Console Shock, Retro and Modern Gaming Chat.

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 us to commemorate the birthday. What impact did the Xbox have on our gaming lives? Check out the show to...

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 play some delisted XBLA games? Maybe you missed out on the Xbox Indie games store. Check out the show, and see...

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 ups, and even a quick overview of NeXT Computer and how that affected the development of the Macintosh. T h...

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 devs who worked on them, and the challenges and triump...

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 results. Some of these were our only way to play a lot of 80s and 90s arcade classics, so we look at...

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 the Amiga would ever get the same treatment. Well it turns out, it has! We talk about...

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 a success? Trev and Stu take a look at the device and untangle the announcement, along with everythin...

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 and hacks to squeeze every last drop of power from outdated hardware....

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 legendary. We talk with Paul about the world of retro gaming magazines and the people t...

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 more awesome! Barry and his son Josh join the shockcast to chat about everything gaming including: – Where did the i...

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 Mega Drive in the UK, as well as some of our memories and general thoughts on SEGA&...

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! With the release of the next-gen consoles, there has been some debate on the backwards compatibility features of the PS5. Some people were hoping to be able to play everything all the way back to the PS1, others are quite happy with the ability to just play PS4 games on it. Sony have said that back compat is a feature...

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! On this episode we welcome Scott from The Retro Shack Youtube channel! Scott’s channel focuses on vintage computing and features videos about mods, add-ons, repairs and upgrades for such hardware legends as the C64, BBC Micro and the ZX Spectrum. We chat to Scott about his channel and get his thoughts on retro g...

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The PS5 and Xbox Series consoles have been out for a few months now, and we talk about the pro and cons of each system along with the difficulties in actually getting one! We even cover the debacle that is Google Stadia, and what contributed to its failure and what might have helped it gain some success. Also on the s...

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 Homeb...