Absolute Nintendo Podcast

Absolute Nintendo Podcast

An 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) podcast, currently, this sitcom-length retro gaming show is hosted by Pure Nintendo Magazine's Purely Trev. Enjoy a casual, nostalgic look at the classic games library in under half an hour — fun whether you grew up with the system or not. https://bsky.app/profile/purelytrev.bsky.social

Episodes

October 13, 2025 19 mins

Bandai's 1989 Zapper game "Separates The Hot Shots From The Pot Shots," or so it aims to.

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The arcade triumph Q*bert jumps onto the Nintendo Entertainment System, courtesy of Ultra Games.


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September 17, 2025 18 mins

Short and tough, Gumshoe is a "quick-on-the-trigger Light Gun game!"

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A karate-themed episode with a pair of early NES games closer to white belts than black belts.


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August 27, 2025 20 mins

"Tanks for saving Earth."

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August 17, 2025 18 mins

Tengen's late-80s port of the mid-80s racer from Atari is fleeting fun on NES


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Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart endorsed this arcade smash. A gritty NES version with 4-player support later arrived (ported by Rare).

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8-bit video pinball with a twist

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Two mid-'80s arcade shooters became late-'80s NES ports.


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Who is Cirque Verte? Season 7 of Absolute Nintendo begins, curious how Nintendo ended up publishing a Zapper game that was this "NES hard" in 89/90.

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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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July 2, 2025 20 mins

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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