The Casual Hour

The Casual Hour
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Welcome to The Casual Hour, a podcast ostensibly about video games. Hosted by Bobby Pease and Chase Koeneke, The Casual Hour is a gaming channel where we chill out, mess around and, sometimes, even talk about games! Whether we’re previewing the monthly releases, diving deep on a variety of topics, streaming with our friends or just chatting about the games we’ve been playing that week, The Casual Hour is your home for sharp insight, dumb jokes and most of all, a real good time.

  1. 5d ago

    Episode 481 - Big Walkin’

    00:00:28 – Intro 00:04:26 – ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs  00:19:01 – Pokémon Gen1Recomp 00:33:48 – Big Walk 01:07:28 – Wrap-Up & Socials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The Casual Crew’s got Big Walk fever, and we just gotta let it out. See why we think this game has real GOTY potential. Plus, Bobby’s tinkering away on virtual devices in ReStory while tinkering on real devices with Pokemon’s Gen1Recomp. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 481 - Big Walkin’

  2. Aug 7

    Episode 480 - A Factory of Furries

    00:00:28 – Intro: new retro handhelds & show outline 00:03:25 – Kicking off the July games recap 00:03:57 – Chase's July picks 00:07:10 – Bobby's July picks  00:14:08 – PlayStation Plus freebies  00:18:52 – August releases begin: Beast of Reincarnation (Aug 4) 00:23:47 – Big Walk (Aug 4) 00:29:47 – D-Hopper and Zero Racers hit Virtual Boy service (Aug 4) 00:32:28 – Super Robot Wars Y Anniversary Expansion Pack (Aug 5) 00:34:14 – Fields of Mistria (Aug 5) 00:36:39 – Echo Breaker (Aug 6) 00:38:50 – Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls (Aug 6) 00:41:18 – Monster Hobby (Aug 6) 00:44:24 – Re:Store, Bobby's birthday pick (Aug 6) 00:45:51 – Pro Jank Footy (Aug 12) 00:47:56 – Wild Blue Skies (Aug 13) 00:51:09 – Dusk Fade (Aug 13) 00:53:35 – Hell Let Loose: Vietnam (Aug 13) 00:55:56 – Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 (Aug 25) 00:57:18 – Blood Dungeon (Aug 25) 00:59:00 – Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 (Aug 27) 01:02:05 – Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy (Aug 27) 01:03:49 – Star Wars: Zero Company (Aug 27) 01:06:56 – Bobby and Chase run down their August pick lists 01:08:14 – Wrap-up  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The month of August brings some exciting releases, including the very cool looking Big Walk, as well as an XCOM-style game in a galaxy far, far away — Star Wars: Zero Company. And there are a few other games that are filling out the month nicely. What are they? You’ll have to tune into this edition of The Casual Hour to find out!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 480 - A Factory of Furries

  3. Jul 31

    Episode 479 - We Are Not A Cool Community

    00:00:28 – Intro 00:01:27 – Bobby's Android handheld obsession 00:04:41 – Show Rundown 00:06:11 – Decompiled and recompiled games explained 00:13:15 – Pokemon Red and Blue decompile plus the Dramatic Shapes voxel mod 00:18:10 – Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remastered impressions 00:19:17 – Palworld hits 1.0 00:21:37 – Super Mario RPG remake 00:30:24 – The Diofield Chronicle 00:38:02 – Splatoon Raiders 01:00:32 – Wrapping up: why Splatoon Raiders has them both hooked 01:01:46 – Plugs 01:06:02 – Outro & sign off ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The Casual Boys have both been splatting it up in Splatoon Raiders, but we’ve got a lot of other games to talk about before that. Bobby’s back on his Palworld b******t. Chase is playing a bunch of Square games, but not the ones he’s supposed to be playing. And one of us has dug a very dep hole into retro handhelds (and it might not be the one you expect!) All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 479 - We Are Not A Cool Community

