Dads After Dark Show - A Nintendo Podcast · Drew and John

#186: Our Favorite Games Based on Movies

·1 hr 15 min·5 clips

Drew says Dwarves might drop from a 9 to an 8 or 8.5 after an end boss fight.

1. Dads After Dark Show #186 focuses on favorite video games based on movies, after opening on Sunday, October 29th, 2023 with football and game updates. 2. Drew and John host the episode as longtime Nintendo podcasters who compare Broncos football, Jets chaos, and their current games. 3. The episode asks which movie-based games actually translated a film into a good play experience, not just a licensed tie-in. 4. Drew says the Denver Broncos' win over the Chiefs felt like their biggest victory since the 2015 Super Bowl season. 5. He also describes the Giants-Jets finish, including Sauce Gardner taking tape off his hand before the Jets tied the game. 6. John reacts to the Patriots' loss to the Dolphins and says his team's big win from the previous week stopped mattering. 7. Drew and John spend time on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, including 100% completion, special-world entrances, and the Wiggler Race Mountaineering mayhem. 8. Drew says Spider-Man 2 is a game-of-the-year contender because Miles and Peter work together and the story goes places he did not predict. 9. Drew then turns to Dwarves and says the final boss is so hard that he may lower his review score from 9/10. 10. John responds that the episode fits an off-week format while the hosts still keep the usual structure intact. 11. John opens the movie-game topic with Batman Returns on Super Nintendo and calls it a direct translation of the movie's mood. 12. He points to the game's big sprites, moody graphics, and music as the reasons it stands out. 13. Drew brings up GoldenEye as the obvious pick and says he played the game before seeing the movie. 14. He notes that the game mirrors movie moments so closely that replaying it after watching the film makes the levels more satisfying. 15. Drew then picks the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom arcade game and walks through the kid-rescue stage, the mine-cart section, and the bridge fight. 16. He says he kept playing it at a retro arcade because it felt so close to the movie and because the arcade version looked better than the NES version. 17. The hosts keep the tone informal and conversational, with jokes, side comments, and quick reversals as they move from football to games. 18. Their pace is loose and list-driven, with one host naming a game and the other adding memories or comparisons. 19. Listeners who like 90s licensed games and Nintendo nostalgia will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want a tightly edited review or a deep retrospective may skip it.

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