Under Consoletation: The Video Game Television Podcast

UnderConsolePod - Twitch WWE 2k26 - Day 0 Stream \\ The Road to RUMBLE IN THE CRONX starts here!

The journey begins: #WWE2k26 Day 0 stream - twitch.tv/underconsolepod

First impressions and a run at the showcase mode!

Also: Always keeping an eye out for British #wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki.

I loved diving into the history of the BBC Micro the other year, so will definitely be picking this up.

Rumble In the Cronx, 13/03/26 from 10am GMT, on twitch.tv/underconsolepod - WWE 2k26

Streaming WWE 2K26 from 2PM over on twitch.tv/underconsolepod, however this is all just part of the road to Rumble in the Cronx: The Battle for the BIG FLOPPY! Friday 13th March 2026 from 10am!

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Double record this afternoon, and with that, March is all recorded. Onwards to April which will see a return to *Redacted* and us taking a look at the first episode of *redacted*

This weeks schedule:
Mon 02/03 - No stream due to editing requirements - Sorry!
Wed 04/03 - 5PM - Multiplayer Madness: Revenge of the Fortnite
Fri 06/03 - 2PM - WWE 2k26: Day 0 - Early Access stream, the road to Rumble in the Cronx 2 begins!

Plus there will surely be more WWE 2k26 over the weekend.

We're not a wrestling podcast... but we do like it. A lot.

It also generated a good amount of chat about people’s fave video stores growing up.

Will sadly be away for its launch, but will be playing it again soon after for sure.

-Ash

It doesn’t look like it was built from an asset store, it’s got a nifty system to generate video titles and artwork (using a set number of existing assets), and… it just works. It doesn’t jank, it doesn’t really glitch. And the core gameplay loop is fun.

Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator on Steam Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Really fun stream today! I played a bunch of nextfest demos, but the one that stuck out the most for me was Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator.

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There’s a lot of store sims out there, and a lot of them are same old same old. This hits different though.

A stuffed stocking of demos to try out on stream from 5pm. How many will we get through? Who knows! How many will try and kill my PC due to lack of optimisation? Probably at least half!

- Ash

5PM GMT @ twitch.tv/underconsolepod

“Friends” is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

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Same!
I celebrated by paying the rent and buying a new flannel shirt.
This one is purple with bits of green in.

Fridays Twitch stream will be looking at some Demos (may from Nextfest). Already on the list:
- Gunship God
- Wild Blue Skies
- Retro Rewind
- Creature Kitchen

Any other recommendations/demos people think I should check out?

-Ash

Let's gooooooo!

...and get our asses kicked.

Probably.

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Coming up from 5pm! It's Quake Qwednesday! Quake 2 cross platform multiplayer! Can Will be unseated as the king of the mountain? If we get enough people on board lets do some CTF!

All this kicking off in just over an hour on twitch.tv/underconsolepod

Mask fun at Ally Pally… very satisfying 💋Stream Satisfaction Skank everywhere now - Link In Bio YouTube video by Fatboy Slim

Repping @robinbougie.bsky.social’s Sonic Sewer at the 13 second mark in this clip from Friday nights FBS gig. What a thunderous, joyous, loud as fuck night it was.

-Ash

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An AVO Ovometer (Multimeter) 8 Mk 2.

Picked up this little beaut at the weekend from a charity shop. All appears to be in fully working order (apart from needing a new battery) and… I dunno. Just feels so much classier than your normal multimeter. Whilst they made various revisions, this one is from around the early to mid 1960s.

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Slightly delayed due to random acts of PC, but I AM ALIVE! And also on Twitch. Getting ready to cowboy it up on Red Dead Redemption: Switch 2 Edition.

twitch.tv/underconsole...

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Streaming Schedule for this week:

Mon 23/02 - 4pm GMT - Lets Play: Red Read Redemption
Mon 23/02 - 8pm GMT - Under ConsoleNATION (Patreon Only)
Wed 25/02 - 5pm GMT - Multiplayer Madness: Quake 2 Again!
Fri 28/02 - 5pm GMT - Retro: TBC

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This feels like the birth of a ‘Which Jonesy are you today?’ Meme

This is now very much ‘TBC’ as the amount that I need to do before Monday (including resting) is definitely more than I expected 😂

I still need to finish watching it, but as an owner of 3 lava lamps, I am enthused.

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No stream tonight, as I'm oot at a gig!

But for those of you looking for a weekend morning of leisure, I'll be doing a stream from 10:00am Sunday!

What will it be? Eehhh... Something Retro.

Exact content TBC. Entirely depends on how much organising/construction I get done on Saturday. 👀

-Ash

I love how when it comes to likenesses, they kinda get the essence of Morita (and rightly so given he also does VO), but Daniel? They just went ‘let’s put a slice of white bread in a headband and call it a day’

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Lock 'n' load, it's time to frag some Gibbs! We're going back to the 90s where mice had balls, and LAN was the plan... It's time to play some Quake and Quake II!

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We chatted about careers and such on the podcast recently, and Cliff recalled that his Dad once recommended getting into plumbing as a career because waters always going to need to go along pipes.

Those words are still fuckin' haunting me.

I feel like I've wasted a life in IT.

I feel there could be an entire podcast series making these sandwiches one episode at a time, with the discourse being:
How offensive is the idea?
How offensive is the taste?
Is my toilet bowl going to resemble the battle of the Somme within the next 3-4 hours?

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Tonight tonight tonight! It's time to QUAKE! Multiplayer madness is throwing back to the 90s classics of Quake I & II (albeit the enhanced versions), and everyone is welcome! Cross platform enabled, lets fill the lobby for some deathmatch funtimes!

5PM GMT - twitch.tv/underconsolepod

And after a brief moment where I thought the Switch 2 had been stolen... we're live! Tune in to find out exactly how I managed to 'lose' it!

-Ash

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One hour before I sit around a fire, cook beans, piss up a cactus, punch coyotes... or I might play Red Dead Redemption on the Switch. Decisions decisions...

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