Lite Switch: Dec 3, 2025 | Gamesgiving

0:28 Welcome back to the old Switcheroo, where we're talking gaming retro with Mike and Jamo. I'm Mike. And I'm Jamo in this episode of the old Switcheroo Light Switch. Instead of our normal focus on the over 300 retro games available on Nintendo Classics, we are celebrating games giving 2025 by breaking down our Turkey Day, Nintendo's and Don'ts, as well as crafting up the Ultimate Power Up Plate and the Ultimate Nintendo Classics 4 course meal. That's right, they're both Ultimates. Subscribe or follow us on YouTube, Spotify, Apple or wherever you listen so you can get all the gaming goodness delivered just how you like it. And of course, if you if you can also give us a review anywhere, we appreciate it. So actually we just got a five star review this week. Yay.

1:12 Is there a username? Yes, Ryan. Ryan. I don't think I know where, Ryan. I don't, I don't think either of us do, which is always nice. I. Want to close my window? Window is closed. Let me hear it. Yeah, so their review is, I've been looking for a show like this for a long time. It's fun listening to the history and the fun facts about some of the games I used to play. Keep up the good work. Ryan, you charmer. Well, hey, listen, if you want to hear Mike's sultry voice, read other reviews, leave them. That's that's awesome. Thank you for sharing that, Mike. Look at that. I've already got something to be thankful for. That is awesome. So let's get into it, Mike. Thanksgiving with the Luns.

1:57 Paint me a word picture. What's the usual situation with you in this holiday? I think usually Thanksgiving itself is very small. OK. And that is because the extended family events usually are not Thanksgiving Day, or frequently aren't. Right. Yeah, that's that's kind of my situation too. So would your family host or would you guys go travel? But we never host. OK. People aren't in my house often, you know that. Well, lovely family all the same. Yeah, so one of my aunts usually hosts for the main thing. Yeah.

2:41 And I think, I think every family has that like host family, you know what I mean? It's like the most compatible kind of lifestyle and homestead arrangement. I I cook OK, you don't cook. Well, it's my Aunt Teresa that hosts it. Like, baking is like, her job. Oh, like it's like also meant that like she made my wedding cake. Wow, Aunt Teresa showing up. Yeah, so it is a large spread of food. That's awesome. That sounds delicious and expansive. I'm getting excited for you already. We'll be both.

3:25 Yeah, You know, after my mom passed away, there was sort of a period where the Strausses didn't really do Thanksgiving. Like we'd go to like a Chinese restaurant or like Buca di Peppo or something. But then the Strauss boys all kind of started partnering up with people who do really big Thanksgiving. So like, the Burtons crush it every year. The Lemieux family, like they had big Thanksgiving. My brother's partner was like an incredible Baker. So it's like Thanksgiving is kind of like gained excitement for me, but I feel like that's just admitting that it's all about the food for me. So Mike, I've got some Thanksgiving Nintendis or Dats. I want to know your take on some controversial Thanksgiving food choices and leave a comment if you disagree or agree with Mike's choices. You ready?

4:15 I expect a lot of disagreement because my food stances usually are disagreed with. OK, well, you know, you and I will keep score. We'll see how compatible our flavor pallets are. We'll see how many out of seven we match up on. You ready? All right. Number one, kind of give you a softball here. We're going in nice and easy. White meat or dark meat. White meat, I think. Really, I like, I like the kind of gamier texture of dark meat. What, what, What is it about white meat that that makes you go that way? I'm being honest. I take. I take some of both. Yeah, right. I feel like dark meat gets a bad rap. Like, OK, so I'm a dark meat.

4:55 Maybe. What if we don't match up on any and that's why we work? Mike. OK. All right, OK, this one. Butter on your rolls or leave them dry for dipping and swirling. I they stay dry the whole time. They they stay dry the whole time. Mike's going and dry. Really not even into the gravy. I don't eat gravy. I don't eat gravy. That's right, 'cause you're not really a soup. Guy yeah or or a lot of sauces like it cooking now has gotten trickier in so much as like I'll get like a Turkey and it'll come with like these stuff for making the gravy to go with it and I never bother with it. But now cat.

