Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Before X-Play and Extended Play existed, there was GameSpot TV. Before G4 and TechTV existed, there was Ziff Davis Television.
To help promote the GameSpot.com website, ZDTV created their own TV series, hosted by Adam Sessler and Lauren Fielder. Lauren would leave within a year and eventually be replaced by Kate Botello, who stuck around into the Extended Play era after Ziff Davis sold the network to Microsoft Paul Allen and it was renamed TechTV. in 2001 and no longer under the restrictions of repurposing GameSpot web content, a revised version of the show, Extended Play, would relaunch and go on to create their own content in 2001.
These episodes in particular were all culled from the G4TechTV website's "TechTV Vault," an amalgam of internet gobbledygook mashed together in the mid 2000s with remnants of ZDTV and TechTV. Content was often hidden, somewhat, on the website... but if you knew where to find them and knew how to find the page's source code, the episodes were ripe for the downloading.
Each episode is roughly 8.6-8.7 megabytes for 30+ minutes of content. So, in case you are wondering why the episodes look super choppy, remind yourself that the content was made for the 33K and 56K modem era of the late 90s when streaming wasn't really a thing.
Regardless... here is 11+ hours of stuff. Nothing has been edited. All the original black space where commercials would normally air have been left in.
Copyright... I have no idea at this point.
Before X-Play and Extended Play existed, there was GameSpot TV. Before G4 and TechTV existed, there was Ziff Davis Television.
To help promote the GameSpot.com website, ZDTV created their own TV series, hosted by Adam Sessler and Lauren Fielder. Lauren would leave within a year and eventually be replaced by Kate Botello, who stuck around into the Extended Play era after Ziff Davis sold the network to Microsoft Paul Allen and it was renamed TechTV. in 2001 and no longer under the restrictions of repurposing GameSpot web content, a revised version of the show, Extended Play, would relaunch and go on to create their own content in 2001.
These episodes in particular were all culled from the G4TechTV website's "TechTV Vault," an amalgam of internet gobbledygook mashed together in the mid 2000s with remnants of ZDTV and TechTV. Content was often hidden, somewhat, on the website... but if you knew where to find them and knew how to find the page's source code, the episodes were ripe for the downloading.
Each episode is roughly 8.6-8.7 megabytes for 30+ minutes of content. So, in case you are wondering why the episodes look super choppy, remind yourself that the content was made for the 33K and 56K modem era of the late 90s when streaming wasn't really a thing.
Regardless... here is 11+ hours of stuff. Nothing has been edited. All the original black space where commercials would normally air have been left in.
Copyright... I have no idea at this point.
![X-Play Episode 721 [Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheat! Special]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/azcLHsj575o/mqdefault.jpg "X-Play Episode 721 [Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheat! Special]
GTA IV Cheat Special
Original Air Date: 6.11.08
On tonights episode of... uh... um... hmm... is this an X-Play episode or an episode of Cheat!...?!?!?
Either way, Adam, Morgan, Kristin AND Mr. Sark show up for a special episode dedicated entirely to Grant Theft Auto IV cheats!
NOTE: This episode was filmed after CHEAT! was seemingly cancelled at the end of 2007 and new segments became integrated into X-Play when the All-New era launched in 2008. Little did we know that CHEAT! with Kristin Adams would return for 10 additional episodes later that December, to be aired seemingly only once a piece in the early mornings and fade into oblivion. This is the episode that bridged that gap.
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