The Old SwitchAroo

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Dust off your d-pads and join lifelong friends Mike & Jaymo on their quest to research & review all 200+ retro games in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog. https://linktr.ee/theoldswitcharoo

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Killer Instinct" with an illustration of two fighters. The additional text below the label reads "-or- ULTRA-COMBO!" and the text to the side reads "with SSJ3Butch"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Ninja Gaiden II and Super Ninja Boy" with an illustration of three ninja. The additional text below the label reads "-or- the Widest Kicks U' Throw" and the text to the side reads "with Timmy Williams of Urn Fulla Popcorn and WKUK"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Tetris" with an illustration of falling Tetris pieces. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Playing the Classics" and the text to the side reads "with Jennifer Miller Hammel of Classical California's Arcade"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Donkey Kong" with an illustration of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr being chased by a player with a hammer hitting a barrel. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Gorilla Warfare" and the text to the side reads "with BlazeingPhoenix"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Contra: Hard Corps" with an illustration of three Contra: Hard Corps characters. The additional text below the label reads "-or- One-Hit Thrills" and the text to the side reads "with Markivus Nious from 40 Something Gamers"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Quest for Camelot" with an illustration of the two-headed dragon Cornwall and Devon accompanied by chicken-axe Bladebeak. The additional text below the label reads "-or- A Farcical Animated Ceremony" and the text to the side reads "with Steve Guntli from CinemArcade"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Alien Storm" with an illustration of the Alien Busters fighting a large boss. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Bustin Makes Me Feel Good" and the text to the side reads "with Justin and Jonathan"

At the top is the words "Jason Paige: The Game!"

At the bottom is a photograph of an excited Jason Paige holding 4 game boy cartridge prototypes for his upcoming video game Jason Paige: Voice of a Generation. The cartridges are in green, blue, yellow, and red.

Behind him is a Super Game Boy with a red Jason Paige Game Boy cart in it and the label "The Old SwitchAroo".

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "EarthBound" with an illustration of three RPG characters. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Stranger Things? I Hardly Know Her" and the text to the side reads "with Taylor from Wild Mouse"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Teleroboxer" with an illustration of a kanagaroo fighting robot. The additional text below the label reads "-or- The Sweet Science (Fiction)" and the text to the side reads "with Cyril from Defunct Games"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Solomon's Key", where the O and E have been replaced by a key, with an illustration of the main character standing on two floating blocks. The additional text below the label reads "-or- An Old Testament To Your Skill" and the text to the side reads "with Alex"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Tecmo Bowl" with an illustration of three football players. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Tackling the Issues" and the text to the side reads "with Brad and Jordan from Arcadiology"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Majora's Mask" with an illustration of Link under a large moon with a face. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Bad Moon rising" and the text to the side reads "with Derick frmo the Underrated movie podcast and RiRiYells"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "24-game-pak 16th bit retro-spective" with an illustration of a number of video game heroes and enemies. The additional text below the label reads "Season 3 Finale" and the text to the side reads "with Kat and 15 guest cameos!"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Crystalis" with an illustration of a hero surrounded by enemies. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Periodic Fable of Elements" and the text to the side reads "with Happney"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Ghosts n Ghouls trilogy" with an illustration of Arthur fighting Astaroth. The additional text below the label reads "-or- History Doomed to Repeat Itself" and the text to the side reads "with Cyril from Defunct Games"

Grandpa Simpson at a typewriter with the caption "There are too many robocops please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Mega Man The Wiley Wars" with an illustration Dr. Wiley and Mega Man. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Doctor, Doctor Give Me the Pews" and the text to the side reads "with Don from The Cable Club League"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "F-Zero & F-Zero 99" with an illustration of two F-Zero vehicles and three racers depicted above them. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Crashing Out!" and the text to the side reads "with Chico D Mar from Wet Frontier"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Clu Clu Land, Mario's Picross and Mario's Super Picross" with a nonogram. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Steganographic Imagery Viewer Discretion Advised" and the text to the side reads "with Andrew Linde from Nothing New: A Remake Podcast"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Blast Corps" with an illustration of two robots from Blast Corps and one remote controlled car. The additional text below the label reads "-or- I've Heard of a Crash Course, but this is ridiculous" and the text to the side reads "with Nate Brown"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Super Mario World" with an illustration of Yoshi and Mario in the foreground with Bowser in the background. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Eggs-It Stage Right" and the text to the side reads "Dempsey from the Overthinking Games podcast"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Ninja Gaiden & Kung Fu Heroes" with an illustration of a ninja with a dragon on the left side and a fighter on the right. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Kung-Fool Me Once, Fight on Ryu" and the text to the side reads "with Timmy Williams from the Whitest Kids U' Know and Urn Fulla Popcorn"

A gold NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Ocarina of Time" with an illustration of young and old Link riding the horse Epona below it. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Time to Kyl" and the text to the side reads "with RiRiYells and KylTheSheikah"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Kid Icarus" with an illustration of Pitt from Kid Icarus below it. The additional text below the label reads "-or- I Put on my Eggplant Wizard Robe and Hat" and the text to the side reads "with Josh from the Still Loading podcast and Dexter"

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Phantasy Star IV" with an illustration of three fighters below it. The additional text below the label reads "-or- Hazy Cosmic Jive" and the text to the side reads "with Warboss5"

An SNES cartridge with a label that says "The Old Switcharoo", and the episode title "Pilotwings & Pilotwings 64 -or- In-Flight Entertainment. An illustration in the style of the characfters from Pilotwings 64 depicts Mike and Jaymo, and their guest Colleen

A SNES cartridge with a label reading Mario Party and drawings of several game characters. The left side lists the guests as Sarah and Kyle from the Stream Team and Jackie. The bottom includes the second part of the episode title, "Mad About Mini-Games!"