The Nintendo Drive

It's the last episode of The Nintendo Drive before the massive 3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons drops! You might separate these time periods into pre- and post-3.0 if you'd like. For your personal records. For the history books. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ►...

We're BACK, baby! It's a new year and you know what that means! Time to predict ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING Nintendo's gonna do in 2026 - as well as look back at our predictions from 2025! I'm sure it all went great! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gami...

It's our FINAL episode of 2025 and it's time to discuss how Nintendo did this year! What better way to do that than with a silly tier list? Thanks for your support this year - we'll see you in 2026! ► Make your own tier list: https://tiermaker.com/create/nintendos-2025-15748175 ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord...

It's been a long time coming, but Metroid Prime 4 is FINALLY out... and we've got Carpool Gaming's resident Metroid expert - THE Ryan Turford - joining us to share thoughts! Was it worth the wait? Find out! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch...

It's offically December and THE Fulya has come by for 2025's holiday gift baskets: curating holiday bundles of Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2 games! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check us out on Twitch...

Amanda's most anticipated game possibly EVER has FINALLY released and we just have one question. So... what do you think? Join us tonight as we talk Kirby Air Riders! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check us out on T...

In this week's episode, the gang reveals their ten chosen games to get to know them. Not necessarily their *favorite* games of all time, but the ones that best illustrate who they are as people, their gaming tastes, et al. THE RESULTS MAY SHOCK YOU! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyAB...

We're all back home from an amazing Extra Life 2025 where we all got to hang out in-person and raise over $11,000 for sick kids... and now we just miss each other. So for this week, we're firing up a special episode to just kinda hang out again. Maybe we'll even talk about Nintendo, who knows! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our...

We honestly can't believe it, but Nintendo threw Animal Crossing fans a bone. There's a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming in January, alongside a MASSIVE 3.0 update... so you know we've gotta talk about it! ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2025: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/car...

Halloween is just a few short days away and we're getting into the spirit of the season! Hanging out, talking about games and answering a bunch of spooky-themed questions from the community. Which Nintendo character would you want with you during a zombie apocalypse? Which Nintendo character is equivalent to candy corn? Find out! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon....

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is out and Seth has played a bunch of it! Does it suck? Find out! Also, Sakurai's doing another Kirby Air Riders Direct and it's gonna be AN HOUR LONG? That's crazy dude! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpo...

We're just days away from a brand new Pokémon game and... are we excited? Are we ready to be hurt again? Do we trust the (actually pretty positive!) reviews? Are we part of the problem? Does none of this matter because we're probably just gonna buy it regardless? ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://...

Nintendo released a mysterious animated short called "Close To You" earlier today... and nobody knows what the hell this could be about. So let's do what we do best here on the Internet: wildly speculate and blow this completely out of proportion. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg...

I'm not quite sure what happened this week. Was there collusion among the Carpool Gaming community? Some sort of shadow council that held court, with us talking about food on the podcast as its dark purpose? Either way, the joke's on you: we're happy to. So let's have some food with our video games. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ►...

Now that we have a general idea of what the rest of Nintendo's 2025 looks like... how excited are we about it? Let's record ourselves talking about that topic into microphones together on the Internet in order to create Content™! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your C...

We all woke up far too early for another big Nintendo Direct last Friday morning and, of course, we've gotta talk about it. We're a Nintendo podcast after all, at least sometimes. We should probably talk about it. There was a Pokemon farming sim and Virtual Boy a bunch of Mario Galaxy stuff, it was goin buck wild over there. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.c...

Seth's been playing a whole bunch of Silksong and he's here to tell you if he thinks it's overly difficult garbage or not! Also, I'm sure we're gonna talk about a whole bunch of stuff. I heard Amanda somehow found a golfing RPG. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ►...

Lockleth's back from her break this week - and honestly, unhinged Nintendo ships is probably the perfect topic for her return. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check us out on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/carpoolgamingliv...

With the recent announcement of a new LEGO Batman game (and Amanda playing her first LEGO game recently), we thought it'd be fun to talk about the franchises that need their very own LEGO game treatment! We wanna play more of these on Nintendo Switch 2! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKU...

I'm not really sure what that means either. Anyways, there was a Kirby Air Riders Direct and it gave us our first real look at the game! For one of us, this is basically a dream game... I wonder if you'll be able to guess who. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpo...

UFO 50 shadowdropped on Switch during the Indie World showcase last week and it's all Seth has been able to think about ever since. Unfortunately for you all, Seth is who writes these descriptions and makes the thumbnail for YouTube. So that's how we've arrived here. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: h...

After nearly a year, Nintendo has FINALLY announced that a new Indie World showcase is happening on Thursday! I think that's pretty exciting! We'll probably talk about that and a bunch of other unrelated things! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch...

There was a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase to close out July and uh... we have thoughts! So we thought we'd assemble a little panel and talk it out for a special mini episode! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check u...

Sean's birthday this year really was a happy birthday after all, because we got Mario Paint on NSO... with full Joy-Con 2 mouse controls! Hell yeah! So let's talk about how cool that is and probably a bunch of other unrelated stuff! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your...

There was a new Pokémon Presents this morning and while it didn't give us a ton of new information on much of anything, it *did* give us a new look at Pokémon Concierge Season Two! And honestly, isn't that worth it in the end? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/eBKUyABg8U ► Get your Carpo...