Oh God It Hz!
51 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLive on tape from Tucson, AZ & Osaka, Japan… JJJ and GameAgent ET deliver a biweekly blast of insight on the world of video gaming through a retro-fueled lens as a pair of lifelong friends catching up over hot mics across the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes it’s taking on gaming’s biggest issues with the history of the biz firmly in mind, sometimes it’s an open requiem for cool things, people, and places we miss, but there’s always an inside joke being slipped into the cracks as two gentlemen whose life paths have been forever woven together and influenced by this passion of theirs as console gaming enters its ninth generation.
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Episodes
Episode 49: Again, Legendary Friends… RETURN!
April 09, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are quite excited about SNK’s journey back to Southtown, in the form of FATAL FURY: CITY OF THE WOLVES, and we dive headlong into the previews to discuss how we felt about the first reveal of this LONG-awaited follow-up to 1999’s Garou: Mark of the Wolves. But that’s not all we have in store, as we talk GTA VI production woes and a return to office edict from Rockstar, the all-new Mega Drive shooter EARTHION from the legendary Yuzo Kosh...
Ep 48: In Toriyama We Trust (fixed)
March 26, 2024 13:26 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBOh God It Hz Episode 48: In Toriyama We Trust GameAgentET and The Six Button Samurai are squeezing the juice from a few different hot-button items fresh from the world of video games, chief among them what it means now that the developers of Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch emulator, have settled out of court and will cease their activities following a big lawsuit from Nintendo. JJJ and Eddy also take on the red-hot rumor about a brand-new entry in the Virtua Fighter series, and what our...
Episode 47: JRPGs and Fighting Words Over Character Customization Modes
March 12, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai dive headlong into what they’re playing at this very moment, with JJJ fresh from FINALLY beating FFVI and eyeing a bit of FFVII Remake action, and Eddy looking to round out his playtime with some Final Fantasy love in the near future. They also discuss character customization, ala Tekken 8 and other modern fighters, having some divergent opinions on whether these modes are fun or a waste of time that detracts from the intended art desig...
Episode 46: A Landscape of Layoffs, But At Least The Mishimas Are Feuding Again.
February 27, 2024 22:07 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai survey what turned out to be a fairly bleak January for gaming, with more than 6,000 layoffs announced. It’s definitely a weird time for the industry, and Eddy and JJJ just try to pick apart what it all means, and what experiences they hope to squeeze from gaming in 2024. (The forecast calls for more Tears of the Kingdom for Eddy, while JJJ seems energized by the appearance of a very robust eighth chapter of the Tekken saga.) Dig in for...
Episode 45: LIVE from the Westsiiide
January 25, 2024 19:10 - 51 minutes - 47 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai are once again reunited in the desert after five years! And it’s a perfect moment to recap 2023, and what represents a whole catalog of wins, losses, and unfinished games JJJ and Eddy will still be working on long in 2024. Don’t miss this very special OGIH, recorded live from a hidden fortress on the outskirts of Tucson. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Episode 44: Whose Trade Show Is This, Anyway?
January 10, 2024 03:20 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai talk The Fame, er, Game Awards, and how a lack of understanding around who the audience for this show, and what it’s function is, ties directly into the not-surprising death of E3. We also go deep into the fantasy zone of Sega’s recent quintuple franchise revival trailer, trying to make sense of the glimmers of joy we caught from footage of brand-new Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage games. Last but not...
Episode 43: What Makes For A Shockingly Superior Sequel?
December 18, 2023 02:22 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are back, and so is The Big Question, albeit it in evolved form, as they compare and contrast their individually-compiled lists of Five Shockingly Superior Video Game Sequels. Plus, our cross-Pacific heroes discuss what they’re playing now and next, some notable moments of fan-translation (including the awesome news about an English translation for Samurai Shodown RPG for Neo-Geo CD) and Capcom continuing to be somewhat shady with thei...
The Answer is Always 42
November 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBWith the news of Nintendo’s new movie project, that being a live-action Zelda feature, @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai ponder just how high the bar would be for a franchise and a main character that fans hold ridiculously close to their hearts. Would Link speak? It might make for the biggest Internet kerfuffle among Nintendo fans since… well, the last one. Plus, we go in on why consoles have given the heave-ho to The Platform Formerly known as Twitter, and other dirt...
