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We have finally recorded a special episode! We’re talking about the indie game Cave Story by Studio Pixel.

In This Episode:

• This is what one whole semester of culinary school will get you.
• One day, we may do Special Episodes for FTL, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Evoland, and La Mulana.
• You look like Ash, with dual bluetooth devices.
• Metroidvania!
• Dave’s favorite image from Studio Pixel
• Earthworm Jim bizarre, not Sparkster bizarre.
• So many feels
• Spoilers aplenty!
• Brave Little Toaster roll call
• General Leo is a playable character.

Mentioned in the Show:

• Studio Pixel’s webpage
• Suikoden II
• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
• The One with the Free Porn
• Jet Black

Plugs:

• Don’t you miss an episode! Subscribe to TADPOG on iTunes.
• Find us at tadpog.com or facebook.com/tadpog and let us know what you think of the show.

Theme Song:

• The song Moves by Sycamore Drive was used as our intro/outro under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.o United States License.

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Did you like Star Fox? Want to ruin it for yourself? On this episode of TADPOG, we’re talking about the 1994 classic, Stunt Race FX for the Super Nintendo — the second game to use the Super FX chip.

In This Episode:

• Ninja Turtles Noir
• Next bad game episode
• You probably don’t know how Tyler feels about racing games.
• Crafting 101
• What is the earliest game that had a crafting system?
• We wish we were playing Star Fox.
• “Yo, man, you remember Argonaut Software? Aw shit, they did it again!”
• Another rare negative for Shaq Fu.
• Steve McQueen. Who is this mystery man?
• Star Wars Fox, the companion game to Earthbound Jim.
• Stunt Race FX, aka Seizure Derby
• Slap googly eyes on anything to make it better.
• We rearrange the racing games on the list.
• The amount of triangles in this game is too damn high!
• TURBO TEEN!
• Stunt Race FX Achievements
• Where Are They Now?: Argonaut Games

What We’ve Been Playing:

• Dave is murdering all the animals in Far Cry 3 and playing a NES classic, Final Fantasy.
• Tyler has been Song Popping on the toilet.

Mentioned in the Show:

• The Sparkster Episode
• Our glowing Uniracers Episode
• The three-wheeled car

Shout Outs:

• Matt Barger
• Megalixir
• Meghan Holland
• Ramon Castillo
• Kevin Link
• Micah Purdue
• Jess Dockrey of suggstreetpost.com
• Laura Ammons
• TheLastGamer69
• Dennis Robison
• Phil DeVaul
• Joanne Livingston
• Josh Edwards

Plugs:

• Don’t you miss an episode! Subscribe to TADPOG on iTunes.
• Find us at tadpog.com or facebook.com/tadpog and let us know what you think of the show.

Theme Song:

• The song Moves by Sycamore Drive was used as our intro/outro under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.o United States License.

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We rocket through another Konami game this week on TADPOG. We’re talking about the 1994 Konami classic for the Super Nintendo, Sparkster. What could possibly go wrong?

In This Episode:

• To catch a squirrel.
• Sparkster has no place in the Rocket Knight canon.
• Earthbound Jim… shows promise.
• Adorable koala possums in Japan.
• Konami sneaks in a figurative train level.
• Game-halting glitch.
• Sad wolf.
• Weird robot animals.
• “Who’s got the best vagina in Sparkster World?”
• Sparkster’s Blade of Shame.
• lol bye
• Robot Wolf Shrimp (probably a sex thing)
• Kill me.
• Who are the best bosses in Sparkster?
• Transgender lions.
• “Moist apples and bananas. Not good Jacob foods.”
• Sparkster Achievements.
• Tyler assigns the best beard ever.
• There was a deer in Bambi.

What We’ve Been Playing:

• Dave is murdering all the animals in Far Cry 3.
• Tyler solved Bioshock Infinite, started Borderlands 2 single-player, and picked up Pid.

Mentioned in the Show:

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dam Level
• The horrible abomination chimera
• Michiru Yamane
• Rocket Knight

Shout Outs:

• Nicole Nance
• Josh Nance
• Kevin Link
• Nikki Moore
• Matt Barger
• Dennis Robison
• Ramon Castillo
• Lord Mike of Purdue
• Jess Dockrey
• Joshua Edwards
• Joanne Livingston
• Tyler Dunigan
• Eli Phillips

Plugs:

• Don’t you miss an episode! Subscribe to TADPOG on iTunes.
• Find us at tadpog.com or facebook.com/tadpog and let us know what you think of the show.

