GamingStooges Podcast
We're the GamingStooges. We're a group of idiots that love video games, and we enjoy talking about them, too! Join Jack, Cloud, and Landon in this series of discussions that run the gamut of topics involving video games.
Pokemon - Generation VII
The Stooges have returned to the world of Pokemon! We're here this time to talk about the second generation on the 3DS that bled into the beginning of the Nintendo Switch with Generation of Pokemon, featuring the games Sun and Moon, their Ultra counterparts, and the Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee games. Hear how the Stooges feel about the Alola region and the HD revisit to the Kanto region in this fun discussion.
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Sega Genesis Retrospective
The Stooges discuss the scrappy rival to the Super Nintendo, the Sega Genesis! Hear about all the console's lasting legacy, its iconic library of everlasting games, and more.
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Nintendo 64 Retrospective
The Stooges go back into the vault of classic gaming consoles to discuss another intriguing piece of hardware from the madmen at Nintendo. This time, the Nintendo 64, the third major home console from Nintendo and the first to introduce full 3D games. Was it truly a bad console when pitted against the PlayStation, or did it put up a decent fight against the certified juggernaut? Hear what the Stooges have to say!
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SNES Retrospective + Sony Ending Physical Games
The Super Nintendo is heralded as one of the best game consoles of all time. With a deep library of beloved games, which tend to hold up really well even 30+ years later, the Stooges reminisce on their experiences with the Super Nintendo and its games.
Later, the Stooges discuss Sony's big announcement to end physical game production for PlayStation in January 2028, which affects all PlayStation games, both first and third party. As fans of physical games, as well as players of PlayStation, hear some epic ranting and crashing out over our disappointment in the decision.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Year 1 Review
The Nintendo Switch 2 recently passed its first year! As Nintendo fans, we're obligated to talk about it!
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2026 Summer Game Announcements
Another June, another massive time for gaming news! As is our yearly tradition, the Stooges sit down to talk about the games they're looking forward to from the 2026 Summer Game Fest period.
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PlayStation 2 Retrospective
On this episode the Stooges discuss the larger than life PlayStation 2. Reminisce about the early-to-mid 2000s and some of the great offerings gaming had for us through the lens of this quintessential game console.
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Metroid Series - Part 1
We're opening up a long discussion on another prominent Nintendo franchise, and this time, we're taking on the adventures of the badass bounty hunter Samus Aran. In this episode, we discuss the "mainline" Metroid games, consisting of the 2D Metroid games as well as the controversial, experimental game that is Other M. Hear our thoughts!
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2003 Year-in-Gaming Retrospective
We're going back to the past yet again to talk about another crazy year in gaming. This time, we revisit the year 2003, a year packed to the brim with quality games during the 6th generation of gaming consoles, with games of all kinds hitting PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance. Whether it's Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh, The Simpsons, or something else, your favorites have quality games here.
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Zelda Series Part 3 - Spin-Offs
We've talked about the mainline Legend of Zelda series all the great games it has to offer, but what about the spin-offs? Well, there's an interesting array of titles here, some people enjoy, and others that are downright infamous. Let's talk about them.
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2012 Year-in-Gaming Retrospective
To kick off season 4, it's time for a bread-and-butter of GamingStooges: Year-in-Gaming Retrospectives! This episode, we take it back to the last year of the Mayan calendar, 2012. A year when the world was supposed to end, but at least gaming sure didn't. Find out how stacked this year really is!
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Season 3 Wrap-Up
Another season of the Talks Podcast has concluded! As is tradition, the GamingStooges reflect on the past year's episodes and give some additional thoughts on how the season went as a whole.
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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Retrospective
The NES is one of the most important video game consoles of all time. Sometimes it's overstated, sometimes it really needs to be said just how pivotal it really was. The Stooges will spend some time discussing the legacy of Nintendo's first dedicated hardware in the video game space, and then later, share some brief thoughts on the recent gaming announcements from Nintendo and Sony!
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PlayStation (1) Retrospective
The Stooges talk about everyone's favorite breakout success, Sony's original PlayStation. A console with a deep library, paving the way for gaming going forward. Hear their thoughts here.
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2025 Gaming Year-in-Review
It's that time again! 2025 was a mind-boggling year for gaming, with many notable releases, new gaming hardware with the Switch 2 and even Asus partnering with Xbox with the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. As we come fashionably late to the party, let's spend a couple hours going over all the games we found worth noting that came out in 2025 and share our thoughts!
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Top 10 Video Game Systems
We polled about a dozen and a half people in our tiny Discord server (as well as a few close friends of the podcast hosts) for their favorite video game systems. It might be a small sample size, but it's our sample size, and we're here to share the results! See how they weighed the best video game systems against your personal tastes in this fun episode of the Talks Podcast that kicks off 2026.
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GameCube Retrospective + Game Awards Announcements
For our final podcast episode of 2025, we're looking back fondly on everyone's favorite cube-shaped console released by Nintendo in November 2001. We're going to discuss all the nuts and bolts; the hardware, third and first party support, and more! And later, we do our due diligence and run through the new games revealed at The Game Awards earlier this month.
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1997 Year-in-Gaming Retrospective
1997 was a pretty crazy year, for being so far back. Lots of strong releases on the various systems out around this time. Even if we don't have exact dates for some of these due to the nature of tracking that information from so long ago, we're going to give it our best shot and talk about a bunch of cool and not-so-cool video games released in the year 1997.
