TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games

Roasted Garlic and Blood vs The World! We’ve back with the first episode of the end game run of our 5e Scott Pilgrim inspired game. The band hit the ground running by taking a short rest in the Turtle Van and planning their attack and defense against the forces circling in on the Irvin Cobb … Continue reading → The post Ep. 704 – Roasted Garlic and Blood vs The World Session Twen...

“Izzy’s Quest for the Olympic Rings”, said the Randomizer, cold and indifferent as always. “Would you punish us so harshly for playing Dungeons & Dragons sometimes?” Ian snarked. The Randomized smiled it’s blackened grin in return. “Go and embrace the controversial torch mascot from the 1996 games in Atlanta, my friends. May its slippery and … Co...

Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures! No Scott Pilgrim this week so we go back to the ever full well of The Randomizer – and it spit out Speed Racer. Remember that resurgence of Speed Racer in the 90s? Well, it’s here in FULL force today. It has been a minute since we have … Continue reading → The post Ep. 702 – Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures appeared fi...

Chad CROWger vs. The World! The band is back, this time in Chad CROWger form! They have plenty to do to get ready for the second night of the festival, then some heavy things to do at that festival. The band gets together and goes to Las Vegas to see Dane’s mom (they also get … Continue reading → The post Ep. 701 – Chad CROWger vs The World Session Twenty One (A D&D Actual P...

Paduke Root vs. The World! The band is back! This time they carefully consider how to spend their gold to give their Party Wagon aka Turtle Van some toy accurate accessories. The first night of the Kentucky Oaks Mall Carnival is upon them, so they have to skulk around a little bit. Luke tries to … Continue reading → The post Ep. 700 – Paduke Root vs The World Session Twenty (A D&D...

Freaky Friday…but with Wolves! vs. The World! Another Scott Pilgrim inspired Actual Play is on the books. the band spends time with an actual god, Norebo, and gets to play some very interesting and high stakes games of cards and Rock, Paper, Scissors. The band has a very opportune encounter with Ham Williams, The Bluegrass … Continue reading → The post Ep. 699 – Freaky Friday…but with...

Oops! All Drafts! We had to do it folks, it was a bad and busy week all the way around for all of us so we needed something easy that would we would really enjoy – so we asked our discord channel to step up and they certainly did! We whittled down a TON of … Continue reading → The post Ep. 698 – Oops! All Drafts appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games .

Vortex! Does it sound cool? Sorta! (In a 90s way) Was it fun? Define fun! Did it have an interesting history? Absolutely! The Randomizer dealt us an odd one with week with Vortex, a game none of us had heard of or seen. It was interesting and certainly has a place in the history of … Continue reading → The post Ep. 697 – Vortex appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games .

Williams Arcade’s Greatest Hits! That’s right, we’re back to form this week with the Randomizer’s choice of this collection of classic arcade games from the 80s. It’s another special day – as of this recording TADPOG is officially 10 years old! We celebrate with a draft, a special gift for Ian, and a long anime … Continue reading → The post Ep. 696 –...

Bathroom PB&J vs The World! The band returns again after saving Jill from the Glow. Things get mild between Lem and Jill, Papa Barnes gets involved and tells an interesting story, Benji schemes and schemes and might have bitten off a little more than he can chew if he doesn’t hold up his part of … Continue reading → The post Ep. 695 – Bathroom PB&J vs The World – Session...

Panic at the Quiznos vs. The World! We return again this with the further adventures of the band. This time, the band goes all out to free Jill’s mind of the Glow. They face her greatest fears – Gargamel, Foot Soldiers, Krang, Murky, and a few more in this one (Jill watched a lot of … Continue reading → The post Ep. 694 – Panic at the Quiznos vs The World – Session Seventee...

Pixelated Noodle vs. The World! A Scott Pilgrim inspired game returns again to further the adventure of saving the soul of a cute pink haired girl who works at Quiznos in the early 2000s. Or at least that is what this episode is about. The band opened a gate into Jill’s subspace and ventured in … Continue reading → The post Ep. 693 – Pixelated Noodle – Session Sixteen (A D&D...

