TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games

TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games episodes:

• 06.05.2024

  Ep. 768 – Dennis the Menace

  Dennis the Menace is back! In movie and video game form. European Listeners, this is a very different Dennis the Menace and the story is pretty odd (don’t worry, we get into it). We have a very special draft that...

  
• 05.29.2024

  Ep. 767 – ALDI Calls

  ALDI Calls. Get it? You will if you listen. We had a quick turn around in recording times, so in our eternal effort to always publish something on time (12 years running), we present to you this ALDI themed All...

  
• 05.22.2024

  Ep. 766 – Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

  Tyler is sick! We had to push back the recording of this episode a couple of times for different reasons but we are dedicated to delivering you, valued listener, the best possible podcast episode about Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story...

  
• 05.15.2024

  Ep. 765 – Lethal Weapon

  Lethal Weapon brings all its…weapons…lethally to TADPOG shores. You see Joe Pesci up there? But it says Lethal Weapon when clearly he is a character from the sequel? Are you confused? Same here. We ended up watching the first movie...

  
• 05.08.2024

  Ep. 764 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition

  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition morphs into our hearts with our quick turn around. We had record another episode a few days after the last one, so sorry for the lack of movie tie in but we decided...

  
• 05.01.2024

  Ep. 763 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie go go goes to this podcast with a simple roll a d20 courtesy of the mini-randomizer that only randomizes SNES movie games. We played the first Power Rangers game and that horrendous Mario Kart...

  
• 04.24.2024

  Ep. 762 – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West moseys on over courtesy the Movie Game Mini-Randomizer. We had all missed this movie and game as a kids even though we remember the marketing very well, say thankee. Since it’s about a mouse...

  
• 04.17.2024

  Ep. 761 – Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival

  Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival connects its rainbow to TADPOG. Remember that Muppet draft we didn’t have time to get to on our last all drafts episode? Well, we just decided to go in “whole hog” (Wokka Wokka) and...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Ep. 760 – All Drafts: Total Eclipse Edition

  All Drafts: Eclipse Edition comes to blindly on this hallowed, the day of eclipse. Well, for us anyway. TADPOG happens to lie right in the path of totality so it was quite the day for the area. And quite the...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Ep. 759 – Jurassic Park (SNES)

  Jurassic Park finally dino DNA’s it’s way onto TADPOG shores. Sure, we have done Jurassic Park on the Genesis and The Chaos Continues AND The Lost World but somehow we completed missed the SNES version of the original Jurassic Park....

  
• 03.27.2024

  Ep. 758 – The Hunt for Red October

  The Hunt for Red October has starting being…hunted. The hunt has begun? Began? We have hunted our hunt for The Hunt of Red October? Whatever. We watched a the movie and played an SNES game based off of it to...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Ep. 757 – All Calls: The Michelle Prophecies

  All Calls: The Michelle Prophecies has finally come to pass as it was foretold in the days of old. And by old I mean so old you may know it by another name. Classic TADPOG. We had to dona double...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Ep. 756 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

  Bram Stoker’s Dracula FLIES on into TADPOG studios. You know, cause he can be a bat. Or mist. Does mist fly? I guess it does but maybe not in a traditional sense. It just sorts of mists around. Anyway, we...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Ep. 755 – Leap Day Shenanigans

  Leap Day Shenanigans, courtesy of Leap Day William – fresh from the Mariana Trench – with candy to trade for our tears. Why tears? You know what is coming next week. BUT UNTIL THEN, we only had 2 days of...

  
• 02.28.2024

  Ep. 754 – All Calls (Definitely Not AI Generated)

  All Calls (Definitely Not AI Generated) come back. We are not AI for the purposes of this episode. We are old men playing old games. The games are not right now but there are calls coming instead. It is our...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Ep. 753 – Casper

  Casper ectoplasmically slides its way into our episode list this week! We just had to see what other gems Absolute Entertainment could cook up for us. Ian and Tyler had some very positive memories of this movie and Dave had...

