TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games

Are you a big fan of learning from video games? Having fun WHILE learning? Enjoyed Rex Ronan and Captain Novolin? No? Well, then please check out the latest installment in the Health Heroes series, Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus! We talk about Tyler’s dad, plumbing, kid stories, and do as deep of a dive into this game as possible, enjoy!

Did you know about California Games II? That it existed? That it was an SNES game? We didn’t but the Randomizer did. As we do, we recorded a TADPOG episode over just this game – and the amount of time we talk about it is probably longer than it would take you to play it! So come hear us talk about all things California, dreams, kids, and all sorts of other things. We are also pretty sure we killed...

Football Fury! Yet another sports game brought to you by the Randomizer. Not just sports but football, you know, that thing Tyler and Dave know nothing about. The game is about what you’d expect based on the title and game art – so we brought on Jon and Ian of TADPOG I.T. fame! We do address just about everything we can on the game but also have plenty of fun tangents and real talk about pop tarts...

Well, luck of the Randomizer not be with us - Winter Olympics: Lillehammer '94 was the draw for this week. Have you heard of this game? Have you seen this game in the wild? Are you familiar with Lillehammer outside of the Netflix show? Nope, not for us either. So we talk Olympics. We talk Cartoon Olympics. We talk, most importantly, about the vast catalog of Ernest movies and shows. So sit awhile...

Nobunaga’s Ambition is…well…ambitious. And it certainly isn’t about revenge despite how many times Tyler tries to say it is. This week the Randomizer dealt TADPOG a card that made them grumble but turned out to be a surprise. So come listen to some chill LoFi game chat with plenty of odd tangents as we talk about this war strategy “dad” game.

Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D has arrived! I know it’s been a long time coming and everyone has been on the edge of their seat to hear about this game…hey, it sucks. There, now that is out of the way come enjoy us talk about the Genesis, Night Trap, a little Borderlands 3, a touch of Rogue Legacy, and a quiz about the SNES Adventure games. Come hear us talk and huge amount of trash about th...

Okay, we will be honest. Jim Power on the SNES is pretty bad. We WILL get to it but Phantasmagoria had a bounty on it and Dave had a great time streaming it, SO HERE IT IS. Tyler and Dave talk about books, gaming, and a very British slang quiz with very Americanized British accents and go on in depth about how good Cockney Naruto would be. We do a deep dive into the FMV wonder of it’s time that is...

How do you do, fellow kids? Imagine if you will, that this episode is packaged tightly inside a puffy white VHS clamshell case, because just like Disney, we're opening the vault. The Patreon Vault! We'll be back next week with Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D for the SNES. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this episode brought to you by our wonderful Patreon donors.

The Randomizer ran out of MP last week since time after time after time it chose games we had already played — so we went rogue and decided to talk about some Super Scope games that randomly checked out a few months ago – Battle Clash and Metal Combat: Falcon’s Revenge. Let’s cut to the chase, these games are fantastic. So please join us while we talk games, take a quiz, persuade Melissa to briefl...

In 2020, do you know how to get Tyler and Dave together to beat a game for the show? You have a dark god of chance choose for them to play a Super Scope game. This week, courtesy of the Randomizer, we talk about Yoshi’s Safari for the SNES. BUT NOT JUST YOSHI’S SAFARI. We also talk lush toys, try some Pringles, and discuss different kinds of spiders and how they play into fetishes.

Have you ever heard of a game and just from the title could picture EXACTLY what it would be like? No big surprises. No big disappointments. 100% exactly what you expected. That is our experience playing the entire Jeopardy series of games for the SNES. WE ARE BACK IN THE STUDIO THOUGH, so just give us a chance – we talk bathroom accidents, cam girls, getting older, a little UO, a little Murk Borg...

With a title like World Heroes, this game has to be good! Right? And when we say World Heroes you know what kind of game it is! No? Good, we didn’t either. So this week, courtesy of the Randomizer, we play the Street Fight clone “World Heroes”. Maybe the only game where Rasputin and a Nazi Robot are “heroes”. Also, we had to bring on our premier fightologist, Wizened Sage Ian to help cover the gam...

WARNING! Let’s get this out right away – this is our first completely remote episode due to COVID-19. There may be hiccups, there may be issues but we did our best because no pandemic can stop this mediocre content from reaching tens of ears! We talk NBA Hangtime and just to round it out we bring back Sandwich Pope Phil Hawkins and first time guest host Usurper Grimm! We talk…pest extermination? N...

