Get a sneak peak at what we're playing at this year's Extra Life marathon! Head to vghangover.com/extralife for more details, including how to join us.Oleh Video Game Hangover

What does Disney Speedstorm have in common with horrow throwback Hollowbody? Not too much, honestly. Also! Metaphor: ReFantazio and Ballionaire. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (2:42) - Stream announcement: Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival (8:10) - Extra Life hype (11:47) - Disney Speedstorm (38:23) - Hollowbody (1:02:38) - Metaphor: ReFantazio (1:07:32…

Spooky season kicks off with discussion of Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (scary) and Conscript. Also: Johnny Depp and Call of Duty tattoos. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Burger Town (11:28) - Monday Stream/Extra Life hype (17:43) - Scary movies (30:29) - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (55:58) - Conscript (1:10:21) - Outro…

We're back—both in the country and in the recording booth—and catching up with Astro Bot and all the drama surrounding Concord and the PlayStation 5 Pro. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Randy’s European adventure (20:55) - Giant gaming headlines (34:07) - Stream announcement: Inscryption (36:00) - Extra Life hype (39:35) - Astro Bot (1:12:22) - Out…

Take a listen to some alternate intro and outro songs from VGH history in this week's playlist episode!Oleh Video Game Hangover

The Backlog Attack concludes as Randy takes a trip to spooky El Paso, Elsewhere, while D.J. finds himself in a bygone era of gaming in Shenmue. Also: What actually happened on Pony Island? Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Pony Island (21:41) - Shenmue (46:15) - El Paso, Elsewhere/El Paso Nightmare (1:11:26) - Outro…

Randy goes for a ride through the desert in Sable. D.J. fights off spooky aliens in 1994's Marathon before hanging out with the Drasles in Dragon Slayer IV. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Switch 2 (10:19) - Marathon (23:51) - Borderlands minute (26:03) - Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family (44:36) - Sable (1:04:11) - Outro…

We kick off the summer Backlog Attack and immediately get into our first two games: Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and New Pokemon Snap! Also: Old Pokemon Snap! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Game shows (9:11) - Backlog Attack (28:03) - New Pokemon Snap (53:37) - Crimson Skies (1:10:01) - Outro…

Randy once again finds himself in a Luigi mansion in Luigi's Mansion 2. Meanwhile, D.J. wonders if there's more to life than talking to another three NPCs in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail. Also, it's true: Suika Game. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/AI, VR, SPQR, etc. (13:10) - Xbox store closing (18:42) - Suika Game (31:43) - Luigi’s Mansion 2 (48:…

D.J. sets course for new shores in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail. Meanwhile, Randy comes to terms with being a cat in Little Kitty, Big City. Also: Stumbling through Legend of Zelda: Four Swords in 2024. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (3:04) - Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (21:34) - Little Kitty, Big City (37:40) - Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (1:07…

Randy finally gets to see what all the fuss is about in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Meanwhile, D.J. outsources his FFXIV expansion prep. Also: All the news and non-news from fake E3. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Still Slaying (11:47) - Fake E3 season (27:22) - One week left (34:53) - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (1:00:33 - Angeli…

Randy makes friends in caves in Animal Well. Meanwhile, D.J. is still playing the same Final Fantasy. (No, not that one.) Also: Trying to make sense of We Were Here Expeditions. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/D.J. abroad (12:57) - We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip (28:28) - New music feat. rj lake (30:31) - 9 Final 9 Fantasy (43:52) - Anima…

D.J. shoots up an entire overworld map in Minishoot' Adventures. Meanwhile, Randy tries to solve the mystery of plants in Botany Manor. Also: Which enormous RPGs to take on your overseas vacation. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Content Warning (12:05) - Vacation gaming (29:06) - Minishoot' Adventures (51:07) - Botany Manor (1:10:20) - Outro…

Randy and D.J. return from jaunting around the snail-infested Old World in Content Warning. Also: Screening aliens for therapy in Mars after Midnight, hurling lizards in Dragon's Dogma II, and Final Fantasy IX: What is it? Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Steam Deck exists (19:26) - Content Warning (36:44) - Final Fantasy IX (45:58) - Dragon’s Dogma…

With help from a horde of interdimensional weird guys, D.J. slowly figures out how to play Dragon's Dogma II. Meanwhile, Randy enjoys(?) the royal double-feature of Princess Peach: Showtime! and Super Princess Peach. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Secret Games: Even Secreter (13:04) - Dragon’s Dogma II (42:35) - Princess Peach: Showtime! (55:30) -…

D.J. spends hours meticulously prepping his Unicorn Overlord army just to skip to the end. Randy revisits the racehorse-solitaire classic, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On. Plus: Princess Peach's big debut, yet more Persona 3, and an exciting new Xbox game. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (5:53) - FFXIV on Xbox (10:01) - Persona 3 (27:31) - Princess Pea…

