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It’s time for another PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is 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! So summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the street, so it’s time to continue the summer heat with a rhythm game (that is often also considered a fighting game to continue on from last week). Today’s title is Bust a Groove (not Taito’s similarly titled puzzle game, Bust-a-Move ). Bust a Groove was released in Japan, North America, and Europe in 1998 published by Enix, 989, and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, respectively. The game was developed by Metro, who also worked on Bravo Air Race , Burstrick: Wake Boarding!! , and Bomberman Party Edition (apparently their PlayStation lineup only starts with the letter ‘b’). Interestingly, this game was originally titled Bust a Move: Dance & Rhythm Action when it was re...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on June 20th, 2020. Another week, another PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is 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! So summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, and what better way to start this season than with a fighting game? Today’s game is SNK’s attempt at a 3D fighter: Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition . Originally released to the arcade on January 28th, 1999, the game followed on Japanese and North American PlayStation consoles on June 24th and November 30th, respectively. In what seems to be SNK’s attempt at mimicking their rival Capcom’s Street Fighter EX , Wild Ambition re-tells the first Fatal Fury game with some of the mainstay characters from later games such as Mai Shiranui and Mr. Karate except this time they’re all...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on June 13th, 2020. Another week, another PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is 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! This week, here’s another shmup - Soukyugurentai . This arcade game is also known as Terra Diver . It was released to arcades worldwide in September of 1996 and later to consoles on February 7th and December 25th of 1997 for Saturn and PS1 respectively. The console releases were only in Japan. Technically there are two PlayStation versions, Soukyuugurentai: Oubushutsugeki and Arcade Hits - Soukyugurentai . I’m not sure that there is any difference other than retail price at the time of release, publisher and cover art, but I have the latter (which was actually released on May 22nd, 2003).. The former version was published by Data E...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on June 6th, 2020. Another week, another PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is 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! Today, it’s time to finally review a game I think about using for this series all the time but never actually review. This is also a game that I just generally think about playing often but don’t. I first discovered the game on one of the Toys “R” Us demo discs, one that had a cover of a swirling yellow background behind the PlayStation console. I have mentioned this before, but the demo discs available for the PlayStation introduced me to many great games as they came out. I played the demo of this game for hours at a time, and it only offered the first level. I actually bought the game from GameStop a few years after the PS2 came o...