  4. Jul 17

    Episode 478 - Deep Dive: 2016 GOTY Rewind

    00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome: 10 Years of The Casual Hour 00:03:11 – The 2016 Game of the Year Rewind Concept 00:06:33 – Lost Lists & Building the Show Archive 00:09:43 – Chase's Original 2016 Handheld Top Ten (Gamers on the Go) 00:11:53 – Bobby's Original 2016 Top Ten 00:14:46 – The Casual Hour's Combined 2016 Top Three 00:15:48 – Cicis Pizza Memories & Early Show History 00:20:19 – Bobby's #10: Uncharted 4 00:23:02 – Chase's #10: Bravely Second End Layer 00:25:55 – Bobby's #9: Doom 2016 00:28:15 – Chase's #9: The Last Guardian 00:32:05 – Bobby's #8: Pokemon Sun and Moon 00:35:21 – Chase's #8: Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth 00:38:07 – Bobby's #7: XCOM 2 00:40:46 – Chase's #7: Forza Horizon 3 00:43:09 – Bobby's #6: Inside 00:45:18 – Chase's #6: The Witness 00:48:48 – Bobby's #5: No Man's Sky 00:52:24 – Chase's #5: Dragon Ball Fusions 00:53:38 – #4 for Both: Titanfall 2 00:56:01 – Bobby's #3: Pokemon Go 00:58:23 – Chase's #3: Fire Emblem Fates (and a List Mistake) 01:00:03 – Bobby's #2: Firewatch 01:03:07 – Chase's #2: Superhot 01:06:05 – Bobby's #1: Stardew Valley 01:08:16 – Chase's #1: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE 01:13:02 – Wrap-Up ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… 10 years ago, The Casual Hour was born. And in 2016 we had our first Game of the Year show. But 10 years is a long time, and opinions change. Do we still think our games of 2016 hold up? On this edition of The Casual Hour, we give ourselves a do-over and see what our games of 2016 are…in 2026!   // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 478 - Deep Dive: 2016 GOTY Rewind

  5. Jul 10

    Episode 477 - No Papas, No Sale

    00:00:28 – Intro & Bobby's Handheld Shopping Spree  00:08:02 – Mina the Hollower: Credits Rolled on a Game of the Year Contender 00:10:50 – TerraTech Legion: Vampire Survivors With Wheels and Guns 00:20:38 – Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Gets One Last Chance 00:26:03 – Everybody's Golf Hotshots: Controls, Cameras & No Don Pappas 00:55:27 – Microsoft Layoffs, id Software & the Unreal Engine Mandate 01:02:09 – Sony's Physical Media Fumble & PSN Frustrations 01:04:44 – Golden Parachutes, Unions & the Death of the Game Pass Promise 01:09:13 – Wrap-Up, Retro Recommendations & Plugs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The games industry continues to burn around us, but thankfully, we have a few interesting titles to insulate us from the bleakness. Bobby polished off Mina the Hollower before getting down to the nuts and bolts of TerraTech Legion. And Chase hit the links in Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots. Is it up to par or stuck in the rough? You’ll have to tune into the newest edition of The Casual Hour to find out!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 477 - No Papas, No Sale

  6. Jul 3

    Episode 476 - My Star Sign? Animal Crossing, V-Rising

    00:00:28 – Intro  00:05:27 – Starfox 00:23:13 – Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes 00:34:12 – June Recap 00:38:27 – The Free Stuff 00:42:29 – July Games Preview 00:43:51 – Doom: The Dark Ages DLC 00:47:16 – Moonlight Peaks, Backyard Baseball & Granblue Fantasy Relink DLC 00:52:08 – Assassin's Creed Black Flag 00:55:21 – Palworld 1.0 00:56:18 – Heave Ho! 2, The Mermaid Mask, Pupper Geist, Moss: The Forgotten Relic 01:01:15 – Dead Weight & Fading Echo 01:03:59 – Tears of Metal 01:05:15 – Splatoon Raiders 01:07:05 – Halo Campaign Evolved 01:10:23 – Signy and Mino: Against All Gods & Turnip Mountain 01:13:21 – Monthly Picks: Bobby & Chase's July Grab List 01:15:47 – Wrap-Up ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The weather is hot, the game industry is crumbling, and yet, there are still cool releases coming out all the time. We jump into the most interesting games in the month of July, as well as chat about the new Star Fox and an old Fire Emblem Warriors game. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 476 - My Star Sign? Animal Crossing, V-Rising

