A Look at All 23 PSP Launch Games

On March 24th, 2005, North America saw the release of the Sony PSP, a handheld game system that blew its competitors out of the water in terms of graphical power and capabilities. As with its console big brother, the PS2, the PSP had a quite large lineup at launch, coming in at 23 games. In this video, we’ll take a look at all 23 of them and see if the system was worth picking up at launch.

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Some notes:
- When I mention the sound effects being better for the PS1 version of Ape Escape, I'm referring specifically to the sounds you hear in game, not the voice acting. I don't think voice acting is normally considered to be a sound effect, but some people seem to think that's what I was talking about.
- I am aware that I mixed up the analog stick and d-pad animation during the Rengoku segment. I unfortunately didn't notice this until the day after I uploaded the video. I have a fixed version, but until YouTube does the right thing and lets channels revise their videos without making a new upload, there's not much I can do.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Ape Escape: On the Loose
4:32 - ATV Off-Road Fury: Blazin’ Trails
6:50 - Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
9:30 - Dynasty Warriors
12:20 - Lumines: Puzzle Fusion
14:04 - Sports Game Bonanza (8 Games)
21:47 - Metal Gear Ac!d
24:07 - Need for Speed Underground Rivals
25:26 - Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
27:05 - Ridge Racer
29:13 - Smart Bomb
30:50 - Spider-Man 2
32:49 - Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 Remix
34:56 - Twisted Metal: Head-On
37:03 - Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
38:54 - Wipeout Pure
41:03 - Final Thoughts