The Nintendo Drive

Dec 09 2024 204 ep. 76 mins 13
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Our weekly Nintendo podcast! A cozy cruise through the world of Nintendo with Lockleth, Miles of Amanda, Sean Capri and Seth Sturgill. New episodes every Monday at 9AM ET -- check out our Patreon for early, ad-free access and exclusive Post Show!

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The Nintendo Drive 181: Neon White is Elevated Gaming

Dec 09 2024 98 mins  
Sometimes I wonder why they kept making video games after the entire medium peaked on June 16th, 2022 with the release of Neon White. There's nothing in this world as good as the feeling of discovering micro-optimizations to shave nanoseconds of time off your friend's personal best until two in the morning. The perfect marriage of your mind and the video game; the graceful ballet o

The Nintendo Drive 180: The American Thanksgiving Special

Dec 02 2024 89 mins  
Sean and Seth are here to hold down the fort this Thanksgiving. And if we're being honest, I don't know how much thematic sense will enter into the proceedings. We're just gonna hang out and talk about video games. I can be thankful for that for a long, long time. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gami

The Nintendo Drive 179: The Games That Got Away

Nov 25 2024 126 mins  
LISTEN... sometimes, things slip through the cracks. When you have so many games to play, inevitably there are going to be those games that are left behind. So which games did we miss - that have been left to languish in our ever-growing backlogs - that we want to *actually* go back to? ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming �

The Nintendo Drive 178: Pokémon TCG Pocket RULES

Nov 18 2024 103 mins  
There's no shortage of games we could (and probably should!) be playing as we head into the end of 2024. But here lately... there's just been something comforting about opening up some booster packs of digital Pokémon cards. And what's wrong with that, after all? ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gami

The Nintendo Drive 177: WE ALL TOUCHED AT EXTRA LIFE 2024!

Nov 11 2024 108 mins  
We're home from an amazing Extra Life 2024 - where, with your love, support and donations, we CRUSHED our fundraising goal and raised over $10,000 for sick kids! Thanks so much. So let's just hang out, unwind for a bit and bask in the precious momes. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon:

The Nintendo Drive 176: Play THESE Spooky Games on Switch This Halloween

Oct 28 2024 119 mins  
I fear that... our trick-or-treat bag of spooky games on Switch this Halloween season... i-it's overflowing! There are so many good ones! What are YOU playing to get into the spirit? ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord comm

The Nintendo Drive 175: No Cause For Alarmo

Oct 14 2024 97 mins  
Waiting on Nintendo to announce new hardware this year? I've got good news! They DID! It just... probably isn't exactly the hardware you had in mind. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite

The Nintendo Drive 174: Echoes of Wisdom is a GOTY Contender

Oct 07 2024 113 mins  
The new Zelda game released last week and now, more of the crew has had more time to spend with it and more thoughts to share. To, uh, varying degrees of sanity. Seth may have already 100%d the game and lost a bunch of sleep playing it over the past week. We'll find out. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpoo

The Nintendo Drive 173: Echoes of Wisdom EARLY IMPRESSIONS

Sep 30 2024 101 mins  
Have you heard the good news? You can play as Zelda as the main protagonist of a Legend of Zelda game! In fact, we've done just that - if only for just a little. But we're still gonna talk about it. iS tHiS gAmE eVeN gOoD oR iS nInTeNdO wOkE nOw?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community:

The Nintendo Drive 172: SWITCH 2 LEAKED! Is Nintendo DOOMED?!

Sep 23 2024 118 mins  
Someday, we'll be able to stop talking about Switch 2. But that day is not today. Seems like this thing is starting to leak pretty thoroughly and we're all just kinda wondering - when is Nintendo just gonna announce it themselves? And are these leaks even real to begin with? I remember The Grinch Leak. #NeverForget ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https