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PlayStation gamers surprised with free PS1 remaster

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Published 11:23 4 Feb 2025 GMT

PlayStation gamers surprised with free PS1 remaster

A PS1 classic, RePac-aged for modern consoles

Lewis Parker

Lewis Parker

A remaster of a classic PlayStation title is now available to grab through PlayStation Plus at no extra charge, and anyone who grew up gaming in the 90s is going to wanna get their hands on this one.

Thank you in advance to Comicbook's Logan Moore for the original source!

As revealed on the PlayStation Blog, three new games enter the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games line-up today.

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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League have left, and they’ve been replaced by Payday 3, High on Life, and Pac-Man World Re-Pac.

Those of us old enough to have owned an OG PlayStation back in the 90s will probably recognise that last one, as Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a remaster/remake (it’s somewhere in between) of the 1999 PlayStation-exclusive title Pac-Man World.

Pac-Man featured in anthology series Secret Level, which offered a bold new take on the character.

Well, I say “PlayStation-exclusive”, but there was a different version of Pac-Man World that came out on the Game Boy Advance in 2004. Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a remake of the PlayStation version, however.

I remember playing Pac-Man World when I was super young because, and this statement is about to age me greatly, my dad rented it from a local Blockbuster for me.

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I enjoyed it, but I also distinctly remember that I didn’t enjoy it quite enough to justify keeping it over Gran Turismo 2 when it became available to rent a week or so after.

Now that it’s on PlayStation Plus, I think I might give it a go - especially considering that the remake has made several alterations to the level designs and bosses.

Hopefully, Pac-Man World Re-Pac’s inclusion on PlayStation Plus means we might be getting Pac-Man World Rally at some point in the future though. That’s the Pac-Man game I was truly obsessed with as a kid… although I’m not entirely sure why, because it doesn’t look like it’s aged gracefully.

Maybe we should start remaking terrible games instead of good games?

Featured Image Credit: Sony

Topics: Playstation Plus, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Sony

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