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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.
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** 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.
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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.
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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no Treat as a company robs the grave of a defunct videogame publisher, steals the vital organs of their published and unpublished games, and creates the freakish Frankenstein's movie monster that is GAME OVER...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=_oV88hzwtRc
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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.
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Generations of Canadians grew up watching Video & Arcade Top 10. They stare misty eyed through rose tinted glasses at their LP VHS distorted childhood and think of better times.
Ash & Cliff are not Canadian.
They have no nostalgia for this show.
It goes as well as you'd expect.
Watch V&A Top 10 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hygwroh3kVg
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Just when you thought Shadow Man was finally here... HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER. We had so many unanswered questions from our episode on Games Republic that when a contestant reached out, we'd have been fools to say no! So Michael LeRoi can go brood and monologue elsewhere this month, as Cliff storms off to have a meltdown, and Ash has a chat with Lee aka PugHoofGaming where we discuss GamesMaster ties, audition processes, multiple takes, shockingly good prizes, and the consistencies of craft services!
Find Lee HERE and more details/links HERE
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From the depths of the satellite station .tv, it's Trevor and Simon, and Simons Mum who are inviting us to the GAMES REPUBLIC. Ash and Cliff have their fact checking hats on, which is more than could be said for the quizmasters of this show.
Why is the show set in Egypt?
How exactly can that be Simons Mum?
Why does Johnny Ffinch leave this off his resume?
Some or none of these questions may be answered. Or not.
Watch the episode HERE
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the podcast, Ash and Cliff round out the month with a chat about the 1975 film that defined what a Summer Blockbuster could be: JAWS.
CONTENT WARNING: As with all our commentaries, this episode is uncensored on all feeds.
Film start point is 17mins 09secs for the fade into the Universal logo. Tested with VOD and Bluray for sync points.
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Ash & Cliff delve deep into their pockets in search of a multiball as they dive into a bumper crop of games from the Nintendo Gameboy family of handhelds. From the OG to the SP, we're looking at 4 pinball games that put those magnificent marble machines in the palm of your hand. Spoiler: 3 out of the 4 games are excellent, and all from the same base developer. One isn't, and it really shows.
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This episode was originally released October 4th 2022, when we were in the middle of season 6 of GamesMaster. As it is the 4th of July, it seemed like a good time to share on the new feed one of my favourite side quests of the original UCP run, and one of my favourite interviews as I got to talk with a legend in the audio sphere: Dirk Maggs.
(( BEST EXPERIENCED IN STEREO ))
Luke & Ash skip back to the summer of 1996 for a spot of UFO watching with Patrick Moore and Nicky Campbell, but are we watching them or are they watching us?
Covering the BBC 1 Radio Drama Independence Day UK, this episode incorporates a little look at the early history of full cast audio dramas and an hour long interview with writer, director and producer of Independence Day UK, Dirk Maggs. We cover his career leading up to 1996, the appropriate etiquette regarding wearing cowboy boots in a Spitfire, and what exactly Peter Serafinowicz thought Patrick Moore was doing to an alien.
Listen to Independence Day UK HERE
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We may have broken the time machine with this one, as we've crashed into a MAGNIFICENT MARBLE MACHINE all the way back in 1975. Pinball is King, Bobbi is looking to knock Gary off of his mountain, and Cliff and Ash are battling to keep Jasper Carrot out of the studio.
Watch the episode of The Magnificent Marble Machine HERE
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Time to finger your way through another magazine Focus as Ash & Cliff dip into a mainstay of british gaming C&VG at a time when they (along with the gaming industry) are going through changes. Featuring: Barbarians, Robot Policemen, horror movies, strategic wrestling games, camels, Irritated people in Cornwall, Alex Kidd... AND GROTBAGS!
Read the magazine HERE
Watch R.O.T.O.R. HERE
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It's back to school for Ash and Cliff as they apply Savlon to scuffed knees whilst watching an episode of First Class. In a show that highlights that blindspots in geography are more than compensated for by skateboarding and athletic videogames, we dodge copyright strikes, awful people appearing in questions, and vicious otters.
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Ash and Cliff discuss a game that scored a first place knock out, it's Rock 'N' Roll Racing, from Silicon and Synapse, aka, Blizzard. We look at the history of the game, and its deep origins going back to a series of games that began on the Apple II.
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Ash and Cliff take a trip to Australia in 1994 for THE ZONE. There's Rock n Roll Racing, THE ZONE, Young Merlin, THE ZONE, Project Neptune, THE ZONE, Mutant League Hockey, THE ZONE, an utterly ridiculous Clayfighter competiton, THE ZONE, and more... all on THE ZONE.
THE ZONE.
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The day has arrived and Cliff can't escape! It's time to sit down with Ash and watch The Battle for Endor, the second Ewok movie from 1985! Before the main event he gets a lesson in the history of the furry little beggars, and how they got from Jedi to this. Then it's on to the main event, and a feature length commentary you can listen along with at home.
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Ash and Cliff look at the magazine this months core episode was stuck to the front of with the debut issue of the son of Super Play: N64 Magazine! 90s console tribalism is at an all time high and the issue captures the highs and the lows of this period of N64 gaming.
Plus: Cliff plays Mastermind, whether he wants to or not.
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N64Life is t-t-t-t-t-taking over! Before Cliff meets his little furry makers in May, N64Life is taking over with a cluster of episodes based around 64-bit console entry. To kick off the month we're looking at the promotional VHS tape that came with the first issue of Super Plays' spiritual successor N64 Magazine.
Cliff is overjoyed at this turn of events, Ash is regretting it before the record button has even been pressed, and Ocean forgot to send any actual footage of their game. It's going to be great.
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Last month we dove deep on the hardware of the SG-1000, and this month a lot of the games sound like they'd go deep on us.... who thought Dragon Wang was a good idea? It's the SG-1000 Games Library! Ash and Cliff look at 5 select titles covering multiple years of the of the consoles run, and encounter some notable firsts and influential titles along the way.
Also: Wang.
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