Randy gets Jokerized in poker roguelite Balatro. D.J. goes on an educational photography tour of virtual Japan in Shashingo. And menacing fish monsters draw near in Splatoon 3: Side Order. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (9:10) - Balatro (28:23) - Shashingo (49:41) - Splatoon 3: Side Order (1:08:22) - Outro…

Randy and D.J. (re-)visit yet another haunted island in Another Code. Also: Secret games, deciphering that weird Xbox announcement, and accosted by endless hordes of sujimon in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Secret games (15:35) - Splatoon 3 stream! (20:44) - Special Podcast Update on the Xbox Official Podcast’s Upd…

Randy and D.J. compare notes on the first 100 hours of the Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth tutorial. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/A world of pals (12:28) - Like a Dragon Gaiden (18:40) - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (1:10:15) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

D.J. attempts to speedrun Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name to get ready for even more Like a Dragon (if that's even what it's called). Meanwhile, Randy goes where no deck of cards has gone before in Cobalt Core. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (16:39) - Like a Dragon Gaiden (46:51) - Cobalt Core (1:13:10) - Outro…

What were the best games of 2023? Someone please tell us. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (11:28) - Resident Evil 4 (15:40) - Cocoon (18:37) - Chilla’s Art: Parasocial (20:40) - Dredge (26:04) - Dave the Diver (34:35) - Final Fantasy XVI (39:49) - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (44:02) - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (49:35) - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of t…

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Listen to our favorite game music of 2023 (and 1998, apparently) in this musical mega-episode. Featuring songs from Street Fighter 6, Dave the Diver, Final Fantasy XVI, Dredge, Oxenfree 2, and more!Oleh Video Game Hangover

Randy heads back to the space mines to do a little civic planning in SteamWorld Build. Meanwhile, D.J. flees from the cops and that classic EA racing dialogue in Need for Speed: Unbound. Also: Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Doing the big work (9:09) - Black Friday (13:11) - Need for Speed: Unbound (37:22) - …

Randy escorts a troupe of animals harboring a dark secret in KarmaZoo. Meanwhile, D.J. checks in on how far voice acting has come since 1998 in Star Ocean: The Second Story R. Also: Return to Jusant Mountain. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (13:42) - 1998 (23:12) - Star Ocean: The Second Story R (42:52) - Jusant (1:00:34) - KarmaZoo (1:11:54) - Out…

Randy discovers there's much more to Dave the Diver than simply diving and... Daving? Meanwhile, D.J. ventures into Silent Hope's endless dungeon with the help of his trusty maid. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Cleared the tier (21:04) - Silent Hope (36:27) - Persona 3 is long (39:41) - Dave the Diver (1:07:57) - Outro…

We survived another year of Extra Life where once again we played an unhealthy amount of games, including Golf Gang, Mineko's Night Market, Chilla's Art: Parasocial, and more! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life wrap-up (15:01) - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (21:04) - Spelunky/Slay the Spire (29:33) - Golf Gang (36:42) - Jusant (39:53) - Korokoro…

Randy gets in some quality watermelon time with Suika Game. Meanwhile, D.J. can't figure out what the flowers are trying to tell him in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life (17:11) - It’s Ridge Racer! (30:08) - Suika Game (46:53) - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (1:10:57) - Outro…

Spooky season is in full effect with The Callisto Protocol, the haunted space-jail simulator, and Mundaun, the haunted mundaun simulator. Also, Randy's pokemon costume sparks a violent incident. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Trunk or track (14:30) - Extra Life (20:21) - The Callisto Protocol (47:20) - Mundaun (1:05:04) - Sunshine Manor (1:10:23) …

We're back and are wasting no time placing orbs into other orbs in Cocoon. Also: Hands-on with the CRKD Nitro Deck for the Switch, because it's a dock that you hold! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life (13:17) - Can’t clear the tier (26:30) - Cocoon (54:22) - CRKD Nitro Deck (1:08:26) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

It is 2023 and there is time for Asura's Wrath. Also, Randy embarks on a magical quest to Disney Illusion Island, and D.J. rediscovers the weirdness of the Nintendo 64. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Nintendo Sixty-Four (28:32) - Extra Life (33:15) - Asura’s Wrath (57:22) - Disney Illusion Island (1:15:51) - Outro…

Randy tries to become the world's best F-Zero player in F-Zero 99. Meanwhile, D.J. threatens once again to talk about Asura's Wrath. Also: The latest Nintendo and Sony things. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Switch 2 rumors (15:06) - Nintendo thing (26:46) - Sony thing (38:15) - F-Zero 99 (56:05) - D.J.’s Movie Moment (1:01:58) - Outro…

Randy keeps his JRPG streak going with the new Sea of Stars. Meanwhile, D.J. has trouble adjusting to a post-Backlog-Attack world and wonders if dragons are the answer.Oleh Video Game Hangover

The Backlog Attack concludes with New Super Mario Bros. U, and the long-awaited original Dragon Quest. Also: The new PlayStation Portalable. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (8:57) - Starfield? (17:39) - PlayStation Portal (27:09) - Dragon Quest (51:23) - New Super Mario Bros. U (1:13:00) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

