Oh God It Hz!

Jun 05 2024 3

Oh God It Hz! Podcast artwork

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.

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Episode 53: Bury Me At The MadCatz Booth In Kentia Hall

Jun 05 2024 80 mins

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 breac

Episode 52 – Hi-Fi Crushed: The Real Ninth Generation Console Blues

May 21 2024 71 mins

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 n

Episode 51: The Looming Hollywood Gaming Gold Rush

May 07 2024 70 mins

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 U

Episode 50: Shadow of the Zombie Game Company

Apr 23 2024 58 mins

@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 thro

Episode 49: Again, Legendary Friends… RETURN!

Apr 09 2024 57 mins

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

Ep 48: In Toriyama We Trust (fixed)

Mar 26 2024 65 mins

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 E

Episode 47: JRPGs and Fighting Words Over Character Customization Modes

Mar 12 2024 64 mins

@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 diver

Episode 46: A Landscape of Layoffs, But At Least The Mishimas Are Feuding Again.

Feb 27 2024 70 mins

@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, wh

Episode 45: LIVE from the Westsiiide

Jan 25 2024 51 mins

@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. ★ Suppo

Episode 44: Whose Trade Show Is This, Anyway?

Jan 09 2024 73 mins

@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 f