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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. S...

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 p...

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 Riek...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

  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 strea...

@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 imagi...

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 w...

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...

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...

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 gami...

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 wit...

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...

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 daydr...

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 eve...

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...

 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...

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...

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 P...

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....

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...