2 God 2 Hz
November 25, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBIt’s our second anniversary at Oh God It Hz! And our death-defying hosts, @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai are once again fearlessly diving headlong into the corporate shark-infested waters that is the video game industry in 2023. We discuss the departure of Unity’s CEO, the looming (THANK GOD) finality of the ActBlizz merger, and some seemingly cocky prices hikes from Sony. But it ends on a high note, as we discuss the first game we’ve ever been gifted access to, that...
The Spooky Gaming Special
October 24, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBAs Halloween draws near, we’re thinking about our favorite games that feature ghouls and ghosts and bats and whip-toting vampire killers, zombies, and anything else SPOOKY! From Castlevania to Sweet Home, from Eternal Darkness to the Resident Evil 4 remake, and everything in-between across decades of horror-inspired video games. (Big bonus points if you can remember CHILLER!) We’ve got an all-star Ruminations Radio Network panel to dip into their personal favorites, what we’d love t...
In Arino We Trust
October 10, 2023 19:06 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) pick apart a somewhat heavy week of developments in the game industry, particularly the mess surrounding Unity’s announcement of a confusing and some would say outright greedy initiative called the Unity Runtime Fee, which had many indie developers and industry watchers hot under the collar. We also discussed the massively Mario-centric Nintendo Direct that dropped, and stopped to ponder the retro joys of GameCenter CX, which is approac...
Wonder Made Us Ponder These PS+ Price Hikes
September 26, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBSummer is turning into fall, and @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai pick apart Sony’s proposed price hikes for their online service tiers, inviting outline outbursts from many disgruntled gamers given the steep climb of +35%. But it isn’t all teeth-gnashing, as we dissect the Nintendo Direct on Super Mario Bros. Wonder that has us thinking about ‘shrooms, and Sea of Stars, which has us jonesing for another stellar Yasunori Mitsuda soundtrack. We also chat about new devel...
What Makes A Forever Fighting Game?
September 12, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBAs it had been some time since The Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) had locked in for a ‘proper’ OGIH episode, we batted around a variety of topics in retrogaming. We focus on the new Gold Master Series from Digital Eclipse and The Making of Karateka, and how it addresses preservation of both the game in its various iterations as well as collecting the history of the people around a given project, and how this differs from the approach in M2’s recent shmup releases, which ...
The Side-Scrolling Beat 'Em Up Special
August 09, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWith successful revival efforts behind Streets of Rage and TMNT having done well commercially and critically, and more making their way out like Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, it was time for The Six Button Samurai, @GameAgentET (OGiH) and special guest @Hoptimus (RFC) to discuss their love of the genre and how it influences their view of the new breed of beat-em-ups on the market. We each take a crack at calling out the first games that made us fall in love with the for...
The Boulevard of Broken Franchise Promises
July 05, 2023 22:19 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) walk the dark streets of shattered glass and unhappy gamers who have invested themselves too deeply into rigid definitions of game franchises, or worse yet, taken sides in the Console Wars, which are grinding Skynet-like into their forties. But it isn’t all dystopia, as they find some fun stuff they remain invested in and have some hot news from the latest Nintendo Direct to pop off about. Play it, don’t say it, and take a trip with Edd...
Episode 34: Behold, The Summer Games Feast.
June 22, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBGameAgentET and The Six Button Samurai have their hands FULL with games like Zelda: TotK and SF6 in the mix, so we brought aboard Hoptimus from Retro Futurist Culture to help us sort through the madness of the rash of not-E3 news and new game announcements. We also went in deep on TotK and Street Fighter 6 specifically, with Eddy having spent the most time with Zelda and JJJ + Hop definitely focused on picking up those wild Drive system mechanics in Capcom’s powerfully revitalized ...
Fat-Bottomed Games Make The Rockin’ World Go Round, But How Do You Juggle Them As An Adult?
June 01, 2023 01:34 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBJoin The Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) as we get on our bikes and ride into a freewheeling convo that centers on our experiences thus far with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the Street Fighter VI open beta. Turns out neither of your hosts have spent as much time as we’d like with these monstrous, soon-to-be time devouring titles, and we’re striving to figure this out in real-time. We also talk about the Legend of Zelda series writ-large, and address some ...
