Radio Free Nintendo
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Episode 184: In Memory of Geno
February 21, 2010
A special guest joins us to discuss Super Mario RPG and a multitude of other games.
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Episode 183: Debate of the Decade
February 14, 2010
It's finally time to whittle down the list of nominees for Game of the Decade... but you get to make the final decision!
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Episode 182: Everyone's Podcast Selection
February 7, 2010
I shall stand like a tree in the wind.
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Episode 181: March of the Muscles
January 31, 2010
This episode is narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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Episode 180: Your Mom is Art
January 24, 2010
This episode packs all the usual fun stuff, more Games of the Decade, and the dreaded "art" question. PLUS: A very special announcement!
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Episode 179: Her Majesty, Unicron
January 17, 2010
More weird games and 2009 catch-ups fill our gaming palates, and we ponder our individual tastes in gaming. Also: are you ready for Games of the Decade?
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Episode 178: On the Table
January 10, 2010
In addition to loads of game impressions, the crew makes their bold predictions for 2010.
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Episode 177: Eminence Front
January 3, 2010
Andy sits in with the RFN crew to kick off 2010 with tons of games!
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Episode 176: Auld Lang Syne
December 27, 2009
TYP joins us to say goodbye to 2009 with a look back at the life of the Wii so far.
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Episode 175: Blaster Masters
December 20, 2009
RFN gets in the festive Spirit (Tracks) with talk of Zelda, Blaster Master, and The Sky Crawlers, plus the return of your Listener Mail.
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Episode 174: The Legend of Cory
December 13, 2009
The RFN gang is finally back together for the holidays, and we even brought a special friend: Cory Lewis, gaming's Renaissance Man.
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Episode 173: Pokémon Uranium
December 6, 2009
Wired's Chris Kohler stops by to pimp his charity event and give away tricks for game collectors.
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Episode 172: Turkey Kick
November 29, 2009
Jonny returns with tales of Yuropland. Greg has no idea what he's talking about. And for once, James isn't the angriest guy on the show.
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Episode 171: The Ecstasy of Headgold
November 22, 2009
RFN pays out big in the only currency that matters - knowledge of the games! We share our impressions of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Sin & Punishment 2, then answer your Listener Mail questions in this beefy episode.
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Episode 170: Three Way
November 15, 2009
Leaner and goofier, the RFN crew catches up on Listener Mail in this pre-Mario episode.
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Episode 169: Choco-licious
November 8, 2009
Jon is back in a big way, and Andy steps in as our resident expert on Shining Force.
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Episode 168: NWR All Star! Dairanto Podcast Brothers X
November 1, 2009
It's a celestial alignment as guests from all three of NWR's podcasts come together to provide your RFN fix.
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Episode 167: Return of the King
October 25, 2009
Billy Berghammer drops in to help us understand what makes games difficult, and why that can be a good thing.
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Episode 166: James Unbound
October 18, 2009
We just can't do a short show anymore.
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Episode 165: Spectral Dog-Walker
October 11, 2009
The RFN crew is playing some brand new games, and Mike Sklens hops in for the last of our Geist discussion.
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Episode 164: I Dream of Biggie
October 4, 2009
Get a dose of TGS from Matt Walker in a special segment, plus New Business and Listener Mail with the RFN crew.
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Episode 163: Haunted Dog Food
September 27, 2009
We talk about Geist with Jeff Kalles, former Associate Producer at Nintendo of America. Amazing behind-the-scenes stories ensue.
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Episode 162: The Alien is You
September 20, 2009
We're back, well rested, and ready to assault your ears with tons of New Business, a news round-up, and your mail!
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Episode 161: Words of Wisdom
September 6, 2009
Football, zombies, and earthworms infest this week's podcast.
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Episode 160: The Bear Jones
August 30, 2009
Lean "New Business" meets full-figured "Listener Mail". Will they repopulate the Earth?
