Retro Hangover

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

August 31, 2025 31 mins

In this episode of "10 Ways to Get a Copyright Strike" we list off our favorite tunes to tackle tactical terrors to!

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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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Shoutout to Our Patrons!

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Another one of those match ups where the games couldn't possibly be more different. And yes, the match up you are seeing is real! Okay, that reference might have been a bit obscure, but you'll know it after you listen to this. Will one of the first online focused first person shooters score the frag or will Game Arts other plucky coming of age story over come the odds in true JRPG fashion? Eric, Coury, and Keith talk it out!

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Sam the Storm Beagle of the Retrotopia podcast joins the show to chat about an entry into the Metroid series that a lot of folks tend to (or want to) forget: Other M!

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Sam the Storm Beagle

Bio: Retrotopia co-host and patron/regular listener of Retro Hangover

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Music Attributions

Intro / outro excerpts from Stream by 505, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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This week will have you seeing stars. The third entry in the Resident Evil series is up against the cult classic Sega CD remake. Who moves forward in RE3 vs Lunar: SSSC? Chris, Try, and Tyger decide!

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Original Patreon Air Date: February 25th, 2025

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We just feel like, for no particular reason, that is is as good a time as any to remind our listeners that these Flight topics are proposed and voted on by our Patrons.

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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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This next match up includes a game that its community considers to be among the greatest of all time in Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, against a game whose community considers it to be one of the most influential in its genre with Planescape: Torment. Which one of these game will advance? Dave, Rick, and Geoff are here to discuss and decide just that.

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Original Patreon Air Date: February 18th, 2025

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We're definitely not weeping on the inside, burdened with the knowledge that Xbox 360 Arcade titles qualify for our retro video game show. Besides, even if we were, you'd never hear any of it over the sound of our bones creaking and joints turning to dust.

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Matt Storm

Bio: I'm a long time podcast producer, editor and host who has been playing video games since the Atari 2600. I host two video...

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The N64 goes on full showcase with two first party spinoffs. First, we have the 12 seed coming in and trashing your house starting a craze while your parents were away - it's Mario Party! The other, our 21 seed, is all about snapping pics to look cute and delete later (totally not to get rid of evidence) with Pokemon Snap! Hear what Adam, Lynnsey, and Toby think should move on to the next round.

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What is a Gobbo? Do they look better in HD? Why are they considered legend? These and many other questions may be answered in this very episode!

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Randall Quiggle

Bio: THE PC SHILL

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Shoutout to Our Patrons!

Retro Hangover is supported by you, the listeners. We would especially like to thank the following Patrons for donating at the 8-bit tier and above: Lyle M...

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Cute and cuddly or scary and scaly (give it feathers!)? It's Pikachu vs your totally not Jurassic Park velociraptor! The official ROM hack of Pokemon Red and Blue takes on a fresh new horror IP from Capcom.

Featuring Adam from The Good, The Bad, and The Backlog, Josh from Still Loading, and Dave from Tales From the Backlog.

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Original Patreon Air Date: February 4th, 2025

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What happens when a very odd child, living in a small nowhere town, grows up to be a mad scientist who also knows magic maybe? Shenanigans of the highest order. Also robots.

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Music Attributions

Intro / outro excerpts from Stream by 505, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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Get You Some Tasty Caffeine!

As a rule, we don't promote anything on the show that we can't per...

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Moving along and we have a battle of Dreamcast darlings. It's Sega's lovable (or unlovable) blue mascot up against a gem of a frantic arena fighter. Which of these will continue on to represent the Sega swirl?

Featuring Eric from Unlockables, Keith from The Main Quest, and Matt from "Fun" and Games!


These episodes started recording in June 2024. As such, information regarding sequels, remakes, and remasters may not represent then...

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The long-awaited, much requested episode is finally here, and it is girthy. But, really, what did you expect from a 80+ hour game? Premier Patron Saint of the show Lyle McKarns joins us once again, this time to discuss one of his favorite games of all time!

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Lyle McKarns

Twitter / X: @x1101 on X

Website: Lyle's Website

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Intro / outro excerpts from Stream by 505, used...

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It's time for another King of Games! This time it's all about 1999. The field has now been expanded to a whopping 24 games, and this is where it all begins. 16 games face off to match up against the top 8 games that get a bye!

For our first match up, we have the MMO that re-wrote the book on the online experience, EverQuest, matching up against Nintendo's flagship platformer of the year, Donkey Kong 64. Who will advance to round 2?

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Dre of Fine Time and Adam of the Good, the Bad, and the Backlog join Chris to discuss over a half a dozen murderers. But, like, it's OK because they're stylish and cool.

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Adam Backlog

Bio: One half of the Good, the Bad, and the Backlog podcast. The blunder from down under, who’s going to make you chunder.

Instagram: @goodbadbacklog on Instagram

Twitter/X: @Badbacklog on X

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Name: Andre Mo...

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It's not always about the fisticuffs or the ol' shooty bang-bang; sometimes problems can be solved with needlessly obtuse puzzles or a novel's worth of text, y'know? Different strokes, is what we're saying.

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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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Shoutout to Our Patrons!

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June 29, 2025 105 mins

Long-time Patron Dischimera and our first Discord Hi-Score Challenge king Soha join Chris for another installment of Growing Up Gaming, this time chatting about their experiences as Gamer Kidz (tm) in Brazil!

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Original Patreon Air Date: November 17th, 2022

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Become a Patron! Or Don't, It's Cool Either Way.

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We guess it's Spooptober in June, 'cause we're talking about the most violent ways characters bite the big one in games.

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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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Mentioned in this episode:

Shoutout to Our Patrons!

Retro Hangover is supported by you, the listeners. We would especially like to thank the following P...

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One half of the "Fun" and Games Podcast, Geoff Moonen, joins us to get funky and celebrate 25 years of defense through dance in Space Channel 5!

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Geoff Moonen

Bio: Co-host and co-producer of the "Fun" & Games podcast, as well as a voice actor and musician. My professional life is often spent in headphones talking in, around, and about games

Instagram: @GeoffMakesNoise on Instagram

Website: Ge...

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Ever have one of those games that, on paper, should be right up your alley only to fire it up and find out you'd rather toss it in the dumpster? Yeah, us too. Several, in fact.

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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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Shoutout to Our Patrons!

Retro Hangover is supported by you, the list...

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