, one of those.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Movies were like, you know, it was African American.

[Andy Cortez]

It was like, you know, a. A school where it's a bunch of troublemaker kids, but the teacher's, like, in inspiring and stuff. And at one point he gets like, he. I think he maybe gets jumped in the parking lot, but then he, like, fights and whoops all their asses and all the kids are like, oh, my God, our teacher's cool as. And they all learned couple and they're all doing like the Eddie. Then when I played Tekken 3, I.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Was like, oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

Only the strong mark Dakis.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

It's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that. Good movie, dude.

[Lacroix Poppy]

At number seven, we got.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is.

[Lacroix Poppy]

White sabers. At number seven, we got Resident Evil 2.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, dude.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Which I think lines up. We've had it at number five on our list.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Okay.

[Lacroix Poppy]

At number six we got Tomb Raider.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Which we said, get the fuck out of here. Like, ain't no Tomb Raider on this thing.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, you gotta have a Tomb Raider on the list. And I do think at top 25. Yep, it's number six. Like this.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a name thing.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's a name.

[Andy Cortez]

You're getting. You're getting by on the name in the eye.

[Lacroix Poppy]

This is another driver. Yeah, it's another Parappa. The Tomb Raider is the biggest one of those.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I feel like that's not cool to be a top six. Perhaps 25.

[Andy Cortez]

Cool.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean, it's very big in two ways.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Jesus golly.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, it's not my fault.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, yeah. They are doing a lot in there. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that belt bugger is like covering her whole waist. It's crazy looking that I'm lost.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Now we're at. That was number six. Oh, you know, at number five, we got Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. Oh, number five, which we had.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Grow up, people. Get some goddamn taste. We're talking about one highest rated games of all time.

[Lacroix Poppy]

We're only one off.

[Andy Cortez]

So now Gran Turismo 2.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably next.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And then our top three.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah, I can't even hate on that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

At number four, we got Gran Turismo 2 and we're at the top three. So now before we get to the.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Top three, can we just shout out Gran Turismo too? Yeah, like, can you pull up a YouTube video of this so we can see it in action? Like that PS1 look like we grant Chosen 3 a spec on PlayStation 2, a, you know, technical marvel. We look at it and it was like, wow, look what the PlayStation 2 can do. DVD technology. But like, there's something about the look, the grittiness, the, like, the, the, the. The crunchy, shaggy colors of GT2. That's like, damn, dude, this. This was a time for video games.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I couldn't believe that. Like, it just had normal cars. I was always blown away by that.

[Lacroix Poppy]

All the licensing.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, like, no, not even licensing. Just like, like, oh, they just got like Honda Civic. I just expected it because based on every racing Game I had, it was always race cars. It was always Lamborghinis or Ferraris or whatever. It was like, oh, they got just, like, a Toyota.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Like, oh, I saw that down the street. Like, I think I have that car.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Look at this. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

My aunt's. Yeah, Lexus or whatever.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

This is a PS1 game. Like, that's just so impressive for the time that it came out.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, man. That's the racing games in general. Like, shout out to, like, the racing games that push the fidelity of. Because Even Gran Turismo 7, that was the latest one, right? Yeah, 7. Playing that in PSVR, too. That is a religious experience. Like, I don't know if y'. All. If y' all have tried that yet. If you haven't, like, if you could do it once, play Gran Turismo 7 in VR.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I can't.

[Lacroix Poppy]

If you want your life changed, there's a very.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a very old episode of Party Mode where we played, I think, Drive Club VR. And it took me out about. It took me out a couple days.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Cortez]

From the VR, like, the amount of times it. It was hard to play. We were on the. On the racing wheel. But the amount of times that, like, I would break, I would hit the brake pedal and I would see my car stop, but my brain and my. Yeah, what's the word? Like, equilibrium. And was still moving forward.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Oh, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