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Episode 159: A Whale is Not a Zebra
August 23, 2009
Jon is back to reveal the genius of Super Mario World.
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Episode 158: Spin Jump Apologist
August 16, 2009
Both old and new 2D platformers dominate this episode, guest starring Michael "TYP" Cole.
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Episode 157: Little Blob Mountain
August 9, 2009
Neal sits in for a report on upcoming games, while James and Greg delve into Little King's Story.
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Episode 156: Through an Emulator Darkly
August 2, 2009
Can you really enjoy Wii Sports Resort by yourself? What's happening to Virtual Console? Are bad games just victims of regretful choices? Listen to find out!
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RFN Reunion Extravaganza Thing
July 31, 2009
For the first time ever (really!), hear Mike, Evan, Stan, and Karl on the same show.
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Episode 155: Power Forward
July 26, 2009
Jonny's back and he's fit to 'splode with New Business, Greg dives into Wii Sports Resort, and the crew examines the state of current generation gaming while answering more of your Listener Mail.
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Episode 154: Audio Slow Motion
July 19, 2009
With Jonny away on manoeuvres (playing Bangai-O Spirits), the crew welcomes Japan Correspondent Matt Walker into the fold to get the lowdown on Wii Sports Resort and the launch of Dragon Quest IX.
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Episode 153: Wolf Mother
July 12, 2009
Tons of games in this episode, including more Conduit, Final Fantasy, and a RetroActive look at TG-16's Ninja Spirit!
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Episode 152: Rain Forest Velocity
July 5, 2009
Mike Sklens drops in to get reborn in the holy waters of Nintendo advocacy.
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Episode 151: It's the Podcast, People!
June 28, 2009
The fourth year of RFN begins with new games and your emails.
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Episode 150: Memory Unbound
June 21, 2009
It's a celebration, bitches!
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Episode 149: In Search of Salmon Arm
June 14, 2009
Join the RFN team (minus Jonny, plus TYP) as it recuperates from E3 by catching up on your Listener Mail and closing out the Zelda II RetroActive.
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RFN E3 2009 Special: Episode 3
June 5, 2009
Last day of E3, and a big crew!
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RFN E3 2009 Special: Episode 2
June 4, 2009
New games, new voices -- it's time for third-party impressions.
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RFN E3 2009 Special: Episode 1
June 3, 2009
Five exhausted NWR writers discuss the Nintendo press conference and the playable first-party games, from Mario to Sin & Punishment 2!
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RFN E3 2009 Special: Episode 0
June 1, 2009
Get to know the E3 crew and hear our first thoughts from Los Angeles.
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Episode 148: Downthrustin'
May 31, 2009
E3 is around the corner, but we try to have a normal episode with Zelda II for RetroActive. Special guest Lukasz Balicki makes his RFN debut!
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Episode 147: Dick Van Dyke Hero
May 24, 2009
Before Jon Lindemann runs off to get hitched, we wrangled him into this episode full of E3 expectations and wild speculation.
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Episode 146: WiiWare Short Shorts
May 17, 2009
April NPDs and the WiiWare anniversary help us overcome the lull in game releases and news before E3.
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Episode 145: Tito, Use the Dagger!
May 10, 2009
Jonny returns for RetroActive revenge, and the crew answers a bonus-sized stack of your emails.
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Episode 144: The Punishment is Death
May 3, 2009
Neal Ronaghan gives us his hands-on impressions of EA's Wii MotionPlus titles, and RetroActive gets evil as Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts finally takes its turn.
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Episode 143: Standard Deviation
April 26, 2009
In the absence of Jonny, Nick DiMola joins the RFN crew to talk Excitebots, Punch-Out!!, Billy Mitchell, and to speculate like there's no tomorrow.
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Episode 142: Cue the Somber Music
April 19, 2009
As Super Metroid celebrates 15 years of rocking your world, the RFN crew devotes an entire episode to this beloved and highly influential game.
