Console Shock Podcast 159: What we’ve been playing

About this episode

The hosts discuss rediscovering classic games, fan-made projects, and the chaos of retro tech.

Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! On this week’s shockcast it’s all about rediscovering classics, fan-made passion projects, and the chaos of retro tech. We dive into free arena shooters, questionable dial-up online experiences, modern throwbacks to 90s racers, and surprisingly great movie-to-game adaptations. There’s plenty of CRT-era nostalgia, exciting preservation breakthroughs, and one painful battle with outdated PC gaming services thrown in for good measure. Rayman Reborn? Trev discovers Rayman Redemption, the fan-made remake of the PS1 classic — but is it actually better than the official 30th Anniversary effort? Arena Shooter Resurrection – The legendary Unreal Tournament 2004 is now free, and Stu wastes no time jumping back into the frag-fest. Does it still slap? Dial-Up Dreamcast – Online console gaming on a 33k modem… revolutionary at the time, but was it secretly a laggy nightmare? Sideways in the 90s – Old School Rally powerslides onto the scene as a modern tribute to the golden era of rally games. Pure nostalgia or style over substance? Busting Still Feels Good – Revisiting Ghostbusters: The Video Game and its…

People in this episode

Hosts: Trev, Stu

Topics covered

• retro gaming
• current gen gaming
• fan-made projects
• arena shooters
• 90s racers
• movie-to-game adaptations
• CRT nostalgia
• gaming preservation

Keywords

• Rayman Redemption
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Dreamcast
• dial-up gaming

Mentioned in this episode

Products: the Console Shockcast, Rayman Redemption, PS1, Arena Shooter Resurrection, Dial-Up Dreamcast, Old School Rally, Chunky Scanline Memories, N64 Recomp Revolution, N64, Banjo-Kazooie

Books & works: Console Shock Podcast, Rayman Reborn, Unreal Tournament 2004, Busting Still Feels Good, Ghostbusters: The Video Game

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