The Old SwitchAroo: Gaming Retro with Mike and Jaymo |A Nintendo Switch Online retro gaming podcast

Mike and Jaymo
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Explore the retro video games in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog every two weeks as lifelong pals Mike & Jaymo are joined by a whole host of new and old friends. Each episode is a new set of retro games from the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as they further their quest to research & review all 300+ games available on the Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo Classics catalog. Dust off your d-pads and game on, everyone. Check out www.theoldswitcharoo.com for more about the show and bonus game reviews

  1. Lite Switch: Nov 5, 2025 | RTFM

    11월 5일

    Lite Switch: Nov 5, 2025 | RTFM

    In this Lite Switch episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we have some bonus content that couldn't fit in out Season 3 16th bit retrospective. See if you can beat Jaymo at our returning trivia game RTFM, or Read The F---ing Manual, where he's challenged to see how many characters and places he can name based off of how they're described in the original video game manuals that the retro games we played this year would've come with. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (0:57) RTFM Introduction (2:56) RTFM Round One (7:10) RTFM Round Two (15:24) RTFM Round Three (26:50) Outro

    28분
  2. Lite Switch: Oct 22, 2025 | Little Nightmares 3

    10월 22일

    Lite Switch: Oct 22, 2025 | Little Nightmares 3

    On this episode of The Old SwitchAroo: Lite Switch, we take a break from our usual quest to cover all 300+ games in the Nintendo Classics catalog to explore the horrific secrets of the Little Nightmares series with Twitch's RiRiYells! We explore the obscurest regions of Mike's horror movie collection, draw parallels between Six and the demons she fights, and theorize the ways the latest entry, Little Nightmares 3, could come to a chilling end! Be sure to check out Riri on Twitch and tune in at the end of October to watch her and Jaymo roll credits for the first time on Little Nightmares 3!) Find RiRiYells on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ririyells

    54분
  3. S3E16: 16th-bit Retro-Spective Season 3 Finale

    10월 8일

    S3E16: 16th-bit Retro-Spective Season 3 Finale

    It’s time to celebrate the end of another season of The Old SwitchAroo with the 16th-bit Retro-spective Season 3 Finale as Mike and Jaymo reflect on their epic quest to research and review every retro game in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog! In this episode, we bring back “Guess Hosts” so Mike and Jaymo can go head-to-head in a trivia competition with questions brought to us by this season’s great guests, the Old Switcharoonies give a chance to mark the highs and lows of all the games played this season, and Mike and Jaymo talk a little bit about what’s to come in the next season of the podcast and also what they both hope to see coming down the line for Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Classics now that the Switch 2 is out. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (1:25) Introducing Guess Hosts with Kat (3:45) Q1. S03E01 - RiRiYells (5:56) Q2. S03E01 - Derick from Underrated (8:37) Q3. S03E02 - Kyle and Sarah (11:14) Q4. S03E04 - Kristal from the Lazy Circles (14:22) Q5. S03E04 - Nick (17:22) Q6. S03E05 - Warboss5 (20:56) Q7. S03E07 - RiRiYells (24:26) Q8. S03E07 - KylTheSheikah (27:51) Q9. S03E08 - Timmy Williams from Whitest Kids U’ Know and Urn Fulla Popcorn (34:29) Q10. S03E10 - Nate from TrailerBoyz (39:41) Q11. S03E11 - Andrew from Nothing New: A Remake podcast (46:48) Q12. S03E12 - Chico from Wet Frontier (50:30) Q13. S03E13 - Don from the Cable Club League (53:12) Q14. S03E14 - Cyril from Defunct Games (59:55) Q15. S03E15 - Happney (1:02:09) Q16. S03E16 - RiRiYells (1:03:25) Guest Hosts Final Scores (1:08:54) Title Speed Run (1:10:40) The Old SwitchAroonies Award Show (1:34:43) The Old SwitchAroo Swish List (1:40:03) Final Thoughts on Season 3 (1:43:23) Outro Check out all the places to find our participating guests below: Kat on KatCanSew: https://www.youtube.com/@katcansew RiRiYells on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ririyells Derick on the Underrated movie podcast: ⁠https://underratedmoviepodcast.com/⁠ KylTheSheikah on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kylthesheikah Timmy Williams on Urn Fulla Popcorn: https://urnfullapopcorn.com/ Nate Brown on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nateblackest Nate and Timmy on WKUK’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/officialwkuk Andrew on Nothing New A Remake podcast: https://www.benviewnetwork.com/nothingnew Chico at Wet Frontier: https://wetfrontier.com/ Don on the Cable Club League podcast: https://www.thecableclub.com/⁠ Cyril from Defunct Games: https://www.youtube.com/@DefunctGames Also check out Mike on Super Wall Jump: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HnOzskE9WvzgBoYWIHECz Stock image from freepik used in Guess Hosts design

