October 3, 2021

The Arcade

Ahoi hoi, friends, and thanks for joining us on another new episode of The Arcade. We start this week’s show, as usual, with our Ludicrous Leadoffs. In the first, we share what name you cannot use for your character in Amazon’s recently released MMO, and, in the second, we discuss the newly announced voice cast for the Super Mario movie. After that, we continue by giving our thoughts on the most recent Nintendo Direct video, giving our thoughts on the N64 and Sega games coming to Switch online, and the open-world Kirby game. We also discuss Nintendo’s announcement of a Donkey Kong area coming to their theme park in Japan, as well as a report of plans for 4K graphics in the Switch OLED edition. Following all the Nintendo talk, we provide an update on plans for this year’s edition of The Game Awards, and the big EVO event in Las Vegas being canceled. In our Blast From The Past segment, we mark the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo 64, as well as the 30th anniversary of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Continue reading →