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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.