They Don’t Give Out Bronze Medals In Console Wars, Do They?
May 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) is joined by The Six-Button Samurai and special guest @Hoptimus (RFC) as they look to an otherwise hopeful summer with big games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Street Fighter VI. We also discuss news about a brand-new Double Dragon game and the joys of the Super Mario Bros. Movie. The big rants at the end have everything to do with Microsoft’s current woes regarding Xbox, from the Act/Blizz merger in limbo to the pained state of original Xbox ...
Episode 31: We Await Your Return, Warrior.
May 02, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThe Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are back after a month-long hiatus, but there’s A LOT to talk about, between some serious questions being asked at Microsoft about the future of Xbox, The Super Mario Bros. Movie pulling in a BILLION dollars (and what this might mean for seeing other Nintendo franchises materialize at the box office), plus observations on what is looking to be an incredible summer of gaming between brand-new entries in the Street Fighter, Final Fantasy,...
The Twenty Year Chozo Itch (special guest Hoptimus)
March 30, 2023 03:09 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai are joined by the RetroFuturist himself, @Hoptimus (RFC) as the mighty remaster of Metroid Prime for Switch takes center stage, mutating into a heavy discussion centering on the games of 2001-2005, an era in which there was also a very heated console race between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. But unlike now, there was a lot of fear that 2D pixel art would disappear altogether, a fact that left many Metroid fans a bit suspicious (if not...
Business Blues X Street Fighter VI Hype!
March 14, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBOn this latest episode, JJJ and @GameAgentET (OGiH) discuss the ongoing mess that is the Microsoft + Activision merger, and how the recent announcement regarding Call of Duty games for Nintendo consoles is one of the strangest in recent memory given the sheer size of the corporate gods involved with so few actual players potentially interested in the news. We also broach the subject of remakes, one apparently done incredibly well, with the other another bit of a retro mess from Bamc...
Nintendo Direct
March 07, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThe latest Nintendo Direct dropped some delightful bombshells, which Game Agent ET and The Six-Button Samurai are happy to dive into, from Game Boy and GBA support on Nintendo Switch Online to a variety of new announcements, not the least of which was the final trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and the long-awaited and rumored Metroid Prime: Remastered! Come and get a handle on this GameCube-heavy episode as we party like it’s 2003 on an unexpected episode of OH...
Navigating the Wild Seas of Corporate Hegemony and Irrepressible Fan Creativity
February 14, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThe Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are back after Eddy got the 'rona, but you wouldn't know he couldn't talk two weeks ago as they tear into subjects like the Xbox exclusive HI-FI RUSH, the secret origin of the Pac-Man CE demake they've been simping over for months, and what can happen when video games inspire real-life choices. It's all that and an impossible Double Dragon elbow shot to the FACE in this latest episode of OH GOD IT HZ! https://linktr.ee/ohgodithz www.R...
Episode 26: New Year’s Resolutions and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
January 17, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six-Button Samurai wrestle with the arrival of 2023, and what it means to be a gamer these days. They discuss some of their recent holiday acquisitions, such as Atari 50, Kirby & The Forgotten Land, and some of the more promising games already shining brightly with potential on this fresh calendar. Can a gamer learn some new tricks to address a swelling backlog and actually finish something? We ponder this and so much more on the latest episode of OH GOD...
Episode 25 - 2022 Year In Gaming Review
January 04, 2023 01:10 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThe Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are joined by their blood brother in gaming @Hoptimus (RFC) to gnaw what's left on the ragged soup bone that was the year of gaming in 2022. Hop finally got to experience the majesty of the Bioshock Trilogy, Eddy is still freaking out over the excellence that is the 8-bit Pac-Man CE demake, and JJJ blows his ocarina for the critically-beloved Tunic. So much love, a rapid-fire airing of grievances, and some shiny nuggets of hope (cough, ...
Episode 24: A Salty Sack of Random Cheers, Fears, and Tears.
