Under Consoletation: The Video Game Television Podcast

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.Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com

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.Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com

** 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.Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com

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.Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com

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=_oV88hzwtRcTheme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com

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.Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on BlueSkyFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com