Obscure & Forgotten PS1 Games Vol.1 | Sean Seanson 

Insane quality content, already sitting impatiently for Part 2

I love this format. PS1 has such a giant library that is worth looking at for all the weird stuff that happened. The 90s were wild. I recommend checking out The Divide: Enemies Within. It's a 3D exploration game, very inspired by Metroid.

I grew up in the famicom/nes era and have always purchased any and every system that captured my interest, mostly sega and nintendo back in tbise days, i still play video games and still play them on the latest and greatest systems, but nothing has caught my imagination and interest as much as the ps1 era. It was just an amazing era and moment in gaming that still echoes in modern gaming today. The ps1 and ps2 era were my favourite moments hands down.

I would never have even guessed ps1 had close to 5000 plus games good lord.

I’ve just binged back through the entire series + japan only series and gotta thank you for what you’re doing! The best thing about the PS1 is how it was a playground for unusual, unique and creative new ideas and these videos do such a good job of highlighting the incredible, strange artifacts of that time. Love the open-minded, generous lens you use with each game. Keep it up! Also, the sheer number of amazing vgm soundtracks I’ve picked up from you is immense 😀

Yeah, I'm constantly finding out about PS1 games I've never heard of. Some PS1 games I like that rarely get a shine are Project Overkill, Einhander, Motorhead, Mass Destruction, Return Fire, Steel Harbinger and there are a ton more.

Ahhh Disruptor...made my Dad buy me this from Dixons back in the day! Loved it!

The aesthetics of this video gives me major thorhighheels vibes and that's a great thing! Awesome video on an awesome subject!

God bless you, this channel is exactly what a Games enthusiast like myself needs

This series is seriously one of my absolute favorites on the whole entity of RU-vid. I will watch ever single video in this series. You couldnt make them fast enough ❤

I played so many of these "obscure" titles back then… I mostly have abandoned gaming nowadays and relive those times through videos like these mostly. Thank you!

That underwater music is straight up haunting, and that ending; how dare you

The beginning of a great series. I just went through all of them with the compilation videos, so I didn't realize what the genesis of the idea was or why it was PS1 games.

I’m so excited that I found this series!! This episode was amazing, can’t wait to get into the rest of the videos! You have something special here! (Oh, and your thumbnails are absolutely incredible.)

Translations: Tree D = 3D Turdy = 30 Ah, accents. The bane of all teachers' existence. But your videos are fun. Thank you.

I love your relaxed delivery, this is the kind of gaming content i like.

Absolutely love the insane level of dedication and research to these videos btw

Man your channel is a deep(er) RU-vid goldmine; I hope so many more people find it. Especially developers of these more obscure titles. It's really cool when devs that made these games ages ago find these videos and chime in.

I love this so much! Instant sub. I’ve been pursuing game dev as a career for the last year now, and games take an absolutely insane amount of work to make. It’s cool to see some of these get the spotlight again, even if they aren’t the best thing ever. Someone still put work into them 😁

Yesssss Disruptor. My fave PS1 FPS by far, great to see it being seen And wow, you're right about that underwater music

Damn, you know that time has passed when the first game listed brings back memories of it showing up everywhere at the time, but neglect to remember that 25 years have passed since there and the game wasn't that memorable to stick around. I remember the garden maze for Braindead 13 being on the PC demo. I remember the next issue of PC Gamer having a solution for the maze in the demo, and I think it was something like 27 commands, and going through the game in an ideal way would only be fun for other people watching, as you would be stuck reading a series of inputs from a spreadsheet. Use RU-vid to watch a complete run, and best deaths.

That black-clothed dude in Dare Devil Derby 3D may just be a fabulous version of Gargamel from the Smurfs..

Gonna be waitin' w/ baited breath for "Crime Killer" 'til it comes up now. Sounds like an 80s B movie and that's my jam!

Not what you set out to do but in the first few minutes I found out there is an Arc the Lad WonderSwan game, Bomberman strategy RPG and an Evangelion knock-off tactical RPG, all of which I was unaware of. The wheel and the PS1 provide!

Great production quality in these videos, and I found this channel right when I was replaying some old PS1 games too, perfect timing

I did something similar on my own with genesis games. After knowing how long that list took to make I can't begin to imagine how long this ps1 list took. Great video.

I must've rented Disruptor 3 or 4 weekends back to back. Blockbuster had Just rolled out 5 day rentals too!

This video is just what I needed, I bought a PS1 a few weeks ago and looking to expand my library. Can’t wait to watch the others.

Just finished japanese maraton, now starting obscure, helping a lot to improve my amulation station library, also, El huervo on bg, good taste.

sooo glad I find your channel mate, it is a top-notch content for sure and above that maybe the most aesthetically pleasing gaming channel I ever came across

What an amazing idea to learn about new PS1 gems. Can't wait to try some of these!

It's funny that you mentioned using those videos as your "go to sleep" videos because I plan on using your videos for the same thing. Thank you for not being a screamy gaming youtuber. Your calm, dry wit laced commentary is a nice change of pace.

