Nintendo Week

GameXplain's Andre Segers joins Alex, Ben, and Colin this week for an episode dedicated entirely to Paper Mario: Color Splash. Andre and Colin's review copies are both in, so the four of us explore our experiences with the game and whether it's worth all the hype (and anti-hype). This week's outro music is an excellent rendition of the Toad Town music from the original Paper Mario, arranged and performed by Michelle Heafy, ThunderScott, and 8BitBrigadier.

Join Alex, Colin, and Ben, as we discuss the last few weeks of news, including the new series Pokémon Generations, new Ultra Beasts from Sun and Moon, Nintendo’s strategy for making mobile vs. console games, Nintendo’s new position for someone to enforce DMCA takedowns, Pokémon GO’s further-declining numbers, and tons more. This week's outro music is insaneintherainmusic’s live jazz rendition of the National Park theme, from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin for a new segment called Indigo Plateau, where this week we explore our top five Wii U games, alongside our honorable mentions. We discuss games like Smash, Mario Kart, Shovel Knight, Splatoon, Donkey Kong, Pikmin, and tons more. This week's outro music is "Windmill Advisory,” a wonderful remix of the Windmill Hills theme, from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, by Pumpkin King.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin, as we discuss Nintendo and Apple's budding relationship kicking off with Mario’s first mobile game, before diving into tons of news from Pokémon Sun and Moon, Pokémon GO’s Apple Watch launch, and more. This week's outro music is "Mushroom Madness," a New Super Mario Bros. remix by Jredd.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin in an extra-long episode as they discuss tons of news from the past few weeks, including Nintendo's involvement with eSports, Pokémon GO's decline in users, recent and extremely thorough reports about NX, and tons more. After the break we dig into this morning's Nintendo 3DS Direct to discuss Super Mario Maker, Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World, Zelda Amiibo, Animal Crossing, the 2D Pikmin game, and lots more. This week's break music is Bulby's 8-bit version of City Escape, while this week's outro music is Epic Game Music's cover of the Mario Maker title theme.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they discuss their most-wanted features for Nintendo's NX in the Dream Land segment, and then settle the timeless question—what's the greatest Zelda game ever made?—in The Glitz Pit, Nintendo Week's podcasting debate game.

This week is filled with a lot more Pokémon in the News Block, followed by a super short round of Fortune Street and Gossip Stone, where we’re gonna talk about a new controller patent and the rumor that NX is launching with Mario and Pokémon games within its first six months. This week's outro music is insaneintherainmusic’s incredible jazz medley of several songs from the Pokémon series.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin this week as we discuss the recent debacle surrounding AM2R, the fan-made Metroid II remake: all the joy it brought followed by Nintendo's unfortunate move to strike it down. Afterwards we take it to our Trainer Tips segment, to help listeners like you navigate the cold hard world of gaming on Nintendo platforms in 2016. There we discuss our recommendations for SNES, 3DS, and DS games, and the differences between the 3D Zelda games.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin this week as we discuss tons of recent Pokémon news, including a chaotic mess surrounding Pokémon GO and tons of new information about the Pokémon in Sun and Moon. Afterwards we introduce a new segment called "Dream Land," where we share our hopes and dreams for new Alolan Pokémon like Gengar, Marowak, and tons more.

This week we’ve got some of your favorite segments, as we’re gonna hit up The News Block, Fortune Street, The Gossip Stone, and the Lightning Round. Tons of news has been happening lately, including a live-action Pokémon movie, new Sun and Moon info, Metroid, Zelda, Sonic, Animal Crossing, New IPs, and for once some real NX news, so that’s what’s in store for this week’s show. This week's outro music is an arrangement of Pokémon GO's map theme, by Marioverhrer.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin this week for a mini episode of Nintendo Week all about the newly-announced NES Classics Edition. We cover the news of the console and our impressions, followed by a few discussions about the role it can play in the marketplace as Nintendo prepares to launch NX, the future of this "Classics" line with SNES and Game Boy, and whether it should have been able to connect to the eShop or Virtual Console in some way. And by popular demand, Nintendo Week now has a Facebook group! Search for "Nintendo Week Fun Club" to join the three of us and the rest of the community in polls, games, discussions about the podcast's future, and more.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as we discuss news from the past week, including tons of new Pokémon, the end of Splatoon's Splatfests, some corporate shakeups, and the mobile sensation sweeping the nation, Pokémon GO. Afterwards we have a brief discussion about the future of the show, so be sure to stay tuned.

*Re-uploaded for an audio issue* — Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as we discuss news from the past week, including tons of news about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Sonic the Hedgehog's future, Yacht Club's next game, Microsoft's attempt to partner with Nintendo, and a trademark that suggests NX uses cartridges instead of discs. After the break comes the Mystery House, where we answer your listener questions about our favorite characters, online services, and more. To close it all off we hold a long listener-suggested discussion about Nintendo's digital practices and the disappointment that is My Nintendo.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as we discuss news from the past week, including tons of news about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Sonic the Hedgehog's future, Yacht Club's next game, Microsoft's attempt to partner with Nintendo, and a trademark that suggests NX uses cartridges instead of discs. After the break comes the Mystery House, where we answer your listener questions about our favorite characters, online services, and more. To close it all off we hold a long listener-suggested discussion about Nintendo's digital practices and the disappointment that is My Nintendo.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they discuss a megaton of news from E3 through now, including Nintendo's comments on Link's gender, hints that Pokkén Tournament is getting three DLC fighters, Nintendo's comments on remastering older Paper Mario games, actual news about the NX for once, and the idea of several Zelda spinoffs, starring Sheik, Zelda and more. And partway through the show, listen in as we ask whether we should continue to consider Nintendo a video game company, or start to think of them as an entertainment company instead. This week's outro music is an incredible orchestral suite celebrating The Legend of Zelda, arranged by Jeremiah Sun.