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Nostalgia Monday: Crash Bandicoot (PS1, 1996) - The Marsupial Who Defined a Console
There is a specific kind of muscle memory that never fully leaves you. The weight of an original PlayStation DualShock …
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Nostalgia Monday: Metal Gear Solid (PS1, 1998) - Hideo Kojima's First Statement
Hideo Kojima made Metal Gear Solid in the same year that Saving Private Ryan came out and the world was reconsidering …
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Nostalgia Monday: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PS1, 2000) - The Perfect Arcade Game
Some games are good. Some games are great. A very small number of games are calibrated so precisely that the gap between …
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Nostalgia Monday: Resident Evil 2 (PS1, 1998) - The Survival Horror Peak
Raccoon City in 1998 was the first time a mainstream game felt genuinely dangerous. Not difficult: dangerous. The police …
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Nostalgia Monday: Spyro the Dragon (PS1, 1998) - The Purple Dragon Who Owned 1998
Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot launched in the same year on the same hardware and were immediately, lazily …
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Nostalgia Monday: Final Fantasy VII (PS1, 1997) - The JRPG That Went Everywhere
There is a single moment in Final Fantasy VII that most players who reached it in 1997 remember with unusual clarity. …