Podcast #30 - PlayStation turns 20

As promised at the the last showMO5.COM Podcasts are back for the first of two special issues in December. To begin with, the broadcast date of 3 December has not been chosen at random, because as we did it for another consoleThis means we can look forward to twenty years of the PlayStation original! And even if we only devote one podcast to it this timeBut for more than three hours we look back at the thundering debut of Sony in the video game industry, with the help of the book The PlayStation revolution - Ken Kutaragi from Reiji Asakura but also the " The day Sony launched the PlayStation project "signed by the journalist Brice N'Guessan. Logically, we invited the former editor-in-chief of the console's official magazine, who was joined once again by Fabien "Odallem. The chairman of the association Retro Playing has carried out a great deal of research in preparation for a project involving the machine, which will soon be unveiled...

De gauche à droite : Sseb22, Brice N'Guessan, Fabien Odallem et Jean-Sébastien Brugalat

From left to right: Sseb22, Brice N'Guessan, Fabien Odallem and Jean-Sébastien Brugalat

The participants in this podcast are :

Bonus feature: A number of articles already published on the Mag provide further food for thought, in particular our columns on numerous machines that have tried to dethrone the 16-bit, à the aborted birth of the CD-ROM drive of the Super Nintendo, à what could have happened without the arrival of Sonyand finally the story of Psygnosis. In terms of curiosities, let's mention our article on a prototype of the controllerbut also several legendary videos: the famous demos of the T-Rexand manta ray as well as the shortest intervention of the History ofE3.

You can listen to this 3:08 programme using the player below, or download it here here or via iTunes. Don't hesitate to leave comments or ask questions, either here or on the Facebook podcasts. We'll be answering them in future broadcasts.