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The Old SwitchAroo Retro-spective: Oct-Dec 2025

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The Old SwitchAroo Retro-Spective

Putting the Quarters in Quarterly Activity

As we start 2026, this edition of The Old SwitchAroo Retro-spective newsletter, reflects back on everything we were up to the last three months of 2025 and also is looking foward to the excitement of Season Four, which will launch on January 14th with The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Recent Episodes

S3E16: 16th-bit Retro-Spective Season 3 Finale

It’s time to celebrate the end of another season of The Old SwitchAroo with the 16th-bit Retro-spective Season 3 Finale, including a trivia quiz featuring many of our Season 3 guests.

Lite Switch: Oct 22, 2025 | Little Nightmares 3

RiRi and Jaymo talk about their experiences playing the spooky game Little Nightmares 3... perhaps the scariest part of it is the bugs.

Lite Switch: Nov 5, 2025 | RTFM

Cut from the Season 3 Finale for run-time, compete against Jaymo as he sees how well he can name places and characters in the return of Read The F' Manual.

Lite Switch: Nov 19, 2025 | Mario Galaxy movie Nintendo direct, Inscryption, Marvel Snap

Mike and Jaymo are talking about what they've been playing lately and also looking at some of the early glimpses of the Mario Galaxy movie.

Lite Switch: Dec 3, 2025 | Gamesgiving

Mike and Jaymo have a very special Thanksgiving episode, including creating a video-games inspired meal and serving up their best line-ups for gaming on Thanksgiving.

Lite Switch: Dec 17, 2025 | Analogue 3D Review

Past Season 3 guest Kyle kindly hosted a game night so that Mike and Jaymo could join him in discussing the Analogue 3D, the new console playing old Nintendo 64 cartridges.

Lite Switch: Dec 31, 2025 | Ranking 95 Nintendo Switch Online games

In preparation of Season Four, Mike and Jaymo are ranking all the games covered on the first three season to create a master list, the AndStandings, of every game so far.

Keep an eye out for the next episode, when we launch Season Four by covering The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask with returning guests RiRiYells and Derick from Underrated.

In the last three months, we've also had one new gaming blog post.

Recent Blog Posts

Quick Reviews: Christmas Card Games

Reviews of a series of older and newer card-based video games, looking at Marvel Snap, Inscryption, Slay the Spire, and Deck of Haunts.

Mike and Jaymo have also been on several other podcasts in the last three months, so check out those other episodes here

Recent Guest Appearances

​Wild Mouse​

Mike park hopped when he returned to theme park podcast Wild Mouse when he was on October 8, 2025 to talk about Knott's Scary Farm.

​Underrated​

Jaymo was back on Underrated in a December 15, 2025 episode to talk about and defend 2007's Fred Claus.

Infinity Stones and Dragon Bones

The same day that Jaymo's episode with Derick on Underrated released, Derick also released a Patreon episode on another podcast of his, Infinity Stones and Dragon Bones, talking about 1998's Blade.

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The Old SwitchAroo: Gaming Retro with Mike and Jaymo

Explore the retro video games in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog with Mike & Jaymo as they're joined by a whole host of new and old friends. Each podcast episode is more of retro games from the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, all available on the Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo Classics catalog. Dust off your d-pads and game on, everyone.

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