Featured Image Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Topics: PlayStation, Retro Gaming, Indie Games
The memories of unreadable discs are seared into my brain. Whenever a game was inserted into a console and the harrowing message popped up that it was unreadable was a bad time for all.
Back in the olden days of PlayStation and PlayStation 2, it felt like a regular occurrence.
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There wasn’t a day that passed where I wasn’t breathing on a disc and wiping it on my shirt in the hopes that it would spark to life.
Now, this sensation and situation is being turned into a video game.
Please Insert Disc is a survival horror game in which players must traverse the operating system's nightmare while the disc read error occurs.
With plenty of fuzzed out visuals and audio cues, the game seems to be a trippy journey through the digital world of a console to fix the problem. Maybe.
Who knows if the problem gets fixed, they obviously haven’t tried the breathing and wiping trick.
Oddly, this is a PC exclusive, which takes away some of the possible charms that could have been produced with a physical disc edition.
What the gameplay of this bizarre indie game will look like is anyone’s guess, but from the trailer, it might be more of an adventure game delving into game folders and system BIOS files.
From the YouTube comments underneath the announcement trailer, it seems players have been wanting something like this for a while.
I’m getting major Tron vibes but with a nasty horror slant that will creep out fans who don’t trust the digital life we live in.
And the thing is, an unreadable disc was a bit of a nightmare. You’ve spent good money on a game that is well-loved and suddenly it doesn’t work.
I suppose that’s one benefit of the digital-only era, unless your internet goes down and then we’re all screwed. Well, there’s the sequel if Please Insert Disc does well.