Final Fantasy, Street Fighter and Castlevania top the PSone sales charts

by Andrew Yoon { Jul 2nd 2009 at 4:15PM }

Sony is printing money with its slowly expanding library of PSone classics on the PlayStation Store. Playable on both PSP and PS3, these downloadable titles have been an easy way to prey upon gamer nostalgia. Unsurprisingly, the most iconic games of the PS1 era take the top of the PSone downloads chart in the month of June:

Final Fantasy VII
Street Fighter Alpha
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Crash Bandicoot
Twisted Metal 2
Spyro the Dragon
Crash Bandicoot: WARPED
Crash Bandicoot 2
Wild Arms
Tekken 2

It shouldn't be too surprising to see multiple Crash Bandicoot games take positions in the top 10. He was, after all, PlayStation's official mascot back in the day. Let's remember him with some classic PS1 ads after the break.

Tags: final-fantasy-vii, ps1, psn, psone, sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DKiller79 @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:20PM

FF7 will always be a great PS1 classic

brianjlitz @ Jul 3rd 2009 2:04AM

FF7 when i was 13 epic...when i'm 24, still epic!

karlwulfekote @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:21PM

They need to release parappa the rappa again!

Heavytoka @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:23PM

I loved the original Crash games!

astrocrack @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:36PM

Those were great. I have no clue why Crash is not loved anymore.

Pat @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:47PM

astrocrack

Maybe because since Vivendi Universal took over the franchise for Naughty Dog none of the games have recaptured the charm they once had. The same happened with Spyro.

Raffikki5491 @ Jul 2nd 2009 11:09PM

Vivendi=Fail. At least With the Crash Series.

DKiller79 @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:24PM

FF7 will always be a great PS1 classic

Ashitaka @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:42PM

I didn't get the PlayStation man ad :/

pspfanboi @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:10PM

FF7 Will Always Be At Teh top since it is the top dog, the alpha and the omega,
forever and always will be, from eternity till the end.

FF7,,

FF7

YES....FF7

rumyada @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:49PM

Crash sucks. Bring back parappa and kagero II. And add trophies for Castlevania SOTN

j.howlett @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:52PM

i saw this list in the home mall and flashed back to that messed up poll joystiq had up before a big game show

NitroMikeo @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:53PM

That second as makes no sense.

Angel Mass @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:04PM

Crash Bandcoot Warped Is the best!

Matt G. @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:07PM

FF7 up at the top doesn't surprise me. Like the Pokemon games on any DS list, it'll probably be up there for a long time to come.

Honestly, just last weekend I bought my first PSP BECAUSE I'd just heard about FF7 being a downloadable PSS game. These games are selling not just themselves, but freakin' PSPs.

Now here's hoping we get some FF8, Legend of Dragoon, and Chrono Cross love at some point.

TheDread @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:09PM

SONY could even get more money from the PSN store if they just allowed people, for example in South America (other than Mexico), to buy from it. Also, they are now blocking people with custom firmware. And, honestly, a hacker going to PSN is someone you wanna keep not block!

I hope they keep releasing those golden oldies.

NitroMikeo @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:28PM

Wait.... what?

xeno378 @ Jul 2nd 2009 6:39PM

Nah, I'm pretty sure they shouldn't give pirates a break. Unless you wanna go back and pay 'em for all those stolen games. That might even it up a bit.

Feba @ Jul 2nd 2009 10:54PM

Xeno: Because everyone who uses custom firmware pirates, and pirates love to buy their games.

Really, the rationale for banning people with custom firmware from using the PS Store is like banning people in hoodies from going into your movie theatre because someone bootlegged a movie there once. You're going to drive more people in hoodies to go elsewhere or pirate it than you are going to get them to take it off.

If someone walks in to your store and tries to buy something, you don't say "Hey, are you a thief?", you thank them for the purchase.

tuunicopapi @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:43PM

i still wants suikoden II to appear on the PS1 titles on PSN so that i can have portable awesomeness on the go! do it!!!

Chow @ Jul 6th 2009 8:03PM

Playsta-man's silhouette looks like the Prince of All Cosmos.

MF Hectoor @ Jul 2nd 2009 6:06PM

they need to add on analog control for SF: Alpha

Yee @ Jul 2nd 2009 7:20PM

Final Fantasy VII FTW LoL

HDpurist @ Jul 2nd 2009 7:28PM

Those top 3 games on the list are GOLD. Some of the best games on the PS1...bought each of them ($59) at launch during those golden days. Street Fighter Alpha 2 is better than 1 though...and so is RE2 :)

sithlord_66 @ Jul 2nd 2009 8:18PM

i don't know where you bought your games, but PS2 games were just 50 so PS1 games should have been that or less

ryanpaulmcgowan @ Jul 2nd 2009 9:26PM

This was just a little misleading. At first I read this as "Three classic PS1 games top PSN charts."

Then I read the list of items and I realized that those are all PS1 games.

I then had to re-read the entire article to finally grasp that I was, in fact, looking at the top 3 PS1 downloads on the PSN.

And then I promptly said "A-duh."

Can we get a blog post about how most PS3's are still black? That seems just as mind-blowingly obvious as this.

devilsei @ Jul 3rd 2009 3:17PM

Well I read it as:
"Final Fantasy, Street Fighter and Castlevania top the PSone sales charts"
Obviously they aren't talking about the console, which leaves the PSN, and saying "PSone" means only PS1/X games, so I didn't get confused.
A bit of comprehension does wonders.

d19xx @ Jul 2nd 2009 10:01PM

where's my metal gear?

d19xx @ Jul 2nd 2009 10:05PM

where's my metal gear?

Mazrael @ Jul 2nd 2009 10:27PM

yea.. taking their time.. but then US has more chance of getting it than the EU/UK.. we don't have Tekken 2 or Castlevania (Which I have on my 360)

jak33 @ Jul 3rd 2009 12:38AM

How awesome would it be, if NAUGHTY DOG (thats important) remade crash 1,2,3 in HD for PS3? no gameplay tweaks. All just next gen upgrades with the graphics. and trophies. I'd pay $60 (or more) even though i already own all of them on disc, and two of them from PSN... Just a thought...

stargateheaven @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:08AM

I love crash bandicoot 1, it has the right amount of difficulty to be challenging + fun factor.

TJF588 @ Jul 3rd 2009 4:07AM

How would it figure if this is exactly how a price cut would be possible for Sony? Shove the previous models of PS3/PSP at us until they can't anymore, start actually selling things in the Store, and have that make up enough of the slack to print and cut truly revamped models of the hardware? Dammit, Sony, stop bein' coy dicks.