"PlayStation was the spiritual successor to the SNES." Yeah, I have to agree with that. When Nintendo stuck with the cartridges, every developer under the sun moved to the PlayStation and tons of series from the NES/SNES just continued on there. Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Castlevania, Metal Gear...so many great series just moved right over.
On topic, I've noticed people snapping up PS1 games like crazy too. There is one local game store that's not Gamestop and I've found some gems there. But I've pretty much bought up just about anything they get for PS1 that's complete and in decent condition. I try to stop in just about every other day because they are constantly getting new stuff in.
If I didn't care about cases and manuals, I could pick up some great games. Right now, I know they have Tomba, FFVII, FFVIII, FF Tactics, Mega Man Legends 2, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Chronicles and several other Squaresoft titles.
A little something you guys (& gals) may or may not know about Strider 2 is that it comes on two discs. Ok, you probably knew that. But the first prints were printed on the wrong disc. So Strider was on the disc for Strider 2 and Strider 2 was on the Strider disc. I don't know if that was fixed later or if the game had just one print run and it was never corrected, but that is how mine was that I had bought new the day it was released. I specifically remember that because my OCD was driving me mad trying to play Strider 2 and having to put the Strider disc in!