Oh God It Hz!

With Tokyo Game Show afoot, and more rumors + news of new hardware offerings afoot, GameAgentET and The Six-Button Samurai dive right in. We dip into the widely-felt sticker shock over the PlayStation 5 Pro's $700 pricetag, and why that may or may not be entirely valid, along with the leaked images and specs for the successor to the Nintendo Switch, and far-less grounded rumors about the future of Xbox possibly including a handheld to steal some thunder from Nintendo and Steam. JJJ and Eddy also ask why in the heck Sony bothers making so few 30th Anniversary-branded consoles and accessories available in a way that guarantees little impression from consumers writ large, instead courting the usual savagery from scalpers. Press start on the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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Sometimes, you can be just a little bit too far ahead of the curve. Our guest Ed Farias is just one of those visionary people, building proto-retrogaming computers as far back as 2001, way before Raspberry Pi or MiSTer was around. OGIH cohosts @GameAgentET (OGiH), and The Six-Button Samurai (along with special guest Aaron Holley) were along for much of this ride, especially when Arcade-In-A-Box became a force within the FGC, selling custom-made joysticks for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 as Street Fighter IV resurrected the fighting game scene in 2009. It's a joyful and tangled DIY saga, proving the old adage 'if you build it, they will come' quite true. All this, along with the highs and lows of putting together a yet again too-soon retrogaming show for YouTube back in 2012 AND running a game center to boot. Join us for the wild yet absolutely true history of an intense collaborative journey on the latest OH GOD IT Hz!

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GameAgentET & The Six-Button Samurai serve up a 50/50 bar of ice cold delights, as RRN's own Allijah Motika returns to talk about his awesome experiences at the PoGO World Championships last month in Hawaii. Then we get into what's filling us with joy, as Eddy talks about M2's latest revisitation of the Castlevania franchise with the Castlevania Dominus Collection and Tengo Project's Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn, while JJJ speaks to the Metacritic megaton shot that is Astro Bot. Of course, not all is well in the realm, so we tackle some of the latest mishaps that confound common sense in the industry, not the least of which is the disastrous un-releasing of Sony's Concord hero shooter, and Microsoft's failure to ensure smooth third-party relations for games it needs very badly. Press start and find ALL THE BOTS on the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!
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GameAgentET and The Six Button Samurai are feeling those dog days of late summer, with a very slow news cycle in gaming, but there's been some interesting things to celebrate, like a new SuperFX chip 3 being utilized in a new physical cartridge offering of DOOM on SNES, and some very positive news about Tango Gameworks being acquired by a Korean publisher. We also talk about games that were TOO MUCH GAME, as in late offerings for consoles that really make those machines burst at the seams on a technical level like Perfect Dark for N64 and Burning Rangers on the Sega Saturn. Warning: there is yet another active discussion on the merits of BLUE STINGER in this episode. Sorry, not sorry. Enjoy this latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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Our guest today, Allijah Motika, is a competitive Pokémon GO! player who has earned a spot in the 2024 Pokémon GO World Championships, taking place in Honolulu, HI August 16-18. He’s also a fellow podcaster on the Ruminations Radio Network, as he co-hosted 25 Yards Later Fantasy Football. Join The Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) as we talk with @Motiks (25YLFF) about his evolution as a player and the thrill of competing at a high level on a very special episode of OH GOD IT Hz!
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GameAgenstET and The Six Button Samurai dive into a philosophical discussion about the games that move us, and how in an age of weighing games by follow-up DLC support or how long a game takes to complete, a key aspect of what makes a good game great may be falling by the wayside. EVO is also happening quite literally as we speak, and the shadow drop of SVC Chaos (not to mention the looming release of SNK's Terry Bogard as SF6 DLC)  steers us right into an oral history of what happened when Capcom and SNK originally collaborated around the turn of the millennium. It's not a struggle, it's a match of two gamers across the Pacific laying down their love for games on the latest OH GOD IT Hz! 

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The Six-Button Samurai and GameAgentETare joined by longtime friend and former fellow fighting stick assembler, Aaron Holley, who unlike The Last of Us's Joel and God of War Kratos, actually enjoys fatherhood while trying to get in some gaming with his trusty SteamDeck. He provides a fresh third perspective as we take a last conclusive dip into the Not E3 Summer showcases, talking about what we're looking forward to the rest of the year in gaming. Plus, we talk about the sheer challenge that awaits the folks making the just-announced new live action Street Fighter movie. It's a damned fun episode, so don't sleep on the latest OH GOD IT Hz!

