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Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-03-09

This Week: Entirely too much time on why its hard to get Pokémon Cards, appropriate time negotiating wishes with a genie, Presents + Indie World, Resident Evil Requiem, FFVII Remake, and Blippo+

It's Episode 966: Increase Your Sneak With This One Weird Trick

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A parchment poster featuring a man with a golf shirt and a Bycocket hat on the left. He is looking around a corner at an armored knight looking the other way. At the top is a proclamation reading, "Burgmeardas Hatad Hine!" In the bottom right there is another reading, "Pilfer the gold with this one odd breg! Leorn paet sob nu".
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-03-01

This week we do our Top Five Games of 2025.

That's it. Sometimes that's all there is to say.

It's Episode 965: LEGO Voyeurs

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A LEGO man, dressed as a thief, stands outside a window of a suburban house at night, peering within. Inside, a young couple lays on a bed, cuddling presumably pre-coitus. The entire scene is sexually charged.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-02-23

This week: No Jon, No Top 5. Instead we talk Virtual Boy, Xenoblade X for Switch 2, tugging Mario's face, Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Punisher, The Hundred Line, Pokemon Company, and ...Morbius.

It's Episode 964: It's Bokoblin Time

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A listing in an online shop under the category of "Gamer Tees" that has a white t-shirt with a Zelda Bokoblin character on the front. Emblazeoned across the image is the phrase, "It's Bokoblin time!"
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-02-16

Jane Goodall & a guy in a DK suit walk onto a soundstage...

We're selling you stuff, directly!

We're also playing Pragmata demo, FFVII Remake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, The Hundred Line.

It's Episode 963: Bending Time and Space to Market Donkey Konga

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The deck of a spaceship. A brown haired man sits facing away from the camera, with only the back of his head visible above his captain's chair. A medieval knight and Neanderthal man stand and crouch behind him, respectively. On a screen above them is a woman holding a copy of Donkey Konga 2 with the bongo controllers next to her.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-02-08

This week: There was a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase

We got games like Pragmata, Tokyo Scramble, Hamster remains unkillable, and Final Fantasy VII Remake part 2.

But we're busy creating a very stupid sports game.

It's Episode 962: Flat Earther: Y/N?

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A baseball player profile for a mustachioed white first baseman named Pierre Pants. He's number 8 and wears a red cap and jersey. His Hitting and Fielding stats are listed (with an impressive 8/10 Hitting Power rating with 82% Hitting Accuracy), but of particular interest are his Attributes. They include: Gym Rat; Afraid of Clowns; Flat Earther; Competitive Junky [sic], Injury Prone, and Gambling Debts. Never let him near a press conference microphone.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-02-02

This week we managed next to nothing, two emails: NSO omissions and surprise Hall of Fame games.

We also talk about the Mario Galaxy Movie, and Tomodachi Life Directs.

Episode 961: Only Games With the Cultural Cachet of Quest for Camelot May Apply

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A nightclub, "Club Nintendo", has a line to get in with a bouncer managing the door. There are "Rejected" and "Approved" signs stamped on who gets in and who doesn't. Four characters, including a banana, Ash from Pokémon , Tetra from Wind Waker, and Ayla from Chrono Trigger, are rejected. A brunette woman is approved.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-01-26

This week: Talking Flower and new amiibo, FFVII Remake on S2, Stray Children, Yars: Recharged. Also, best fishing minigames and potential Switch 2 ports that give us pause.

It's Episode 960: Thunderstruck for Some Striped Bass

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A man in a rowboat rows across a lake wearing, curiously, a paperboy's hat. He has an electric guitar propped up like a fishing pole behind him, and a bass fish hangs from it. Emblazoned in the top-left is a logo reading "AC/DC Bass Thunderstruck", indicating that this is indeed the Rock Band Clone/Fishing game hybrid you've been searching for.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-01-19

WE'RE BACK with a boatload of New Business.

Metroid Prime 4, Once Upon a Katamari, Atari 50 DLC, Path of Radiance, BallXPit and a whole lot more!

It's Episode 959: Clip and Clop Are the New Horace

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Horace Showpony is on Mt. Rushmore, as the 4th head on the right. James has a demolition  plunger with wires attached to the Showpony head. Two Katamari characters look on, anticipating the impending destruction.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-01-09

Happy New Year - let's go back to 2003 with our RetroActive on Soulcalibur II!

We talk swords and swords, eternally.

Well, for about 2.25 hours.

It's Episode 958: You Got to Take It Back to the 1400s Sometimes

Happy New Year - let's go back to 2003 with our RetroActive on Soulcalibur II!

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An armored man with a drawn sword, shield, and flowing blonde hair stands in front of a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder. This confrontation is outside a castle. A floating flame is nearby.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-01-09

This week is our last episode of 2025!

