This weeks Playstation store update is going to be Odd, and your name is Abe….That’s all you get, if you don’t know what I mean yet? Hit the break to find out, let’s go!

This weeks Playstation Store Update brings us two retro PS1 classic that IMHO gave the 2D puzzle platformer a real revitalization. Prior to Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus all we had was mario and sonic just to name two big dogs of 2D console platforming greatness.

The thing is that the Oddworld franchise had a more mature under tone and offered deeper puzzles. Something that also put Oddworld on a league of it’s own were the visuals and sound effects. You could talk to your fellow Oddworld Inhabitants by directing them to follow you, stay put or fart on them? Yup I said FART..!  LMAO

The news:

Coming to PSN this Week: Oddworld PSone Classics

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 03:08 PM PDT

OMG! Our baby’s come home! Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus PSone Classics are both available on the PlayStation Store for only $9.99 each starting Thursday, October 22.

It was only about six years ago that I told our agent at the time, “Larry, don’t you get it!? Our classic Abe games are history. The systems that played them are gone and they aren’t coming back. Ours is a disposable medium and we don’t have a Turner Classics channel.” He looked at me with this defeated expression and said, “Dude, that’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard you say.” He believed me, and I too believed it at the time.

Six years later and I have to admit it’s great being proved wrong.

We couldn’t have been more thrilled when we learned that the PlayStation Network was willing to offer our classic Abe games to an entirely new generation of gamers. Finally, gamers who never got the chance to meet and play him when he first came out on the PSone system, will now get that chance to meet the guy who graced many magazine covers and proved the unlikely hero that captured people’s hearts.

Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus

Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus

Visit the official Oddworld site