And I was like, oh, Dr.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Strange, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. I wanted to vomit so bad, so.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I, like, went down the well after I. I. After I tried Gran Turismo 7 in VR once, I was like, hold on. And Michael Hyan, my roommate, he has an actual racing setup with the wheel and everything. So I dragged all that into my room and, like, hooked it all up and, like, put on the headset so I could actually, like, do this. Yeah. And whatever. However way it was set up just wasn't connected correctly. And so as soon as I hit go on the race, the car veered left immediately. And when I tell you, I felt like it was in a real car accident in real life, where, like, I was like, oh, shit, take it off. I was like, fuck. Like, my heart's racing. I was like, dude, that was too real. That was crazy cool.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Greg has been playing a lot of random video games, which is super cool, and he plays this game called Gloomy Eyes. He did a review on a Greg Way last week, but there's a VR experience as well. And so Kevin helped set him up with VR yesterday. Blessing, who sits next to my brother Just like, whoa. Cool Greg's in VR. And like.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I thought Cool Greg was responding. He was locked in. Yeah. Cool.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Grig had his headphones in and I. Whoa, Cool Greg's hit VR. That's the funniest thing I ever heard.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Check it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Cool Greg.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Because, like, I didn't see him set up or anything, so I just looked to the right. I'm like, oh, cool Greg's in. He's jacked in.

[Andy Cortez]

Blood's opening the door.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Cool Greg's a VR. All right, we're at the top three. Let's get a reminder of what our predictions are. I think me and Andy were saying Final Fantasy 7mgs, and then Castlevania.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You won me over. I think that that is going to be IGN's list. Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

All right, well, let's see. Number three, we got Castlevania, Symphony of the Night.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And number two, we got Final Fantasy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

7, which stuck to my gut, which.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Means that number one, you got metal Gear Solid.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Very interesting.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I like it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Very interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I mean.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's what I wanted. It's what I wanted to personally, but, yeah, that's awesome.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. I love this. I mean, there's not really much we could say about this, right? Like, three iconic games. You talk about the death, but, like, yeah, like Metal Gear Solid, I think the argument there would be maybe how much it stands the test of time. Like Metal Gear Solid, I think out of all, out of these games probably ages the. Well, Castlevania probably ages.

[Andy Cortez]

Actually, Castlevania probably ages the best.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But Metal Gear Solid, I think, in comparison, because those are the top two. I think that's the thing is Castlevania is kind of stuck at that number three spot. And so when you're looking at Final Fascist 7 and Metal Gear Solid, I think Metal Solid probably ages better. And then also, I don't know about that. Really.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. Because, I mean, I. I don't think Metal Gear Solid ages well. And I love Metal Gear Solid. I love it. I still play it today. Like, I don't think aging well matters that much.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Right. Necessarily.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But, like, I don't think metal, like, interesting. Nick Sharpino has tried playing Metal Gear Solid one a ton of times, and he just simply can't do it. Like, I think that's the definition of not aging well. You know what I mean?

[Lacroix Poppy]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Like, in that way.

[Lacroix Poppy]

But fair enough.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, then I. I think technically you could look back and go, whoa, how ahead of their time they were on this. But, yeah, you know, the camera and the inventory and all that stuff can be odd the, the aiming, you know.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. But I think in comparison to Final Fantasy 7, I think that's where my brain I. For me at the time, trying to play both these games, I'd say post like let's say PS2, PS3 era, where it was probably the times I was going back and trying to play these. Metal Gear Solid just came way more naturally than a Final Fantasy 7.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I. I would argue that Final Fantasy 7 is significantly more playable than Metal Gear Solid 1.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Really?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. And I'm also not saying like that it aged perfectly or anything like that, but I think that more people could pick up and play and like the game still holds up from just like a gameplay perspective and visuals and all that stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

When we think of how one to one turn base is now compared to what it was back then and I.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Think of the way third person stealth compared to.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like I should probably play that symphony in that game, huh?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

You really should, Andy. Yeah, and I think that you would fucking love it.

[Andy Cortez]

I have started that game so many times on no less than six different emulator devices. Even like my old Android phone. It's just a game I've like always played, started up and played. I've just never fully finished it.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Mad Rock says, you know, which of the three doesn't age? Castlevania, Symphony of the Night. And like that's a really good call. I'm just like ageless and timeless and you I think are more prepped than ever to play this game and enjoy the game and you know, realize that there's a lot of really great Metroidvanias out there. Great, good ones, great ones.

[Andy Cortez]

You know them again.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I also we did our, our list yesterday of like backlog stuff of like games I would go back to. We had different categories.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Lacroix Poppy]

A second chance. One I would put down would be Castlevania, Symphony in the Night because I did try that on Vita and I just bounced off of it. I think Modern day Bless could probably get into it a bit more.

[Andy Cortez]

I might play them Batman, Arkham Games for the backlog discussion also, you know, it was a good one that I didn't bring up, but I really, really meant to the Yakuza series, the year without games.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That's actually a great call.