    1시간 45분
  4. S3E15: Crystalis -or- Periodic Fable of Elements

    9월 24일

    S3E15: Crystalis -or- Periodic Fable of Elements

    Happney is as good as his sword when he talks Crystalis (NES, 1990) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! In this episode, we talk about the influence of Studio Ghibli films like Castle in the Sky and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Crystalis, try to figure out if this was SNK’s answer to The Legend of Zelda, and the ways that the aesthetics of this game seem to overlap with other classic Nintendo games. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (1:16) Welcoming Happney (2:50) Crystalis (42:58) Mini-Game Minute: Frozen in Time (50:05) Crystalis (cont’d) (59:58) NintenDO or NintenDON’T Crystalis Manual: https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Crystalis-Game-Manual.pdf Crystalis - NES commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gZA1aP51nk Crystalis Speed Run Race in 1:05:51 at #SGDQ 2013 [NES] | SpeedDemosArchiveSDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlDT89G_Cmo Crystalis Week: The Miyazaki Connection | Kid Fenris: http://www.kidfenris.com/2018/11/crystalis-week-miyazaki-connection.html Mikes RPG Center: https://mikesrpgcenter.com/crystalis/index.html 'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show by Claire Phipps | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show

    1시간 4분
  5. S3E14: The Ghosts 'n Goblins trilogy -or- History Doomed to Repeat Itself

    9월 10일

    S3E14: The Ghosts 'n Goblins trilogy -or- History Doomed to Repeat Itself

    Cyril from Defunct Games armors up for Ghosts ‘n Goblins (NES), Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive), and Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (SNES) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! In this episode, we talk about the value of preserving contemporary game reviews of retro video games, Capcom’s mostly forgotten former mascot Captain Commando and the Captain Commando Challenge Series, what the challenges are for ports of arcade games, and Cyril shares his experience as part of GamePro Magazine’s Team GamePro. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠ where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (1:19) Welcoming Cyril (5:20) Ghosts ‘n Goblins (43:24) Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (1:14:53) Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (1:48:14) Ranking Retro (1:50:15) NintenDO or NintenDON’T Defunct Games is at http://www.defunctgames.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@DefunctGames Ghosts ‘n Goblins manual: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NABCE.pdf Ghouls ‘n Ghosts manual: https://manuals.sega.com/genesismini/pdf/GHOULS_N_GHOSTS.pdf Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts manual: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/common/pdf/CLV-P-SABDE.pdf The 50 Most S*** Hot Games Ever | Hyper #50 December 1997, p47-52: https://archive.org/details/hyper-050/page/n45/mode/2up IGN’s Top 100 Games: https://web.archive.org/web/20141207120250/http://top100.ign.com/2003/ Les 100 meilleurs jeux de tous les temps: https://www.jeuxvideo.com/dossiers/00014196/les-100-meilleurs-jeux-de-tous-les-temps.htm Top 100 Video Games of All Time | G4TV : https://web.archive.org/web/20141123063703/http://www.g4tv.com/top-100 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by Tony Mott: https://www.amazon.com/1001-Video-Games-Must-Before/dp/B005DI8LX2 The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time by Bo Moore | Popular Mechanics (2014): https://www.videogamecanon.com/lists/popular-mechanics-2014/ Los 100 mejores videojuegos de la historia by John Tones and Carlos Carabaña : https://www.revistagq.com/noticias/tecnologia/galerias/los-100-mejores-videojuegos-de-la-historia/8951 Ghosts 'N Goblins by ERROR72 in 23:48 - SGDQ2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSnUpA2RQ18 Gamer of the Year 2022: Let Me Solo Her by Tyler Colp | PC Gamer: https://www.pcgamer.com/gamer-of-the-year-2022-let-me-solo-her/ Super MadNES - Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts SNES - "Haunted Graveyard" [Stage 1] - Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FCExhVssi0 Story Breakdown Cannon Spike (Dreamcast) | Defunct Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9U3V0yrObg Calling All GamePros | Game #19 February 1991, p. 10: https://www.retromags.com/files/file/2909-gamepro-issue-019-february-1991 Introducing Team GamePro | Game Pro #25 August 1991, p. 12: https://archive.org/details/game-pro-issue-25-august-1991/page/n13/mode/2up Cyril Lachel on Game Pro TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3b68rHt1aQ Electronic Gaming Monthly's Best & Worst Awards of 1989 | Defunct Games : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=resrK7BdzqE Truancy | A Bit of Fry and Laurie S04E07: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptbb0etSU08 Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts by NME in 39:59 - AGDQ2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpDqAPc031o Electronic Gaming Monthly's Best & Worst Awards of 1989 | Defunct Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-rPOG09QtY Holy Diver - Collector’s Edition | Retro Bit: https://retro-bit.com/holy-diver/ Nintendo Classics: Top 276 Games on Nintendo Switch Online (According to the Critics) | Defunct Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx4z7v98kU Ghouls 'n Ghosts by Aquas and dosboxfalco in 19:29 - AGDQ2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNYgfyITlA

