Console Shock, Retro and Modern Gaming Chat.

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Amazing things are happening on the granddaddy of all consoles; the legendary Atari 2600!

We welcome James from ZeroPage Homebrew onto the show, and we talk about some of the stunning homebrew Atari 2600 games that are being developed by the 2600 programming community!

– How James got started with ZeroPage Homebrew

– What actually is video game homebrew?

– The crazy limitations of the 2600 and how homebrewers work around them – Flashcarts on the 2600, what are the options?

– Online gaming on the 2600, its real!

– Great 2600 homebrew titles

– The emerging Atari 7800 homebrew scene

– Great modern ways to play Atari 2600 games Intro/Outro Music

– Crystal World (Third stage theme) – Gradius II (1988) – Arcade/PC Engine – Composer(s): Shinji Tasaka, Motoaki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsubara, Seiichi Fukami

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We are somewhat fond of Sega on this show, and in that spirit our special guest this time around is Lewis from segadriven.com!

Lewis set up this awesome site 12 years ago and it covers a ton of Sonic the Hedgehog and racing game related content.

We dive into the history and motivations behind segadriven, as well as Lewis’s thoughts on retro gaming :

– How Lewis got going with segadriven

– The vibrant Sonic online community

– Sega’s stance on fanmade projects

– Would a 3D Sonic game have worked on the Saturn?

– Was the Dreamcast doomed to fail?

– Retro gaming setups in modern times

– Weird PS1 ripoffs of Sega racing games.

– Stu’s complex relationship with RPGs.

Check out Lewis’s website here: https://www.segadriven.com/​

Intro/Outro Music – Tidal Tempest – Sonic CD (SEGA 1993) – Sega Mega CD – Composer(s): Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast!

Ever wonder how this whole Console Shock gubbins began?

Well on this show we have a super special guest, one of the co-founders of Console Shock, the legendary Al!

Have a scroll down the uploads on our channel and youll see the original CS video shows, featuring Trev & Al presenting alongside the M&M games (now Playnation games!) gang. As well as the origins of CS, Al joins us to chat about a bunch of other retro & modern gaming topics:

– How did Trev & Al get the idea to make a show?

– Trev & Al’s initial attempts to start a podcast

– Behind the scenes on those early video CS episodes. – Where did Al go? – The tragic story of Al’s OG Xbox in Canada!

– Moving between video game regions, 60hz vs 50hz

– Al’s Arcade 1up cab collecting addiction

– What does the future of classic arcade ports look like? Intro/Outro Music – Keep the groovin’ – Streets of Rage (SEGA 1991) – Sega Mega Drive – Composer(s): Yuzo Koshiro, Motohiro Kawashima

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We caught the Speccy and C64 at the tailend of their legendary runs, so we might have a slightly different perspective to those folks who grew up with them from the beginning.

We talk about our experiences with both systems and debate which one we think is the best. This and a lot more of the usual Console Shock nonsense you know and love! – Fans inside consoles, when did they become a thing?

– More thoughts on PS5/Xbox Series scalpers!

– Why dont we like RPGSs?

– Luigi’s Mansion on 3DS, and some other 3DS nuggets.

– C64/Speccy emulation via Retroarch

– Which Speccy model is the best?

– Multiplats where the Speccy version is better

– Sound on the C64 vs the Speccy

– Our fave C64/Speccy games

– Street Fighter 2 on the C64, is it terrible?

Intro/Outro Music – Attack on the Shuttle – Transformers The Movie Soundtrack (1986) – Composer(s): Vince DiCola

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! They are such an integral part of gaming fabric they almost go unnoticed, but the bundled console controller can really make or break a system.

A good one can set the standard for generations to come, and a bad one can render a system unplayable and tarnish its reputation. We chat about some of our favourite (and least favourite!) controllers, including:

– A quick segment covering the PS5/Xbox Series console launches and issues!

– N64 controllers, have they aged well?

– The original Playstation Dual Shock, a pioneering design that still persists to this day

– The OG Xbox “Duke” controller, as terrible as everyone says?

– Is the GameCube controller overrated or the greatest ever?

– The Sega Saturn pad, the best 2D controller ever.

– Amiga controllers, what are the better options.

– The NES controller, perfect for 8Bit gaming!

Intro/Outro Music – Rockhouse – NWO Theme (World Championship Wrestling 1996) – Composer(s): Jimmy Hart

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Its nearly space-year 2021 and hot on the heels of our recent Amiga mags show, we now have a new for-real monthly(!) print Amiga magazine available to buy and its called Amiga Addict! Join us as we chat to Ravi Abbott, deputy editor of Amiga Addict and one of our personal Amiga scene heroes! Get the low-down on Amiga Addict, and more:

– The waning years of Amiga magazines

– How did the idea of Amiga Addict begin?

– Why a print magazine in the age of the interwebs?

– Meet the team putting Amiga Addict together

– A sneak preview of what youll find inside issue 1!

– How you can get your copy of Amiga Addict Check out Amiga Addict Magazine here: https://www.amiga-addict.com/ Check out Ravi on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/RetroRavi Check out the Retro Hour here: https://theretrohour.com/ Intro/Outro Music – New Junk City – Earthworm Jim (Shiny Entertainment 1995) – Sega Mega CD – Composer(s): Tommy TallaricoSHOW LESS

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Instead of a specific subject this time around, we take you on a nostalgia tour!

We talk about our fond memories of tech, music, TV and even what shopping was like in our 80s and 90s years. This and lots more :

– The origin of Trevs radio voice!

– Trying to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation in the UK in the late 80s/early 90s

– The experience of shopping for games, music and videos at Virgin Megastore in the 90s/00s

– Listening to and buying music in our teens vs now

– Early hard drive mp3 players vs MiniDisc!

– Stu having fun upgrading his PC

– Our thoughts on the 8Bit guy blowing up a rare old computer

– More thoughts on other Youtubers we like such as Luke Mose, and This Does Not Compute

– What we think of Limited Run games (again!) Intro/Outro Music – Dr.Eggman Theme – Sega Rally 2 (Sega 1998) – Sega Dreamcast & Arcade – Composer(s): Tatsuhiko Fuyuno, Susumu Isa, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Jun Senoue, Kenji Eno, Hideki Naganuma, Tomonori Sawada