/vr/ - Retro Games

>people always talk about Crash and Spyro
>nobody talks about the real flagship playstation platformer

Did Sony kill the developers of Jumping Flash too soon? Jumping Flash 2 came out in 1996, at that time not that many people had jumped to 5th gen yet. Crash 2, Spyro, Crash 3 and others were released in later years were 5th gen was already stablished (1997, 98, etc), but by then, no more JF games came out other than the Japan-only Robbit Mon Dieu, which was a half-assed not-Jumping Flash 3 made by only a fraction of the original dev team, probably mixed with some other b-team from SCEJ.

I can only dream about a real Jumping Flash 3 released in the late 90s when the PS1 development knowledge was on its peak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB-HpRs9iXo

>>2590892
>Another really great PS1 game was Ghost in the Shell. Fantastic action.

Seconded, one of my all time favorite PS1 games. Also Jumping Flash 1 and 2.

>>2404774

I second this anon with Ghost in the Shell. It's made by the same team and it shows, great game.
Still need to emulate the X68K to play Geograph Seal.

And yes, go play Jumping Flash 2, it's amazing and a worthy sequel.

I think it's weird how Jumping Flash isn't more well known and remembered nowdays. People keep praising Crash and Spyro (which I always thought were meh), but Jumping Flash is somewhat obscure, even though it was one of the flagship games of the early PS days.

As rare as Super Mario World or Sonic 2.

Robbit is the mascot PlayStation needs, but not the one it deserves.

Jumping Flash 2, Tekken 2 and Ride Racer Revolution on PS1
Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings on N64
NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon on Saturn