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.

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January 4, 2026 69 mins

Here it is. Shane teased it in his Vampire Survivors RFR earlier, and now it has arrived. Join him as he chats with Patron Randall and Willie & Ginger of The Grand Rapidians Play Video Games podcast about the surprise Steam phenomenon!

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Original Patreon Air Date: June 2nd, 2022

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Eric Gess of the Unlockables podcast helps us learn the power of friendship and a stable of recognizable IPs as we discuss Kingdom Hearts II!

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Today's Guest Information

Name: Eric Gess

Bio: The Story of video games, the people who play them, and the memories made along the way.

Instagram: @unlockablespod on Instagram

Twitter/X: @UnlockablesPod on X

YouTube: Eric on YouTube

Website: Eric's Website

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It all comes down to this. Which game takes home the crown for The King of Games 1999? Chris, Eric, Dave, Adam, and Ashton decide!

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Original Patreon Air Date: July 1st, 2025

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They say love is all you need, but in the case of these games that simply wasn't the case. Today we count down the titles we truly enjoyed but just never finished.

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Musical excerpts from 8-Bit Fantasy & Adventure by xDeviruchi, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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December 16, 2025 148 mins

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

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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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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...

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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October 26, 2025 49 mins

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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