5:38 Likes gravy and it's like, OK, yeah, if you would like the gravy, I'll take care of the rest of this. If you if you feel like gravy, go for it. And if you don't? You make her make her own gravy, Mike. I do not know what I'm doing with it. It's one of those things where it's, it's the same thing like when people ask me to get stuff for coffee. I'm like, I OK, what's the stuff for coffee? You know, the usual stuff. I don't drink it. I don't know. Here, have these sticks that I don't know why they're they're at every coffee shop, but they're there. I'll bring them back. You stir the coffee, Mike. I love it. I love that that is so not your world. You never even learned the like the not the language. Like the terms jargon?

6:20 Yeah, jargon. There you go. There you go. OK, so we're we're you know, I'm going to say we're synced up on that because I don't butter my rolls. I do, I do gravy dip them. But I still feel like the question was buttered or non buttered. We're both non buttered. OK, that's one point for the old switcheroo. I I know the answer then to this one. I would bet then cranberry sauce. Nintendo or don't. It's a, it's a don't, I don't bother with it. Right. Me neither. Yeah, it's too tart. OK. We're having that one all right. I, I was expecting your cranberry sauce question to be like, because I think it's from the can or like from fresh cranberries is I think of people that eat it. There's a distinction there. There's people who prefer the canned. Yeah, I think it's one of those tradition things like if you you run into the same thing with like Mac and cheese and get people who are like, oh, this is this great home baked macaroni and cheese that's amazing.

7:04 And other people who are like, no, you have to get it from a craft box. OK, I could see that. I can see that which as. I don't eat it. I mostly know that argument happens because it used to be people would find out I've never had Mac and cheese and then the remaining argument was not we need to have my eat Mac and cheese. They would devolve into an argument on that and forget about me. You split the party. All right, So this one, this is, I know this might be the most divisive Thanksgiving question. Marshmallows on top of the sweet potatoes. Yay or. Nay, I think I go. I think I go nay. Yeah, it's a reluctant nay for me. Like I feel like I haven't had it as an adult, so I'm curious to revisit it.

7:47 But historically, I've been a nay. I feel like marshmallows have a have their place in Thanksgiving dinner but not there. OK, well this next one is a Washington because it's gravy on the mashed potatoes, but I think we know that's a no. That's a no. Pumpkin pie, Nintendo or don't. No. Really. My theory is that roughly, pie gets better at the smaller the fruit it's from gets. OK, so you really love Raspberry pie Berry? Pies and cherry and cherry and Key Lime is only slightly larger, but OK. OK. And then like Peach and Apple are good but not as good. And you hate pumpkin. It's like, OK, well, you know something you never had? Jan Burton's pumpkin pie.

8:32 She has a secret ingredient that I will not spoil on this podcast unless you beg me by leaving a review. And then I'll sell her family recipe right up the river. Well, so then she also makes a very signature dish that I don't even know if you've had mincemeat pie. I don't think I have. OK, you've heard of it though. I've I've heard of it. OK, well, it's, it's like a savory fruit pie and and it it splits the family. So I was just wondering where you landed. OK, well, you know something, 4 out of seven, we're compatible. Yeah, I, I, I think I associate as the Thanksgiving dinner would be. I It has 2 great names which are Ambrosia and Idiot's Delight. What did you just call me?

9:20 Can I get AT shirt that says no? Wait, what? Those are pies. No, no, just a dessert. It's sort of like fruit salad, but also marshmallows in there and a few other things. OK, so it's fruit salad, but not healthy for you and therefore not annoying. Actually, I really love fruit salad. My wife makes a great fruit salad. It's it's fruit salad and then some other stuff. Awesome. Well, let us know in the comments what you think of our Thanksgiving takes and do you have any controversial ones of your own? All right, Mike, well, Next up you and I are gonna take a little visit to the old switcheroo all night buffet for you to build your own ultimate power plate. Power up plate. These choices are all taken from games that we have reviewed in previous episodes.

10:06 So if I name something that sounds tasty and you're unfamiliar, go find it on www.theoldswitcheroo.com. aroo.com. Am I right Mike? I'm right. OK, so Monsieur, first up, you have a selection of beverages to choose from. You can get ice cold lawn lawn milk from Ocarina of Time, the random potion for our Scars, Unity mystery potion from Zombies at My Neighbors, or tonic from Breath of Fire. What will the gentleman be having? I have had tonic water and I am not pleased with tonic water. Yeah. It doesn't do anything in the game either. Tonic is listed as used to create tonic and I'm like what? This item creates itself.