Always loved Micro Machines on PS1 when I was a child. I can't believe the nostalgia hit you gave me when you flashed the cover art for Supersonic Racers, I always remember that gooey green lol.

I remember playing Disruptor. Had a decent time with it. Just discovered your channel, so I’m going to stick around to see the rest of your lists. Great content.

This has quickly become some of my favorite content. Very comfy. Thankyou so much for all the hard work and effort you put into these over the years.

Such a great idea, thanks for all the time you sunk into filtering this.

There are games that super talented and experienced call horrible, forgetting other people aren't as good as they are. what's too easy to them, may be hard for someone else.

I WAS LOOKING FOR COSMOWARRIOR ZERO FOR AGES!!!! I used to play it when I was little, but I lost the CD and always had the curiosity to play it again. The thing is that I didn't know the name of the game. TY SO MUCH!!!

Watching a lot of ThorHighHeels are we?

Fantastic concept and excellent quality. Love the series

Great concept and new series - hope you keep it up

Fountd this with the part 13, 5 seconds in, I JUST KNEW this was GOLD. Subbed, now I got the psx on my phone, I'm so stoked lesssss gooooooo

I vaguely remember the live action of disruptor, times where simpler back then! Have to say I look forward to seeing more of these by you, need to up my ps1 collection!

I am ps1 games fan,you can say i played most ps1 games, but i never played Dare Devil derby 3D , what a loss , game looks awesome !!

Top notch content, bud. Amazing.

I love the way you present the games. It’s so fucking cool. I can’t wait to see the rest!!! You need way more subs!

This is an excellent topic for you to cover because it gives you a lot of opportunities to say "thousands"

appreciate your work! very cool narration and voice as well!

Disruptor is solid. Thanks for showing it to us.

This is exactly the channel I wanted and never knew

These 24 minutes have flied man. I cant wait to add more games to my backlog!

Great video as always man, definitely going to give Disruptor a go at some point.

9:46 talk about an atomic wedgie gone wrong Great idea for a video, I'm quite happy to hear Disruptor is good as it's one in my backlog collection to play.

You are doing the lords work my friend.

Oh man, I owned Micro Machines V3 as a kid. Was definitely a game I didn't expect to love but I did. This vid really making me want to load up an emulator and find an ISO since I no longer have the game disc

Loving the content my guy

RU-vid just randomly recommended me this series. Great content and a well earned Sub.

Brilliant video 👏

Great video! I didn't know the PS1 had THAT many games, although I knew it had a lot. I definitely feel the urge to watch the rest of your videos on the subject (and picking up Disruptor if I see it cheap somewhere!). If you want a PS1 game that is, at least somewhat unknown, I'd recommend Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012. I don't hear a lot of people talk about it but I had a ton of fun with it as a kid.

Great video, disruptor looks awesome. There's an obscure 3rd person shooter on the ps1 called C12 the final resistance, it came out in the last years of the console and it was developed by SCE Studio Cambridge, the same developers of Medievil. It was a pretty good game, a mix between Syphon filter and Terminator. You should check it out.

The hell? Not even 1k suscribers? Your content is amazing dude! I love these rare/obscure compilations. Hope we can see more videos on this topic. Hi from Argentina!

Is anyone else still looking out for a game they faintly yet vividly remember? I swear there's a game I played that blew me away as a really young kid then have never seen it since, yet I remember it...

I can see how inspired you were by thorhighheels in terms of aesthetics, also thanks for the in depth and nice vibe video! great work, you earned a sub!

i love the fact that the background music is from Persona 5

Very cool, great idea for a series.

I gave a thumbs up just for the amount of time you invested into this.

Hmm, some ThorHighHeels vibes? Cool

Oh wow, i also should look through these catalogue videos to see what else i might find to play.

just discovered your channel, instantly subbed

Man, Disruptor was my first FPS and one of my first games ever in general i fucking love it still

Good video mate

Crazy that they put that much work into the hand drawn animation of Brain Dead 13, and then so little effort into the gameplay. Did no one on the design team notice that the Dragon's Lair games had a flash of light at the time and location you were meant to make an input? That simple addition would have made this a memorable game.

Come for the weird, whacky and wonderful PS1 games. Stay for the top tier end credits joke

VGL is an amazing channel. They've gotten even further along now than they were 2 years ago, covering all Wii, OG Xbox, and 3DS games. Absolutely recommend watching if you want to find a hidden gem on any console

Ah, Braindead 13... somewhat reminds me of Phantasmagoria, both being FMV games from 1995 that take place in castles. While Phantasmagoria has more of a gothic horror feel, BD13 has more of a comedic horror feel... I first heard of the game seeing a video which brought together in a compilation all the ways you could die in the game. Somehow these cheesy animated cutscenes really do feel "soulful". The animation in the game has a lot of personality, a lot of flair I think, even if the gameplay is very aged like most FMV games are.