    2시간 1분
  6. S3E13: Mega Man The Wily Wars -or- Doctor, Doctor Give me the Pews

    8월 27일

    S3E13: Mega Man The Wily Wars -or- Doctor, Doctor Give me the Pews

    Don from the Cable Club League is powering up his mega buster for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, 1994) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! Mega Man: The Wily Wars is a compilation action platformer game combining Mega Man, Mega Man 2, and Mega Man 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System plus a bonus game for the Sega Genesis, Wily Tower. In this episode, we look at the questionable gaming magazine advertising behind the short-lived Sega Channel, Rock the Rock to the musical stylings of the Protomen, the internet’s theories on Guts Man and Dr. Wiley scandalize Jaymo, and Mike generally disappoints Don. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, social media, bonus articles, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (1:10) Welcoming Don (4:13) Mega Man: The Wily Wars (47:37) Mini-Game Minute: Super Fighting Robots (55:31) Mega Man: The Wily Wars (cont’d) (1:13:48) NintenDO or NintenDON’T The Cable Club League can be found at https://www.thecableclub.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@TheCableClubPodcast Mega Man: The Wily War manual: https://www.retrogames.cz/manualy/Genesis/Mega_Man-The_Wily_Wars_-_Genesis_-_Manual.pdf How Mega Man Ended Up With the Worst Video Game Box Art Ever by Gavin Jasper | Den of Geek: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/how-mega-man-ended-up-with-the-worst-video-game-box-art-ever/⁠ MegaMan 2, What's with the pistol??!! by Marc Ericksen |  RetroGameArt.com: https://www.retrogameart.com/2012/11/megaman-2-whats-with-pistol.html⁠ Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works | https://archive.org/details/MegaManMegaManXOfficialCompleteWorksByKBG/mode/2up Ransom Sega Channel ad | GamePro Issue 77, December 1995, p.170: https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_077_December_1995/page/n169/mode/2up⁠ Tombstone Sega Channel ad | Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 68, March 1995, p.12: https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_68/page/n11/mode/2up Mega Man by Coolkid, Endy, Dxtr and Whitehat94 in 24:01 - AGDQ 2017 - Part 6 | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8sk11p1bDw⁠  Mega Man 2 by coolkid in 27:02 - AGDQ 2022 Online | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQaRTDvthA⁠ Mega Man 3 by ColonelFatso in 34:11 SGDQ2019 | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rf_ISaE30⁠ Dice Sound Effect by u_ngsgp0r6zb from Pixabay

    1시간 21분
  7. S3E12: F-Zero and F-Zero 99 -or- Crashing Out!

