What's up everybody? It's Austin Rivers here and we are back for another season of OffGuard.

Me and my guy, Pasha Giggy, are hitting your podcast feeds every Monday and Thursday talking everything hoops.

Austin is bringing that 11-year NBA veteran perspective and of course keeping you guys entertained throughout the season.

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How do you know PlayStation is not a normal game system?

It carries these telltale signs.

Scientists say its effects are mind-boggling.

Users lose all sense of reality and enter another world.

Here we have a normal, healthy young man.

And here we have a fellow who's been experimenting with PlayStation for only a few minutes. Proof that we saps must be on our guard.

Remember, do not underestimate the power of PlayStation.

... of PlayStation.

Hello and welcome into the ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.

I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor at the redesigned and relaunched Ringer.

I have been hosting Ringerverse Video Game Podcasts for almost two years, but I spent almost 36 years on this earth before I found that calling, which qualifies me to speak from lived experience about the topic of today's episode. The 30th 30th 30th 30thth anniversary of

Sony's first video game console, the PlayStation, the PSX, the PS1, the last of which was technically the name of the

redesign model, but never mind that, whatever name you know, this classic console by, it is now

no longer in its 20s, and to discuss what made that system so special, to reminisce about

personal PlayStation experiences, and most important, to conduct a draft of the

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