The Old SwitchAroo Retro-spective: July-Sept 2025


The Old SwitchAroo Retro-Spective

Putting the Quarter in Quarterly Activity

In the first entry into The Old SwitchAroo Retro-spective newsletter, we take a look back at everything we've been up to in the last three months (we're going to try to make these more frequent and shorter), and we've had lots of activity on the podcast, on the web site, and around the internet.

Recent episodes

S3E09: Super Mario World -or- Eggs-it, Stage Right

Dempsey from the Overthinking Games podcast joined us for Super Mario World (SNES, 1991) and its 2001 Game Boy Advance port, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2.

S3E10: Blast Corps -or- I've heard of a crash course, but this is ridiculous!

Twitch's Nate Brown (@nateblackest) joined us for 1997's Blast Corps for the Nintendo 64.

S3E11: Clu Clu Land, Mario Picross and Super Picross -or- Steganographic Imagery Viewer Discretion Advised

Andrew Linde from "Nothing New: A Remake Podcast" joined us for Clu Clu Land (NES, 1985), Mario’s Picross (Game Boy, 1995), and Mario’s Super Picross (SNES, 1995).

S3E12: F-Zero and F-Zero 99 -or- Crashing Out!

Chico D Mar met us at the starting line for F-Zero (SNES, 1990) and F-Zero 99 (Switch, 2023).

S3E13: Mega Man The Wily Wars -or- Doctor, Doctor Give me the Pews

Don from the Cable Club League is powered up his mega buster for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, 1994) .

S3E14: The Ghosts 'n Goblins trilogy -or- History Doomed to Repeat Itself

Cyril from Defunct Games armored up for Ghosts ‘n Goblins (NES), Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive), and Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (SNES).

S3E15: Crystalis -or- Periodic Fable of Elements

Happney joined us for the 1991 NES game Crystalis.

Keep an eye out for the next episode, which will be our Season 3 16th-bit Retro-spective, looking back at all the games we've covered this season and all the great guests we've had on.

We've also had a couple of new articles on our web site.

Recent blog posts

Quick Reviews: Starstruck Vagabond, Blue Prince, and Call of the Sea

Mike gives some thoughts on space-based life simulator Starstruck Vagabond, mystery rouge-lite Blue Prince, and the Lovecraftian Call of the Sea

Quick Reviews: Non-stop Nonograms

Mike gives his takes on a series of nonogram-centric games: Piczle Cross Adventure, Piczle Cross: Rune Factory, Murder by Numbers, and Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum.

Mike and Jaymo have spent a lot of time on other podcasts as well, so check out those other appearances.

Recent guest appearances

Smashing Game Time

Mike and Jaymo were invited to be part of Smashing Game Time's episode "#172 - Game of the Year So Far 2025 – Day 5" to talk about what we thought the best games of the decade have been.

Underrated

Jaymo joined Derick on the Underrated movie podcast to talk about the LAIKA movie Missing Link.

Infinity Stones and Dragon Bones

Jaymo was also on another of Derick's podcasts to talk about "Marvel Zombies" and "Eyes of Wakanda".

Super Wall Jump

Mike talked about the changes in game design and some of the lessons learned from The Old SwitchAroo on the second-ever episode of new podcast Super Wall Jump.

Motoramathon

Mike talked about minute 24 of the cult classic movie Motorama on the Internet's #1 podcast dedicated to the movie Motorama.

Wild Mouse

Mike was on the theme-park themed podcast Wild Mouse to defend Revolution (The Great American Revolution if we're being formal) at Six Flags Magic Mountain as one of the best-named rides ever.

Stream Team

Jaymo was on Stream Team to talk about the spiritual “horror” film Saint Maude.

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