December 06, 2022 09:09 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBA Salty Sack of Random Cheers. Fears, and Tears. @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai stage a miniature Festivus over issues like controller drift and Nintendo's seeming absence in really addressing those matters, but it isn't entirely grumpy, as they also discuss joyful matters like the Atari's 50th anniversary and newly-released retro collection, Street Fighter's 35th anniversary and poppin' art show in Osaka, and the unrelenting thrills offered by M2's expert 8-bit dema...
Episode 23: A Bewitching Hour of Bayonetta 3 & Andor Amor
November 09, 2022 04:44 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are finally back, embracing a one-hour format and keeping it loose as they go on an unplanned but deeply felt ramble about the Disney+ series Andor before discussing Bayonetta 3 and what might be next for fan-favorite Platinum Games. We also pay tribute to a new inductee into our Oh God Tier, that being the legendary Sega artist/producer/designer Rieko Kodama. And don’t miss our first ‘Oh God Itz Good’ game recommendation on this BRAND ...
Joy, Pain, & Sticker Shock
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBGameAgentET and The Six Button Samurai chew on the state of the gaming industry with PS5 price hikes afoot on the eve of a weirdly quiet fall for releases, the expected other shoe dropping from 2-1/2 years of pandemic uncertainty making an impact on developers worldwide. But even with Eddy’s thumb on the mend, there’s still some gaming fun to be had for our intrepid trans-Pacific duo. Last but not least, they discuss the games that generated the biggest emotional wallop for them. Jo...
Episode 21: Recovery Room
September 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBWith our beloved cohost @GameAgentET (OGiH) still recovering from his thumb surgery and unable to play much, we shift gears and ditch the usual segments, opting for an easy-breezy catchup that ultimately winds towards our observations around EVO and related announcements involving Street Fighter VI, not to mention an inkling or two about Splatoon 3. The Six-Button Samurai hasn’t been playing a lot, but has been obsessive over a lesser-known MegaDrive shooter called Slap Fight MD. (W...
Genre Spotlight: The Shmup Special
September 25, 2022 15:40 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThe shmup, which used to be simply known as a shooter, is one of the oldest genres in gaming. The genre was permanently established when Taito's Space Invaders rocked arcades in Japan, establishing a legacy that would carry on throughout the entirety of video game history. @Hoptimus (RFC) of the Retro Futurist Podcast joins @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai for a wild and woolly trip through the shmup's evolution during the 8/16/32-bit age, stopping to pay respects to a...
The One That Started Awkward But Got On A Weirdly Good Roll And You Should Hang On For It.
August 04, 2022 00:01 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBWe’re past the fusillade of non-E3 announcements, but E3 itself is now making news with a new organizer, ReedPop, and what looks to be a move towards much more of a fan-driven event. ET and JJJ also discuss the Bayo 3 release date and Naive Angel mode details, make time to shit on NFTs *again^, and take a really hard detour with an unexpected random sidebar about Strider. All this, plus more shmup talk and the origin of ‘Tugboat’ on a ‘mild-stone’ episode of OH GOD IT Hz! https://l...
Don't Be A Monster, Be A Human
July 19, 2022 23:39 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBJJJ and @GameAgentET (OGiH) navigate an urgent medical happening in ET's life, but then resume their usual commentary on the very strange collision between gaming, developers, and a social media audience that sometimes seems hellbent for solutions in the least effective way. All this, and a whole lotta love for Capcom Fighting Collection. Remember the opening scene from Rashomon where the monk is openly asking how/why humanity got this broken? This episode feels a little like that, ...
The Non-E3 Edition, or the Untimely Fall of Kentia Hall
July 06, 2022 01:26 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six-Button Samurai observe another summer without a massive, central traditional media gathering ala E3, but no less festooned with a variety of gaming news pertaining to the console realm. Is this end-of-days anarchy, or something better? Regardless of that argument, our cross-Pacific heroes chatter excitedly about the ever-more promising Street Fighter VI, whether or not we're getting a proper Nintendo Direct in June, and about the less-than-ideal arriv...
Wata Under the Bridge
June 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBSix-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) surf through a riptide of gaming currents, such as the sudden seeming dearth of Xbox titles for fall 2022 in the wake of Bethesda's Starfield and Redfall being delayed, a class-action lawsuit being filed against retrogaming inflationists Wata Games, and some fantastic new wrinkles for the MiSTer. And while Eddy has been spending more time watching streaming TV given his savage workload, JJJ has been playing all kinds of games, including (...