  
• 02.14.2024

  Ep. 752 – Toys

  Toys! That long lauded movie that all sorts of kids completely misunderstood and had totally different expectations from has come to the shores of TADPOG. Worry not, we watched the movie and come fully equipped to talk about it as...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Ep. 751 – The Karate Kid

  The Karate Kid kicks through the nostalgia wall directly in TADPOG studio. We all watched, or re-watched, the original so we could get into the proper mindset to play and review this NES game. So we talk plenty about the...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Ep. 750 – Top Gun

  Top Gun flies into TADPOG studios! Does it safely land to proper fanfare? Or does it do a nosedive into the water right before the carrier like 99% of all landing attempts the general population did attempting to play this...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Ep. 749 – Drac’s Night Out

  Drac’s Night Out is here and we are PUMPED! Get it? Because the game is sponsored by Reebok Pumps. Because Dracula needs those. But really, he does in this game. He’s like a reverse vampire where touching people kills him....

  
• 01.17.2024

  Ep. 748 – All Calls Michelleaganza

  All Calls Michelleaganza! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. IT IS AN ALL CALLS EPISODE. THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE IS HEAVY ON CALLS FROM TERRIFIED MICHELLE. We love her and we had a great time doing this. We know all of you...

  
• 01.10.2024

  Ep. 747 – Clue

  Clue is here! We know the SNES game isn’t really based off the movie but it’s a really great excuse to also rewatch the Tim Curry classic since there may not be a huge amount to say about an SNES...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Ep. 746 – The Blues Brothers

  The Blues Brothers! It’s an 90s Super Nintendo game based off an 80s movie based on a 70s SNL skit, that is how you know it’s quality stuff and totally appropriate to all the material its based on. But first...

  
• 12.27.2023

  Ep. 745 – Wayne’s World

  Wayne’s World schwings on over to the shores of TADPOG as we go one more game into our “Saturday Night Live movies that were turned into Super Nintendo games” series. We had to go back and refresh ourselves on the...

  
• 12.20.2023

  Ep. 744 – Dirty Harry

  Dirty Harry asks us just how lucky we feeling playing his NES game this week on TADPOG. This week may not get us any closer to finishing our SNES list but it’s a good continuation of our “R Rated Moves...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Ep. 743 – Alien vs Predator

  Alien vs Predator comes along in our stunning series of SNES games with VS in the title. So that’s 2 out of the 3. We think. There is a list somewhere but it’s long. We’ll get there. You know what...

  
• 12.06.2023

  Ep. 742 – RoboCop 3

  RoboCop 3, that means the coming of RoboCop not once, not twice but THRICE! And this time on the Super Nintendo! Was it a good movie? Was it a good game? Let me ask you this – was there a...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Ep. 741 – RoboCop Versus The Terminator

  RoboCop Versus The Terminator robotically walks into way onto TADPOG shores. This sorta counts as an Arnold tangential movie, right? The streak continues? We make a strong come back with “Anime I?” since Ian has a very strong recommendation. We...

  
• 11.22.2023

  Ep. 740 – Last Action Hero

  Last Action Hero completes our SNES Schwarzenegger Series and we come full loaded to discuss what we thought not just about the game but also the movie – this is one Ian hadn’t even seen but Tyler has, that’s the...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Ep. 739 – Judge Dredd

  Judge Dredd has come to conclude our Stallonesgiving series in style. We have now all seen Judge Dredd and give our very detailed feelings on both the movie and the game. We also talk about the Five Nights at Freddy’s...

  
• 11.08.2023

  Ep. 738 – Stallonesgiving Is On A Break (All Calls)

  Stallonesgiving is on a Break, so you know what that means – ALL CALLS has come again! Don’t get mad, we were on a break when this happened. Apparently, Terrible Michelle is the copy girl to our Ross. We take...

  
• 11.01.2023

  Ep. 737 – Cliffhanger

  In the immortal words of Cliffhanger, “Hang on for your life!”. That’s right, pack your gear because we’re headed on a journey through the icy peaks of Cliffhanger for the Super Nintendo. This notoriously “bad video game”, based on the...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Ep. 736 – Demolition Man

  Demolition Man explodes onto TADPOG in our SNES Stallone Series. We keep our movie game standard and watch the movie so we can discuss it and compare it to the game, so if you love Demolition Man the movie, this...

  
• 10.18.2023

  Ep. 735 – The Itchy & Scratchy Game

  The Itchy & Scratchy Game is here and concludes our SNES Simpsons Saga! None of us had ever heard of or experienced this game in any way so it was brand new territory for all of us. But before we...

