TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games

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"Pour the silver!" Dave shouted at Tyler. Tyler quickly poured the molten silver into the pentagram mold while chanting the opera scene from Final Fantasy VI backward. "Light our candles at my signal." Tyler said, he and Dave, nodding to each other. "Now." Tyler flatly said, as he and Dave lit their replica of the candles Rita Repulsa used to take away the Green Ranger's powers. "It is finished, T...

The Randomizer mumbled something at us. “What? Speak, beast.” Dave commanded. “urosmif” the Randomizer grumbled lazily. “TELL US THE GAME!” Tyler shouted. The Randomizer grinned, “Aerosmith.” Tyler and Dave knew that was no game. “REVOLUTION X!” The Randomizer sang in its best Steven Tyler impression. That’s right! Remember that arcade game? They ported it to SNES or at least they tried. But hey,...

We here at TADPOG love a good SNES JRPG. Huge fans. So when the Randomizer belched forth an RPG, we were excited. And then we played said RPG, Tecmo Secret of the Stars. We couldn't tackle a game like this without Captain Gun Nerd Jon Turley. So we have some Corona virus chat, give an update on life, drink many drinks, and touch ever so slightly on this game. Enjoy!

“FOR THIS, YOU SHALL PAY!!!” The Randomizer bellowed as we turned our back on it. We crawled out of the dark cave we were trapped in only to be saved by THE CAPED PODCASTERS! That’s right, crossover time! This week we anger the Randomizer by choosing our own crossover episode the the Caped Podcasters with Batman Forever. Is it a bad game and a bad movie? Listen and see! (Yes, it is.)

“Spit out your choice, foul beast.” Dave demanded of the Randomizer. “Sport.” The darkness whispered back. “Foreman for Real.” is said stoicly. “Boxing? HA, that sounds great.” Tyler replied enthusiastically. The darkness dryly chuckled in response. SO WE PLAYED THE SNES BOXING SEQUEL FOREMAN FOR REAL, STARRING GEORGE FOREMAN! Guess what? Garbage so hot is burned our hands. But we do drink and tak...

Hi everyone! Do you like Street Fighter? Me too! What about sculptures? ME TOO! How about the 90s? YES! Do you know what you get when you smash together those elements in the vaguest way possible? CLAYFIGHTER! Do you remember loving it? Come with us and take off those nostalgia glasses and give it another go!

HEY! LISTEN! Well, please listen. This episode is a little different that the others you’ve gotten used to because we aren't just talking about one game—we're talking about a bunch of competition cartridges. The Randomizer chose Super Star Fox Weekend Challenge for us so we are lumping in the Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge, 1990 Nintendo World Championship, Nintendo Campus Challenge 199...

Street Hockey ’95. WOOOOOF. Let’s not beat around the bush. The Randomizer did us dirty with — up until this point of the show — the worst SNES video game that we have ever played. So we bring some prime trash talk. We also talk about Coolio, Sexy Ned Flanders, and get into some deep MTV Lore. Please, enjoy our pain.

"What do you love, David?" the Randomizer cooed. "I love Pac-Man." Dave replied defiantly. "Oh, do you? Then you must be very thirsty of a sequel. HERE! PAC-MAN 2: THE NEW ADVENTURES! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Did you know there was a sequel? Did you know it's nothing like the Pac-Man games you know and love? Come with us as we recount our confusing slog as you play a slingshot god who flings his will at a...

Oh man, finally! We are everyone's favorite 1993 time travel based law enforcement show starring a handsome male lead who also has plenty of movies under his belt - TIME COP! What? No? What the hell is Time Trax? THE SAME THING BUT WORSE? AND THEY MADE A GAME ABOUT IT? HOW IS IT? Listen and see! We try to be funny to compensate and Terrified Michelle calls in with the most divisive question since...

“You may have a single boon. What do you wish?” bellowed the Randomizer. “Ryan.” Tyler said, “I want my brother back.” The Randomizer narrowed it’s eyes and creaked a wry smile. “SO BE IT!”, the Randomizer exclaimed as it faded from view, leaving a single SNES cartridge where it once stood. Prehistorik Man! The platformer made by Titus back in 95 is what we are covering today, Ryan Holland reappea...