Episode 16: Again, Legendary Men… Can’t Keep Their Yaps Shut.
May 30, 2022 23:08 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai navigate an unusually noisy gaming mediaverse, with screeds from Yuji Naka, Reggie Fils-Aimé, and Shigeru Miyamoto (sort of!) to dissect, along with some intriguing news about Nvidia playing footsie with keepers of the crypto. JJJ and Eddy also continue their heavily retro habits with games like Fire Shark and Phantasy Star, and take a moment to imagine what might have been if they’d been able to change the course of gaming history, Qua...
Episode 15: We Can Remember It For You With This DLC
May 10, 2022 00:44 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBThe Six Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) slice and dice through a hurricane of news, from big Nintendo announcements, to the joy of being able to once again buy a GPU at something resembling market value, and the irritatingly-muddled Sega DLC plan for Sonic Origins. Plus, Eddy delights at the wickedly remade Pocky N' Rocky Reshrined, JJJ marvels at an unstoppable Ukrainian MiSTer developer who dropped a Sega 32X core by surprise, and our cross-Pacific pals discuss the one piec...
Episode 14 - There's Much Game in Our Backlog of Shame
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBOnce again, video game industry woes take center stage by the water cooler as @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai disassemble the politically-charged issue of Activision/Blizzard's handling of QA testers, a not-surprising delay for Breath of the Wild 2, difficulties accessing PS One classics on PS3/Vita, and why Ms. Pac-Man is being retconned by Bandai Namco. Plus: if given the power to stop time, what three games would you rescue from your backlog of shame to play withou...
Episode 13: Always Online, Never Outfunned
April 13, 2022 23:36 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBThe Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) have bones to pick with an increasingly greedy Sony and a forever-cease & desist-happy Nintendo of America, given the woes players have recently experienced with Gran Turismo 7, and pulled scans of a super-rare Japanese Super Mario 64 guide that will never, ever be marketed in the US. However, it's not all gloom and doom, as Eddy finds joy with a modern take on yet another resurrected Atari arcade classic, and JJJ delights with M2's lov...
Episode 12: No Egrets For Our Youth
March 29, 2022 23:38 - 1 hour - 80 MBHot-button gaming smack takes a bit of a cold (war) shower this episode, given the very real ripples being felt through the gaming world by the invasion of Ukraine. But some silly business remains, such as MOAR Switch 4k/Pro rumors that simply will not die, and we're ready for pizza with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after the announcement of the Cowabunga Collection. We also discuss dream gaming franchise crossovers, and of course, what we're playing right now as GameAgentET dig...
Episode 11: Fighting Words
March 15, 2022 22:40 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBGameAgentET and JJJ scrap on the big announcements from Capcom, specifically the Capcom Fighting Collection and the reveal of Street Fighter 6. One of which they are quite grateful for, the other of which they think could have used a little more time (and cough, graphic design.) The Six-Button Samurai ponders changing his name to The Four-Button Samurai given just how downright impressed he is with the deeply excellent KOF XV, and Eddy dishes on a small Switch game called Millie & M...
Episode 10: A Direct Load of Deep, Deep Cuts
March 01, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBOur trans-Pacific Ocean alliance dips into double digits as GameAgentET and JJJ pick apart the latest Nintendo Direct, and we're pretty stoked about a variety of things we never thought we'd see, like Live A Live, Front Mission, and Klonoa! James and Eddy also remain HYPED AS HELL for KOF XV and the recent DLC team announcements, while this week's Big Question focuses on games that forced us to go back and change our tune on them radically. A sea of deep, deep cuts and 180s await on...
Episode 9: Big Money, Big Prizes, But Do We Love It?
February 17, 2022 02:33 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBOn this episode of Oh God It Hz, it's business time as JJJ and GameAgent ET discuss the many, many sided-die that is the Activision/Blizzard buyout by Microsoft, Sega formally exiting the arcade business in Japan, and Ubisoft thinking you're too dumb to know NFTs are good for you! We also talk about what we're playing right now, what's next that's shattering our expectations, and do a little daydreaming about what small, bygone developer we'd love to resurrect if we suddenly became ...
