Nintendo's Weirdest Games Of All Time

The MinnMax Show

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Video Games, Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

We'll DM you on Patreon with a Steam code for the fantastic game Sektori if you support MinnMax at the $2 tier before Monday, February 9th. This is for NEW supporters only, not returning or upgrading. 200 Steam codes available, we'll update this description if we run out. https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by Jeremy Parish (who you might know from Retronauts or 1UP back in the day) as we each share picks of some of the weirdest Nintendo games of all time. From Hudson's take on Donkey Kong to Doshin the Giant, we cover the full history of Nintendo here. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:00 - Introducing Jeremy Parish

00:09:56 - Get a Steam code for Sektori

00:11:14 - Nintendo's weirdest games

00:13:08 - Mario Artist

00:18:50 - Doshin the Giant

00:20:18 - Looksley's Line Up

00:22:06 - Link n Launch

00:22:56 - Rusty's Real Deal Baseball

00:25:09 - Nintendo e-Reader

00:30:22 - Grill-Off with Ultra Hand!

00:31:43 - Captain Rainbow

00:32:38 - Famicom Modem

00:36:44 - BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets

00:39:02 - Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda

00:41:15 - Super Mario Bros. Special

00:42:35 - Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū

00:44:19 - Super Mario Land

00:45:27 - Odama

00:47:12 - Pikmin

00:48:16 - Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

00:49:26 - Kiki Trick

00:50:31 - Nester's Funky Bowling

00:53:26 - Labo VR

00:56:27 - Space Invaders on GameBoy

00:58:48 - Community Picks

01:01:44 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:03:42 - Community questions

01:41:24 - Get A Load Of This

Kelsey’s GALOT - https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lorde-donates-six-figures-minnesota-immigrant-funds-ice-out-1236172115/

Jeremy's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5oB82sUMVc

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RTOd4DEeUc

Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nco5nsb7hhhpieybh4knj4vh/post/3mdbd7eatdc26?ref_src=embed

Community GALOT - https://www.theverge.com/tech/871250/supernatural-meta-vr-fitness-community

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Min-Magg show, Place About Games, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The MinMag Show,
0:23.6	Place About Games, Friends, and Getting Better.
0:26.1	I'm Ben Hansen. I'm here.
0:27.4	I'm joined by Kelsey Lewin.
0:29.7	I'm so excited to get weird.
0:32.7	This is going to be the weirdest episode of the Minmack Show of all time.
0:35.7	We're joined by Cal Hilliard.
0:42.7	I don't know. What's weird? I don't know what's weird i don't know that was so weird kind of normal thing to do see that's what i was a freak we're joined also honored to be joined for the first time ever
0:49.3	by jeremy parish hello apparently i've been told that when think weird, I'm one of the first names that comes to
0:57.4	mine.
0:58.0	Well, we're thinking weird Nintendo.
1:00.5	And so it's more the latter than the former.
1:02.8	You know how it goes, man.
1:04.3	On this episode, I'm excited to unpack some weird Nintendo stuff.
1:09.8	We're in an interesting era of Nintendo, you know, where I think the Switch 2 launch,
1:15.9	arguably the least weird console launched in Nintendo's history.
1:20.2	There's just kind of a right down the middle.
1:21.8	It's kind of a better version of what we did last time.
1:24.4	And so I heard so many people kind of lamenting the death of weird Nintendo or
1:28.9	weird Nintendo being dormant. We like those big weird swings. We like it when we see a news
1:33.1	story and we say, what are you doing Nintendo? What is happening here? And I feel like we're in like...
1:38.4	Which is why I'm 100% on board with the virtual boy re-release. That's exactly. I'm going to say,
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