PS1 Arcade Video Games2
Arcade games. Titles from this category require particularly good manual skills. Main purpose of the gameplay is to reach a specific point or defeat enemies while controlling a character or a vehicle. Arcade games usually don’t have any story or have it in a very simple form. This category contains e.g. popular platformers. more
Browse genres/themes ?
Browse the Encyclopedia by genre and tags. Each game has one main genre: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Adventure, RPG, Sports, Strategy, Simulation, Party, Racing, Arcade. You can search multiple tags and filter games by platforms, scores, or release dates.
Monkey Magic
Arcade 27 November 1999
A colorful 2.5D platformer in which an anthropomorphic monkey warrior tries to save his homeland from extinction. The game was created on the basis of anime emitted at the turn of the 20th and 21st century.
Ape Escape (1999)
Arcade 31 May 1999
Three-dimensional platformer in cartoon, humorous style. Ape Escape tells the story of a boy who tries to stop time traveling monkeys from drastically changing the world's history.
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Arcade 27 September 1997
Three-dimensional platformer filled with various agility challenges. The main character is the title crocodile, which sets out to rescue abducted friends. The game is designed for younger users.
The Adventures of Lomax
Arcade 22 November 1996
A two-dimensional platform game set in the fairy-tale universe of Lemming, in which the title character has to face a bad magician and save his fellows.
Play with the Teletubbies
Arcade 08 August 2000
Another educational game, thanks to which children can play and learn together with four nice characters known from the BBC TV series production, i.e. Teletubisia.
Extreme Pinball
Arcade 05 April 1996
Pinball simulator. Fast gameplay offers fans of steel ball bouncing four different tables: Rock Fantasy, Medieval Knights, Urban Chaos and Monkey Mayhem.
Rayman Rush
Arcade 08 July 2002
A side-by-side version of a popular series of platform games, in which the player races with another player or with artificial intelligence on routes inspired by locations known from previous parts of the cycle. The title offers seven playable characters, five game modes and eleven tracks. This is a simplified version of Rayman M released for other hardware platforms.
Wild 9
Arcade 30 September 1998
Created by Earthworm series authors Jim platformer 2.5D, whose mechanics is built around an unusual weapon of the main hero - a beam of energy, allowing him to grab enemies and various objects.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Arcade 16 September 2000
Rayman 2: The Great Escape is a continuation of Michelangel's 1995 console platformer. This time the title character has to deal with mechanical pirates who have mastered the peaceful Land of Dreams. The player's task is to help Rayman regain his lost power and free his friends from the invaders' hands. The game was produced by Ubisoft and uses a 3D graphic engine.
Tombi! 2
Arcade 31 December 1999
Side-scroll platformer which is a continuation of Tombi! The player again plays the role of the title boy, who tries to find his lost girlfriend and once again deal with the evil pigs. The game consists mainly in performing more than hundreds of tasks commissioned by NPCs. The main character in the course of the game collects special outfits, which give him unique possibilities, such as gliding.
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
Arcade 27 May 1999
The third part of arcade flight simulators, in which players pilot modern fighters and perform various missions. This time the authors set the game in a more futuristic style, preparing their own designs of machines or weapons.
Punky Skunk
Arcade 11 January 1996
A two-dimensional colourful platformer in which the main character is an anthropomorphic skunk trying to save the world from a bunch of bad wolves. This is one of the first games released on PlayStation 1.
Metal Slug
Arcade 01 January 1997
The first installment of the popular Metal Slug series, which debuted in 1996 on arcade machines. Over the course of time, production went on new platforms, allowing their users to face the soldiers commanded by the sinister General Morden.
Thunder Force V
Arcade 21 May 1998
Arcade, side-scrolled 2D shooter in which console owners take control of a combat spacecraft. The production is a conversion from Segi Saturn and at the same time the fifth installment of the Thunder Force cycle.
Time Crisis: Project Titan
Arcade 06 April 2001
Spin-off of the popular Time Crisis series, which tells the story of the main character of the first game in the series. The title is a traditional arcade shooter belonging to the so-called target sight species.
Solar Eclipse
Arcade 30 November 1996
Created by Crystal Dynamics Space Shooting TPP with arcade character. The title is based on the assumptions known from the famous Star Fox series and is a continuation of the game released on 3DO in 1993 titled Total Eclipse.
Vib-Ribbon
Arcade 12 December 1999
A unique arcade game considered to be one of the first music-rhythmic productions. The creators of the legendary PaRappa the Rapper series are responsible for the production of the title. Players control the animated rabbit and to the rhythm of music must avoid obstacles standing in its way.
James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod
Arcade 10 December 2003
Remaster of a production published in the early nineties for Amiga, Atari and Sega Genesis. The refreshed version of the 2D platformer offers a better audio-visual setting, other level projects, as well as some changes in the storyline.
Johnny Bazookatone
Arcade 26 February 1996
Distinguished by an interesting style and binding, combining two-dimensional backgrounds and three-dimensional character models, side-scrolled platformer. The hero of the game is a young musician, who stands up to fight with the ruler of hell.
Zoop
Arcade 31 October 1995
An uncomplicated arcade game, developed by the Hookstone studio. In Zoop, the player controls a triangle in the center of a two-dimensional board, and his task is to shoot colorful objects coming from the edge of the screen.
Pandemonium!
Arcade 31 October 1996
Three-dimensional platforming developed in cooperation between Toys for Bob and Crystal Dynamics. In the game we play the role of one of the two heroes, who are responsible for summoning a terrible monster, threatening a certain fantastic land. In order to correct their mistake, the sorceress Nikki and clown Fargus decide to get rid of the troublesome creature once and for all.
Bubsy 3D
Arcade 25 November 1996
One of the first 3D platformers released on the market. The title tells the story of an anthropomorphic lynx that tries to get out of the foreign world and return to Earth.
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Arcade 11 December 1997
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a platformer created by Japanese company Namco, in which three-dimensional characters move in a two-dimensional plane. The hero of the game is an anthropomorphic cat named Klonoa, owned by a ring in which the spirit of Huepow is enchanted.
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
Arcade 02 November 1999
Continuation of the Insomniac Games studio hit. The production presents another adventure of the purple dragon Spyro and is a typical 3D platform where players can face agility and logic challenges.