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@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six-Button Samurai continue to be awash in trailers for new games as Not E3 Season marches on. We stop to pick apart the Season 2 DLC announcement for Street Fighter VI, as longtime SNK stalwarts, though Eddy himself had some timing qualms about what it all meant for the future, while James took a rosier view of the big news. Then our heroes plunged headlong into the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, which to be fair, was pretty jam-packed with a lot of great-looking new games, delivering the Xbox faithful a much-needed shot of positivity and something to look forward to. (The calculated PR rehab of the Three Microsoft Suits, perhaps, not so much.)  Don't miss the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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It’s ‘Not E3 Season’ in the gaming industry, and in 2024 that means a loose amalgamation of streaming events that mostly seem destined to underwhelm, as the long tail of development weirdness from the pandemic continues to sow instability after a horrific round of layoffs this year. Despite this, @GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six-Button Samurai continue to charge into the breach, discussing Sony’s State of Play event and the forthcoming Summer Game Fest, Xbox Games Showcase, and the June Nintendo Direct (whenever that happens). In this episode, we also pick apart the fortunes of various game franchises, parsed by The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. We also stop to observe the 1st Anniversary of Street Fighter VI, and what our hopes are from Season 2. We’re in a fighting mood on the latest OH GOD IT Hz!

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The tide of bad news for gaming continues to rise in 2024, as The Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH)  attempt to make sense of the recent closure of studios by Xbox, a dim earnings report from Square Enix, and a variety of other issues hitting console-makers and devs alike. But it isn’t all sad songs and whiskey, as Eddy and JJJ also discuss the raging rumor mill for the next Nintendo Switch and talk about what they’re playing right now. Enjoy the highs and commiserate about the lows with us on an all-new OH GOD IT Hz!

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The Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) take a look at the Amazon streaming series Fallout, based on Bethesda Software’s RPG franchise, just renewed for a 2nd season, while Fallout 4 gets a next-gen upgrade on PS5/XB (a mixed bag thus far), along with a sharp spike in interest in the entire line of games generated by the show. Given the success of Fallout and The Last of Us on streaming television, and Mario and Sonic at the box office, are video games finally due for a gold rush in movie/TV adaptations? With superhero movies seemingly in decline, this may be the time for games to shine. Eddy and JJJ also take on the rising expectations for JRPG localizations in Western markets, and observe the 35th anniversary of the first handheld gaming system that mattered, the Nintendo Game Boy! We’ve definitely got our hands full on the latest OH GOD IT Hz.

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@GameAgentET (OGiH) and The Six Button Samurai get a bit misty-eyed talking about reaching their 50th episode of OGIH. But they’re also knee-deep in chasing the retro gaming biscuit, as Eddy continues to play Shadow of the Ninja in anticipation of the Natsume-Atari remake due later this year and further experiments with the Taito Egret trackball, while JJJ continues to grind through Earthbound for SNES and Suikoden on the PlayStation. They also discuss aesthetic gripes over Stellar Blade and Star Wars: Outlaws, and both wax heavily about their desire to see Konami restored to their former glory. Enjoy a monumental milestone episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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The 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 Koshiro, and Atari’s return to making… arcade cabinets?!? We’re never quite sure what year it is on this show, but get ready for another hot episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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Oh 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 hopes and concerns are for that series striving to make an impact in the modern fighting game arena. Last but certainly not least, we wrestle with the enormous creative legacy of Akira Toriyama, famed creator of Dragon Ball and countless other comics, anime, and manga properties, who passed away last week at age 68. We’ll share some of our favorite games and characters from his impressive body of work. Journey to the East with us on the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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@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 design. Wherever you fall on the issue, pimp out your listening pleasure with the latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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@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 the long haul with us on the latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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@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.

@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 least, we pick apart comments made by Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, which seemed to suggest that a return to non open-world Zelda games would be more 'nostalgic' than forward-thinking. It's dangerous to go alone, find us in a cave and we'll give you a properly unbreakable sword on the latest Oh God It Hz!

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The 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 their approach to virtual currency and SF6 costume pricing. Put your quarter on the cabinet for the latest episode of Oh God It Hz!
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With 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 dirty deeds like Mortal Kombat’s Halloween fatality cash grab. It’s a fairly chippy episode of Oh God It Hz!
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It’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 being Retro Revengers, a charming pixel art sidescrolling action title on the Nintendo Switch, courtesy of our new friends at Shinyuden! All this and a bit of discussion regarding the relentlessly charming Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the latest OH GOD IT HZ.

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As 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 to see come back from the grave, and a little bit of spooky trivia, aka the first edition of OH GOD IT BLURTZ, to test our own personal Necronomicons on this bloodcurdling rogue’s gallery of games that truly span an awesome variety of genres. Massive thanks to @Mitch_42 (RFTRR) of Ruminations Radio Network and the Ruminations From The Red Room podcast and Keeltrocity of (ROR) Ruminations of Redrum podcast, along with the mighty @Hoptimus (RFC)  of The Adult Gamer and Retro Futurist Culture podcasts for braving the dark with your Oh God It Hz cohosts The Six-Button Samurai and @GameAgentET (OGiH) .  Come die with us again and again, if you dare!https://linktr.ee/ohgodithz

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The 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 approaching its 20th anniversary and recently announced a Switch compilation of the GCCX: Arino’s Challenge 1 & 2 games that originally arrived for Nintendo DS. Drop in for a sweet and sometimes savagely salty edition of OH GOD IT HZ!
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Summer 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 developments in retrogaming, more specifically, the powerhouse promise of the RetroTink4k and the relentless pace of FPGA-powered innovation. It’s a little of everything on the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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As 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 seem more intent on teaching you HOW to play shmups. We love them both of course, but it’s a fascinating distinction to ponder. We also go in heavily on the new chapter in the Fatal Fury saga, and talk about why a select few fighting games become permanent fixtures (Fatal Fury Special, Super SF2 Turbo, etc) and most don’t. All this, plus what we’re playing now on a BRAND-NEW Oh God It Hz!

