Under Consoletation: The Video Game Television Podcast

An old friend returns to UCP with Starcade from 1984, although this time there's a new host who actually gives a toss about the games being played!

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The year has been and gone, and so to start off 2025 we're looking at the past 12 months, recapping the episodes we did and then throwing it over to you, our listeners so you can tell us what you tho…

Ash and Cliff step up to the Oche for a super, smashing, great time with the 1992 Bullseye Christmas Special. Jim's got special lips, Tony Green has an ego, and all of the special guests are on the l…

It's off to the land of Abba, Ikea and other less stereotypical things as your hosts visit Sweden in December 1992! Ash learns all about Nintendo in in the Nordics with the story of Bergsala from his…

Lets talk about MSX baby, let's talk about Z80, let's talk about all the good ports and the bad ports that may be, let's talk about MSX as Cliff and Ash look at the Japanese standard that almost coul…

It's November 1984! Thatcher! Coal Miner Strikes! Band Aid on the Horizon! And the BBC is doing a new tv show about 'computers'. They'll never catch on. Ash and Cliff settle down for the second episo…

Happy Halloween! Your last podcast for October is here, and what better way to celebrate Halloween, than by watching an episode of Sonic the Hedgehog which is chock full of annoying characters and of…

Originally St1ka was meant to be joining us on our core CyberMaster episode for October, however scheduling did not allow it... until now!

Ash sits down with St1ka to talk about growing up a gamer in …

Hello Joe! We dive into one of the early titles that helped define what the Sega Megadrive could do and also created a franchise it's The Revenge of Shinobi/The Super Shinobi! We dive into the making…

He's a big giant head that's HUNGRY! It's Portugals CyberMaster, and he's fighting the survivors of humanity, which appears to be children and adults in fetish wear, and this is the version they wate…

It's time to get a good grip on your pink plastic pistols and RELOAD as Cliff and Ash take a closer look at Time Crisis for the PS1, the arcade original, as well as the back and forth rivalry between…

O' Canada! Our... well, not the home nor native land of Ash and Cliff, but it's certainly a cool place to be! UCP takes a trip north of the border for the debut episode of The Electric Playground fro…

Cliff and Ash drop in on our good mate Shingzy and see what else he was doing, other than making his plumber 3D.

We have a look at Silicon Graphics bringing in their good mate in, Paradigm Simulation,…

A five week month brings us another Focus Extra as Ash sits down for a chat with a man who is a podcaster, a writer, an editor, a gamer, in fact someone who's probably more qualified to host the podc…

Cliff and Ash spend 30mins being visually assaulted by crash zooms, VT's, and paid promotional consideration, all in the name of selling a magazine: It's GamePro TV!

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But what if Resident Evil with Dinosaurs? What if next evolution of survival horror? What if laws of diminishing returns?

Ash and Cliff focus their motion based attention on PS1 era 'Panic Horror' gam…

Ash returns to Bits, after not being blown away by it in UCP's original run, however, he is not alone, as Cliff faces an old foe in Titus Interactive and looks forward to talking about Shadowman... w…

We need your help listener! Ashdros has declared war. He's invaded the Clifflat System, and trying to take UCP. Our army alone can not do the job. Hurry UCN!

Ash & Cliff blast off through Tori gates a…

Cliff and Ash go back to Games World, but not as we've seen it before. We look at Tuesday 22nd June 1993 to visit the creepy House of Gaming, where they review games, talk a lot about the sportsball,…

Five week month bonus episode! It's time to look at the official prequel to Street Fighter IV, which doesn't contain much in the way of streets, fighting, or indeed any useful correlation to the plot…