    8월 13일

    S3E12: F-Zero and F-Zero 99 -or- Crashing Out!

    Chico D Mar is at the starting line for F-Zero (SNES, 1990) and F-Zero 99 (Switch, 2023) as he joins Mike and Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! In this episode, we appreciate the character design from Takaya Imamura and the comic book artwork from Valiant Comics, including both the box art and an in-manual comic drawn by Arthur Nichols. We also learn how Captain Falcon was originally intended to be a mascot for the Super Famicom and how the music from F-Zero was so good that it led to a 1992 jazz album of the same name featuring musicians like blues, jazz, and rock guitarist Robben Ford and saxophonist Marc Russo. Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (1:48) Welcoming Chico (6:05) F-Zero (47:48) Mini-Game Minute: Science Faction (54:06) F-Zero 99 (1:23:48) NintenDO or NintenDON’T Chico’s comic is at https://wetfrontier.com/ (and check out this episode's cover art, also by Chico) F-Zero manual: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/common/pdf/CLV-P-SAABE.pdf Captain Falcon was Originally the SNES' Mascot and Other Super Nintendo Facts You Didn't Know by Nadia Oxford | VG247: https://www.vg247.com/captain-falcon-was-originally-the-snes-mascot-and-other-super-nintendo-facts-you-didnt-know The F-Zero Press Conference by IGN Staff | IGN: https://web.archive.org/web/20070214011100/http://cube.ign.com/articles/427/427647p1.html

    1시간 30분
  8. S3E11: Clu Clu Land, Mario's Picross and Super Picross -or- Steganographic Imagery Viewer Discretion Advised

    7월 30일

    S3E11: Clu Clu Land, Mario's Picross and Super Picross -or- Steganographic Imagery Viewer Discretion Advised

    Andrew Linde from “Nothing New: A Remake Podcast” uncovers hard truths about Clu Clu Land (NES, 1985), Mario’s Picross (Game Boy, 1995), and Mario’s Super Picross (SNES, 1995) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! In this revealing episode, we discuss how Animal Crossing helped expose a new generation to retro titles, how Bubbles the balloonfish made waves as a female protagonist before the likes of Lara Croft and Samus Aran, why Mario’s Super Picross had to clear a Tetris, and our picks for the greatest movie remakes of all time. Plus, Mike & Andrew go head to head in our hilarious Pictionary-esque Mini-Game Minute: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Squares! Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more! Game on, everyone. (0:00) Intro (01:18) Welcoming Andrew Linde (05:13) Clu Clu Land (35:44) Mario’s Picross & Mario's Super Picross (1:04:22) Mini-Game Minute: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Squares (1:07:38) Mario’s Picross & Mario's Super Picross (continued) (1:29:38) NintenDO or NintenDON’T (1:38:51) Outro Andrew Linde can be found on Instagram at @podcasterandrew “Nothing New: A Remake Podcast” is a proud member of the Benview Network and can be found on all major podcasting platforms or on their website at http://www.benviewnetwork.com/nothingnew Clu Clu Land manual: https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Clu-Clu-Land-Game-Manual.pdf Mario’s Picross manual: https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Marios-Picross-Game-Manual.pdf Mario’s Picross commercial (you’ve been warned) | TheMarioBros.net : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeu8ufp0Ru0 Mario’s Picross Manga Collection : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miloscat/albums/72157672675157917/ Check out some of the other nonogram-based games Mike has been playing in a new review on our web site: https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com/blog/quick-reviews-non-stop-nonograms/

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Explore the retro video games in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog every two weeks as lifelong pals Mike & Jaymo are joined by a whole host of new and old friends. Each episode is a new set of retro games from the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as they further their quest to research & review all 300+ games available on the Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo Classics catalog. Dust off your d-pads and game on, everyone. Check out www.theoldswitcharoo.com for more about the show and bonus game reviews

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