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This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on January 18th, 2020. The future is here once again! Welcome to PlayStation Basement, a weekly review of games for the original PlayStation that are somewhat obscure, unusual, or unknown. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral to emphasize the review itself. Now, let’s go! For this week’s futuristic game, we’ll be zooming through CyberSpeed . I previously reviewed a game called Cyber Sled if you remember all the way back to two weeks ago. When I decided to collect all of the longbox games for PlayStation, these two names confused me with their similarity, however, the games are not related. CyberSpeed is an unusual racing game with some similarities to Wipeout . Interestingly, CyberSpeed was actually released in North America two weeks before the more familiar Wipeout was released anywhere - September 15 th , 1995. The European release of CyberSpeed followed the European release of Wipeout...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on January 11th, 2020. The future is here once again! Welcome to PlayStation Basement, a weekly review of games for the original PlayStation that are somewhat obscure, unusual, or unknown. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral to emphasize the review itself. Now, let’s go! January is the future month of PlayStation Basement. This month I am reviewing futuristic games, and there sure are a lot on the console. Today, I’m talking about an import game: Van-Gale: The War of Neo -Century . Sometimes this game is called Shin Senki Van-Gale: The War of Neo-Century , but that’s not what it says on the cover, spine, or title screen; the title screen even literally says (with audio) the title Van-Gale: The War of Neo-Century . Like Cyber Sled , this is another mecha battle game. Van-Gale was only released in Japan in 1997. It was developed by Aroma and published by Yumedia, two companies that have sli...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on January 4th, 2020. The future is here once again! Welcome to PlayStation Basement, a weekly review of games for the original PlayStation that are somewhat obscure, unusual, or unknown. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral to emphasize the review itself. Now, let’s go! Happy New Year! It’s 2020, a new decade and the true world of tomorrow! Many worlds of fiction take place in this landmark year from the sci-fi films of Real Steel and Reign of Fire to video games such as 7 th Dragon 2020 and Perfect Dark Zero to the legendary cyberpunk tabletop RPG, Cyberpunk 2020 . What will actually happen to our world this year? We can only act, react, think, and feel as time goes on. I hope that everyone can work together to create a better future than the futures of many of these dystopias. Since we’re in the future again, I’ll be reviewing futuristic games this month starting off with Namco’...