Absolute Nintendo Podcast

Absolute Nintendo Podcast

Sitcom-length retro gaming podcast covering Nintendo, with a current focus on the 8-bit NES, from Pure Nintendo's own Purely Trev. https://bsky.app/profile/purelytrev.bsky.social

Episodes

July 3, 2025 24 mins

With Tecmo Super Bowl, "enjoy the excitement of football to your heart's content" on the road to the big game in this timeless NES classic.

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This fun puzzler from Mr. Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, gets the Absolute Nintendo treatment.

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"Solar Jetman must search through twelve menacing alien worlds in his quest to rebuild the Golden Warpship. Each one filled with savage alien armies, black holes, extreme gravitational forces, warp zones and deadly booby traps."

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This duo of early first-party 'Programmable Series' games will have you constructing hairpin twists, 8-bit style.

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First released as Donald Duck on the Famicom, Kemco later swapped Disney characters for the Peanuts gang in Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular—a charming, if uneven, kids' game.


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"Okay, hero, if you're ready for some hot, fast and exciting action—this is it."

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Konami/Ultra's “cross between baseball and gladiatorial combat” can be a high-scoring affair, with battery backup to save your home run ranking.

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The Absolute Nintendo Podcast looks at a pair of black box 'Light Gun Series' games.

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April 11, 2025 21 mins

An aftermarket NES action platformer that can't hang with the games that inspire it.


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"Deep in the jungles of South America, you're on the mission of your life."

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Hudson Soft’s colorful NES platformer from late '92 is good fun.


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“The Black Shadow Warriors are tough. Against them, most martial artists would be doomed. But you have the training, the practice, the gift of the Double Dragon."


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March 13, 2025 20 mins

"Victory will come only to the worthy" in this 1990 NES port of the arcade shmup.

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A duo of vertically scrolling shooters that originated in mid-80s arcades.


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February 28, 2025 21 mins

Rescue imprisoned natives captured by the enemy in this NES port of the SNK arcade run and gun game, best played in co-op.

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February 20, 2025 19 mins

The ninja "Ryu senses danger awaiting him in America."

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Concluding the NES trilogy, Super Mario Bros. 3 remains one of the most beloved video games of all time.

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"Mario Mania" continues on the NES with this popular (but still underrated) adventure through the land of Sub-con.

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Absolute Nintendo commences season 6 of the podcast and its 100th episode by looking at one of the most important (and best-selling) games of all time—the original 8-bit Super Mario Bros.

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The Battle of Olympus marks the end of Absolute Nintendo's 5th season. "Your adventure will take you through anceient Greece on a classic mythological quest."

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