OOPS! ALL TANKS! We dun goofed for this one and played too many Battle Tank games. Luckily, Master Cycle Baron Kevin Link was on to even things up. Tyler and Dave played Super Battle Tank 2 and Link played Super Battle Tank. So we covered both - worry not! They are basically the same game. Lots of Tank Talk. Both literal and Girl varieties. We also find out what game Nikki has mastered and of whom...

This week we're talking about Championship Pool. Wait...don't go. We also talk about Castlevania, stand-up comedy, and California Raisins!

This week we're talking about Dragon's Lair, the works of Don Bluth, and SpaghettiO's with Franks!

Tyler lifted his head from his Donny Jeffcoat signed bat, uttering his final word of prayer to the Randomizer. “C…tic….Pl….er.” the Randomizer whispered. “What? Celtic Pliers? What do you wish of us, Randomizer?” Tyler screamed into the void. “Cine…ic….Plat…er.” the Randomizer replied. Strength growing in its voice. “You don’t mean? Please. No.” Tyler whimpered in the night. “CINEMATIC PLATFORMER!...

“MERRY CHRISTMAS!” The Randomizer shouted! “On Garbage! On Difficulty! On Copy and Pasting! On Licensing Franchising! Now Cash Grabs! Now Lies and Attrition!” It was then Tyler and Dave heard a rustling and down the chimney came a true piece of coal -Saban’s Power Ranger’s Zeo Battle Racers, to both of their woe. “Well,” said Tyler. “We could bring on the Brit to balance out this dump of a show.”...

We stood at the edge of the abyss, staring into the violent darkness and shouted, "WE LOVE SANDWICH POPE PHIL HAWKINS! YOU CANNOT HAVE HIM!" and the darkness whispered back, "Have him then." So the Randomizer chose a Phil Hawkins game TWO WEEKS IN A ROW bringing us Ghoul Patrol this week! Have you heard of Ghoul Patrol? Probably not. Its the sequel to Zombies Ate My Neighbors, but you wouldn't gue...

From the darkest depths of the darkest night, the Randomizer chose for us play Dungeon Master, the 1992 port of a 1987 Atari ST dungeon crawler. It has some good history and some bad history. To do a proper study of this game we bring on Sandwich Pope Phil Hawkins, as we do with all SNES dungeon crawlers. We talk about Melissa’s experience with the Country Music Awards, the glory of Herald Arthur’...

Do you LOVE Conan the Barbarian? Do you love him so much you'll consume anything vaguely resembling him, including media that stole his imagine just to capitalize on his popularity? Do you LOVE poorly designed fighting games released far after any time that it could have been relevant? No? Good, because no one does. But theoretically if such an audience existed then WE TOTALLY HAVE A GAME FOR YOU!...

The Randomizer works in mysterious ways. After throwing sports game after sports game in our faces, IT FINALLY THROWS US SOMETHING IN OUR WHEEL HOUSE — months after it would have been SEO relevant — BUT STILL! So this week we break down Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems for the SNES! We start off by enjoying some snacks sent by Better Than Us Choctopus, we talk about Call of Cthulhu and just...

It has been over two years since we have recorded our last actual play of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game. Rhythm Master Paul Corn, Soul Sister Yarn Sorceress, and Casey (we'll probably come up with a great title for him at some point) join us to roll up some investigators for a campaign entitled Piggy Palace. It's an original story by Tyler that takes place in the crime-ridden stre...

ESPN Speed World, ESPN Baseball Tonight, ESPN National Hockey Night, and ESPN Sunday Night NFL. It is with these unholy elements we worship and seek the please our dark chaotic god, The Randomizer. Okay, we love the Randomizer but this week was a very rough one for us at TADPOG. Rather than do these as individual episodes (which would truly be no good for anyone) we chose to roll them into one epi...

Well, here we go again with this great gift from the Randomizer. HOWEVER, the blessing passed onto us is in a series so we can roll these two wonders together. What games, you ask? Elite Soccer and World Soccer ’94: Road to Glory. Part of the Striker series across the pond. We might not have the best track record with sports games BUT NOT ANYMORE! THIS EPISODE IS JAM PACKED FULL OF SPORTSISH STUFF...

This week Wizened Sage Ian joins us to talk about his favorite movies, the terrifying puppets from Spitting Image, and Beavis and Butt-Head for the SNES.