Theme Song:

• The song Moves by Sycamore Drive was used as our intro/outro under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.o United States License.

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We get back to basics in this episode, in which we talk about the 1993 Konami classic, Sunset Riders.

In This Episode:

• Tyler’s Tee Ball Chocolate Pudding
• Grumble, Grumble
• Tyler owes Mitch his TADPOG livelihood
• There is talk of The Box of Notes Segment.
• The Kunioverse.
• The second Muppet Babies reference in two weeks.
• Introducing a new segment entitled Dave Reads from Wikipedia.
• Steve, Bob, and Billy Lannister.
• Cormano knows: real men wear pink.
• We uncover a covert religious agenda.
• A horse’s kryptonite.
• Epitome vs. epitome
• How the double-jump in this game works.
• Charlie Rose? Pete Rose? Seal?
• Dave has Tiny Toons PTSD.
• Dark Horse?
• The second member of the SNES Village People, right after Edi E.
• Waldorf and Statler Smith.
• Chief Wigwam is a Master Thrower.
• Tyler and Dave Talk Middle School Fashion.
• Paco Loco: The F-Troop Sentinel.

What We’ve Been Playing:

• Dave was inspired by the talk of Technos in the Super Double Dragon episode, so he has been playing River City Ransom.
• Tyler likened Cave Story to butter, like only a chef could; now he’s taking his time going through Bioshock Infinite.

Mentioned in the Show:

• Mooninite Quad Laser
• Rick Remender
• Midas T. Golden
• Boom and Bewm
• Hey Dude!

Shout Outs:

• Ramon Castillo
• Jadii Castillo
• Kevin Link
• Megalixir
• Josh Nance
• Nicole Nance
• Lord Mike of Purdue
• Elijah Phillips
• Laura Ammons
• Jacob York
• Dennis Robison
• Jon Turley
• Brian Atkins
• John Sullivan
• David Dycus
• hylianhope
• masterpeez
• Chase Eldon
• Chookypook
• Sam Barugh

Plugs:

• Don’t you miss an episode! Subscribe to TADPOG on iTunes.
• Find us at tadpog.com or facebook.com/tadpog and let us know what you think of the show.

Theme Song:

• The song Moves by Sycamore Drive was used as our intro/outro under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.o United States License.

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This episode is a four-player co-op with multitap. We’ve got Ramon Castillo and Kevin Link (The Hero of Hyrule) on the mics with us this week to talk about Super Bomberman 2, fresh off the heels of Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con.

In This Episode:

• Muppet Babies had an effect on Tyler.
• Sexy no jutsu.
• Ramon meets The Fonz.
• Wizard 2: The Tyler Story.
• Bombs with Friends.
• Ramon drops this one on us: Exclusion-based rule set.
• “Like a spiral of Tharizdun…”
• The oil drum level.
• Lord Mike of Perdue’s Greatest Challenge Yet.
• Uncle Touchy’s Mushroom Basement.
• The Scary Furnace.
• Greg Eric and the Floaters.
• Super Bomberman 2 is Nintendo hard… kinda like Blackthorne.
• The bosses have different forms.
• Spiteful Flame.
• Form up. Space Dungeon!
• Why can’t video game heroes swim?
• What’s your favorite power up?
• Stracheezically.
• Where is Link?
• Where Are They Now: Hudson Soft
• Ramon’s achievement. (Silver Monkey for life!)

What We’ve Been Playing:

• Tyler and Dave played House of the Dead this week at Pantera’s in Edwardsville, IL.
• Link has been playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
• Ramon just finished Castlevania: Lords of Shadows Mirror of Fate.

Mentioned in the Show:

• Crazy Dr. Mario Germs
• The Gastromancer’s Guild: Adventure Island recipes
• Red Bee?
• Tuul Time

Shout Outs:

• Lord Mike of Perdue
• Dennis Robison
• noizyme
• Kevin Link
• Ramon Castillo

Plugs:

• Don’t you miss an episode! Subscribe to TADPOG on iTunes.
• Find us at tadpog.com or facebook.com/tadpog and let us know what you think of the show.

Theme Song:

• The song Moves by Sycamore Drive was used as our intro/outro under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.o United States License.