I was fortunate enough to pick up a used 3DO and a handful of titles at that same EB for about $100 in mid 1994. I know what you mean though, that jump from 16-Bit, even Starfox levels, to 32-Bit was mindblowing. The early days of the PSOne were a decent jump from what 3DO was able to do in the right hands (EA mostly with Crystal Dynamics coming in a close second) that leap from 16-Bit SNES and Sega Genesis was so big. For years I had trouble going back to racing games on 16-Bit consoles, not that I was a huge fan of the genre in general in the first place. Around this time I was coming out of my scrolling shooter phase and getting into 2D platformers (3D had not caught on with me yet) and I was infatuated with 2.5D action platformers.
I cannot count the number of games I played on the original PlayStation over the years. Standouts are the usual, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, etc. There were some gems like Tecmo's Deception, One, Vandal Hearts, etc. So many great games.
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