30 Years of PlayStation: The Top Game From Each Year (1994

When the original PlayStation was released in 1994, it was just one of many home consoles of the era. Over the next 30 years, the console made history, releasing several iterations and bringing it all the way to the modern era of the powerful PlayStation 5. This month, Sony celebrated the incredible milestone of 30 Years of PlayStation, and is still going strong.

The past 30 years have been packed with incredible moments and video games. This is a good time to look back on the previous three decades and highlight the greatest, most important, and most beloved video games from the history of PlayStation.

Games were selected based on which titles were the most important to the history of the console (not necessarily which ones were the "best" or highest rated), with a heavy skew tow