Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast

It's the end of an era as the Carvallo Boys tackle—or more accurately tap—the final game (at release) in the Simpsons Gaming pantheon that stars the titular family. So be sure to connect your credit card in preparation for all the juicy microtransactions to come as we take on The Simpsons: Tapped Out!

To help discuss this monumental moment, the Carvallo Boys are joined by comic book author, writer, pop-culture expert, an...

Do we hear the sound of BUTTING in? It's gotta be little Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge answering the questions OUR LISTENERS did ask!

That's right, we put down the controllers this month so we could answer your questions! We tackled everything from our favorite vehicles from Hit & Run to which characters we'd like to see in Super Smash Bros. to which Simpsons beverage is the best.

(Spoiler: That last one gets contentious.)

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Did you know that before EA produced the popular iOS and Android title The Simpsons: Tapped Out (and before tapping out of making Simpsons games forever) the company produced two J2ME Mobile titles just two years apart?

The Carvallo boys take on 2007's The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown and 2008's The Simpsons: Itchy & Scratchy Land and try not to meltdown as they discuss a brief history of EA.

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What do Dance Dance Revolution, Medal of Honor, Futurama, Will Shakespeare, Hillary Clinton, Pokémon, ironic racism, Will Wright (creator of SimCity and The Sims) and God all have in common?

If you guessed they all make cameos in 2007's The Simpsons Game ... you'rewrong! They're actually integral plot elements, characters, orthematic backdrops for stages in what can only be described as the most self-referential, metatextual, and c...

The Carvallo Boys take a quick pit stop during their playthrough of The Simpsons Game to talk about a massive event in Simpsons history: the development and release of The Simpsons Movie.

To help discuss this monumental moment, the Carvallo Boys are joined by Joshua Moore, author of Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World and co-host of Not Another 2001 Movie Podcast!

-Where to find Joshua Moore-

• Follow Josh on ...

Can the Simpsons game that knows it's a Simpsons game capture the essence of The Simpsons? The Carvallo Boys look to answer that question as they tackle part one of the most self-referential and metatextual game to date—2007's The Simpsons Game!

Plus, we take a look at the landscape of The Simpsons from 2003 through 2007—a period that brought with it ambitious swings and some truly rough episodes.

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The Carvallo Boys have reached the end of their journey with one of the most iconic Simpsons Games to date. Does it live up to the hype? Would the game have been as well received if it was named The Simpsons: Flaming Tires or one of the other 204 names found in the developers files? Should the Simpson family sedan be brat? And what do Mike Wazowski, James Cameron's Dark Angel, and Poochie have in common?

The boys tackle these questi...

The Carvallo Boys have finally arrived at the game that inspired this podcast, the game that most Simpsons fans point to as the pinnacle of Simpsons gaming, and the game that dared to ask the question: "What if we put The Simpsons in Grand Theft Auto?"

In the first of this two part series, we're discussing some of the production details around of The Simpsons: Hit & Run along with a brief history of the series the game emulates...

Homer's used a Zero Point energy shard to power his television remote, and now all of Springfield has transformed into a battle royale map? The Carvallo Boys don't know what much of that means, so we called in some veritable Fortnite pros from Glitterjaw Island to help break down the wildly popular Simpsons x Fortnite miniseason!

We squaded up with Doug, Hamish, and Tyler to discuss the incredible amount of detail that went into thi...

It's arguably the most infamous game in the Simpsons Gaming canon, but it can't be that bad, right?

...right?

James from Marsh Land Media joins the Carvallo Boys as the trio talk a brief history of skateboarding video games, Season 14 of The Simpsons, and of course, shred Springfield in The Simpsons Skateboarding!

Episode discussed:

• “How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Season 14, Episode 2

Where to find James:

Podcasts: mlmp...

Hey, you're invited to come on over and have some fun with Crazy Tax-

Oops! Wrong public transit action adventure driving game! That's right, the Lee Carvallo Boys take on The Simpsons: Road Rage, Radical Entertainment's attempt at a Crazy Taxi clone that's so close to the original...it results in a lawsuit!

Chris Cummins (Archie Comics, Sci-Fi Explosion) splits the fare with the Carvallo Boys as they take a drive down memory lane to...

In late 2020, Dreamcast preservationists discovered files for an unreleased Simpsons tech demo called "Simpsons Bug Squad." We talk about what exactly this tech demo is, the thrilling early moments of it's discovery, and just how important fans are in preserving video game history.

Plus...we skipped over quite a few seasons as we moved from "The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror" to "The Simpsons Wrestling." So we t...

The Lee Carvallo Boys take to the squared circle to grapple with Big Ape Productions' The Simpsons Wrestling from 2001! And to help layeth the smackdown–or rather the smackdo’h!–on this episode, The Carvallo Boys enlist the help of their own “3rd Man,” Stik “The Tall Guy” Braxton!

The trio also discuss professional wrestling’s tone shift in the late 90s, beginning with the introductio...

It's a tradition nearly as well-known as the Simpsons family themselves, and yet it takes sixteen games to finally bring Treehouse of Horror series to life with The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror for GameBoy Color.

And to this horrifying handheld title and the Halloween segment within the show that inspired it, we're joined by one of Glitterjaw's resident horror experts, Merrilee O'Neil from Fear Coded!

We break ...

1997 was a special year in gaming. Final Fantasy 7, Fallout, Diablo, Grand Theft Auto, and...Virtual Springfield!

We gush about this wonderful walking simulator set in the town of Springfield, discuss whether it counts as a "cozy game," dismiss the arguments that it's not actually a game, and more as we break down this massive and often overlooked gem.

Plus we discuss the landscape of The Simpsons in 1997 including the infamous Simp...

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 Histo...

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 Seasons 7...

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 & Scratchy.

Wond...

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."

-Derek's Other Pr...