Updated shuffle of PSP games

08/02/2025

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Updated shuffle of PSP games, curated to ones I’ll pick up and play, with some classics installed in 2006!

Music Beat Games

  • Rockband Unplugged
    • I’ve never got into these games in the past, beyond picking up a Rockband drum-kit to use as a sampling device :p
    • DLC installed too, some great tracks, really appreciate the Pearl Jam & GlaDos tune
  • Gitaroo Man Lives!
    • Fun off the wall arcade guitar beat game, gotta be played to understand
  • Patapon 3
    • There’s something about the quality, and novelty, of some Sony consoles games, and this is one of them, thinking Shadow of the Colossus, and Last Guardian
  • PaRappa the Rapper
    • Can’t have a music game collection without this classic!

Platform

  • Ghosts and Goblins
    • One that generates kudos for completion
  • Mega Man Powered Up
    • I understand there’ll be pew pew action
  • Sonic Rivals
    • If I can’t have Super Fantasy Zone, I need another Sega fix
  • Bubble Bobble Evolution

Fighting

  • Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
    • I know all of the characters, but not familiar with Alpha

Other

  • Work Time Fun
    • The greatest obscure waste of time!
  • Sid Meirs Pirates
    • Sailing practice!
  • Wipeout Pure
    • I like the security of bouncing off the walls
  • Half Minute Hero
    • Trimmed down RPG
  • Bloodbowl
    • Only tabletop game I ever really got into, and how awesome is it I can carry a version in my pocket
  • Bust A Move Deluxe
    • Classic arcade puzzle

Shoot ’em Up

  • Gradius Collection
    • 5 games from 1985 to 1999, I remember this on the PS2 at release!
  • Neo Geo Heroes Ultimate Shooting
    • Many characters, levels, and ways to play
  • Twin Bee Portable
    • 5 more games from 1985 to 1995, this time cute style
  • Dariusburst
    • High quality, well polished, bullet hell
  • Space Invaders Extreme
    • Found this quite impressive, a great re-imagine of the original, with Tatio and Square Enix’s name on it
  • Gravity Crash Portable
    • Thrust for the modern age… or the age 15 years ago :p

minis

  • Ace Armstrong vs. the Alien Scumbags!
  • Mini Squadron
  • Tetris
  • Blast Off
  • Pac-Man Championship Edition
  • Angry Birds