Console Shock, Retro and Modern Gaming Chat.

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Retro consoles are still fun to play to this day, but getting them working in an optimal way these days can be a challenge. Those optical drives with them moving parts can also be a ticking time bomb to failure. How … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 109: The Playstation UNO in 2023

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! “Did you ever hear the tragedy of Sega Dreamcast The Great?” There are several myths floating around retro gaming discourse on what ultimately buried the DC. We take a look at each of them and provide some of our own thoughts. … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 108: What killed the Dreamcast?

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! No main topic on this edition of the Shockcast, Trev and Stu run through a whole bunch of topics on their minds covering retro and modern gaming alike! – Remember getting your National Insurance Number issued? – Why dont we go … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 107: Random Stuff

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We were there when the Switch launched, and we even discussed its future at length when the initial reveal landed. It has been an incredible success, one of Nintendos most successful ever, but what does that mean in the context of … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 106: Legacy of the Switch

This week Trev and All talk about the big world of gameboy mods

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! It’s an unusual situation where a console gets a price increase nearly two years into its lifecycle, but how will this affect the PlayStation 5 in the long run? Our hosts contemplate this along with our usual mix of video game … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 104: PS5 Price Increase!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We covered the Steam Deck last year upon its announcement, but now Trev and Stu finally have one in their sweaty mitts! Is it truly the Nintendo Switch destroyer some were billing it as, or is it more of a Virtual … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 103: Steam Deck Hands-on!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We covered the Steam Deck last year upon its announcement, but now Trev and Stu finally have one in their sweaty mitts! Is it truly the Nintendo Switch destroyer some were billing it as, or is it more of a Virtual … Continue reading Console Shock EP103 Steam Deck our Opinion

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We are living in a golden age of Amiga upgrades; with a myriad of accelerators you can jack into your Miggy to take it to computational heights we could never have imagined! Which should you go for though? To help out, … Continue reading Console Shock EP102 Dan Wood The Retro Hour Amiga Accelerators

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! One of our all-time YouTube heroes joins us on the Shockcast, none other than Joe from Game Sack! Joe produces amazing long form episodes covering retro (and a lot of modern) gaming, and we chat to him about producing the Game … Continue reading Console Shock EP101 Game Sack