10:48 Yeah, and Mystery Potion is also not great. I think it could be great. I've got to die if you're. Not in my experience. OK, so you're sick and was safe. Nice ice cold milk. Yeah, it's not. I don't normally have it with with a meal, but I think that wins out here. Yeah, and it's safe and it gives you some hearts back, you know, couldn't we always a little more heart? All right, so Next up, this might be the most exciting category. Mike, we have a lovely selection of sides for you to choose from. Would you like to try the Apples from Super Mario World, the apple from Spanky's Quest, or the quote UN quote apples from Pokémon Snap? I think I got to go Super Mario World. Yeah, I mean, but Yoshi eats them, we don't. I mean, yeah, but I mean people feel people feed horses apples too, and those can be the same apples. You know what I just remembered?

11:49 In our episode, we covered that Yoshi was originally conceived as like an ostrich or a horse, and I'll bet that's why they're eating apples. Look at, look at you, Mike. You're a smart one. You don't want to take a bite of the apple with the sexy legs from Spanky's. Not. Particularly, but that one's for you, buddy. That one's for you, buddy. All right, Next up, we have our meat course. You have a selection of four to choose from. Here you get jumbo meat. Sorry, sorry. I can get through this. Joey, I'm offering my jumbo meat. Jumbo meat from Joe and Mac 2, the burger Patty from Burger Time. Deluxe wall chicken from Castlevania.

12:31 There you go. Kai or the pot roast from Golden Axe. I I was pre prepared for this one wall chicken being an answer I would go with. OK. So that's your choice. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I thought about Joe and Mac in advance as well. Yeah. But I'm, I think that's much more in the beef realm. OK, And I mean, and you spit bones out when you eat that one that that sounds kind of painful. I I was hoping you'd pick the pot roast because you'd have to chase it down the thief and kick him to get the food out of his little screen sack. I don't want my food to involve work. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I wanted that I'd hunt. Well, but if you wait for the gnome to run to you and you just hit it, that's kind of food delivery. So like that was like the first Uber Eats. There's a joke in there somewhere. There's a video to be made there where like he runs on the screen and Uber eats logos, right.

13:27 OK, Next up, a fish course. Your choices are Masher from Sonic the Hedgehog 28 Arms from Echo the Dolphin, Unira from Klu KLU Land, or the Bio Weapon from Star Fox 64. He's got to think about this one. I'm not even sure what two of those are. OK, you want to ask about them or you want to just be brave on the menu? 8 arms from echo is octopus correct? So I'm not messing with that one. You don't do octopus? No. Yeah, me neither. Not even fried. I don't need anything, anything that has demonstrated that much intelligence. Was the one you didn't know bio weapon from Star Trek 64 that.

14:09 Was definitely one of them. Giant clam clam the size of like a football stadium. All right. Yeah, that's that one's also passed the the first one was. Masher from Sonic 2, the metal fish that jumps up and bites you when you run across the bridge. Yeah, I, I, I'm going to say I feel like the metal is probably a definite problem there. The third one was which one again? The last one and so. But to be clear though, you do get the animal inside the robot fish. What what is the animal inside the robot fish? Is that necessarily like a smaller fish or is that just like whatever? Like is there like a squirrel powering of fish? Well, I know it's not an actual fish in there because when you break it, the animal hops away and there's no fish that flop away.

14:57 Not in this game, I don't think Any actually all. Right, that's what I figured. Though and then the last one is Unira from Clu Clu land which is the sea urchin enemies which people do eat. Yeah, I, I'm, I think I'm going to go with whatever random non fish is in master. Because you're not a big fish guy. Yeah. So you're like, kill the robot fish. But hey, now I got a chicken. I like chicken. It's an upgrade. God would that be a really dark way to like you make ovens that look like Sonic bad necks and you have to break them to get the cooked meat inside? I thought it. Was more of a turducken thing really.