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With 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 form, what our all-time MVPs and sleeper beat-em-ups are, and also spill the tea on the genre’s most overrated games. Don’t miss these fists on a brand-new Oh God It Hz!

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The 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 Eddy and JJJ on the latest Oh God It Hz!

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GameAgentET 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 fighting franchise. Enjoy more gaming than anyone can shake a fighting joystick at in the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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Join 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 corners of longtime fandom who don’t necessarily love the open-world format. Is there room for more remakes like Link’s Awakening to scratch that itch? Will Nintendo botch the successor to the Switch? Enjoy this intensely focused yet free-roaming edition of OH GOD IT Hz!

@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 exclusives most epitomized by Redfall, which debuted with many technical issues and a rash of mediocre reviews. Phil Spencer has a lot to answer for on the latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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The 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, and The Legend of Zelda series. We’re back up on these mics with the resurrection on a scorching new episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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@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 outright hostile) about Samus taking her bounty hunting into the third dimension. We also take some time to discuss other titles we dearly miss from that generation. Get hyped for another trifecta of gaming goodness on OH GOD IT Hz!

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On 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 Bamco. Plus we finally discuss the reveal of the very last three characters that will comprise Street Fighter VI’s launch roster, and of course touch upon our favorite things to play as of late. Join us for another trans-pacific gamer gabfest on OH GOD IT Hz!

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The 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 GOD IT HZ!

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The 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!

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@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 IT Hz!

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The 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, STREET FIGHTER VI) for 2023 await you from this twilight trio in 2022's final episode of Oh God It Hz!

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A 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 demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition on the Nintendo Switch.  They also discuss the bizarre, bingo-card shattering story of legendary Sega/Sonic Team developer Yuji Naka going to prison for insider trading. WHAT?!? Hang on to your rings, because this latest OGIH is a doozy!

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The 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 NEW episode of OH GOD IT HZ!

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GameAgentET 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. Join the Oh God It Hz crew for an ocean of high and lows in Episode 22!

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With 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. (Which sounds like a sitcom Tom Green may have once tried to pitch.) Sometimes it’s simply good to shoot the breeze with your bestie and that’s precisely what happened in this latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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The 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 vast galaxy of personal favorites such as Lifeforce, Blazing Lazers, Thunder Force, MUSHA, Radiant Silvergun, Darius Gaiden, Battle Garegga, and a few dark horse suggestions you may not have heard of. Shoot the core!

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We’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!

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JJJ 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, so if you're feeling the same way, you might find a lot to commiserate with.

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@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 arrival of a retro compilation they had previously been excited for. All this, and a extra-extra large slice of impressions from TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, which is fresh out of the oven and has the critics crying COWABUNGA with some of the best scores of the year. Enjoy all of this and more on a shell-kicking, sewer-surfing episode of Oh God It Hz!

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  Six-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 (gasp) a modern AAA-blockbuster of all things? Last but not least... our cross-Pacific heroes talk about bad games they know are bad but adore regardless, such as Vic Tokai's (classic?) Golgo 13 - Top Secret Episode for the NES. Put on your Karate Man t-shirt and get ready to feel the sweet blue sting of this latest episode of OH GOD IT Hz!

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@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, Quantum Leap-style. It’s all of this and a pinch of David Lynch on a fetching 16th episode of Oh God It Hz!

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The 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 piece of retro gear they wish existed. It's all that and a fistful of quarters on the latest OH GOD IT Hz!

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Once 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 without interruption? JJJ and ET have some compelling and surprising answers to this on the latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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The 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 loving PS4 port of Cave's bullet-hell classic Ketsui Deathtiny: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi. All this, and a rather thought provoking Big Question: what would it take for you to quit modern gaming altogether? Join us out on the ledge beyond the edge in this latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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Hot-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 digs deep on the pros and cons of the new Taito Egret II Mini arcade cabinet, and Six Button Samurai waxes poetic about his ongoing rediscovery of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night thanks to the PSX core on the MiSTer. Enjoy this miserable pile of secrets on the latest episode of Oh God It Hz!

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GameAgentET 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 & Molly, plus the fellas ruminate on licensed games they'd like to see. Sink your Vampiric teeth into this next fightin' mad episode of OH GOD IT HZ!

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Our 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 the latest episode of OH GOD IT HZ!

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On 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 bazillionaires. GET IT!

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The 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.

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JJJ 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 continue to clash in 2022. Nurse your New Year's hangover with us!

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 The 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 quarters up!

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Episode 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.

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Episode 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 Umehara’s quest to face an arcade demon represented by a sinister door and a dark incident.
 
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Your 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 of right now. (While they can.) 

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GameAgent 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.

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Episode 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.

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Live 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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