We do our take on a Dickens classic. Talk about Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (again).

Also Absolum, Wario World, and Metroid Prime 4.

It's Episode 957: Killed by Jabba's Smart Doorbell

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A Jawa from Star Wars is standing in front of a stone door. A mechanical eye protruding from the wall is staring at them, with a hammer clutched by a mechanical arm raised above its head.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2026-01-09

This Week: Wario World, TGA suffering, Metroid Prime 4. Also a quiz about Tak?

Eliminating a Nintendo franchise to save the world?

What the hell even is this podcast...

It's Episode 956: Every Day Is Nintendo Today

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A bulletin board with Nintendo Today at the top of two posted Calendars. To the right is a  poster that says "HE IS WATCHING" at the top with a picture of a cloud with protruding spikes and an eye in the middle.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-12-09

This week: We tackle Metroid Prime 4 takes! Also, impressions if we must.

Kirby Air Riders, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Absolum!

Reminder: our RetroActive on Soulcalibur II is 10ish days away

It's Episode 955: A Metroid? I'm Seventeen Years Old and What is This?

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Samus Aran doing the "How are you, fellow kids?" meme. Standing in a high school hallway talking to a teenage girl and guy, backwards ball cap, carrying a skateboard.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-11-30

This week: Kirby Air Riders, Age of Calamity, Ball X Pit, and Black Friday "deals".

Also: Jon Lindemann trivia

And: OUR NEXT RETROACTIVE

It's Episode 954: Thangsgiving
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A Thanksgiving dinner with two women and two men praying, with one man and the turkey pixelated out to obscure their identities.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-11-30

This Week: Age of Imprisonment, finding an Octopus, buying bad games for children, freaking out over a tutorial character, and the sameness of Switch 2.

It's Episode 953: Get a Grip, Game Journalists

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A Nintendo website with all bad news. The headlines are as follows: "Previews: Metroid Prime 4 Sucks Now"; "UK Charts: Z to A a Bust"; "Week 27: Drifting Into Winter". The authors for the first two articles are "The Joker Jlindemann" and "Mike 'Chartz' Shartz".
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-11-30

THIS WEEK: the limits of our game collections, "better" handheld versions, and the best minigames.

Also: Kirby Air Riders, Age of Imprisonment, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Taito Milestones 3

It's Episode 952: My Name Used To Be on the Masthead, James

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Jon Lindemann at a podium giving a lecture, with the masthead of the Nintendo World Report website on the projector screen behind him. Two attendees in the front row say, "His name isn't even up there!" and "When did we get a lecture hall?"
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-11-30

THIS WEEK: A lot of Bananza, a little Z to A, some Arcade Archives GROWL, Luigi's Mansion, & Jon's report on the now-useful PlayStation Portal.

Also: Itagaki's legacy and games we've ruined.

It's Episode 951: Unleashing Tingle Upon Hyrule

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Tingle chained to a pillar in a Roman colosseum, with a sword lodged in his side. Two ghostly figures look on.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-11-03

This week: we answer two emails - explaining Saudi's EA investment and making Metroid "popular."

Talk about impossible tasks...

We also cover the Animal Crossing update and Capcom doing Capcpom Things.

It's Episode 950: Nice Quality of Life for the Sickos

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A man at a desk crafts multiple items in Animal Crossing. He has ears like his favorite AC character, a portrait of which is on the wall to his right.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-10-27

THIS WEEK: Syrenne joins us.

Pokemon Legends: Z to A remains a city, I guess. Clair Obscur is that cartoonishly French. and Ghost of Yotei is here also.

Also there was A SECOND KIRBY DIRECT!

It's Episode 949: Ponder the Gummies

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A drawer labeled "Research" full of gummy bear candies, with an anime character submerged within them.
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-10-20

This week: a very cursory look at Pokémon Legends: Z to A, Super Mario 64 and Galaxy 2, South of Midnight, Atari 50 DLC, and dumb garbage James is inflicting on people.

It's Episode 948: The Reluctant Messiah of Albuquerque

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A bald man with a backpack and camping gear, back to the camera, is walking out of a cave. In the distance is the skyline of a city at dusk. A rabbit is to his left, and posted at the cave exit is a blue neon sign reading, "Welcome to Downtown Albuquerque".
Radio Free Nintendorfnpodcast
2025-10-13

THIS WEEK: Close to You, Nintendo Vs. System, and games we took forever to beat in the Listener Mail segment.

New Business: Books, Bananza, Mario 64, Mario Galaxy 2, Wario & Mario. So much Mario. Also King Kong.

It's Episode 947: It's Open Season On Jonny-L

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In the wilderness, a rabbit and duck look at a yellow notice on a tree. It reads "JONNY-L SEASON", with the face of a handsome, wise bald man (strangely reminiscent of Jon Lindemann) underneath it.

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