Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast
Two longtime friends and Simpsons fans challenge themselves to play every single Simpsons video game ever made. New episodes the final Wednesday of every month! (Unless we release them sooner!)
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We have a packed show for today. First up, we sat down with Brad Goodwin the kick-ass musician who played guitar and drums for our amazing theme song! We talked to Brad about music in the Simpsons, his bands--Max Power and Taylor's Version, a Taylor Swift cover band--and his history with The Simpsons and Simpsons Games.
Then, Derek and Tommy break down some of their favorite finds from the Mark Flitman Files at the Video Game H...
In 1996, Fox Interactive released their first game in The Simpsons Gaming pantheon and it's...really good? The Simpsons Cartoon Studio gave players the tools they needed to create their own Simpsons videos, and while the tool is limited, it's a lot of fun.
Tune in for our breakdown of this creative studio and our discussion on filmmaking video games as a whole! And of course we the show, checking out classic episodes from S...
An action packed cartoon-within-a-cartoon known for it's over-the-top violence has to make for a great game right?
...right?
On this week's episode, we seek to answer that question as we fight and bite (and fight and bite and fight) our way through The Itchy & Scratchy Game! Plus, we discuss a brief history of the murderous mouse and cat duo along with several pivotal episodes of The Simpsons centered on Itchy & Scrat...
Choose your club (might we suggest a putter?), enter the force of your swing, and meet us on the green as we break down 1994's Itchy and Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness for the Game Boy (and Super Game Boy)!
Before we do, though, we get our bearings with a brief history of the game of Minigolf and then discuss three extremely popular episodes of the series, "Bart's Girlfriend," "Lisa on Ice," and "Homer Badman."
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With the Bartmania chapter of Simpsons tie-in games coming to an end as we approach the halfway point, what better time to look back at the (very few) spectacular and (several) mediocre-to-blatant-cash-grab Simpsons games of the early 90s.
You know what that means...it's time for a tier list! That's right, we're officially ranking the best of the worst in this episode and looking back on our original predictions.
Plus, we discuss P...
We are somehow, inexplicably, at the halfway point of Simpsons Games already and we're only in 1994?!
To help us explain this virtually baffling situation and help us rescue Bart from Martin's Lawnmower Man-esque virtual reality machine in Virtual Bart, we're joined by Fox Kids Historian and host of Fox Kids Club, a video essay series on the history of Fox Kids, and Disney Afternoon, Jess Matthews!
We chatted about her history as...
Breaking news out of Springfield...we have new Simpsons gaming news to discuss! We discuss everything we know about The Simpsons: Tapped Out shutting down and share what we think that means for the future of Simpsons games.
Then, unfortunately, we have to go back in time to 1994 to discuss Bart & The Beanstalk, a disappointing, but pretty, Game Boy title. But, hey, at least it gives us the opportunity to revisit some banger ep...
We were bound to record a 3-hour episode eventually, why not do it for an episode about a game helmed by Bart's alter-ego Bartman, a character that's appeared only 3 times across the series 34 seasons.
That's right, we're talking Bartman Meets Radioactive Man and a brief history of comics in video games.
TW: There is a Simpsons clip in this episode that references death by suicide
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From Godzilla to Indiana Jones, fighting viruses in Bart's bloodstream to flying high as Bartman, Bart's Nightmare for the Sega Genesis and SNES has so much going for it. So did we have fun playing it?
Not really.
Did we enjoy talking about it and the 16-bit era, including the rise of Sega, the SNES, Killer Instinct, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, and so much more?
You bet we did!
Plus, we talked the two episodes nearest to...
Crop tops. Spandex. Steroids. And piles of musclebound athletes battling for the U.S. of A. The American Gladiators were a 90s cultural institution, so much so that The Simpsons parodied it...for the Gameboy?
We're talking Bart vs. The Juggernauts and diving deep into the show that inspired it (and so much American culture of the 90s)!
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Today, the Lee Carvallo Boys are talking about the game that's so nice, they named it twice! It's Krusty's Fun House and Krusty's Super Fun House, released for practically every major system in the 90s!
And to help out, David Arnold, novice independent game dev, host of Are You My Mother, and co-host of Gimmicks and the upcoming Fear Coded Podcast, stops by to help us break down this puzzling entry...
If you were alive in the '90s, there's a good chance you learned all the lyrics to "Do the Bartman" (whether you wanted to or not!). But did you know how to reload Bart's burp gun, uncover the secrets of the Simpsons' attic, or unlock Radical Zone and save Krusty?
We didn't either. But we got you covered! We're talking 1992's Bart's House of Weirdness for MS-DOS plus...everything Bartmania...
Four games. One year. Was 1991 the year of gaming for Bart Simpson? It sure feels that way.
The Carvallo Boys are jumping in to the next entry in the NES pantheon of Simpsons games: Bart Vs. the World. And it's...surprisingly fun! (Despite the often insensitive cultural references).
Plus, we talk 2024 gaming layoffs and the history of the wildly mismanaged Acclaim Entertainment.
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Ah, sweet, sweet nostalgia. It's, as they say, a powerful thing. And the Lee Carvallo Boys have an immense amount of nostalgia for the Gameboy. Listen in as we discuss a very brief history of the Gameboy and ask if our nostalgia for the console can help us appreciate the first portable Simpsons tie-in game - Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly.
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The early history of console gaming can be...hit or miss, by modern standards. But surely America's bad boy, Bart Simpson, must be a hit...right?
Join us as we blow our NES cartridges and play the second game in the Simpsons gaming pantheon - 1991’s Bart Vs. The Space Mutants, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System!
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The year is 1991. You and your buddies have a pocket full of quarters, a free afternoon, and a wicked case of rapid onset Simpsons Fever, brought about by Bart Mania.
What do you do?
You time travel, of course, to 2024, and listen to two thirty-somethings discuss a brief history of the rise and fall of arcades, moral panic over pinball, and of course, The Simpsons Arcade Game!
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It's the inaugural episode of Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast! Derek and Tommy break down what the hell "Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge" is, their history with The Simpsons and the tie-in video games, and proceed to, scientifically, rank the games based on what they know - virtually nothing!
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