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Do they still make PS1 games?

As 2020 was mercifully coming to an end, something rather unexpected happened in the world of video games. In late December, a new PlayStation game was released. Not a new game for brand new PlayStation 5 or even one for the still popular PlayStation 4.

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As 2020 was mercifully coming to an end, something rather unexpected happened in the world of video games.

In late December, a new PlayStation game was released.

Not a new game for brand new PlayStation 5 or even one for the still popular PlayStation 4. That still happens all the time. Instead, a new game designed for the now 25-year-old PlayStation 1 console was released online and is free to download and play. "Magic Castle" is a game that was being worked on by Japanese developers way back in 1997. The game was being developed on Sony's Net Yaroze, which was a more affordable version of the regular development kit the major studios used to build their games and make sure they run properly on Sony's hardware. Net Yaroze was designed to give more smaller developers a chance to make games for the PlayStation. "Magic Castle" is an action game in which you choose your character from four classes, each with different abilities, and must defeat enemies to clear 20 floors of a castle. The game looks like a 25-year-old video game, but it hase some modern touches like dynamic music that changes with what's happening. The developers initially pitched the game to Sony, which saw the potential in the developers but wanted to hire them to work on a different game instead. However, the team was committed to finishing "Magic Castle" and turned down Sony's request. According to a story by Kotaku.com, the developers got close to making the game with another “company that produces famous Japanese RPG’s,” but that fell apart as well. Eventually, the team stopped working on the game in 1998 and went their separate ways. But one of the developers found the source code for the game recently and was able to finish development and release it. If you want to try out "Magic Castle" for yourself, you can download the title for free at https://archive.org/details/magic-castle-2020-23-dec. Games get canceled all the time, even ones the developers are passionate about. This team was passionate about making "Magic Castle," otherwise they would have accepted Sony's offer to make a game for it rather than try to finish the game they were working on. I'm sure it took them a lot longer than they expected, but I'm really happy they were able to finish their game and release it to the public.

I hope more developers get that opportunity.

Dusty Ricketts can be reached at dricketts@thedestinlog.com. He is currently playing “Star Wars Squadrons" and "Friday the 13th: The Game." You can find him to play online through his PlayStation Network ID: DustRAG316.

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The Oregon Trail Titles Rank Franchise Owner 1 The Oregon Trail Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2 Pac-Man Bandai Namco Entertainment 3 Mario Nintendo 4 Space Invaders Taito (Square Enix) 55 more rows

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This is a list of notable longest-running video game franchises. To qualify for this list, a video game franchise must have seen regular releases, with no more than 10 year-long gaps in-between, for at least 25 years, from a franchise's first release to its most recent. Only franchises that started out as a video game are listed; therefore, licensed video games and video games based upon other media are not listed. Ports, translations, downloadable content, re-releases, and compilations are not considered new entries. Remakes (i.e., games with significant differences in graphics or game play or some new features) and expansion sets which received retail releases are considered new entries in a series.

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^ The game was first made available within one US school in December 1971, but its first public release was in May 1978.

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