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Order by the North American release year. You place all 45 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the PlayStation classics timeline game

Each card is a game that made the original PlayStation a household fixture: mascot platformers, survival horror, racing sims, skateboarding and sprawling role-playing epics. The developer is printed under every title, and you sort the games by the year they reached North American shelves. The line opens with one game and its year already showing. Drop each new card into the gap you think fits. A good guess reveals the year; a miss still puts the game in its correct place, but it costs you one of three lives.

The console's peak years were packed, so expect plenty of ties, and any spot among matching years counts. Role-playing games from Japan often crossed over many months after their home release, which can make them feel older than their American date. Sequels arrived quickly, sometimes a year apart, so knowing the order inside a series only gets you so far. A few late releases kept the system alive after its successor had already launched.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 45 cards you might be dealt, with 17 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ridge Racer Namco
  • Twisted Metal SingleTrac
  • Tekken Namco
  • Destruction Derby Reflections Interactive
  • Resident Evil Capcom
  • Suikoden Konami
  • Final Fantasy VII Square
  • Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Oddworld Inhabitants
  • Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Naughty Dog
  • Cool Boarders UEP Systems
  • Metal Gear Solid Konami
  • Resident Evil 2 Capcom
  • Tekken 3 Namco
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Square
  • Tenchu: Stealth Assassins Acquire
  • Klonoa: Door to Phantomile Namco
  • Silent Hill Team Silent
  • Crash Team Racing Naughty Dog
  • Final Fantasy VIII Square
  • Dino Crisis Capcom
  • Driver Reflections Interactive
  • Ape Escape Sony Computer Entertainment Japan
  • Chrono Cross Square
  • Final Fantasy IX Square
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Neversoft
  • Spyro: Year of the Dragon Insomniac Games
  • Dragon Warrior VII Heartbeat
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories Konami

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