  
• 10.11.2023

  Ep. 734 – Virtual Bart

  Virtual Bart. That’s right, Bart is back in virtual form! Did you know Bart’s Nightmare had a sequel? We didn’t! So join us for a deep dive into all the little mini games that comprise this game. But before that,...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Ep. 733 – The Simpsons: Bart’s Nightmare

  Bart’s Nightmare has arrived on TADPOG shores, officially cementing our TADPOG Simpson Series where will cover all the SNES Simpsons games, back to back to back to back. To Tyler’s amusement, we dive into Bart’s Nightmare this week. We update...

  
• 09.27.2023

  Ep. 7312 – Krusty’s Super Fun House

  Krusty’s Super Fun House has finally made it’s way to the TADPOG shores. Did it come courtesy of the Randomizer? No, we totally forgot to do that. What would have been a good game to fit into our Sea of...

  
• 09.20.2023

  Ep. 731 – One Calls

  One Calls! That’s right. We take exactly 1 call. Is it particularly long and cucumbersome (I realize) call? Does it take us deep into our souls and yield the fruit of beautiful revealing conversation? Or do we go really long...

  
• 09.13.2023

  Ep. 730 – Sea of Stars

  Sea of Stars has finally arrived! It hasn’t been out long and we have had several requests already to talk about it so here we are! Don’t worry, this one is spoiler free. All three of us took the dive...

  
• 09.06.2023

  Ep. 729 – Frantic Flea

  Frantic Flea! We’re back to The Randomizer this week and ohhhhh man did it serve us one up. Have you had a deep yearning for a flea protagonist, everyone’s favorite creature? This may just be the game for you, and...

  
• 08.30.2023

  Ep. 728 – Dave the Diver

  Dave the Diver has come ashore on TADPOG. It looked really fun and we all agreed we wanted to buck the Randomizer and play it. Did we like it? Did we really like it? Or maybe just sorta like it?...

  
• 08.23.2023

  Ep. 727 – All Calls Marvel Edition

  All Calls Marvel Edition! Why is it our Marvel edition? Because prior to taking calls, we do a rather extensive 10 spot draft of Marvel Heroes. We had a very busy work week so we needed something simple to turn...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Ep. 726 – Pizza Tower

  Pizza Tower! It’s been talked about, copies have been purchased as incentive for us to discuss it, and it’s been batted about the Discord server – here it finally is. We might run the full gamut of emotions on this...

  
• 08.09.2023

  Ep. 725 – SimAnt

  SimAnt! Finally, the time of the TADPOG ant has come AND IT’S A PHIL EPISODE! So come join us, and our foremost simantics (you’ll hear that a lot) expert, one Sandwich Pope Phil Hawkins, take a deep dive into SimAnt...

  
• 08.02.2023

  Ep. 724 – All…Calls?

  All…Calls? Yeah, that’s best sums it up. We had some scheduling stuff and wanted to take 30 calls that Terrified Michelle had left us. There was an attempt made at that, BUT FIRST WE MUST FINISH THE CARTOON DRAFT AND...

  
• 07.26.2023

  Ep. 723 – HyperZone

  HyperZone! Does that sound like a SNES game, a cheap 3rd party peripheral, or maybe a candy game at Chuck E. Cheese? Well, the one we are talking about is an SNES that is a totally new one on us....

  
• 07.19.2023

  Ep. 722 – True Lies (SNES)

  True Lies (SNES)! That’s right, all these lies are true! We bring on our foremost truelieologist, Captain Gun Nerd Jon Turley to talk about the movie while we talk about the game for SNES. We do a draft, talk about...

  
• 07.12.2023

  Ep. 721 – GP-1 & GP-1: Part II (SNES)

  GP-1 & GP-1: Part II (SNES), YOU READ THAT RIGHT! We’ve finally decided to do the heralded GP series on the SNES! What? You’re not familiar? and the naming scheme for these games is bad and in the same vein...

  
• 07.05.2023

  Ep. 720 – All Calls: Independence Day

  All Calls: Independence Day! TADPOG know you were expecting some elite talk and deep dives into the GP racing series but very hard weeks were had and we needed a little more time and little podcast therapy this week. We...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Ep. 719 – Mohawk & Headphone Jack

  Behold! Mohawk & Headphone Jack! Some sort of Garbage Pail Kid collects discarded AOL Trial CDs in a completely nausea inducing Mode 7 sort of way! Sound good? Well, you should totally try it if it does. We talk about...