The Best PS One Games You Can Get

I was looking to buy a PS3 soon and wanted find what were the best games I could download on to it since I don't have a lot of space for physical storage of games. While there are plenty of great games to come out this generation there are also some great PS One games to get. Since I proudly had an N64 during that generation (still have it now) I had no idea what were the best games for the original Playstation. Luckily IGN and Gamespy have each made lists of what they consider the top 25 games for the system. After looking over the lists and checking there availability PSN Store I have made this chart below that compares the lists and shows whether you can go download it now. Some interesting notes I found:

• Both lists have "Metal Gear Solid" at 1 and "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" at 2. A testament to how great they must be.
• Both lists have a "Gran Turismo", "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" and "Ridge Racer" but they disagree over which in each series is the best
• The Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro franchises seemed to get so much hype during that generation yet Lara Croft and Crash only had one entry on the two lists. Spyro had nothing.

The chart is ordered by Gamespy's rankings since they did the whole annoying one item per page thing and I'm saving people the trouble of clicking through it just to get the order. IGN on the other hand put all 25 on one page so I'll just give the link rather then relist them all.

• IGN's List
• Gamespy's List

The bold games are the ones on both lists. If you know of any other respectable PS One lists leave a link in the comments and I'll incorporate it.

Gamespy Rank	IGN Rank	Game	On PSN Store as of October 13, 2010
1	1	Metal Gear Solid	Yes
2	2	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night	Yes
3	11	Tekken 3	No
4	-	Gran Turismo	No
5	-	Klonoa: Door to Phantomile	No
6	-	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2	No
7	-	Ridge Racer	No
8	6	Vagrant Story	No
9	13	Wipeout XL	No
10	18	Final Fantasy VII	Yes
11	16	PaRappa the Rapper	No
12	24	Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo	No
13	14	Resident Evil 2	Yes
14	8	Ape Escape	No
15	14	Silent Hill	Yes
16	-	Soul Blade	No
17	-	Tomb Raider	Yes
18	9	Street Fighter Alpha 3	No
19	-	Um Jammer Lammy	No
20	-	WarHawk	Yes
21	23	Final Fantasy Tactics	Yes
22	-	Twisted Metal 2	Yes
23	-	Intelligent Qube	No
24	-	Tomba	No
25	-	Point Blank	No
-	17	Grandia	Yes
-	19	Syphon Filter	Yes

Video Game Download Stores For PC & Mac

Unlike consoles, even the largest games for PC and Mac can be download from the Internet. The hardest part is finding out where to make the purchase, especially for Mac and Linux games. To change that I have rounded up the most reputable download game stores on the net, so you can load up your machine with all the games you can buy.

Windows only
Steam
Probably the most well known video game download store on the net. This is owned by the developer Valve, creator of games like Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.
http://store.steampowered.com/

Good Old Games
This is the store you probably wanna check first to download a game. Everything you'll find here is 100% DRM free. Unfortunately most of the games developers and publishers will let them sell like this are a few years old, hence the name.
http://www.gog.com/

Impulse
Software developer Stardock's online game store.
http://www.impulsedriven.com/

Games for Windows
Microsoft's own game store, selling it's own games and others for it's operating system.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/index.aspx

Mac only
Mac Game Store
A subsidiary of Inside Mac Games, a Mac gaming news website. It claims to be the largest online Macintosh gaming store on the planet. With such a conspicuous name it's easy to believe.
http://www.macgamestore.com/

GameTree Online
TransGaming's store, a company that make tech for porting Windows games to Mac. The tittles it has ported over are sold through this store.
http://www.gametreeonline.com/

Both
Direct2Drive
Run by IGN, in addition to selling Windows and Mac games this also sells episodes of anime shows.
http://www.direct2drive.com/

Greenhouse
Created by the makers of the Penny Arcade webcomic and the developers of the game based on that, this is the only store on the list that not only sell games for Windows and Mac but also Linux.
http://www.playgreenhouse.com/

GamersGate
A service operated by the game developer Paradox Interactive.
http://www.gamersgate.com/

Another option is just go to a developer's or publisher's site where they may sell their own games directly.