{"id":786,"date":"2022-05-20T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:14:32","slug":"the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Game You Should Play On PlayStation Plus Premium Is The One You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of_62875bf744f9e-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of_62875bf744f9e-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-first-game-you-should-play-on-playstation-plus-premium-is-the-one-youve-never-heard-of_62875bf744f9e-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/sony\/\">Sony<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/playstation-plus-premium-rushed-release-backward-compatibility\/\">revealed the first batch of games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium<\/a>, and it&#8217;s pretty dang okay. With so many legendary titles in Sony&#8217;s back catalogue, it&#8217;s easy to look at the list and pick out the games that are notably absent. The three titles I most associate with the halcyon days of drinking Sunny D, eating e-numbered blue Smarties, and losing hours to my PS1 are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/tomb-raider\/\">Tomb Raider<\/a>, Spyro, and Crash. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/microsoft-buying-activision-blizzard-bad-news-bobby-kotick\/\">latter two are soon to be owned by Xbox<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/embracer-group-wont-bring-back-square-enix-games-legacy-kain-theif-whiplash\/\">while the former was just bought by Embracer Group<\/a>, which may or may not be factors in why they&#8217;re not included. In any case, the best game to play is the one you&#8217;ve never played, or better yet, never even heard of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/playstation-plus-premium-sony-what-games-to-play\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has revealed the first batch of games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium, and it&#8217;s pretty dang okay. With so many legendary titles in Sony&#8217;s back catalogue, it&#8217;s easy to look at the list and pick out the games that are notably absent. The three titles I most associate with the halcyon days of drinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}