{"id":369123,"date":"2026-01-14T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:16:11","slug":"ps1-ridge-racer-poised-for-ps5-ps4-via-ps-plus-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369123\/","title":{"rendered":"PS1 Ridge Racer Poised for PS5, PS4 via PS Plus Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PS1<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a notorious leaker<\/a>, this month\u2019s PS Plus Premium<\/a> addition will be the PS1 port of Ridge Racer<\/a> \u2013 a curious addition considering an arcade perfect port of the iconic Namco outing<\/a> already exists, via the industrious Hamster\u2019s ongoing Arcade Archives<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

Despite being rightfully acclaimed at the time, this version of the game is compromised compared to its System 22 counterpart, running at 30fps on NTSC consoles \u2013 and a dire 25fps on PAL units. It also has downgraded visuals.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, though, it features additional content \u2013 including eight extra cars which can be unlocked by completing the Galaxian<\/a> minigame that occurs during loading.<\/p>\n

Despite this, it feels like an odd inclusion for PS Plus Premium \u2013 especially when you consider the glacial rollout of these titles, and the fact that the original arcade version already exists on Sony\u2019s contemporary consoles. Why not Ridge Racer Revolution<\/a> or, better yet, Rage Racer<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This being a Bandai Namco joint, we can also be relatively certain no Trophies will be included, as that\u2019s been consistent across all of the Japanese publisher\u2019s emulated retro efforts<\/a> thus far.<\/p>\n

Of course, there may yet be more to the latest PS Plus Premium update, as only a partial list of titles<\/a> has leaked thus far. Let\u2019s cross our fingers for more than just PS1 Ridge Racer, eh?<\/p>\n

[source dealabs.com<\/a>, via News: PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2026 Leaked<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a notorious leaker, this month\u2019s PS Plus Premium addition will be the PS1 port of Ridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,59,1357,3940,197,112,141066,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-369123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bandai-namco","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-ps-plus","11":"tag-ps1","12":"tag-ps4","13":"tag-ps5","14":"tag-ridge-racer","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}