I guess it depends... if you have a class that you can play it in or in the car or something. In my case I'm always doing the driving, and don't really have any classes that I can sit and play games in anymore. In fact I think I'm done with my lecture courses at this point, plus I never played games in classes anyway... there's much better things to do, anyhow I digress. In my case I prefer the ps2, but if you never owned a ps1 and didn't play all the great square games primarily for it, then you owe it to yourself to buy this.