Retro Hangover
Retro Hangover is a podcast in which your hosts, Shane Selterre and Chris Coplien, spotlight a different piece of video game history (be it a specific title, console, company, or person) each episode. They provide a brief background, discuss their personal experiences, as well as their favorites aspects of the item in question. Oh, and there's beer.
Episodes
Not every game can make it in to the tournament. And sometimes, some truly great ones somehow get lost and passed up. This is the time to discuss the games that we left out of KoG '99, and why they may have been on the outside looking in. Chris, Ozzy, Josh, Coury, Try and Keith are here to represent!
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Original Patreon Air Date: June 24th, 2025
Game critic, researcher, editor, writer, and all-around renaissance human Luis Aguasvivas lends an air of much needed professionalism to the show as we discuss the PC platformer from an obscure developer known as Ideas from the Deep: Commander Keen!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Luis Aguasvivas
Bio: Luis Aguasvivas is a game critic, researcher, and a member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle. Currently he is a cont...
Time for the last game to move on to determine the final. Which game will go on to represent the Dreamcast in it's launch year? It's a battle of console heavy weights as SoulCalibur takes on Sonic Adventure. Dave, Ozzy, Matt, Ashton, and Digital Foundry's John Linneman decide!
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Original Patreon Air Date: June 17th, 2025
Lucas of Game Over Hell on YouTube makes his main show debut to help us assess the story of a shortstack swordsman, Brave Fencer Musashi!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Lucas Lobo
Bio: Founder and co-producer of the Game Over Hell YouTube Channel. Love for video games across all generations. Also freelance (usually but not always NSFW) character artist.
YouTube: Lucas on YouTube
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Music Attributions
The semi finals have commenced! Who will be the first to advance to claim it all for the year 1999? Chris, Adam, Eric, Rick and Josh decide.
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Original Patreon Air Date: June 10th, 2025
Hey kid, ya want almost 3 hours of some nerds arguing about which Final Fantasy games are the best ones? Boy, do we got a deal for you! (And no, we ain't includin' those fancy MMOs).
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Original Patreon Air Date: March 10th, 2022
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Wow. Well, these little plucky upstarts sure know how to make some noise, eh? Will the Sonic redemption arc continue, or will Lunar find another storied franchise to slay? Eric, Matt, and Coury discuss!
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Original Patreon Air Date: June 3rd, 2025
With so many games being released every single day, plenty are bound to fall through the cracks or drop off the radar or some other equivalent colloquialism. These, however, are 10 games we feel deserve better.
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Music Attributions
Musical excerpts from 8-Bit Fantasy & Adventure by xDeviruchi, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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An arcade port for the ages takes on a game that would be a huge influence on one of the biggest FPS games made. Can fast arcade, hard hitting action take down a narrative driven shooter with RPG elements? Chris, Tyger, and Lynnsey decide!
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Original Patreon Air Date: May 27th, 2025
Kade Call of Gaming Memories makes his triumphant return to the show after several years to satisfy his sweet tooth and talk about Twisted Metal for the Sony Playstation!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Kade Call
Bio: Miyamoto the Father, Kojima the Son & Carmack the Holy Ghost appeared to me in vision commanding me to create the one true gaming podcast.
Instagram: @gaming_memories_pod on Instagram
Website: Kade's Webs...
Kick flips and trigger pulls. The XTREME sports game of the year takes on the JRPG hype factory. Will Superman advance? Or will amnesia forget everything and let a game go through? Ozzy, Keith, and Toby decide!
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Original Patreon Air Date: May 20th, 2025
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! Well, you got your peanut butter in my chocolate! Sometimes two pretty good things can come together and make something awesome, and that includes video games. We're here today to highlight our favorite mashups in all of gaming!
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Music Attributions
Musical excerpts from 8-Bit Fantasy & Adventure by xDeviruchi, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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Here we are at round three! Two games that either defined or set a defining standard for their genre are set to match when Silent Hill takes on EverQuest. Will SIlent Hill's approach to survival horror and visuals be enough to overcome EverQuest's massive contribution to online gaming? Find out as Dave, Adam, and Ashton discuss!
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Original Patreon Air Date: May 13th, 2025
Ladies, will your man slay 16 massive ancient golems to bring you back from the dead? If not is he really your man? Wander is out here setting the bar high for us all. Thanks man.
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Today's Guest Information
Name: João Lucas Michel
Bio: 29 year old content creator; sole producer in the sohay0 youtube channel; host of the Retro Hangover Review Crew and co-host of Game Over Hell on youtube.
Instagram: @sohay0yt on Instagram
The most popular fighting game on the N64 takes on a beloved JRPG with a rabid fan base. This one seems obvious, doesn't it? Chris, Shane, and Lynnsey discuss which should move on.
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Original Patreon Air Date: May 6th, 2025
We're makin' like it's 1991 and reigniting the console wars, baby! Which batches of gaming hardware were the best of the best? Only one way to find out!
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Music Attributions
Musical excerpts from 8-Bit Fantasy & Adventure by xDeviruchi, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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The lovable PS1 RPG with a heavy price tag takes on the Blue Blur's intial 3D adventure. It's a clash of retrospective admiration against contemporary excitement in Suikoden II v Sonic Adventure! Eric, Chris, and Kade clash to choose a game to advance.
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Original Patreon Air Date: April 29th, 2025
You'd think the "creepy girl with long black hair" trope would get old after awhile, but... Nope, still horrifying. Add a serious grudge and the ability to explode people into a red mist with your mind and you've got yourself a recipe for terror. We close out this year's Spooptoberfest with Nomad of the Retro Wildlands podcast joining us to bullet-time our way through F.E.A.R.!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Nomad .
One could say this match is...electric. The PC cult classic takes on a cultural phenomenon's update patch. Which one will take a shocking victory?
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Original Patreon Air Date: April 22nd, 2025
War. War never changes. Wait... We already did that episode. Actually war does change, at least where RPGs are concerned. Today we provide a full dossier on all our favorite frameworks for fighting!
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Music Attributions
Musical excerpts from 8-Bit Fantasy & Adventure by xDeviruchi, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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