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Ep. 02
June 23rd gave us both Sonic the Hedgehog and the Nintendo 64, five years apart to the day. In episode two we celebrate Sonic at 35, the N64 at 30, and Quake at 30, then dig into a week where physical media took a beating and quietly came back.
GTA VI is shipping with no disc. Xbox pushed the Series X to 750 dollars. One Sega veteran wants to make all 4,500 Sega games playable before he retires. And a 1998 review pulled off an old Zip disk accidentally proves the whole point of this show: if nobody saves these games and tells their history, they just disappear.
Plus a new editorial series, The Beige Years, starting with Myst, and a new book segment, On the Shelf, opening with Console Wars.
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(0:00) Cold Open · (1:49) The News · (5:23) Saving Sega · (9:47) This Week in POCG History · (14:06) The Beige Years: Myst · (18:09) On the Shelf: Console Wars · (20:43) Same Day, Five Years Apart · (21:15) Sonic at 35 · (25:49) The N64 at 30 · (31:10) Quake at 30 · (33:23) Your Question
