Number 49:
1942 (Arcade) is a well-crafted SHMUP. Not as egregious and demanding as the Bullet Hells that followed it, but still challenging from the first level, 1942 strikes a fine balance which makes you die repeatedly, but know that you're this close to the next level. A great quarter-muncher, 1942 holds up well to this day.










Yay for games that I spent my early teens playing but in retrospect weren't that good. Throwing the rules of the card game out the window and forcing to you remember a bunch of random combos to have any chance of winning, this game is guilty of so many things in terms of bad game design and I could never beat it; yet I played the hell out of it and it's one of the few PS1 games I still own so I feel it warrants a place on here

