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
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
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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Mentioned in this episode:
Get You Some Tasty Caffeine!
As a rule, we don't promote anything on the show that we can't per...
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...
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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Music Attributions
Intro / outro excerpts from Stream by 505, used...
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?
F...
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...
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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Mentioned in this episode:
Shoutout to Our Patrons!
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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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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!
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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...
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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Mentioned in this episode:
Shoutout to Our Patrons!
Retro Hangover is supported by you, the list...
"That's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!" Friend of the show St1ka joins the party to discuss the stateside pseudo-Renaissance that the Wizardry series got in Labyrinth of Lost Souls!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: St1ka .
Bio: A retro gaming youtuber from Portugal. I may or may not have heard of Wizardry :P
YouTube: St1ka on YouTube
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Music Attribution...
Y'know, in retrospect, one of us really ought to have included Tonberry in our list because who doesn't love a cute lil' guy who will absolutely murder you with a chef's knife?
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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 list...
A racing game starring the Blue Blur and his buddies seems like a no-brainer slam dunk, right? Right?
Keith Gasper of the Main Quest podcast joins the show once again, possibly by accident, to discuss a racing game that somehow simultaneously handles like jet ski and moves at the speed of secondhand moped.
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Keith Gasper
Bio: The host of the #1 retro-gaming podcast.
Instagram: @the_main_quest o...
Our illustrious and devilishly handsome editor Ashton Ruby joins Chris to discuss Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, a remake of the 1989 platformer by the same name. Does it get the glow up treatment, or is it more like that GTA Trilogy travesty? Find out!
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Original Patreon Air Date: November 18th, 2021
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Mentioned in this episode:
Become a Patron! Or Don't, It's Cool Either Way.
If you'd like to hear more great content s...
What do you get when you allow a young rockstar game designer free reign to do whatever he wants with no one to tell him no? Possibly felonies, but also Daikatana. Mike of Quest64Official joins the show to gab about the game meant to be the "Quake Killer."
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Mike Fink
Bio: I'm a 30 or 40 something year old Nintendo 64 enthusiast mailman who twilights as a vigilante algorithm manipulator on Blu...
Just like that one house guest that overstays their welcome these video game IPs probably need to hit the ol' dusty trail and never look back.
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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...
Dave Jackson pilots his way into our brainwaves to unearth insights about the Double Fine classic Psychonauts!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Dave Jackson
Bio: Dave is the host of Tales from the Backlog, a podcast reviewing backlog video games, and A Top 3 Podcast, a top 3 list podcast.
Instagram: @talesfromthebacklog on Instagram
Twitter/X: @tftblpod on X
Website: Dave's Website
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Music Attributions
In a Flight First (tm) we are joined by a special guest to share their quintet of quality: Coury of My Life in Gaming! As chronometer considerate Flights go this is... Well, not very. But with a topic and guest like more is undoubtedly better!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: Coury Carlson
Bio: 1/2 of the creative team for the YouTube channel My Life in Gaming. I like to judge games based on when they were made, not against ...
Who would've guessed a 1995 video game about a robot space rabbit would foretell the battle against the Boomers hoarding resources at the expense of everyone else? Uh, we mean... man, that crazy Baron Aloha sure is an outlandish villain not at all grounded in reality!
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Today's Guest Information
Name: B Ross
Bio: Lifelong gamer and multimedia producer. Ex-garbageman, comedian, and bartender.
Instagram: @supergarbageday on In...
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