Dads After Dark Show - A Nintendo Podcast

John & Drew give their reviews of the Mario Movie and John flies solo discussing what he's been playing and gives an update on Monthly Mayhaaaaam! (WARNING: MARIO MOVIE SPOILERS BETWEEN 31:24 and 54:19!) And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John & Drew showcase 10 collectibles they own that are their favorites. You'll see NES items, cards, plushies and the Virtual Boy even makes an appearance! They also discuss the Tears of the Kingdom footage we saw from Aonuma this week and what they loved the best from it. And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John and Drew eulogize the greatest stylus-based consoles in Nintendo's history, the 3DS and Wii U. Hear our favorite games, the games you need to buy and our memories with the systems. PLUS the games we played including Wargroove, Have A Nice Death, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Super Mario World and more! Our 90-Second Reviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DadsAfterDarkShow And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John and Drew are joined by the Nintendo Dads' Justin Masson and share some laughs as they discuss The Mario Movie Direct, Pokemon Presents and then dive into Justin's growing love for social gaming! PLUS the games we played including Hogwarts Legacy, LIVE A LIVE, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, Lost Frontier, Soccer Story, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza & The Lost Demon & more! Our 90-Second Reviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DadsAfterDarkShow And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John & Drew announce our February review contest WINNERS, work through what's contributing to Drew's "gaming rut," and John seeks a replacement for the Scarlet/Violet games. AND MORE! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John and Drew get open and honest about how hot gaming characters influence our gaming habits. How much more interesting is Tomb Raider because of Lara? Uncharted with Nathan Drake? Would Witcher III be the same without Triss Merigold making things so titillating? Let's dig in! PLUS the games we played including Dust & Neon, Hogwarts Legacy, Blanc, Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, LIVE A LIVE, Dead Cells & more! Our 90-Second Review of Blanc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvrcm42WnrM And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John does a complete wrapup of the Sony State of Play! We got updated information on PSVR4, Baldur's Gate, Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 Remake & more! The Sony Playstation 5 (PS5) is gonna be a fun place to play in 2023! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

A New Mayhem is here! Listen to check out the rules and join Discord to Compete! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John and Drew dive headlong into the latest Nintendo Direct! We've got Pikmin 4, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance coming to Nintendo Switch Online, a new Don't Nod game, Metroid Prime Remastered, that Tears of the Kingdom trailer and DLC aplenty! PLUS the games we played including Fire Emblem Engage, Bayonetta 3, Bravery and Greed, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap & more! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

Three and a half months after the Bayonetta 3 controversy, Bayonetta 2 superfan, John of Colorado fame, has grabbed a used copy of the game and completed the story. After all this time, what did he think of it? Is it the 9/10 IGN gave it...like they give every game it seems? Here is his Bayonetta 3 review. Check out our selection of products from RedBubble: https://bit.ly/dads-merch https://bit.ly/dads-merch-classic https://bit.ly/dads-merch-alternate https://bit.ly/dads-merch-spooky

John and Drew are joined by Andy P AKA The Ninformant as they discuss all the Dad stuff a freshly-minted 40 year old needs to discuss: Tooth Fairies, belly-button lint, ants on a log...what more could you want? Oooookay fine, IF you need more, they also discuss the launch of Fire Emblem Engage, The Last of Us TV series and a whole lot more! PLUS the games we played including Goldeneye, Hi-Fi Rush, Bug Fables, Pokemon Sword and FINALLY Drew has completed Sports Story and he has a whole bunch to say about it--none of it good! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble:  https://bit.ly/dads-merch-shop

John and Drew play a game of favorites as they blindly take a set of questions and answer them LIVE on the show without preparation. Favorite soundtrack? What game do they hate that everyone loves? Hear them out and answer along with 'em on this special episode!

Drew's been saiiiiiilin' and has made his return to land to join John for another episode of the Dads After Dark Show! We discuss what we're most excited for in 2023 with Nintendo, buying habits in the gaming industry these days and John's HYPED for Playstation's The Last of Us to begin on HBO Max! PLUS the games we played including The Messenger, HEROish, The Walking Dead's Final Season, Mario Strikers: Battle League and Tactics Ogre: Reborn! And now we have merch! Check out our selection of products from RedBubble:  https://bit.ly/dads-merch https://bit.ly/dads-merch-classic https://bit.ly/dads-merch-alternate https://bit.ly/dads-merch-spooky

Giving out GOTY awards is so much fun that John, Hambone and Bob got together to give out several more. Listen while they cheat like crazy behind Drew's back and have a lot of fun with new categories such as Most Disappointing Game of 2022 and Favorite Music!

