Born on the 23rd
Sonic at 35, the N64 at 30, and the week physical media broke and came back.
One date, June 23rd, gave us both Sonic the Hedgehog and the Nintendo 64, five years apart to the day. This week we celebrate Sonic at 35 and the N64 at 30, raise a glass to Quake at 30, and dig into the strange week where physical media took a beating and made a quiet comeback at the same time.
GTA VI is shipping with no disc in the box. Xbox just pushed the Series X to 750 dollars. One Sega veteran is trying to make all 4,500 Sega games playable before he retires. And I pulled a 1998 review off an old Zip disk that accidentally proves the whole point of this show.
Playing Out of Control Gaming. Retro and classic game reviews, PC to Nintendo, every system. Founded at a lunch table in 1998. No bought scores. No filters. Just opinions.
In this episode
- GTA VI ships with no disc, and two stores refuse to stock it
- Physical game spending rises for the first time since 2009
- Xbox raises prices on August 1st
- Yosuke Okunari’s mission to preserve all of Sega
- The EU declines to require game preservation after Stop Killing Games
- Sonic the Hedgehog turns 35
- The Nintendo 64 turns 30, and the SGI chip Sega said no to first
- Quake turns 30
- The Beige Years: Myst and the lost art of the game box
- On the Shelf: Console Wars by Blake Harris
- 00:00 Cold Open: Born on the 23rd
- 01:05 What Is Playing Out of Control?
- 01:49 The News: GTA VI Ships With No Disc
- 03:15 Physical Media Is Up for the First Time Since 2009
- 04:50 Xbox Raises Prices on August 1st
- 05:23 One Man's Mission to Save All of Sega
- 06:55 Quick Wins: Tekken, Castlevania N64, Barbie, ARMA
- 07:24 The EU Won't Require Game Preservation
- 08:35 Delisted This Week: SOS Ops and Planet of the Apes
- 09:10 Fast Hits: EverDrive, Retroid, Metro Siege, Wallop
- 09:47 This Week in POCG History (1998 to 1999)
- 10:17 Windows 98 and the StarCraft Demo
- 11:32 Fantasy War, The Station, and a 1.3 Million Coincidence
- 12:31 The F-22 Review Off the Zip Disks
- 14:06 The Beige Years: Myst
- 18:09 On the Shelf: Console Wars
- 20:43 The Feature: Same Day, Five Years Apart
- 21:15 Sonic Turns 35
- 25:49 The Nintendo 64 Turns 30
- 27:32 The Chip Sega Said No To
- 31:10 Quake Turns 30
- 33:23 Your Question of the Week
- 34:27 Coming Up Next