Randy does as Spider-Man does in Marvel's Spider-Man's Mile's Morales. Meanwhile, D.J. extremely crosses the picket line in Armored Core 3. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (9:51) - 10 years of being good (15:27) - Spider-Man: Miles Morales (42:11) - Armored Core 3 (1:01:27) - Backlog updates (1:06:33) - Outro…

The Backlog Attack continues as Randy accompanies the gang on summer vacation in Persona 5 Strikers. Meanwhile, D.J. faces off against the demon lord, an evil empire, AND a mischievous hell goblin in Alcahest. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (11:44) - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (19:56) - Alcahest (38:23) - Persona 5 Strikers (1:10:36) - Outro…

We get into our first Backlog Attack games: D.J. witnesses the invention of shooting in Wolfenstein 3D, while Randy's explores the world's grossest house in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Also: Finally cooking some Indian food in Venba. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (4:15) - Venba (20:23) - Wolfenstein 3D (38:53) - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (1:06:5…

The summer Backlog Attack returns! We take a look at the strange and neglected games we plan to get through this month. Also: Unexpected news out of Final Fantasy XIV's Fan Festival. Episode Timeline (00:00) - Intro (09:14) - FFXIV Fan Festival: The Revenge (18:59) - Backlog Attack! (49:39) - Viewer Mail (53:08) - Outro…

Randy finds himself listening to the radio on yet another mysterious island in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. Meanwhile, D.J. is just plain lost (but loving it) in Final Fantasy XIV's latest Variant Dungeon. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro/PTO 15:43 - Viewfinder 24:21 - Final Fantasy XIV: Variant Dungeons 37:13 - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals 55:47 - Asura’…

Randy is mystified by Viewfinder's perspective-bending puzzles. Meanwhile, D.J. figures out Final Fantasy XVI's true form. Also: The definitive way to play Dragon Quest. Maybe. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Dragon Quest (15:19) - Viewfinder (35:31) - Final Fantasy XVI (1:06:05) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

This week we're stressing out over all our dead carrot friends in Pikmin 4, talking to animals in Crusader of Centy, and not doing our taxes but definitely doing the other thing in Death and Taxes. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/D&D (18:47) - Mission: Impossible minute (26:36) - Pikmin 4 (44:33) - Crusader of Centy (57:59) - Death and Taxes (1:17:…

D.J. takes a break from dodging FFXVI spoilers to visit The Tartarus Key's retro-styled survival horror murder mansion. Meanwhile, Randy simply takes a break in Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Murder holidays/Overworld map controversy (26:23) - The Tartarus Key (44:53) - Shin-chan: Me and the Prof…

There's a new Final Fantasy out and everyone's playing it... even Randy, sort of! Also, we check in on the latest new Super Mario Bros. news. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Consuming gaming news (16:29) - Nintendo Direct (32:44) - Final Fantasy XVI (1:20:41) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

Randy investigates Ghost Trick's new lease on life, then moves some letters around in Prose and Codes. Meanwhile, D.J. crosses dimensions in Harmony: The Fall of Reverie. Also: Becoming an ultimate legend, and weaponized ostriches. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (3:07) - FFXIV: Ultima Weapon (21:38) - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (30:40) - Harmo…

No Street Fighter 6 or even Zelda this week—just our old standbys: Star Trek and a little beekeeping. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Not E3 or Street Fighter or Zelda (18:04) - Genki Covert Dock Mini (27:15) - Star Trek: Resurgence (58:01) - Apico (1:20:23) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

After a bender weekend crafting everything in the new FFXIV patch, D.J. goes back to where it all started in the Final Fantasy I Pixel Remaster. Meanwhile, Randy gets a sneak peak at the upcoming Alone in the Dark reboot and Fall of Porcupine. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Gross weekend (20:38) - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (37:51) - Alone in th…

Randy deals with a familial crisis (and spider aliens) in Planet of Lana, while D.J. goes maybe a little too retro in The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]. Also: We're still playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, continued (25:42) - Planet of Lana (44:17) - The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] (1:01:…

That Zelda game came out. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (6:42) - New music by Fearofdark (10:03) - Yep, it’s all Zelda this week so buckle up (1:18:37) - OutroOleh Video Game Hangover

With days remaining until that other game comes out, Randy attempts to speedrun The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Meanwhile, D.J. Tronvestigates a Tronspiracy that could bring down the entire Troniverse in Tron: Identity. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (6:29) - Zelda: Majora’s Mask (34:23) - Even more Zelda (43:04) - Tron: Identity (1:02:44) - O…

Randy hunts pixels in Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, then wonders if he's too powerful of a gamer for New Super Lucky's Tale. Meanwhile, D.J. gives Fade to Black a second look after 30 years. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/The World of Gaming! (18:10) - Fade to Black (36:29) - New Super Lucky’s Tale (47:12) - Paranormasight (1:06:04…