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Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of RetroNots Micro.

I'm your host Bob Mackie and while I've been experimenting with other formats over the

past few months, this episode returns once again to the solo format.

So once again it'll be me and me alone, talking about a topic that could necessarily

fill an entire 90 minute episode.

And these off-week episodes are brought to you by our lovely Patreon supporters.

Without them, you'd only get two episodes of RetroNots a month and that would just

be criminal.

So to begin, let's talk about the early days of the original PlayStation, which is roughly

1994 to 1996 if you weren't keeping track.

A relative newcomer to the field, Sony was willing to throw anything against the wall,

just to see if it would stick.

And while this era of games hasn't aged particularly well, it saw weird, fun experiments

like Parapa the Rapper and Tailed the Sun, games that came out of the PlayStation's desire

to be different.

This period of creativity coincided with the beginning of polygonal games, meaning the

rules for how to make an experience in a 3D world weren't exactly set in stone.

Today we have several safe genres new concepts can safely fit into, but back in the mid-90s,

developers were still figuring out how to make polygonal games.

And while these honest experiments often led to dismal failures, sometimes they produce

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