John & Drew kick off Season 4 with a whole lot of gaming during their Christmas week break! Then, there's the drama of Sports Story and the state of its launch by Sidebar Games. Also, what are our 2023 Gaming Goals and who is in our dream threesomes? PLUS the games we played including Dragon Quest Treasures, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, Sports Story, Cult of the Lamb, Omori and Witcher III!

John & Drew spend a little extra time before Christmas to check in with one another and then judge the Beat Your Backlog contest! Who had the best backlog story and won the $15 eShop grand prize! What a great way to pay for Sports Story on Day 1, right?!

John & Drew are joined by Hambone Jonny and Bob Coozy as we go through our Top 10 Games of the Year!  In addition, we've got special categories such as Hottest New Character and Most Difficult Game! Plus, we play another round of Dads After Dark trivia.  PLUS the games we played including Crisis Core, Omori and Freshly Frosted!  Got a question for the show?

Take a little December journey with John, on his S.S. Series X with Game Pass, as he plays all the games he's queued up this year for a month such as this. Why the Xbox Diaries? Find out...and hear him give talk about Somerville, Pentiment, a second run of As Dusk Falls and more!

Take a little December journey with John, on his S.S. Series X with Game Pass, as he plays all the games he's queued up this year for a month such as this. Why the Xbox Diaries? Find out...and hear him give his final review of As Dusk Falls!

Drew & John discuss all their favorite movies and TV shows that they've seen this year. White Lotus, Mythic Quest and Rings of Power all get play. Plus...The Knobbit? What's that?

Take a little December journey with John, on his S.S. Series X with Game Pass, as he plays all the games he's queued up this year for a month such as this. Why the Xbox Diaries? Find out...and hear him give his final review of A Plague Tale: Requiem!

John & Drew talk the new Mario Movie trailer, Switch Sports finally gets golf, gift exchanging with your spouse, the Game Awards is going to be shorter than usual (huzzah!), and a look back at our 2022 predictions...how did we do?? PLUS the games we played including A Plague Tale: Requiem, Super Arcade Soccer, Inscryption, Pokemon Unite, Pokemon Violet, Rogue Legacy 2 and Persona 5 Royal!

Take a little December journey with John, on his S.S. Series X with Game Pass, as he plays all the games he's queued up this year for a month such as this. Why the Xbox Diaries? Find out...and hear him talk about Disc Room, As Dusk Falls and A Plague Tale: Requiem!

John & Drew talk Indie World, The Game Awards' GOTY nominations, Witcher III's update finally has a release date, what's wrong with Pokemon, YOUR questions and the return of Snack Break! PLUS the games we played including Pokemon Violet, Rogue Legacy 2, Persona 5 Royal, God of War, Miles Morales and A Little to the Left!

Drew & John announce Presents After Dark, a community holiday gift exchange, a new Monthly Mayhem that has you playing your backlog to win a prize and there's even a new bounty for Nintendo's upcoming Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

John & Drew talk Halloween movies, gaming addiction, the Witcher recasting Henry Cavill, Aaron Carter, Nintendo's upcoming Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, decorating for Christmas time, and YOUR questions including what kind of pie would you romance? PLUS the games we played including Ubisoft's Mario & Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Divinity Original Sin II, Playstation's God of War, Atlus's Persona 5 Royal, Disney Dreamland Valley, CAPCOM's Resident Evil VIII, Return to Monkey Island & Mario Party 2!

John & Drew are enjoying spooky season by sharing the movies they've been watching such as Fear Street and also reveal their Top 10 Spooky Games ever! John also dips in to the revelations that Bayonetta isn't IN Bayonetta and they answer your questions...all while where Halloween costumes! Including the games we've played: Mario & Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Bloodstained, Savage Halloween, Dicey Dungeons, Inscryption, Inmost and more!

