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Our weekly Nintendo podcast! A cozy cruise through the world of Nintendo with Lockleth, Amanda, Sean and Seth. New episodes every Friday at 9AM ET -- check out our Patreon for early, ad-free access and exclusive Post Show!
Carpool Gaming hosts The Nintendo Drive, a leisure show with 280 episodes published.
The Switch 2 just crossed its first year mark, so how can we possibly resist seizing this opportunity for the sake of content? Let's take EVERY exclusive game released in the Nintendo Switch 2's first year and throw them
It's amazing what some Internet troubles and cat poop incidents can make happen. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.gg/
We have SO MUCH to talk about! Ocarina of Time remake! New Xenoblade! Kingdom Hearts IV? HUH?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https
Let's face it. As Nintendo fans, we are often left slightly disappointed and scratching our heads asking... why? Where is our Super Mario Galaxy 3? Why isn't a new Animal Crossing out yet? Bring back Kid Icarus Uprising!
This week on the show, it's NINTENDO SHARK TANK! The panel of Sharks have $1,000,000 to invest and they'll hear YOUR Nintendo pitches. What will the payoff be? Who knows! It's just a dumb fun idea! ► Support Amanda's fun
We're mere days away from the release of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - but are we excited to play it? Thankfully, we have known Yoshi superfan Amanda on the case. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https:/
This week on the show, we crave *spice* -- so we've asked y'all for your hottest Nintendo takes and we're gonna give our takes on your takes. Just takes all the way down. Take that. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our
It's The Nintendo Drive's first Lockless episode and we don't know what to do. I mean, we'll be *fine* -- but Amanda needs help deciding her next Switch 2 game! So let's figure that out for a semblance of structure! ► Ch
It's Lockleth's final episode. Let's send our favorite pigeon off with all of our love underneath her wings. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord co
Now that we've been able to spend some time on our islands and make some Miis in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, only one question remains. So... what'd you think? ► Submit your favorite Lockleth memories, moments and/
In just a couple of short days, we'll have Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and we can finally embrace whatever weird garbage our Miis are gonna get up to. We're pretty excited about that! Also, Fulya is here and we'll t
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out and it's gonna make infinity dollars... but none of that matters. What matters is what WE thought about it. So we're gonna talk it out with a good ol' review discussion - and don't wor
Is the new Meetup in Bellabel Park DLC for Super Mario Bros. Wonder actually as multiplayer-centric as Nintendo has been marketing? Carpool Gaming's resident Mario sicko has 100%d the new content - specifically the SINGL
We still very much have Pokopia on the brain, so we thought... why not just sit in the pocket of Pokémon love a little while longer? We're each gonna reveal our top three favorite Pokémon of ALL TIME... and we're gonna h
We're recording on St. Patrick's Day, so we figured... why not make a silly tier list ranking Nintendo's greenest guys? Which character will come out victorious; the most un-pinchable? Join us and find out! Make your own
In just the few short days it's been out, Pokémon Pokopia has become a total phenomenon... and for good reason! We can't stop playing it! It's an excellent video game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system! That we will talk a
THERE IS SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT THIS WEEK between Pokémon Winds & Waves being revealed, a (very good!) Indie World showcase and Pokémon Pokopia releasing in just a couple of days. IT'S ENOUGH SLICES! ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclu
Finally, we have more ways to line Nintendo's pockets with more of our hard-earned money to play some Virtual Boy games that mostly aren't even particularly good! But hey, the thing's got Wario Land; that counts for some
Pokémon Day 2026 is coming up and it's the big 30th anniversary celebration... so what do we hope to see? ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord commu
We did indeed have our first big Nintendo Direct of 2026 last week - and it was a Partner Showcase! But was it any GOOD? I guess we should probably talk about that. ★ LINKS ★ ► Get Exclusive Perks on our Patreon: https:/
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