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Game Boy Advance Retrospective
The Game Boy Advance was an unstoppable juggernaut of a handheld system during its short time as the main handheld system offered by Nintendo. With a massive catalog of great games spanning both new titles and ports or remakes of older classics, and strange peripherals and other functionality like Game Boy Advance Video and GameCube connectivity, the GBA really was one hell of a system. Let's talk about it.
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2001 Year-in-Gaming Retrospective
It's time for another retrospective look at gaming in a bygone year. This time, the Stooges discuss the legendary year of 2001, a year when there were briefly 4 major consoles on the market, support for the previous generation of gaming was still booming, and we lived in simpler times.
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Our Gaming Hot Takes
For the spooky time of year, we're discussing some spooky ideas about gaming! In this episode, hear what the group has to say about unpopular opinions they have, and also hear a lot of rebuttals to those opinions.
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Pokémon - Generation VI
As we continue our podcast series talking about individual generations of main series Pokemon games, Generation VI is upon us, the generation of the Kalos region, Mega Evolution, character customization and more. But it's not so wonderous; hear our thoughts on it here.
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Bad Remakes, Ports, and Remasters
We've talked about what it means to be a Remaker, a Remaster, or a Port, but what if we spent an entire episode talking about games that did this WRONG? In this episode we talk about games which missed the mark on being a new or better version of another game.
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3D Mario Platformers
After discussing all of Mario's 2D adventures, the Stooges are revisiting the franchise to discuss Mario's 3D platforming adventures! And Captain Toad is here too. Enjoy this deep dive discussion on all of the current 3D Mario Platformers.
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Console Launches - Part 2
We covered dedicated home consoles last episode, so now it's time for the handhelds! We're going back in time from the Nintendo Switch 2 all the way to the Game Boy and seeing what these handhelds brought to the table when they first came out!
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Console Launches - Part 1
So many gaming consoles, so many launches, so many fun launch lineups and other stuff to talk about! From the PlayStation 5 all the way back to the Atari 2600/VCS, let's talk about the launches for all the major home consoles and see how they measure up!
Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 will be included in the handheld lineup in the next episode, if you're curious.
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PlayStation 3 Retrospective
The underdog of the 7th gen video game consoles, the PS3 had a rocky start, But once it got going, it didn't stop. Hear our thoughts on the roller coaster journey of PlayStation 3.
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2010 Year-In-Gaming Retrosective
It's time to go back to the past again! In this retrospective, we're going back in time to the year 2010 and looking back on all the interesting games we found that came out in North America across that year .Strap in, because 2010? It's stacked!
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2025 Summer Game Announcements
Well, we tried to wait for Nintendo to possibly drop a Direct, but they did not. The show must go on, so let's share our thoughts on all the games announced in June at the various showcases that we will probably forget about within a few months!
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Our Switch 2 Impressions
Nintendo has finally released new hardware with the Nintendo Switch 2! We've all got one and we've had enough time to experience the hardware, so we're here to discuss how we feel about it so far.
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In-Game Puzzles
If video games are challenges to overcome, then sometimes those challenges come in the form of solving simple puzzles. Even in games where the entire game isn't full of puzzles, there might be an aspect of puzzle solving. Those kind of games are what we're here to talk about today!
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Pokemon - Generation V
The fifth generation of Pokemon, which started in North America in March 2011 on the DS with Black and White and followed up in October 2012 with Black 2 and White 2, is a generation adored by many Pokemon fans now. But it wasn't always like that. Still, the Stooges are supporters of this soft reboot of the series and have a lot of great things to say, hear them out and see if you agree.
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Nintendo Switch Online
The Nintendo Switch Online subscription has been fleshed out over the 8 years of the Switch's life to encompass a wide range of benefits. While we touch upon all fo them here, we're doing a deep dive on the replacement to the Virtual Console, with the Nintendo Classics series that come free with your Nintendo Switch Online (and Expansion Pass) subscriptions.
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...Zelda Series - Part 2
Last season we discussed the early days of The Legend of Zelda, covering from the original game in 1986 until the release of The Wind Waker in 2003. Now, we're going to cover all the mainline games released between then and today! There's 11 games in total and we got a lot to discuss. It's dangerous to go alone, take this podcast with you.
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March and April 2025 Nintendo Switch + Switch 2 Directs
We got another double-feature podcast here! Nintendo were madlads and had 2 Directs within a week of each other, one for Switch, and the other devoted to the upcoming Switch 2. We're gonna run through everything shown off at both of these Directs and give our thoughts!
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Shovelware
A new season of GamingStooges Talks is here! And to kick things off, what better topic to cover than bad games? But not just bad games, those kinds of bad games.
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Season 2 Wrap-Up
We're back from a break! And before we kick off a new season of GamingStooges Talks Podcast, let's go back and talk about all the great podcasts we had this past season!
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Mascot Characters + Sony State of Play Feb. 2025
A double feature! This episode we talk about our mascot characters in video games and how things changed over the years, and later, discuss the Sony State of Play from February 2025.
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2024 Year-In-Review
It's that fashionably late time of year again! We're here to talk about all the stuff that came out last year and to talk about what we got to play! Grab your favorite beverage, because it's time to relax and enjoy our 2024 Year In Review!
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Aftermarket Hardware
Some game systems are too popular to truly die. Enter the aftermarket lifespan, when companies supply ways to play our decades old games, often with modern design sensibilities. There's actually a lot of stuff out there like this, so buckle up and let's go for a ride through the world of aftermarket gaming!
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