John's back with a Top List, this time for narrative games! There are so many different types and styles from developers like Don't Nod and Supermassive Games and more! Not into narrative games but looking to try a couple? Get a lead on one that may be best for you for any console!

John & Drew revel over the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer reveal, discuss Killer Queen Black ending its online services just 3 years after launch, answer listener questions about fleshlights and cap this big show off with our favorite game on every Nintendo console from the NES all the way up to the Switch! Including the games we've played: Resident Evil 4, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Horizon Zero Dawn, Disgaea 5 Complete and more!

John & Drew discuss the Nintendo Direct that was only 4 months late, LEGO Mighty Bowser is days away from release (are you getting it?) and answer your most personal questions! Fire Emblem, Pikmin 4 and Octopath Traveler II are coming!! Including the games we've played: Shovel Knight Dig, Splatoon 3, The Quarry, Immortality, Tinykin and more!

Nintendo Dads Discord member @cwagmire (giggity) asked the Dads, in no uncertain terms, are there too many games? It's a question John's wrestled with, too. So, on this special episode, we go about answering exactly that. Or, at least we try to answer it. Well, it may not be THE answer but it's A answer. So there's that. And now we ask you all...are there too many games? Let us know on Twitter @NDadsAfterDark!

Splatoon 3 is here, maybe a Direct, a whole slew of Disney games are revealed and Drew shares his day of fun with Hambone & The Cooz! It's another episode of The Dads After Dark Show! Including the games we've played: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (Season 3), Lego Brawls, Fairune Collection, Disney Dreamlight Valley, The Last of Us: Part 1, Infernax and Splatoon 3.

There's no baseball tonight, so John sat down to discuss his Top 10 favorite roguelikes. A faaaairly new, favorite genre of his, he has OPINIONS on what makes a good roguelike (or roguelite), which are his favorite and which, well, NOT so much. You'll hear about Spelunky, Hades, Binding of Isaac, Don't Starve and many more...but where do they stand in his rankings...if at all?! Almost all of these titles can be found on PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation or Xbox!

Drew is back from vacation, has all the COVID, they had a bounty claimed WHILE THEY WERE RECORDING and John & Drew talk dirty movies, Sony PS5's price bump and they give a final take on Xenoblade Chronicles 3! Also, more on the other games they've been playing including Cursed to Golf, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Don't Nod's Gerda: A Flame In Winter. Got a question?

John played Grindstone and knew right away this was a "Johnny Game," but what was it that made him feel that way? In this SPECIAL Dads After Dark Show episode, John talks about the features that make a game great to him annnnnd the things that are huge red flags. Examples such as Tomb Raider, Breath of the Wild, Uncharted and many more come up in this episode! What's your list of likes and not-so-likes in games? Got a question?

After being flooded by all manner of Directs, John & Drew give their opinions on what we've seen of Splatoon 3, Fall Guys Sonic Edition, Kirby's Dream Buffet...and Hogwarts Legacy! Plus, the games we've been playing including Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Mario Party Superstars! Got a question?

John & Drew enjoy each other's company, so what better way to spend a Monday evening than to chit chat about Nintendo games! They talk Mario Strikers, Switch Sports, Monster Hunter, Cursed to Golf, Super Punch Out, Splatoon 3, Xenoblade 3--look, they talked about a lot of games! Sit back, relax and enjoy some chatter!

John is back from Disneyland just in time to join Drew & Cooz to talk Nintendo updates including Switch Sports and Mario Strikers, a critique about our Stray spoilercast, questions from the listeners and Xenoblade Chronicles 3! Plus, the games we've been playing including Kirby & The Forgotten Land, Grindstone and Fall Guys!

John, Hambone Jonny and Tim from Nintendo Dads get together to talk about Stray, the PC/Playstation exclusive adventure where you, an adorable kitty, must save a city that has been sealed from the Outside world! They review the story, gameplay, trophies and give their final reviews...and spoiler alert: they all loved the game!

So we didn't get a Nintendo Direct, but hey...we got a whole buffet! Following on the Partner Direct, Nintendo's dropped news on a new Splatoon OLED Model, Kirby's Dream Buffet and John's brain exploded upon finally seeing a full Bayonetta 3 trailer and release date! Also, Drew broke a toe and plays "Golf or Porn," because what else would you expect? Plus, the games we've been playing including Into the Breach, Fire Emblem: Three Hopes & more! Got a question?