Legend. With a name like that, it has to be good, right? Or at least similar to the a plethora of other games that would also fit that sort of name? Yes, the second one. That’s exactly how it is. So the Randomizer dealt Tyler and Dave the side scrolling beat ’em up Legend. We give you a Jack update, how Melissa helped Tyler conquer something that he very much wanted conquered, Dave tells some swee...

TADPOG DOES SPORTS! TADPOG DOES HOCKEY! Well, we try. It’s evident we aren’t sportmen and hockey is even further out of our depths but, courtesy of the Randomizer, we talk on Brett Hull Hockey! (and Brett Hull Hockey 95). Of course we talk about bathroom woes, Billy Mitchell and his hot sauce, and some good ’90s television call backs. We know our track record with sports here but come check it out...

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon! Doesn’t that sound awesome?! What could it be about? Did you guess it was an educational spoof of the movie Fantastic Voyage that centers around the dangers of smoking? WOW, VERY GOOD GUESS! So please listen to Tyler and Dave discuss the finer points of the game but also other educational games, Inner Space, Muppet Babies, Star Wars and Whitney Cummings. Enjoy!

Not since Gradius has there been so much debate on how to properly pronounce the name of a video game here on TADPOG. So RAIDEN TRAD. Is it Rye-den Trad? Ray-den Trad? Who knows? (Probably Dave) So please come on a journey with us where we talk about this shooter with plenty of discussion on Slush Puppies, Icee, Jim Varney, Patty Duke and a little Top Gun. Enjoy!

Pretty good hand we got dealt by the Randomizer this week with Knights of the Round. It even scooped us up Sandwich Pope Phil Hawkins and J Jonah Jetplane Jonathan Wilson (though being on the other side of the world precluded his attendance). We talk hacked reddit accounts, eating in bed, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, and a little about a talking mongoose – along with a decent dive in Knights of the Roun...

AERO THE ACROBAT! AT LAST! A GAME TYLER AND DAVE HAVE BEEN WAITING TO BE CHOSEN BY THE RANDOMIZER! WE SAW SO MANY ADS IN COMIC BOOKS! SERIOUSLY, SO MANY ADS. THAT MEANS ITS AWESOME, RIGHT? RIGHT?!

Okay, hear us out. Yes, this is TADPOG. Yes, this is a World League Soccer. Yes, we are not sport ballers. Give us a chance! We think this is a pretty funny episode (as long as you aren’t actually looking for quality soccer content). We talk Saved by the Bell, getting old, Harvey Keitel, and some pretty good redneck portmanteaus.

Well, we have arrived. The Randomizer has given us the tropiest trope of games with the lowest hanging fruit. Spanky's Quest for the SNES. It has a monkey. His name is Spanky. Go ahead. We also make the jokes but there are other jokes! And stories! and hot sauces! So please enjoy our...episode over a monkey named Spanky.

American Football. The Big Game. Grid Iron. Pig Skin. Touchdowns. These are all things TADPOG knows nothing about yet still we soldier on through the chaos that is The Randomizer. So to even things out we bring out the BIGGEST FOOTBALL BRAIN EVER – LAWD MULANEY DENNIS ROBISON. We talk all sorts of stuff and take some pretty pretty good quizzes. Enjoy!

We thought it was a taunt by the Randomizer at first, but it turns out there is an SNES game based on a movie by the same name “No Escape”. Well, apparently this movie was quite the flop but it was not without its fans. One of those fans is our beloved Sandwich Pope Phil, so we had to bring him on. We recount the movie, and the game but we really get into a deep discussion of Wild Hogs. Enjoy!

Tyler and Dave loved Nicktoons growing up. Doug, Rugrats, Rocko’s Modern Life — and one more that the Randomizer had to ruin for us, Ren & Stimpy. So the Randomizer dealt us Ren & Stimpy: Fire Dogs for the SNES. But we decided to finish off the whole series and throw in Time Warp, Veediots, and Buckroo$ just to torture ourselves. We hope you enjoy our pain but we also do a deep dive into the good...

Tyler and Dave love fighting games. Especially Dave. So the Randomizer went full Monkey’s Paw with giving us Power Moves, a clone of a clone of a clone of Street Fighter II. But don’t worry – we also have some hot takes on Jared from Subway and clear up out stance on the edgiest of issues.