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Episode 141: Lindy Won't Fit!
April 12, 2009
Enjoy a rare three-man podcast as we polish off Secret of Mana.
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Episode 140: You Got a Podcast Orb
April 5, 2009
It's time to kick off RetroActive: Secret of Mana! We've been playing lots of other games too, and James has a new rant.
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Episode 139: On the 859th Day, He Rested
March 29, 2009
You could say that Iwata's GDC keynote was almost a religious experience for some of the RFN crew.
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Episode 138: Bit.TYP Beat
March 22, 2009
...in which Jon Lindemann and Michael Cole combine to form Nintron, who blasts away your sanity meter and helpfully recommends a starting point for the Final Fantasy series.
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Episode 137: The Darkness Comes
March 15, 2009
Karl Castaneda sits in the guest chair for this action-packed show! We finally kick off the RetroActive discussion of Eternal Darkness, too.
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Episode 136: Remembrance of Things Past
March 10, 2009
Billy joins us for a happy walk down memory lane on the website's 10th anniversary.
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Episode 135: Bad Example
March 1, 2009
This shorter episode still packs a punch with even more news (what's up, February?) and your letters.
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Episode 134: Successful Franchise: Spin-off
February 22, 2009
News is back by popular demand, and we finish up Luigi's Mansion.
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Episode 133: Ain't Afraid of No Ghost
February 15, 2009
Neal Ronaghan joins us for a summary of the New York Comic-Con and a RetroActive discussion of Luigi's Mansion.
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Episode 132: Legend of Podcast
February 5, 2009
This big show includes lots of New Business, your Listener Mail, and even a news segment!
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Episode 131: Puppet Show... and RFN
January 30, 2009
This episode kicks off the RetroActive feature and celebrates Lindy's promotion.
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Episode 130: They Were Ghost
January 25, 2009
For those podcasts about to die, we salute you.
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Episode 129: Freeballin'
January 12, 2009
Get a preview of NWR's 2008 Awards in this abbreviated episode. Also: click through to discover the first game in our new RetroActive feature!
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Episode 128: With a Banjo On My Knee
January 8, 2009
The RFN crew is reunited, and it feels so good.
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Episode 127: Tri-Continental Time Zone Panic!
December 30, 2008
Close out the year with a podcast recorded during two days at once.
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Episode 126: Force of Nature
December 23, 2008
Fires, and Tornados, and Bears (but no Jonny), oh my!
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Episode 125: 2008 Relived
December 21, 2008
Forget everything you knew about Nintendo in 2008, and learn it all over again.
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Episode 123: The Man with the Golden Throat
December 15, 2008
Christmas comes but once a year.
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Episode 124: Listener Mail Apocalypse
December 10, 2008
No new business, no news, no problem.
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Special: Ocarina of Time 10th Anniversary
November 24, 2008
Jonny, Greg, Evan, and the ghost of Jon Lindemann look back at one of the greatest and most beloved games of all time on its tenth birthday.
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Episode 122: Quandary of Solace
November 15, 2008
Filling in and falling short.
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Episode 121: A Brief Respite
November 9, 2008
We're lean and mean.
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Episode 120: Hype Man
October 28, 2008
Karl joins us to talk about how hype affects games and gamers.
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Episode 119: The Other Briton
October 23, 2008
James Charlton joins us from the Land of Nippon for a review of all the Wii and DS goodness at TGS 2008.
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Episode 118: Let's Tap and Let's Tap (Children's Chorus)
October 19, 2008
The RFN crew bathes in Nintendo news for an entire, full-length episode.
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Episode 117: Podcasting is Hard
October 6, 2008
Yet another ridiculous technical problem claims much of the show, but you still get a preview of our most anticipated fall games for Wii and DS.
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Episode 116: Broken Promises
October 1, 2008
This half-length episode needs to suffice for two weeks' worth of podcasts. Luckily, we have Bonnie Ruberg and Evan to make it special.