I only realized now that Disruptor came out 10 years before Resistance: Fall of Man, Insomniac's return to the FPS genre after making a Spyro trilogy and a Ratchet & Clank quadrilogy on the PS1 and PS2 respectively. Fun Fact, the reason I played Resistance is because one day I was bored and decided to browse through my brother's PS3 collection, the boxart caught my attention, I saw the Insomniac logo so right away I knew it was quality because I'm a big R&C fan, and I enjoyed it a lot, Resistance 3 is better but I will never forget how I was introduced to that series.

Disrupter really influenced the Resistance games. Especially the alien ships.

Somehow I remember Disruptor, but I am sure I have never played it. Maybe I saw it on one of the thousand Demo-Discs the PS1 had to offer...I always loved going through them even If I was only remotely interested in most of the games on them. Ah, good times ;-)

Definitely something I'd watch more of. Stopped at 9 minutes because you said sunset overdrive and I remembered hearing about that game and getting distracted, but im definitely loving your style. One issue, your transitions seem a little long and the music cuts are a little off. Try fade out the music at least to make it a cleaner cut, I think that would make it better than it already is Apart from that, keep doing this, its very fun - Curley

Dare Devil 3D feels like a spiritual precuel to Circuit Breakers, that's one hell of a hidden gem for the PSX, it has similar gameplay, similar engine and the same devs. Just a great racing game.

Awesome idea, I did watch VGL videos doing the same thing, marking every game that seems interesting to me. Games specially japan only from PS1 and Saturn always had a little of mistic behind for me, games with weird concepts and mechanics. While I did find a handful of games, I was surprise by how many japanese games from Saturn were VN, sport games, shoji games and quiz games, like 95% of the games were like this which is pretty disappointed.

What a great series hopefully there's another 20 by now

Ha I have my copy of Braindead 13 on my shelf in the tallbox. I loved that game as a kid, one of the reasons Im an animator!

I knew the N64 didn't have a ton of games, but holy shit the saturn had over 1,000? that's crazy for somebody from the USA, I've never even seen one in person

Spin that wheel!

I too watch VGL and amazing how far that's gotten in the two years since you posted this video with NA/EU/JP compilations, easiest and fastest way to look at a platform's whole library.😁 Oh had to take a pass on the first random title chosen lol, I like some FMV games but have grown tired of reviews of them Ie. I can't hear one more word about Night Trap or Sega CD.🤢 Just saw one PC video that was good "Hidden Gems Top 10 Forgotten FMV Adventures", nice to hear some positive points for the genre and not the usual suspects.😉 Disruptor is a very solid game that was originally slated for the 3DO but came later than PO'ed so it only came out on PS1. I quite like the FPS games of that generation that used polygonal worlds but sprite characters as they aged better and tended to have better frame rates Eg. also see Doom 64. Lol yeah the acting FMV in Disruptor is passable but the sets definitely look like cardboard even in 240p.😄 DDD-3D definitely delivers a polygonal version of Micro Machines one out expect but I guess it stuck too close to the 2D game roots. I find a lot of racing games just before and after that time period didn't push for longer view distances despite the camera pitch angle being able to tilt quite easily as well as zoom in 3D Ie. they could have included a few perspective options.

Hey friend, just a heads up: That "8,000" or "7,000" PS1 game number is wide spread BS. How they got that number was by adding together the total number of PS1 games released in each region together without accounting for games in multiple regions or all three. It's probably closer to 5000-6000, although I'd lean closer to 5k. Good video all the same

Wow, why do you have few subscriptions? Your content is fantastic!

hwurk... i have never gotten motion sick from a game before, but that dare devil derby game... my god. admittedly i have covid rn, but still!

This makes me want to dust off my PS1 or at the very least, download an entire legal PS1 emulator because I really forgot how dense the PS1's library is. Can't wait to see if you play any that I might know.

I've been binge watching your content since I discovered your channel, Sean. Always wanted to play disruptor to see how insomniac got their start!

I used to play daredevil derby and yes I actually had a copy lmao I was young.

Brain dead was K/A?! If I was a kid playing that game would have given me nightmares

Dont know if it's really obscure or not but a classic wee hidden gem to me is the Wu Tang fighting game It's pretty tough and sometimes a bit repetitive but had a four way pvp which was pretty stand out And of course you play as the members of the the Wu-tang clan feel like that bit is obvious tho haha Definitely worth a try and if you reckon its obscure enough whack it on the list Taste the pain us title Shaolin style eu title Great video btw man

I'm doing exactly the same thing with those VGL PS1 videos, so your videos are an excellent companion piece. PS. Is ThorHighHeels an inspiration too? Similar presentation, I noticed.

good hunting!

Fun fact: In Japan, the Sega Saturn sold considerably better than the N64.

Disruptor looks like my jam

Kinda have a small influence of Thor High Heels in these videos.

I'm gonna watch up to vol 3 before I comment on my favorite forgotten gems but I will give a shout out to Brahma Force: The Assault On Beltlogger 9. And Raystorm. Oh yeah and Echo Night..