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The console you actually took outside. The Game Boy landed in America on July 31, 1989, and turned the backseat, the pool, and the campsite into a place to play. Top Loader ranks the handheld summer.
"The console turns 30 this week. It showed up in summer with summer in the box. Top Loader loads the Nintendo 64 and ranks the season."
The Nintendo 64 arrived as a summer machine: four controller ports, a jet-ski game, and a blue-sky Mario. Ten N64 cartridges that play like summer, ranked by the vibe and the four-player couch, not the release date.
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The Xbox cuts landed: four studios out, Arkane in limbo, 3,200 jobs gone, and every announced game spared. Part three is about what Microsoft decided was worth keeping.
Ten Super Nintendo games that actually feel like summer: beaches, islands, backyards, and road trips, ranked by the vibe instead of the release date.
How POCG came back: the lvl30 years, the pocg.co relaunch, buying pocg.net back in 2026, and the box of Zip disks at my mom's house that held the original archive.
How POCG began, from a Command and Conquer fan page to a full gaming site founded in 1998, and how the first run ended when a broke college kid let the domain lapse in late 2005.