  7. Jun 26

    Episode 475 - Deep Dive: The State of Emulation

    00:00:28 – Intro 00:02:16 – The Adventures of Elliot 00:17:31 – Fire Emblem Life of Saros 00:19:56 – Deep Dive: The AYN Thor & the Emulation Handheld Era 00:24:18 – Why Now? The Industry Is in Trouble 00:30:41 – A Brief History of Janky Emulation Devices 00:35:04 – Build Quality Levels Up: Analogue, OLED & the New Retroid 00:36:38 – Price Gouging, Tariffs & Insane Storage Costs 00:40:23 – Game Preservation as the Reason to Buy In 00:45:08 – The Community Pushing Emulation Forward 00:51:38 – Open vs Closed Systems & the Games We've Lost 00:55:42 – When the Pocket Still Beats the Thor 01:02:42 – Wrapping the Deep Dive 01:05:48 – Outro & Where to Find Us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s been a few months since Bobby and Chase have gotten their AYN Thor consoles. Do we still like them? Have they changed our gaming habits? And why do we think we’re living in a golden age of video game emulation? Answers to all these and more on this Deep Dive edition of The Casual Hour!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 475 - Deep Dive: The State of Emulation

  8. Jun 19

    Episode 474 - Long Granny Ash

    00:00:28 – Intro 00:00:56 – StarFox (Switch 2 Demo) 00:10:44 – 007 First Light 00:11:20 – Mina the Hollower 00:11:51 – Voidling Bound 00:20:14 – Sangokushi BOND  00:29:23 – River City Saga, Jeanne d'Arc, and Three Kingdoms Deep Cuts 00:32:05 – Fire Emblem: Life of Seiros  00:41:45 – AYN Thor 00:42:16 – Xbox Trouble 00:48:28 – Bobby's Xbox Rant: Game Pass, Helix, and the Future of the Console 00:52:25 – The Unsustainable Gaming Bubble: Late Stage Capitalism Conversation 00:57:28 – What Would It Take for Chase to Go Back to Xbox? 01:01:19 – Console Recommendations: Switch 1 vs Switch 2 vs Everything Else 01:02:44 – Asha's Xbox Leadership and Wrapping Up the News 01:06:39 – Outro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… You hear about this whole Xbox thing? Sounds like a mess. Between the BDS boycott, lagging Game Pass subscriptions and now talk of studio closures, Bobby and Chase decided it was time to talk about what the hell is going on over there, and whether it’s even worth fixing. On the brighter side, we still have cool games to talk about. Like Voidling Bound and Fire Emblem Life of Seiros. All on this edition of The Casual Hour!  // T W I T C H  &  Y O U T U B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9 PM CST ⁠twitch.tv/thecasualhour⁠ ⁠youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ // S U B S C R I B E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/thecasualhour⁠ We post Casually Considereds and VODs from previous streams weekly! // F O L L O W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One link to rule them all:⁠ www.thecasualhour.com⁠ // T H E   C A S U A L   H O U R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bobby Pease -⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/bob_omby Chase Koeneke -⁠ http://Linktr.ee/chase_koeneke⁠ // M U S I C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on Twitter⁠ @insaneanalog⁠ or check out more of his music and download our theme at⁠ www.insaneanalog.com⁠

    Episode 474 - Long Granny Ash
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Welcome to The Casual Hour, a podcast ostensibly about video games. Hosted by Bobby Pease and Chase Koeneke, The Casual Hour is a gaming channel where we chill out, mess around and, sometimes, even talk about games! Whether we’re previewing the monthly releases, diving deep on a variety of topics, streaming with our friends or just chatting about the games we’ve been playing that week, The Casual Hour is your home for sharp insight, dumb jokes and most of all, a real good time.

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  • Creator
    The Casual Hour
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    414
  • Rating
    Explicit
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