15:37 Actually, that would make a really fun design for like a hamster cage is it's transparent and looks like a bad nick, but it's Oh my gosh, Etsy. Hey, listen, is it? Can I talk to Etsy? No, it's just people, isn't? It I don't know. You know someone with a 3D printer. I know Justin's got a 3D printer. Don't steal my idea. I'm making this a thing. All right. And so then Mike lastly for dessert, we have a slice of Princess Peaches birthday cake after it's been used as a level in Mario Party, a plain doughnut from Super Mario Kart or Kirby. You know you want to know what Kirby tastes like.

16:18 Might. I think he's a kind of taffy. Really. Everyone thinks marshmallow. No, I'd I'd go taffy, possibly bubble gum. Let us know in the comments what Kirby tastes like. I wonder if there's a canonical answer. OK, well so is that your answer? No, I, I I think I'd go birthday cake and like cuz if worst case I can just like scrape off the top layer. Sure of monkey footprints and whatever rubble is left. After the bondage. Yeah, exactly. Well, so Mike, your ultimate power up plate, you will begin with a sip of ice cold La La milk, followed by the apples from Super Mario World.

17:02 You will then be enjoying wall chicken from Castlevania, whatever animal is inside Masher from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and ending with a slice of gently used, gently loved Princess Peach's birthday cake. Let us know in the comments guys what your plate would be. And that was fun. OK, so Mike, we are a video game theme podcast. I thought it would be fun to craft a metaphorical 3 course meal we just did with power ups. But now let's do it with actual games in Nintendo Classics. We want your appetizer game to start the evening light and fun, then your main course game that has immense lasting appeal, and then you finish off with something casual and relaxing for your dessert game to end the night. Mike, take us through.

17:49 Did I say 4 course? That's three course, isn't it? That's three. OK, three course meal. All right, so. Important question, is this a meal that is being shared or is this a single player meal? I don't think many people would consider themselves celebrating Thanksgiving if they're not with family. I feel like that is kind of a big part of the holiday itself, even though that can be stressful, you know, I almost feel like that's part of it, too. So I'm gonna say group. OK. And. I think that makes sense once you agree for games giving it should be like a group holiday thing. I figured I'd ask.

18:30 I have answers. I had answers for both approaches. All right, well, so give me your appetizer game for a group setting. Something kind of light and quick and fun. So it must be. It must be a game we've covered before Sonic 2. Why that one? Because I think the the multiplayer on that is real quick to jump into and I do associate that with playing that and then having a main course in a sense from when like Burger King used to have that in in the restaurants. Wow, in a way it was your appetizer back in the day. Yeah, it's a real quick in and it's basic enough that you don't have to be like how you don't have to get deep into the game to figure out what's going on. Yeah, yeah.

19:13 Well, so that's funny. Mine is also a Genesis game. I went with Street Fighter two on this like a Genesis, you know, granted the controls are not great if unless you manually ship them in the options. But feel like Street Fighter, it's just like really fast. It's very intuitive to pick up and play. You might not be doing the special moves unless you're a cheap bastard like Mike and just do the same one over and over again. But like I think that the average person could understand what's happening on the screen and get how like the buttons correlate. So like I feel like grandmas and grandpas could pick it up and have a laugh and everyone kind of gets a turn and the matches don't last very long, you know, kind of kind of light hearted fun, I think.

19:54 So then your main course game, tell me what game from our 94 some games we've covered so far do you think has that play it all night multiple hours lasting appeal game? Mario Kart 64. Yeah, yeah. But are you just sticking in battle mode like we're want to do? I think I would because if you're not fighting, what's the point of Thanksgiving? I had that ready. He had that ready. Folks, that was a good joke, Slash. Not a joke at all. Yeah, I like it. I like it. And you know, certainly when we were kids we would play that game for hours on end to like two or three in the morning. Just block for it, after block for it. It just it just never gets old.

20:37 So awesome. I went with something with a bit more variety to it. I went with Kirby Superstar for the SNESI. Think you have all these different game modes, so there's a little flavour for everybody, you know, really colourful graphics, these lengthy single player campaigns to it and there's even some two player modes. So I could kind of see digging into that game all night long and you know, you'll find just one enjoyable flavor after another. That's that's my main course game all. Right My my single player on that one would have been linked to the past. So if you're for the single dinner. OK. Oh, I see. What you're doing is a single player or multiplayer. Yeah, but see, I think Kirby's Superstar though, can kind of fill both roles because like the mini games where you're against a human opponent, those are super quick. And often the Kirby levels themselves are really quick. So I think it would be kind of a good pass the controller around kind of single player game.

