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Tipping the Turtle Gaming

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Tipping the Turtle Gaming episodes

  • Control Freaks Part 2

    The Turtle Guys continue their dive into the world of great, terrible, and weird controllers.  Plus, Nick is given one more chance to redeem the Nick's Picks segment and gives a surprising retro game recommendation.

    58 min
  • Control Freaks Part 1

    In part 1 of their first-ever two-part episode, the Turtle Guys discuss some of their favorite and least favorite retro game controllers.  Jeff shows perhaps too much adoration for the Interact SNES Superpad, and Nick reveals the strangest-looking NES controller ever conceived.  Plus, in the return of Nick's Picks, will this finally be the week Nick actually recommends a decent game?

    47 min
  • The Thrill of the Hunt

    Jeff and Nick discuss the exhilarating highs and heart-breaking lows of searching for retro games in shops, yard sales, and other bazaars of forgotten things.  They talk about the flea market with the worst name ever and another flea market with the worst N64 ever.  Plus, after disappointing Jeff by recommending Superman 64 last week, Nick tries to redeem himself in the return of Nick's Picks.

    1 hr 39 min
  • Con-Tetris-versies

    The Turtle Guys discuss three controversies from the least controversial game ever, Tetris.  Then, Jeff solicits the help of the listeners in solving a mystery surrounding an old Windows game that only seems to have existed in demo form, and Nick offers a retro game recommendation.  Plus: monkeys, scalpers, and scalper monkeys.

    1 hr 20 min
  • Test Your Might Returns

    Jeff quizzes Nick on retro video gaming miscellany in the return of Test Your Might.  Plus: Jeff needs too many takes to get the intro right, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson comes up more than once somehow.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Devil (World)'s Advocate

    In effort to alienate just about everybody, Jeff and Nick talk about the universally-reviled games that they love--and then talk about the games everybody else loves that they just can't get into.  Do the Turtle Guys hate your favorite game?  Only one way to find out!

    1 hr 8 min
  • The Big One: Video Game Crash of 1983

    In the season 2 premiere of Tipping the Turtle, Jeff and Nick chronicle the events that led up to the 1983 video game crash, a crisis that almost fatally devastated the video game industry.  Plus:  Jeff finally discovers a movie Nick has never heard of, and Nick talks about skulls.  Piles and piles of skulls.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Nintendo Bible Study Power Hour
    Jeff and Nick examine the history and games of Wisdom Tree, an unlicensed NES publisher who would create and then corner the religious video game market.  After that, Contra-versy Code returns as the Turtle Guys discuss the pros and cons of after-market clone consoles.  Plus: Mark Wahlberg, Nick's cursed Genesis cartridge, and zero Buddhas.
    1 hr 17 min
  • A New Set of Knives!
    The Turtle Guys face off against each other for retro gaming trivia glory in the return of Test Your Might.  Later, they talk about their favorite games in the fishing and alien-moles-pushing-around-boulders genres.
    1 hr 19 min
  • AI Dungeon
    Jeff and Nick play AI Dungeon, a text adventure game with stories written by artificial intelligence.  Things break down almost immediately in a bizarre tale of murder, magic, and pro wrestling that leaves Jeff and Nick barely clinging to their own sanity.  Plus: canyon justice, goblin negotiations, and the best town hall meeting ever.
    1 hr 9 min

About Tipping the Turtle Gaming

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Introducing Tipping the Turtle, a retro gaming podcast (because the Internet doesn't have enough of those yet). Every week, Jeff and Nick discuss retro gaming and dive into the most fascinating myths…