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The Game Boy was the first console that left the house.

Ep. 7 of Playing Out of Control: the ten Game Boy games that owned summer. Tetris in the backseat, Pokemon on the porch, Metroid II in the tent.

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The Nintendo 64 turned thirty this summer, and it came out of the box built for a room full of people: four controller ports, standard, right on the front. This week's feature ranks the ten N64 games that actually play like summer, two ways at once — the vibe of the season, and the four-player couch that WAS the season.

Every site does a summer games list, and most of them are lying to you: whatever shipped in August with a beach towel on the header.

Episode 5 of Playing Out of Control is live with one rule: a summer game PLAYS like summer. Ten SNES cartridges, ranked by the vibe. Donkey Kong Country's warm water, EarthBound's road trip, and a sleeper pick from 1993 I will defend forever.

Nintendo Month begins. Since 1998. No bought scores. No filters. Just opinions.