21:29 Yeah, no, no, wrong interpretation. And then my dessert game, Mario Party, right. I feel like it's light hearted. Everyone's full of food, they're full of wine, you know, they don't want to take something that seriously. So Mario Party, it gets people cracking up and maybe it'll cause a huge fight and then everyone wants to go home. That's perfect. Meals over, go home. What's your dessert game? I'll briefly mention my single play, single person dinner. OK option. Yeah, Pokémon Snap. OK, OK. You can kind of just sit away and play that game forever. I mean, you have 100% of it several times. Yeah.

22:12 Or at least I've I've rolled, I've hit a couple levels of rolling credits on that. Yeah, yeah, in different iterations. But yeah, I think it's I think it's, it is fairly low key. So it's relaxing. Yeah, yeah, I agree. And then for more than one person, but still has a core like relaxing element to it. And because you all said and kind of give people a nudge, like, yeah, I enjoy this a little bit, but then please leave. Previous the. Avenger. Sorry, no, nobody wants to say after that, even if you live there.

22:57 Mario's Super Super Pick Cross. Mario's super pick cross OK I see you. It kind of has a doing a crossword puzzle on the newspaper while you're full of pie kind of vibe. I, I could see it OK. And then everyone in the room is kind of contributing where they think you should chisel away at and. And it does have the two player. And it does have the two player wow deep cut. It felt like a deep cut. I don't. Does that count as a deep cut I? Don't know. I don't know. But yeah. And it's honestly the kind of game that like is that I find as a relaxing thing to go to. Yeah, 100%. Well, Mike, I think we should end this game's giving by saying what we are each thankful for.

23:41 So I think you did your homework. Do you have something that you would like to give thanks to or 4. I don't know what the preposition would be I. Think I'd probably just say just in, in general the the extra opportunities that come along with this like obviously I think the top that would be having Timmy on. Yeah. Which is just not a thing that I thought was going to happen. Sure, yeah. So it still feels surreal. And maybe he'll come back, you know, maybe Nate Brown, come on back, Sam Brown jump in like it's going to be a good time. And. Then they'll Ninja Gaiden 2 just came, just got announced so. I thought of Timmy as I often do. I thought of Timmy immediately.

24:24 But that would be fun though, because like we discussed how that game will be different. So like, it'd be fun to see. Well, so I'm thankful for I mean, I'm thinking for our entire audience, you know, however big or small it might be, like you guys are amazing, especially those of you that have been on the discord or guested or you know, give given those short form content alike, you know, it's just just so awesome because you know, it's just feels feels good. You guys are spreading the love 1 little thumb click at a time, and I love you for that. But I, I think that former students who are appreciating the podcast, I love that so much, you know, cuz like in the classroom, you know, you kind of time is precious. And I've never been a teacher where like I really get super into personal lives and things like that. So I just love the idea that former students are kind of getting to see a different side of me, and they are also sharing the love.

25:21 So yeah, that's cool. And if you're a current student, I like my students this year. So thank you as well for being cool. I got a cool job, and this is a cool hobby. And I don't know, I think both are important. OK. Well, I think Mike ready to call it game over for today. I think so. Well, a very happy Thanksgiving to all of you. And if you don't celebrate, just a happy fall season to you. Until next time, Please remember to like, follow, or subscribe to the old Switch a Roo and rate or review the show wherever you get your podcasts. You can also visit the website at www.theoldswitcharoo.com. There you can find all our social media links.

26:02 We'd love to hear what you thought of this episode or what you're hoping to hear in future episodes. And of course, there talk about the discord, Mike. No, you go for it. I'm going to go for it. You'll also find a link to our discord where you can talk games, play games, and even make a friend or two. As always, thanks for listening to the old Switch a Roo where we've been talking gaming retro with Mike and Jamo. I've been Mike. And I've been jamo game on everyone. Dang it, I had the best pun.

26:43 Mike, please put this back in. You're still recording, right? It's not a, it's not a filler episode. It's stuffing.