The Nintendo Drive

To quote Shania Twain in 1997: Looks like we made it. Look how far we've come, my Nintendo Drive. Okay, she didn't exactly say that, but I'd like to think that's what she meant. Join us as we look back at 200 episodes of this silly show and share some of YOUR precious momes and mems! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing...

Seth was lucky enough to play the Switch 2 and a bunch of games at the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience in Dallas last weekend and he's got a TON of thoughts... but he's not sharing them alone! This week on the show, we're also joined by special guest Ryan Turford, who got to attend the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience in Toronto! Surprise! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https:...

April 24th, 2025. The day that we pre-ordered our Nintendo Switch 2s. A day that will live in infamy and a day that has left us forever changed; forever shaken. But at the end of it all? When the dust settles and we recover a semblance of ourselves again? We did win. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://disco...

Special guest FULYA joins us to break down the Mario Kart World Direct! Although we're probably gonna talk about a bunch of stuff because... there's not much new info to break down lol. Look man. They didn't really need to sell me any further on Mario Kart World. The game looks great and Pauline's in it. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgami...

We've seen Xbox games like Grounded and Pentiment come to Switch. Recently, PlayStation games like Patapon and Hot Shots Golf were announced to be coming to Switch. It seems like just about everything is on the table at this point -- so what OTHER games from other platforms would we like to see on Switch 2? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join...

We've got over an hour's worth of Switch 2 Direct to unpack... who knows what's gonna happen? All we can know for sure is that Amanda will freak out about GameCube and Kirby Air Ride. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoo...

Special guest CWAGGY - King of the XenoBabes - joins us this week for some early impressions of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition! But uh... also we had a big ol' Nintendo Direct? So we've got a LOT to talk about on this one. Buckle up, friends. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.co...

Our favorite smol pigeon makes her return to the show this week! And what better time than for the fifth anniversary of Animal Crossing: New Horizons? We're gonna share some of our ACNH memories -- and some of yours too! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool...

With the spring season springing next week - and ahead of the big Nintendo stuff like Xenoblade and the Switch 2 reveal event... we thought it'd be nice to highlight some Nintendo games that really capture those sweet, sweet spring vibes! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Ge...

Special guest Clayton Dwyer joins us this week to share his experiences traveling to the Nintendo Museum in Japan! We'll just be over here... pretending not to be incredibly jealous... ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming...

We woke up bright and early for our first proper look at Pokémon Legends Z-A during a special Pokémon Presents. But is it everything we were hoping for? Is it gonna redeem the franchise for us after Scarlet & Violet burned us? Are we ready to be hurt again? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com...

There's a lot I'm sure we'll talk about on this episode. Everyone's hungry for Switch 2 news, some kind of February Direct, Pokemon Day, blah blah blah. But what we all REALLY need to be focused on is how Wario Land 4 recently dropped on NSO and it's one of the best dang platformers Nintendo has ever made. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpo...

Carpool Gaming's own Ryan Turford joins us on the show this week! And we're welcoming Ryan to the show with the *truest* Nintendo Drive experience... Hear Me Out: Nintendo Edition! What better way to celebrate this Valentine's Day than to hopelessly defend our wildest "hear me out" Nintendo characters? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpool...

Do you have gaming resolutions this year? Any goals for things you want to do with your gaming time? Some of us spread sheets, some of us allocate our planning to the sheets of our mind's eye. But it's fun to consider all the same. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► G...

Carpool Gaming's own Ngachacha (of The PlayStation Drive fame) is gracing your feeds with his thoughts on Sunset Visitor's debut masterpiece and his personal GOTY 2024: 1000xRESIST!

Special guest Andross from The Nintendo Pals joins the show this week to... what else? TALK ABOUT SOME DANG VIDEO GAMES! ► Follow Andross on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Andross1 ► Follow Andross on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Andross1 ► Listen to The Nintendo Pals: https://www.youtube.com/@NintendoPals ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join...

At around 8AM EST on January 16th, Nintendo gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby Switch 2 reveal trailer. It was around two minutes and twenty-one seconds in length and it revealed basically nothing about the console that wasn't already leaked months prior. That is... except for a new Mario Kart! That's pretty exciting! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/...

It's our first show of 2025 and you know what that means: PREDICTIONS! On the precipice of having any earthly idea of what Nintendo's plans for this year are, we're going to gather around and give you all our 100% totally accurate and unfailingly correct guesses. You can take these to the BANK. We've never been wrong before! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoo...

2024 is coming to a close and the entire Carpool Gaming crew has come together to talk about our favorite games we played in 2024! ★ 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/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: h...

As we close out 2024, we're looking back at the year that was - and we're gonna do it with a TIER LIST, baby! How was this year for Nintendo and their games? We're gonna figure that out together! We're ranking EVERY first party Nintendo release of the year... and then going over the predictions we made at the beginning of the year and seeing how well we did. Spoilers: not good! ► Make your own Nin...

Because realistically - who else are we gonna blame if Nintendo doesn't show up at The Game Awards 2024? We wouldn't *dream* of it being someone who is currently employed there. ★ 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/invit...

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 of bullets an ext...

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 Gaming on Patreon: https://pa...

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 ► Support Carpool Gaming...

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 Gaming on Patreon: https://pat...