Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The Sony PSP was a groundbreaking handheld console that set a new standard for portable gaming devices. Compared to its contemporaries, such as the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, it featured powerful processing capabilities, allowing it to handle 3D graphics … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 134: Sony PlayStation Portable PSP

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The demise of GAME stores has been slow but almost inevitable, and with their ever diminishing list of products they sell can they survive another 10 years? Trev and Stu discuss! – A very British opening to the pod with a … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 133: GAME Over?

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Stu is back from holiday a changed man! A Steam Deck skeptic in 2022, he now loves the thing. What changed for Stu in that time and what made him a fan of the handheld from Valve? Find out in our … Continue reading Console Shockcast 124: Stu vs. Steam Deck Reloaded!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! An early Christmas present for our listeners as we round off 2023 with a chat about everyones favourite blurry screened wonder, the Sega Game Gear! With Stu on holiday, Console Shock charter member Al returns to fill the void as we … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 123: Sega Game Gear

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Al is back with us again! The Console Shock charter member has returned to join us as we talk the latest on PC gaming handhelds, cloud gaming, and the imminent GTA 6 trailer! – Does Nova Scotia have pubs? – Steam … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 122: GTA 6, xCloud gaming and the Steam Deck OLED.

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Switch fans have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to FIFA, but has that changed with FC 24? Trev got his hands on a copy and tells all! We also look at some of the recent news … Continue reading Console Shockcast 121: EA Sports FC 24 on Nintendo Switch and more…

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! With the rumours of the Switch 2 getting stronger and stronger, we share our opinions on what the final form of the mythical console should take. This alongside our usual verbal download of gaming thoughts and feelings spanning anything old or … Continue reading Console Shockcast 120: Switch 2

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We have developer RozzBozzy as a guest on the latest Shockcast, who is currently creating a tribute to the classic Virtua Racing style of 90s polygonal arcade racer, SP Grand Prix! Discover what motivated RozzBozzy to create SP Grand Prix, along … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 119: RozzBozzy and SP Grand Prix

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Friend of the show and all round retro gaming legend Dan Wood joins us again to talk about a certain computer platform that we have all expressed a fondness for over the years. Nope, it’s not the Sinclair QL, it is … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 118: Amiga in 2023 with special guest Dan Wood! Retro Hour

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Trev finally has his hands on the ASUS ROG Ally, and it’s a great portable PC gaming solution. The question on everyones lips is how does it stack up to the Steam Deck? Should you ditch the SD or can they … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 117: ASUS ROG Ally vs Steam Deck

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Trev and Stu chat about some of the recently revealed tech products from Apple and Sony, the Vision Pro and Project Q. Are they worth buying? We also look into what a Nintendo Switch successor should look like, and Stu’s adventures … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 116: Apple Vision Pro & Sony Project Q

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! After several hints on previous shows that Stu was about to plunge into PC gaming, he has finally pulled the trigger! We explore some of Stu’s early experiences with his new set up, as well as some of the future joys … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 115: Stu’s new gaming PC!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! A little late to the party, but Trev and Stu are finally celebrating a very significant birthday, the Macintosh is 40! We talk about the legacy of one of the most important computers in the history of the industry, including where … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 132: Macintosh 40th Anniversary

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The Atari Lynx launched in 1989 and was a pioneer in handheld gaming. It was the first ever colour portable and had specs that could rival the ‘big’ home consoles of the time. Unfortunately it struggled against the Gameboy and even … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 114: Atari Lynx

Great Podcast Trev and Stu talk about retro and Modern Video games

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! As kids we used to drool over the console/computer bundle packs we would see on shop shelves or in magazine ads. What you got in a particular bundle could help determine which side of the video game war you ended up … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 112: Classic System Bundles and Pack-Ins

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Recently there’s been trend of retro gaming YouTubers talking about the “The Retro Problem”, initially started by RGT85. UK gaming magazine legend Jaz Rignall wasn’t impressed with the thumbnails of grumpy people sitting in front of game collections and voiced such … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 111: The Problem with The Retro Problem

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! After a lengthy Xmas and new year break from the Shockcast, Trev and Stu are back with more video game ramblings! We start with a round up of various gaming related stuff on both our minds before shifting the focus to … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 110: Virtual Reality

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! More adventures with Stu on his retro PC gaming odyssey! This time we focus on the Windows XP era, a point in time when a single PC could natively run a game from the DOS, Win 9x, and late 00s eras. … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 131: Windows XP Gaming

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 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

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! It’s the 100th episode of Console Shock!!! We are joined by fellow Console Shock charter member Al, as we tackle a subject worthy of an anniversary like this, our Top 3 video games of all time! We don’t want to spoil … Continue reading Console Shock EP100 Special Top 3 Games EVER

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Ravi joins us again on the Shockcast to give us more insight into the awesome new Amiga magazine Amiga Addict! Learn about some of the behind the scenes work that goes into the production of the mag, as well as how … Continue reading Console Shockcast 99: Amiga Addict Update with Ravi Abbott

