Incomplete nightmare.

Incomplete nightmare.

 

Looking back over the PS1 games I have picked up over the last few days for my new PlayStation (see my last blog post) I found several titles that really deserved next gen remakes.

 

Now I know that some of them got same gen sequels and "spiritual successors" but these are just a few that I think should get next gen remakes for PS4 or Xbox one.

 

 

 

Nightmare Creatures

A fantastic hack and slash game from Kalisto entertainment and Activision for the PlayStation.

You played as  Ignatius, a monk who works for a secret organisation who protect the world from hidden supernatural threats  or Nadia, the daughter of an American academic who is drawn into the fight when her father is killed.

 

The story is the usual mish mash of horror tropes with a mad scientist getting hold of a forbidden text (Samuel peep's secret diary....really??) and using it to raise an unholy army of zombies, demons and home made monsters stitched together from the bodies of the dead.

 

The gothic horror and 3D beat em up mechanic would work really well on a modern game engine. The original game had allot of pop up issues and a very short draw distance- a new engine on the new consoles would mean theses issues would be a thing of a past.

 

With so many older games getting remakes I cant see this one being top of the list for updates though.

 

Clock Tower 

 

 

 

Clock tower was a game for the super famicom that never made it out of Japan and didn't get a European release.

Unlike allot of other horror games, clock tower was about running, hiding and cowering in boxes while a monster (well a deformed kid with giant scissors) stalks and tries to slice you up.

With the likes of outlast and Alien: Isolation  making waves on consoles then this blend of scares and gore would go down really well.

 

 

 

One gen further back

One gen further back

 

 

 

 

 

After my purchase of the PS2 last week I decided to look back a little further into the past.

 

A few hours of digging through crap cardies and scratched Mungo Jerry LPs I found what I was looking for, a slim PS1 (there were no original large ones available) with a memory card and 2 controllers, and mine for less than a fiver!

 

Games were not a problem either, I got tomb raider one and two for £2 each, resident evil 2 for £4 and Tekken 2.

 

After hooking it up to my TV I found that there was a disc inside the console already, it turned out that the disc was Ridge Racer- I have great memories of this game, it took up so little system memory that you could take the disk out after it loaded and you could put in an audio CD and play it as you raced- an amazing feat.

 

I'm looking forward to playing castlevania and res evil 2 on their original system again, I just need to keep an eye on ebay.  

Charity shop bargains

 

After seeing it in my local Oxfam for the last week on the way home from work, I finally gave in and went in to buy the PS2 they had in the window.

 

The old man running the shop would not allow me to look at the system until he told me all about how his grandson knew all about the modern plague that is computer games- apparently its all beeps and flashing lights, I think he may have gaming confused with traffic lights but I let this slide.  

 

After waiting for the old guy behind the counter to find the keys to the window display I got to have a look at it.

 

The system was in full working order if a bit sticky with old cigarette tar and dust, it came with a controller, memory card and all the cables. after a bit of research online I took the dust cover off and cleaned up the vents and fan which where liberally with greasy fudge.

 

 

After half a packet of flash wipes and a couple of rolls of kitchen roll the fans were clear and the whole system was lemon fresh.

 

The whole lot cost me just under a tenner, not bad for a system that sells on ebay for about £30 .

 

After plugging it in and several attempts to hook it up to the digital in on my amp, the system booted and displayed the minimalist menu and played the windy sound scape background noise I had forgotten all about. 

 

A quick trip to CEX (after I had my back up tetanus and hepatitis shots) and I had a slightly grimy selection of PS2 games including  silent hill 2, extreme G 3, GT3 and the over looked classic R-type final.

 

The copy of need for speed most wanted booted but for some reason loaded with out  road or street displayed under the cars leaving what I can only describe as the oddest flight sim I have every played! 

 

I just need the first two guitar hero games and lips and I can relive the early part of 21st century gaming all over again.