Episode 8: We Call It The Ocho
February 01, 2022 15:14 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBThe pandemic weighs a bit heavy on your humble hosts (and the game industry) as they find themselves awash in the omicron wave, but there's still plenty of gaming love to be had as Game Agent ET and the Six Button Samurai discuss patches for Pac-Man 99 on the Nintendo Switch, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on the PC Engine Super CD-ROM, and what Eddy and James think of as the most 'important' games ever released. https://linktr.ee/ohgodithz www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram...
Episode 7: A Hoppy New Year's Reunion
January 18, 2022 06:20 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBJJJ and @GameAgentET (OGiH) are joined by their old friend @Hoptimus (RFC) for a wild and woolly trip into the past and present, discussing the birth of 3D-accelerated FPS gaming with Quake, along with its bleeding edge with Halo: Infinite. We also get deep into our love for Virtua Fighter and the works of Yu Suzuki, and our (cross-platform, please!) hopes for VF6. Last but not least, we get into what games made us happy in 2021, and what we can expect as our preferred consoles con...
Episode VI: The Original Holiday Recipe of Shame.
January 06, 2022 00:25 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBThe Original Holiday Recipe of Shame. JJJ and GameAgent ET talk holiday traditions, from Tucson tamales to Christmas reservations at KFC in the Land of the Rising Sun! Retro love is also on the menu, as they discuss the joys of Hot Shot Racing and the SFII Remastered hack for Genesis/MegaDrive. They also discuss less-honorable moments they’ve had while gaming, and explore a brand-new semi-regular segment, both sides of a coin they call Oh God Tier and The Hz Locker. Put your quarte...
Episode V: The N-Pire Strikes Wack
December 16, 2021 01:22 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBEpisode V: The N-Pire Strikes Wack. Although our hosts, GameAgentET and JJJ are lifelong Nintendo players, they strive for objectivity (a good game is a good game regardless of platform), and there's a lot of things that the big 'N' isn't doing well in 2021, particularly with their Nintendo Online service. We also dabble in a bit of rowdy retro ruminations and talk about what company's games we'd play if we could only access one developer's library. www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com ...
Episode IV: What Is Original, What Is Theft, and Arcades: Heaven or Hell?
December 01, 2021 03:20 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBEpisode IV: What Is Original, What Is Theft, and Arcades: Heaven or Hell? From across the pond, ET and JJJ touch on some largish modern games biting features from one another, and what constitutes imitation, flattery, and outright theft. JJJ falls hard for the magnificently remastered Quake, after suffering unplayable framerates as a lad when the game originally dropped with a terrible, terrible PC. Our hosts also go deep on a personal note after learning of fighting legend Daigo U...
Episode III: The Evils of Crunch-Time and Fear of Your Digital Library Going Poof!
November 16, 2021 09:15 - 59 minutes - 82.5 MBYour trans-Pacific hosts opine on the hive of scum and villainy of a certain AAA game giant being investigated, and the dark parallels between that and the film & television industry and grunts being asked to sacrifice their well-being for big executive paydays. We also touch on the ephemeral nature of digital ‘ownership’ of games and the difficulty of even buying a PS5 or Xbox Series console. Dystopia aside, Ed and JJJ also touch on some modern games they’re enjoying the heck out o...
Episode II: Super Jump-Jump Robot Fighting Love
November 02, 2021 18:20 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBGameAgent ET and JJJ go deeper into their past gaming lives, and how those funny obsessions and old rituals still creep into their gaming habits today. It’s not all retro though, as they touch upon the future of fighting games with discussion about the last season of Street Fighter V DLC, The King of Fighters XV, and what longtime fans are hoping to see from Street Fighter VI whenever that happens. Also lots of love to be had for Streets of Rage 4 and the Mr. X Nightmare DLC. www....
Oh God it Startz
October 19, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBEpisode I: Oh God it Startz JJJ and GameAgent ET catch up on what they’re playing on their favorite modern and classic platforms, reminiscing about Friday night fighting games, original Xbox Halo LAN party taunts taking the form of push-ups, and their game collection treasures lost to time that both of your hosts truly wish they could get back without taking out a loan in this insanely overpriced moment in retro gaming. www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram.com/Rumination...