John surprises Drew with a Nintendo trivia contest! Can he get more right than wrong? Some of the questions are based on his favorite games, too! Play along with us and let us know how many questions YOU got right!

Happy 4th of July! On this week's show, John & Drew catch up on not one, but TWO, Nintendo Directs including more news on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and 3rd party games coming out later this year! Did Drew go on vacation and stay in a castle? When's the last time John threw up? We've got THREE new bounties and hear about our newest Monthly Mayhem! Plus, the games we've been playing including Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Mario Strikers, Persona 5, Slay the Spire & more! Got questions?

For the second week in a row, Nintendo has delivered a Direct! This time, it's a Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase. We saw a couple dozen games, some we knew about, some we didn't. Persona is coming to Switch as well as Neir: Automata! We also got new game announcements such as Blanc, Harvestella and Super Bomberman R2! Which were your favorites? What did you think of the show? John breaks down everything we heard and what he thinks on a SPECIAL episode of the Dads After Dark Show! Got a question?

Summer is approaching and that means it's time for summer game announcements. Summer Game Fest brought us tons of presentations from Xbox, Bethesda, CAPCOM, Digital Devolver and so many more! We go through all the highlights and decide, when Nintendo is ready, what Direct would really blow us away. We're going to be DROWNING in games in a couple weeks! Plus, the games we've been playing including Mario Strikers, Persona 5, Switch Sports and John's started Returnal! Got a question?

John & Drew cannot wait for Mario Strikers: Battle League and it's just a few days away now! They celebrate Strikers week by discussing the Demo that Nintendo released over the weekend, review the game mechanics and then discuss the "Dads After Dark" club that's forming for the game's launch! JOIN THEM and rule the soccerrrrrr-footballing world! Plus, it's time for TV Dads and they discuss shows like Stranger Things, The Boys & more! And discussions of the games they've been playing including PAC-Man Museum+, Persona 5, Darkest Dungeon, Mario Golf, and...Hammer Kid?! Got a question?

Drew continues to do nothing as John, and special guests Hambone Jonny and Eston, cheat like crazy and talk Sony Playstation 5 once again! This time, it's all about Sony's Faux-E3 2022 State of Play announcements: Resident Evil IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Stray, Street Fighter VI & so much more! Plus, what they've been playing! Got a question?

It's EPISODE 100 and John & Drew are joined by (who else?!) Hambone & Coozie! They reminisce about the show and everything that took it to 100 episodes including a trivia contest, callback to episode 15, a special ad read and a SURPRISE Gauntlet! They discuss Nintendo's concerns with how to build a successor to the Switch and celebrate the announcement that Fall Guys is finally coming to Nintendo Switch! PLUS, talk about all the games they've been playing including Eternal Hope, God of War, Gran Turismo 7, Mario Golf 64, Darkest Dungeon, Persona 5 & more! Celebrate episode 100 with the Dads After Dark! Got a question?

Indie World is always polarizing, but maybe none more so than this one. John loved it and Drew...haaaated it. What games were worthy of our attention and why wasn't there just one more thing? John & Drew discuss Nintendo's Indie landscape, review Drew's terrible week and talk about what games they've been playing this week including Dungeon of Dreadrock and Persona 5! Got a question?

Switch Sports is here and Drew & John are left wondering...where's the rest of it? A lack of special modes, limited availability of bonus items and more absences leave them perplexed. PLUS, find out the numerous ways you can win eShop cash with multiple unclaimed bounties, hear our reviews of Nobody Saves the World and Disco Elysium (among other games) and how would YOU take advantage of 2-hour demos of every game on eShop? Think it's fantasy? Playstation is going to be doing just that! Got a question?

Help talk John down from the ledge as he watches how the most hyped up year for Nintendo in a DECADE has become a sad trombone 4 months in. No Breath of the Wild 2, no Mario Movie, no Advance Wars and not even the Fire Emblem that we really wanted! Why have things gone sideways for Nintendo and how can they improve? John’s here to tell the Big N how to save the year! (Hopefully.) Got a question?