The Nintendo Drive

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...

We're home from an amazing Extra Life 2024 - where, with your love, support and donations, we CRUSHED our fundraising goal and raised over $10,000 for sick kids! Thanks so much. So let's just hang out, unwind for a bit and bask in the precious momes. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carp...

I fear that... our trick-or-treat bag of spooky games on Switch this Halloween season... i-it's overflowing! There are so many good ones! What are YOU playing to get into the spirit? ★ 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/...

Waiting on Nintendo to announce new hardware this year? I've got good news! They DID! It just... probably isn't exactly the hardware you had in mind. ★ 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 Carp...

The new Zelda game released last week and now, more of the crew has had more time to spend with it and more thoughts to share. To, uh, varying degrees of sanity. Seth may have already 100%d the game and lost a bunch of sleep playing it over the past week. We'll find out. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: htt...

Have you heard the good news? You can play as Zelda as the main protagonist of a Legend of Zelda game! In fact, we've done just that - if only for just a little. But we're still gonna talk about it. iS tHiS gAmE eVeN gOoD oR iS nInTeNdO wOkE nOw?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invit...

Someday, we'll be able to stop talking about Switch 2. But that day is not today. Seems like this thing is starting to leak pretty thoroughly and we're all just kinda wondering - when is Nintendo just gonna announce it themselves? And are these leaks even real to begin with? I remember The Grinch Leak. #NeverForget ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolg...

An even longer title for this episode could've featured even more alliteration: "Predicting Switch 2's Price Point Post-PlayStation 5 Pro". Sony revealed their latest hardware this past week and after some sticker shock, it's got people wondering how much Nintendo is gonna want for their upcoming Switch successor. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon...

PlayStation has a great new 3D platformer in Astro Bot - and by all accounts, it's fantastic! But people seem hellbent on comparing the game to Mario. Should these two games be compared at all? Is there anything that Nintendo and Mario can learn from Astro Bot? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord...

Nintendo held a DOUBLE DIRECT this week: Indie World immediately followed by a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. This is pretty unprecedented... but were they any good? Let's talk about it. ★ 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://carpoolg...

WITH SPECIAL GUEST CWAGGY! Nintendo properly unveiled the Nintendo Museum this week with a special Direct presentation, complete with Shiggy's adorable and somehow also intimidating energy. It looks like it may be worth the trip to Kyoto... ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9...

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS TONY BAKER AND JB! Recent rumors and reports seem to indicate that Switch 2 might be coming in April 2025 at the EARLIEST - but do we buy that? These things have been wrong many times in the past and Nintendo has proven impossible to reliably predict. When is this thing actually coming out?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join...

Nintendo gave us a deeper look at the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom... and good grief, y'all. Does it look good. We're getting even more excited and September 26th can't get here soon enough. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gam...

Look, I know we've meme'd on Amanda's rage-inducing playthrough of Celeste before, but now she gets it. That game has real things to say and lessons to teach you about life in general. Video games are amazing, huh. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpo...

With Echoes of Wisdom coming soon and Zelda finally getting her own game, we can't help but wonder. What if the Triforce was completed? What if GANON was next up to get his own game? What would that even look like? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gamin...

It's no Waffles vs. Pancakes vs. French Toast... but Nintendo has sent us into a real spiral with this upcoming Splatfest for Splatoon 3. The Battle of the Carbs. How can we possibly choose?! ★ 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...