Hot Bread Patent vs. The World! That’s right, we have returned with our Actual Play 5e D&D game inspired by Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. If you don’t recall, on the last episode a few months ago the band had gotten into Lem’s brother’s subspace and purged it of “The Glow” which has been making … Continue reading → The post Ep. 692 – Hot Bread Pat...

Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper has finally dragged its butt across the our proverbial podcast carpet. Maybe you know this game as Beethoven’s 2nd or maybe you don’t know this game at all – let’s be honest, you probably don’t. Is that a good thing? MAAAAAYYYYYBE. You will find out for certain if you listen … Continue reading → The post Ep. 691 – Beeth...

The Irem Skins Game is totally a golf game and not something else, we were also very confused when we heard the title. Not many games have the developer and a mode as their title (which irem loves their name so much it is on the box art twice) so it sounds a bit odd. … Continue reading → The post Ep. 690 – The Irem Skins Game appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games .

Tom and Jerry. You know, you’ve seen the cartoon. Sometimes Tom looks like a cat, other times he is more like a cat person. Sometimes Tom and Jerry hate each other, sometimes they are best friends. They’re a duo that has endured since 1940. But how well do they translate to the SNES? Courtesy of … Continue reading → The post Ep. 689 – Tom and Jerry appeared first on TADPOG:...

GunForce?! MORE LIKE FUNFORCE (trademark of Dave Moore) AMIRITE?!?!?! I would highly advise you listen and find out for certain, I mean look at that box art! And everyone has heard all about this SNES port of the GunForce arcade! We also talk about Halloween, the latest edition of “Ian’s Horror Hole” (Not trademarked, public … Continue reading → The post Ep. 688 – Gun...

Stone Protectors! Do you recall this 1993 SMASH hit cartoon that aired 8 episodes and tried to combine the troll doll craze with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle craze? No?! But it even had a Super Nintendo release! Still no?! Well, neither did we so we all played it and do a pretty deep dive … Continue reading → The post Ep. 687 – Stone Protectors appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Da...

The Wizard of Oz for the SNES continues our parade of hard to play games. Does this deserve to be one those iconically horrible games ranking up there with Shaq Fu, Bebe’s Kids, Lester the Unlikely, Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball, and Pit Fighter? We might tell you. Or we might even debate that amongst ourselves. … Continue reading → The post Ep. 686 – The Wizard of Oz a...

The Randomizer served some BAD, emphasis on that syllable, to the bone games in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and T2: The Arcade game to us this week. Ian takes Tyler’s weathered old mantle as the Cloud of Negativity when it comes to there two LJN classics. So come listen to us double on the Terminator … Continue reading → The post Ep. 685 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day & T2: The...

Kirby’s Avalanche? Yes, Kirby’s Avalanche. Didn’t we do this one? Yes, almost 10 years ago. But it was subject to a greater dispel spell and is no longer available, but anything lost from IGN’s Top 100 SNES games list, we will always re-record. It just happened to drop on the Switch SNES Online service so … Continue reading → The post Ep. 684 – Kirby’s Ava...

Fighter’s History, fresh today, courtesy Nintendo Switch Online’s Super Nintendo platform. What do you think when you see the box art? A little creeped out? Wondering if these are Street Fighter knockoffs so blatant they must be illegal? WRONG! They are very legal very blatant Street Fight knockoffs according to a court of law and … Continue reading → The post Ep. 683 – Fig...

Incredible Crash Dummies. You read that correctly, not the Incredible Crash TEST Dummies (don’t worry, we explain why you may remember that extra word there). Join us as we journey down the road from PSA, to cartoon, to toys, and finally to video games for the Incredible Crash Dummies. We stop off in order to … Continue reading → The post Ep. 682 – Incredible Crash Dummies appear...

The time has come, after all that edge talk we have arrived at Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures. This SNES game covered all three movies of the original trilogy, so to fully understand everything that goes into this game – we had to watch all the movies and talk about them at length THEN roll into … Continue reading → The post Ep. 681 – Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adven...

Indiana Jones Edgefest was really the best title for this episode. Tyler had some schedule conflicts and caused the show to need to be shuffled around, which messed with planning the Scott Pilgrim game, which messed with what we were doing for the week, which messed with planning out play time – so this is … Continue reading → The post Ep. 680 – Indiana Jones Edgefest appeared fi...