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This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on June 8th, 2019. It is Saturday, the day spoken of in the ancient legends (I think). As predicted by these Saturday seers, PlayStation Basement, the official holiday of Saturdays, brings you a review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Let’s go! One of the first 3D fighting games for the original PlayStation was Battle Arena Toshinden , a weapons-based fighter with wild characters, great musick, and awkward gameplay. I have some fond memories of that game, though the gameplay does not hold up at all. The visual design will always be great though, and the Game Boy version will also always be a great game. Battle Arena Toshinden actually had three main sequels, an updated Saturn port of the original game called Battle Arena Toshinden Remix , the aforementioned Game Boy game, and a strange spinoff called Battle Arena Nitoshinden . We’ll ...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on June 1st, 2019. Today is Saturday, so it’s time for PlayStation Basement. As always, I have another review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Let’s go! This week it’s the anniversary of Evil Zone , a fighting game by Yuke’s Future Media Creations. This anime-influenced brawler was released 20 years ago in North America on May 31st, 1999 by publisher Titus Interactive. The Japanese release, published by Yuke’s themselves, preceded the American release by a few months (January 14th, 1999). Evil Zone was also released in Europe and Australia in the same year, but I could not find specific dates. The cover art of Evil Zone varies significantly by region. The American release shows the villain, Ihadurca, casting a spell in a green mist (small aside: the American release also lacks the normal ridges on the left edge of t...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on May 25th, 2019. A few grammatical edits have been made. Hello, dear readers; it’s time for PlayStation Basement. PlayStation Basement is brought to you every Saturday with a review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Today, let’s submerge! Since it’s getting time for summer vacations, today I have a game from the oceans off Japan. This is Depth: Sweepstation Vol. 1 . This game is basically a music editor where you play as a dolphin swimming through surreal worlds. Each new world, called a Cruise Stage, unlocks new sounds for the Groove Editor. Depth was released in Japan on December 6 th , 1996 and in Europe on August 1 st , 1998. In Europe, the game was titled either Fluid: Interactive Sound Lab or Sub . Each of the different cover art variants are all abstract. The Japanese art has some bulbous objects converging i...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on May 18th, 2019. A few typos have been corrected. It’s a warm Saturday today. It’s time for PlayStation Basement. PlayStation Basement is brought to you every Saturday with a review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! Let’s continue on from last week’s FoxKids.comMicro Maniac Racing and talk about more cartoony running games. There are actually a lot of running games on PS1: Running High , Oh No! , and Pepsiman come to mind. Floating Runner: Quest for the Seven Crystals is more of a platformer, but it has those classic tank controls that the PlayStation made famous. The game was published throughout 1996 by Kokopeli in North America, Xing in Japan, and THQ in Europe. The game was developed by Xing who handled ports of In the Hunt , Pu-Li Ru-La , Three Wonders , and console versions of PC adventure game Prisoner of ...