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Episode 115: The Freewheelin' RFN
September 15, 2008
We throw out the rules and say whatever we want about Cho Aniki, Caligula, and other deranged topics.
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Episode 114: Gaming Eugenics
September 7, 2008
Greg is back for Listener Mail, in which we decide who lives and who dies among Nintendo's franchises.
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Episode 113: Indigo Popsicle
August 30, 2008
Hot on the heels of the previous episode, this hefty one features the return of Nick and a discussion (more a dialogue, really) on story in games.
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Episode 112: Afterglow
August 26, 2008
The news is back on this packed episode of RFN.
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Episode 111: Bilbo's Birthday
August 17, 2008
This week's episode is shorter but steamier. Whatever that means.
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Episode 110: WiiWare UnderWare
August 10, 2008
Jon and Nick return to expose the next level of upcoming WiiWare titles.
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Episode 109: The Happy Fun Optimistic Show
August 2, 2008
Holy crap on a stick, we love Nintendo! More than you, even!
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Episode 108: New Title Needed
July 27, 2008
Billy Berghammer drops in for New Business and final thoughts on E3 2008.
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Episode 107: Nintendo Less Conference
July 19, 2008
Jon, Greg, and James didn't get to go to E3. That doesn't make them less angsty about how it all went down.
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Radio Free Nintendo: E3 08 Day 4
July 18, 2008
We wrap up our E3 podcast series with a look at the best, most interesting 3rd-party games of the show. Plus: the Hall of Shame and the games that will make Wii owners jealous of other systems this fall.
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Radio Free Nintendo: E3 08 Days 2 & 3
July 17, 2008
Catch up on TWO days' worth of E3 bulletins from our on-site RFN crew.
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Radio Free Nintendo E3 08 Day 1
July 14, 2008
Nintendo World Report's E3 '08 field team kicks off this year's E3 coverage reflecting on the news from Day 1 of E3 '08
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Episode 106: Pre-E3 Special
July 11, 2008
Join us this week when we make our own E3 predictions, and be sure to join us next week when we distance ourselves from said predictions.
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Episode 105: Gun Show
July 2, 2008
Absence continues to make the heart grow fonder.
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Episode 104: The Corrections
June 28, 2008
It's time to heal the wounds as we spent a single, two-hour segment talking about games. What a concept!
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Episode 103: James Jones Box Hunter
June 22, 2008
Pirates, can't live with 'em, can't get the name of their podcast right without 'em.
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Episode 102: Massage the Text
June 13, 2008
Let the Reviewers' Rage flow through you.
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Episode 101: Silky Smooth
June 6, 2008
We return from the hiatus with a slightly shorter episode. Includes a bizarre discussion of Star Wars continuity.
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Episode 100: Five Hundred Ninety-Nine U.S. Hours
May 23, 2008
We celebrate our 100th outing by recording an episode longer than the previous 99 shows combined. Starring: Old friends, your emails, and funny memories!
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Episode 99: Beware Our Man Beams
May 15, 2008
Our WiiWare discussion is anything but focused, as we stray into bizarre Virtual Console games and Nintendo's mysterious fall lineup.
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Episode 98: Adventures in Dying
May 9, 2008
Jonny is back, and he brought his friend Kevin along to ruminate about adventure games.
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Episode 97: Reimagining RFN
May 1, 2008
Jonny is out, Nick DiMola is in! James hosts a podcast full of catharsis and baseless speculation.
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Episode 96: Anglophilic Man-Love
April 25, 2008
Lindemann is back, Greg is beloved, and we get deep into Mario Kart and the future of Metroid in the newest episode of RFN.
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Episode 95: Samba de Windy
April 18, 2008
This week, we discuss the Nintendo media summit and why certain Mario Kart character pairings might be deemed inappropriate.
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Episode 94: Total Chaos
April 11, 2008
Without show notes, New Business becomes its own podcast.