[Andy Cortez]

Like there's however there's like 9 12, 14 of them and they're all 700 hours long. Like a year without games would have been perfect for Yakuza.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Joey says, Tim, I hope you never let the. Oh, let him live this down. The disrespect okay, good. Thank you. I appreciate it. Other than saying never mean it's a.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Good game, what game do you think had the most impact between Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy 7?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Final Fantasy 7, there's not even a question. Like, Fantasy 7 is, like, it's a phenomenon, like, in terms of just characters and RPGs and FMVs. And I. Look, I understand Metal Gear Solid. I understand that it is also one of them, but I mean, not just one of them. It is another perfect example of, like, impact in video games.

[Andy Cortez]

I think what's on the flip side of that, though, I don't know. Like, Metal Gear Solid made the Kojima name.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah. But Final Fantasy, like, it's Final Fantasy and back, we're talking about. Then we're talking about from Final Fantasy 6 on Super Nintendo to 7 on PlayStation, like, leaving Nintendo, like, the amount of impact, the amount of the multiple CDs, like, there's just so much there.

[Andy Cortez]

Also, that video of Robert Pattinson talking about, like, just being a. A young, horny kid in love with Tifa and Aerith. Ever seen those videos?

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

What a cool guy.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

What a cool guy.

[Andy Cortez]

Love them.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I wonder if he met Renoa.

[Lacroix Poppy]

That brings us to the end of the list, everybody. What are we rating this? Are we gonna say that it's a thumbs up, AKA it's the. Or a thumbs down, AKA it is. You can't say.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like, I think it's like, the.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I think it's the.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

I think if we really like it, we give it two thumbs up. It's at least one. I. I'd almost be like, you know what? I think they got enough right. That I'd give it two thumbs up. There's a couple weird things that I don't agree with or whatever, but, like, I don't think there's any thing that I'm like, I can't believe that. It's like, all right, cool. I'll give it two thumbs up.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Tomb Raider being like, you know, higher than 17 is one of those that I'm like, yeah, I'll give.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It a strong thumbs up. Yeah, I. I think this list is the. There, like, Metro dreads.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a good thumbs up right there.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah. Like, I'm. Even as I'm scrolling through, I'm like, there's nothing here. I'm like, oh, how dare you? That's crazy. Like, there's. Yeah, like you said, there's some disagreements. I don't know how I feel about Driver, but it's the thing where I know how I feel about games like Driver and Tomb Raider, but I also know that other people adore those games. And so it's like. Yeah, like I could, I could see it. I'm not. I'm not mad at it. Well, that brings us to the end of another episode of the Kind of Funny Games Cast. Before I get out of here, I do want to shout out a couple more super chats. Resolute writes in and says 25 Parappa was the mascot of PlayStation, had an anime and was the crowning moment of the last challenge in Astrobot.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

But was the game good though? That's the question. We're talking about the best games. We're not talking about iconic and all that stuff. Like we're talking about best.

[Lacroix Poppy]

I also didn't know how to anime.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

In Japan. Yeah, I had some.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Was he just rapping the whole time?

[Andy Cortez]

Not the whole freestyle, challenging people.

[Lacroix Poppy]

And then we have one from. Oh, the name cuts off here, but it says Inner Jet. I think Inner Jet Station.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe Far Jets Shore Jet.

[Lacroix Poppy]

The Far Shore. They say birthday tax. I turned 26 today and it doesn't feel real.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Happy birthday.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Happy birthday. I started listening to you all early this year and you're now a part of my daily routine.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

That's awesome. I always love hearing, you know, newer people joining. Thank you for hanging out with us.

[Lacroix Poppy]

It's always great they say. Thanks for everything and all the fun filled days of nerdy greatness.

[Andy Cortez]

Get your pizza.

[Lacroix Poppy]

Yeah, get yourself some pizza. Unless you're lactose intolerant. And then get some lactate, feel bad later and then eat it and then you'll. Yeah, you're gonna poop and fart anyway. You know how it works. How it works.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

Digimon World.

[Lacroix Poppy]

This has been another episode of the Kind of Funny Games cast where each and every weekday we get together and talk about the. God, I can't talk anymore. The biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Kinda Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. You can catch Today's KHD on YouTube or podcast services. We got a stream after this. We're gonna be playing some of that skate. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Blessing Adio Junior]

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