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Being from the UK, we probably had a different introduction and experience with the Mario series during its 8-bit and 16-bit eras then our American and Japanese friends. Did the early games really register over here while we had our heads … Continue reading Console Shock EP 98 Mario Series

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! As we move through the video game console generations, the conversation around video game preservation is becoming more and more important. Should video game creators and publishers make more of an effort to make their old games available on the latest … Continue reading Console Shock EP97 Video Game Preservation

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! In this weeks shockcast, we focus on a genre that has its roots in the earliest days of video gaming. It went on to become quite a niche and specialist area enjoyed by hardcore players especially in Japan. Well, we aren’t … Continue reading Console Shock EP 96 Shoot Em Ups

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We’ve been collecting video games for a long time, but how have things changed over the years. Are we inside a collecting bubble that will burst? Should you aim for full console library sets or just focus on games that actually … Continue reading Console Shock Ep95 The State of Video Game Collecting

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! No it’s not RedLetterMedia, it’s Console Shock! This time, Trev and Stu explore the boulevard of broken console dreams as we try to figure out which of the 90s failed systems are actually not bad. Are there any redeeming features to … Continue reading Console Shockcast 130: Best of the Worst!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Al is with us again as we take a journey through Nintendo in the early 00s. The GameCube struggled against the Xbox and PS2 in the sixth generation, but is remembered fondly for its strong lineup of titles. Join us as … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 94: Nintendo GameCube

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! With the news of Nintendo shutting down the eShop for the Wii U and 3DS in 2023, we decided to chime in with our thoughts on the issue. Is it just us retro gamers that are bothered, or do digital store … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 93: Digital Stores

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! We are joined once again by Console Shock OG Al, as we talk about the diverse and sometimes controversial topic that is emulators! Starting from our early experiences in the late 90s with DOS PCs, we go all the way to … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 92: Emulators

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! In November 2021, Microsoft celebrated the 20th birthday of the Xbox! The console launched in March 2002 in the UK, and as we are currently sat between the US and UK launch dates, we thought now is a good time for … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 91: Xbox 20th Anniversary

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Console Shock has finally got it hands on a modded Xbox 360 console, and this episode we take a look at all the effort that goes into getting it set up nicely. Want to experience OG Xbox in glorious HDMI, or … Continue reading Console Shock EP Modding Xbox360

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! This time around theres no focus on a specific topic, we just go nuts talking about whatever is on our minds gaming and tech wise! We touch upon a ton of stuff, from MiSTers, the downfall of PES, gaming room set … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 89: Apple, NeXT, and Other Ramblings!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! On this episode we welcome a super special guest, Nick from the amazing PandaMonium Saturn Reviews channel! Nick produces incredible video deep dives that cover the production of legendary (and not so legendary) Sega Saturn games. These include interviews from the … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 88: Sega Saturn with PandaMonium Saturn Reviews

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Its another Atari ST focused show, and we cant talk about this venerable home computer without our favourite ST Youtuber, Marc AKA The Joy of Sticks! The Atari ST got a ton of arcade ports in its time, with very mixed … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 87: Atari ST Arcade Ports with The Joy of Sticks!

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The Commodore Amiga is a legendary computer platform, and Trev and Stu make no secret about it being their favourite of all time. With the release of numerous mini system remakes in recent years we have pondered on past shockcasts if … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 86: The A500 Mini

For some, the news of the Switch OLED was a disappointment, but with the dust barely settled Valve threw down their own solution to high spec handheld gaming, the Steam Deck! It could be seen as the realisation of everything we hoped for (and then some) with the rumoured Switch Pro, but will it be … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 85: Steam Deck

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Kickstart 02 is coming this summer, and we have the force behind the operation Ravi Abbott on the show to give us some background on this year’s biggest UK Amiga expo! – Trev and Stu experience some podcast recording pains! – … Continue reading Console Shock Podcast 129: Kickstart – The UK Amiga Expo with Special Guest Ravi Abbott

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! Its another Shockcast and its another awesome guest, as we welcome Matt from the Sharopolis YouTube channel! Matt does amazing Digital Foundry-esque deep dives into retro gaming, showing us what makes them tick and how devs used all manner of tricks … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 84: Sharopolis

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! In a bumper episode, once again we are joined by fellow gaming podcaster, the awesome Paul AKA Maximum Power Up! We do like a chinwag about retro gaming magazines on the shockcast, but Pauls magazine coverage on his show has become … Continue reading Console Pocast 83: Magazine collecting with Maximum Power Up

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The Retro Shed is a unique gaming channel on YT in that it is hosted by a father and son duo! Add to that the fact that it is literally presented in a shed filled with gaming goodies makes it even … Continue reading Console Shock podcast 82: The Retro Shed

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! On this Shockcast we welcome another fellow YouTuber, Mike AKA Retro Gamer Boy! Being a bunch of 90s SEGA fanboys, the conversation takes on a distinctively Sega Mega Drive themed flavour. We chat to Mike about what its like to collect … Continue reading Console Shock EP 81: Retro Gamer Boy