PS1 Recommendation - 2D games

I'm a huge fan of Retro games, especially 2D games. Although, I've owned a PS1 for over 10 years, I've never bought many games for it. I'm looking to pick up some games and I want to start with the 2D games on the system.

What 2D PS1 games would you recommend? I'm mainly looking for platformers, but other 2D suggestions are welcome too. Thanks.

Street Fighter Alpha 3, Abe's Odyssey, Rayman, Castlevania Symphony of the Night , Lunar 1 and 2 .

even though in all honesty, the PS1 isnt the isnt the best 2D system, its defenitly more of a 3D focused machine

The (platform) games that come to mind are Metal Slug, Tombi (mostly 2D) and Klonoa.

There are alot of incredible 2d rpgs for the ps1 aswell.

the PS1 isnt the isnt the best 2D system, its defenitly more of a 3D focused machineDarkman2007

to be honest i got stump when you said 2d games (mostly platformer). the only good game i could think of was castlevania SotN. then i remember this one game that i miss getting it back then, it was called strider 2.

also you could never go wrong with the megaman series. maybe check out heart of darkness too~

Einhander (shooter) but hard to find and Klonoa which is also hard to find but its on Wii now so no problem there.

You guys all forgot Tomba and Tomba 2.

You guys all forgot Tomba and Tomba 2.

3sFan

Well if you live in europe TC, you could pick up Mickey's Wild Adventure. It's a PS1 port of Mickey Mania from the Sega Mega CD, SNES and Mega Drive with much better graphics, voice samples and sound quality. I have it and it's great, tho a bit hard. Heck, theres even Earthworm Jim 2 and Rayman 1 on PS1.

I'd recommend these PS1 2D Platformers , my personal favorites :) :D ;)

Heart of Darkness

Adventures of Lomax

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Skullmonkeys

Norse by Norsewest (Lost Vikings 2)

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You guys all forgot Tomba and Tomba 2.

PetJel

Didn't know that. :P So I'll mention Raiden Project and Einhander. Both are side scrolling shooters and there some of the best around.

Not sure what exactly you're after so I'll add 2.5D games in too and basically make it a list of games which play in a 16-bit style

Castlevania Symphony of the Night - needs no introduction

Alundra - Very good Link to the Past ripoff

Gunners Heaven - Gunstar Heroes style game - import only

Oddworld series

Adventures of Lomax - very difficult platformer starring a lemming

Buster Bros Collection - a kind of shmup where you fire up at bubbles which split into more bubbles when shot (better than it sounds)

Mega Man series

Rayman

R-Type's

R-Type Delta

Silhouette Mirage

Strider 2 - awesome

Tomba series

Klonoa

Einhander

G-Darius

Wild 9 - weird grapple hook platformer made by Earthworm Jim people

Thunder Force V - Better on Saturn but the PS1 version is still excellent - Import only

Legend of Mana

In the Hunt - submarine shmup

Don Pachi Series - Import only

Lunar series - great 16-bit style RPG's

Breath of Fire 3

The Final Fantasy remakes

Norse by Northwest - Lost Vikings sequel

Street Fighter Alpha 3

Metal Slug X

Suikoden Series

Super Puzzle Fighter 2

Darkstalkers 3

Strikers 1945

Thats what I can think of at the moment, but there's so many that its hard to remember them all, and there's such a huge amount of PS1 games that there's still a lot I've yet to play (especially imports)

Gradius Gaiden

Gex - the 1st one was a 2D platformer

Harmful Park

Raiden Series

Raystorm

Sexy Parodius

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If you can play JP import games, Panzer Bandit is good. It is a beat em up but it is actually cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuxAzCdlKo&feature=related

Rayman (If you're up for a big challenge) and Heart of Darkness.

Heart Of Darkness comes to mind, its quite short but its beautiful to look at.

I would reccomend Valkyrie Profile but it's a pain in the ass to track down

Personally, to me games with 3D polygon graphics aren't 2D games regardless of if their gameplay is limited only to two dimensions.

Please do NOT buy rayman 1. People say it's good, but It's so difficult that it is unfair. GreyskullPower

Personally, to me games with 3D polygon graphics aren't 2D games regardless of if their gameplay is limited only to two dimensions.

Panzer_Zwei

Hey... how about "Pandemonium!" and "Pandemonium! 2"???

Fantastic 2D platformer which has faux-3D environments but you don't actually ever deal with the third dimension, it just looks like it is... trippy, fun, great-controlling platformer... my favorite of the generation for sure.

I would reccomend Valkyrie Profile but it's a pain in the ass to track down

Megaman5364

I didn't think anyone was going to mention this game. I was just about to do it myself.

All Raymans get them now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!