No Focus this month... Ash & Cliff are still shambling their way through Cybermania, as it lurches its way towards an appropriate climax, and an inappropriate joke.

The first televised awards ceremony for the gaming and interactive media industry, it is as transparently corporate as it is ramshackle, containing missed cues, absent footballs, broken teleprompters, and the occasional AWOL nomination package.

You have been warned.

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It's Cybermania 1994! You know CYBERMANIA! It's going to be like the Academy Awards, or the Emmys but even more corrupt and bias. Ash and Cliff don their penguin suits and prepare their speeches as they tune in for the first televised videogame and computer entertainment award show in the world, and try to work out who thought getting Leslie Nielsen to host this was a good idea.

This is the first of two episodes on Cybermania, with the second taking the place of this months focus. It's the longest single broadcast that UCP has covered and really, truthfully, you will feel every minute just as much as they do.

You have been warned.

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** Editors note: Whilst curse words have been censored there's some things that are just rude, even without the cuss words. So... consider yourself warned. - Ash **

Girls if you are driving a ride... You'll be caught in the night - Night Trap!

Ash & Cliff join SCAT and do their best to save everyone whilst looking at the notorious videogame nasty that... wasn't actually that nasty. Don't let reality get in the way of Congress though!

Starting with the abandoned Hasbro ControlVision console, up through the Sega CD, the controversies, the ports and the present day, this is a relatively exhaustive and indeed exhausting journey through a game that's notoriety will outlast anything about how good or bad it actually was... NIGHT TRAP!

Plus, Cliff shows us his gravy boat.

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Seeing we've had two different (or incorrect) explanations of what VR is, why not throw in a third for good measure? Cliff & Ash jump head first into what may be one of the worst episodes of the X-Files out there, First Person Shooter.

"The story dictated it" has never been use so much in a single episode.

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Our core episode for October is all Trick and no Treat as a company robs the grave of a defunct videogame publisher, steals the vital organs of their published and unpublished games, and creates the freakish Frankenstein's movie monster that is GAME OVER... otherwise known as Maximum Surge the movie. Cliff and Ash discuss a film which stars people who never agreed to be in it, has a framing device that is borderline incoherent, and contains actors who certainly have an acting range. A very, very, narrow acting range.

This is an episode of true survival horror... will it be GAME OVER by the end? Watch the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oV88hzwtRc

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Three console, three games, one Nintendo legend, and a number of false starts:

Wave Race is a property that languished in relative obscurity, launched one console, and then failed to make a splash on a second. Now it sits in Dave Jones locker...

Ash and Cliff discover where it came from, where it went, and skirt dangerously close to saying things that might be libellous. Allegedly.

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Generations of Canadians grew up watching Video & Arcade Top 10. They stare misty eyed through rose tinted glasses at their LP VHS distorted childhood and think of better times.

Ash & Cliff are not Canadian.

They have no nostalgia for this show.

It goes as well as you'd expect.

Watch V&A Top 10 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hygwroh3kVg

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Just when you thought Shadow Man was finally here... HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER. We had so many unanswered questions from our episode on Games Republic that when a contestant reached out, we'd have been fools to say no! So Michael LeRoi can go brood and monologue elsewhere this month, as Cliff storms off to have a meltdown, and Ash has a chat with Lee aka PugHoofGaming where we discuss GamesMaster ties, audition processes, multiple takes, shockingly good prizes, and the consistencies of craft services!

Find Lee HERE and more details/links HERE

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From the depths of the satellite station .tv, it's Trevor and Simon, and Simons Mum who are inviting us to the GAMES REPUBLIC. Ash and Cliff have their fact checking hats on, which is more than could be said for the quizmasters of this show.

Why is the show set in Egypt?

How exactly can that be Simons Mum?

Why does Johnny Ffinch leave this off his resume?

Some or none of these questions may be answered. Or not.

Watch the episode HERE

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the podcast, Ash and Cliff round out the month with a chat about the 1975 film that defined what a Summer Blockbuster could be: JAWS.

CONTENT WARNING: As with all our commentaries, this episode is uncensored on all feeds.

Film start point is 17mins 09secs for the fade into the Universal logo. Tested with VOD and Bluray for sync points.

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