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Mark and Jeremy are back to present a terrific audio story by Hard Drive editor Andy Holt titled Three Days in Hell: The E3 Diaries, originally written in June 2019. If you enjoy Hard Drive, you will definitely love Andy's satirical Hunter S. Thompson style journey through one of video games' largest trade events, complete with original music by Co…

Mark and Jeremy watch the 1993 Super Mario Bros film and they end the podcast. Truly truly truly thank you to everyone who has listened to this podcast over the last 2+ years. It has been an incredible blast and a journey. Let's make sure this isn't "goodbye forever."

After more than two years, Mark and Jeremy have decide to call it a pretty good day on The Hard Drive Podcast. Listen to this episode to hear them eulogize the podcast, riff on the word "penultimate," and get incredibly sidetracked for the second-to-last time. Next week, we're watching the 1992 Super Mario Bros movie! And then? Only time will tell.…

The thrilling conclusion to Mark and Jeremy's modern reboot of Captain N: The Game Master. Can Kevin murder Mega Man and steal back Princess Lana's love? Can Mother Brain secure the three boxes that contain her stuff? Can Jeremy get through reading in King Hippo's voice without destroying his vocal chords?…

Jeremy got that vaccine fever (horny for vaccines) for a few days, so we decided to take a week off, in fear that an extra loopy episode could turn our upcoming Part 3 into a 4-Parter. Woof. So here's an oldie from the Captain N days! Pat from Castle Super Beast joins the podcast to talk about how goddamn fucked up Captain N: The Game Master is! Si…

Mark and Jeremy sit down to write the script for a dark, gritty reboot of Captain N: The Game Master. 30 years after leaving his childhood bedroom to enter Video Land, a depressed 46-year-old Kevin Keene still lives there. Can he win back Princess Lana's love? Or does she have eyes for Diddy Kong?

Mark and Jeremy sit down to write an outline for a dark, gritty reboot of Captain N: The Game Master. 30 years after leaving his childhood bedroom to enter Video Land, a depressed 46-year-old Kevin Keene still lives there.

Mark and Jeremy play SKI SNIPER, a game where you just murder skiers in cold blood from afar with a sniper rifle. The game has absolutely no lore, so the boys are quick to fill in the blanks, discovering that the sniper is upset about all these skiers fucking his wife. By the end of the episode... well, let's just say this sniper's wife isn't gonna…

Mark an d Jeremy discuss an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 in which Princess Toadstool challenges King Koopa to a presidential election! Koopa has to cheat using a nice guy potion, we meet Koopa's son Kooky von Koopa, and Mark and Jeremy break down the trailer for direct-to-dvd film Mafia Doctor.…

Mark and Jeremy watch and chat over an incredibly formative movie for both of them: 1. Oh sorry, I mean Wayne's World. Mark and Jeremy are so in tune with the Wayne's World series they just call it "1" and "2". They have a lot of (smart) opinions and fun facts they've picked up from years of rewatching this fun little romp.…

Mark and Jeremy check out the 1983 arcade-based cartoon TV show, Saturday Supercade! A weird southern Mario is trying to get Donkey Kong, who mostly just says his name really slowly like a Pokemon on tranquilizers. Meanwhile, some southern belle wants to fuck Donkey Kong and there's some emerald everyone's trying to steal like it's a fuckin Sonic g…

Mark and Jeremy write an entire episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show from scratch! Mario and the gang heads to the futuristic and rainy city of BLADE PLUMBER. Is Toad secretly a robot? Will Dr. Eldon Reptyrell take over the world? And who is the mysterious Dick Record?? Read along with the script here: thehardtimes.net/harddrive/blade-plumbe…

Mark and Jeremy watch some advertisements from the 80s and 90s for weird Mario-related shit and also go on a really long tangent about an insane video game in which you snipe ski jumpers called Ski Sniper.

Mark and Jeremy are joined by Mr. Boop himself, Alec Robbins! Alec and Mark go way back and spend some time catching up before Alec leads the boys on a crash course through the wacky world of Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog books as well some of the more notable characters involved. Somewhere near the end of the show, everyone remembers why they …

Mark and Jeremy are joined by Jeremy’s other co-host Kris Casey as they promote the launch of their new oddity based podcast, Deep Dive in the Shallow End. Today’s crossover episode focuses on Polybius, the alleged government developed game that proved addictive and MAYBE a one-way ticket to a tour of duty in an intergalactic war if you were good e…

Today’s episode finds Mark and Jeremy tackling several miscellaneous bits of business, including some much awaited clips from a infamously awkward podcast appearance the boys made, the recent discovery of an archive of Canadian reviews, and Jeremy’s recent controversial sit down interview with silver screen legend Harrison Ford.…

Mark and Jeremy bring in the new year with a loose silly episode imagining what the Nintendo World theme park would be like if it was about was 1989's The Super Mario Bros Super Show. Straightforward episode this week! Just fun goofs about our friends Mario, Luigi, Princess, Toad, Koopa, and their daddy Shigeru Miyamoto.…

It's time for Twitch Plays Hard Drive! With the very friendly help of our chat, we wrote a whole new Hard Drive article from start to finish and it's funny as hell.

Mark and Jeremy watch a new episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3! It’s this whole bullshit about a mummy thinking Mario is its baby or something. It makes no sense and the boys love it, especially this non-Lou Albano version of Mario that is the character at his absolute oldest and grumpiest. Toad kills it too. Love that fucker.…

In an effort to streamline the writing of new Mario and Zelda cartoons, Mark and Jeremy enlist the help of AI Dungeon to help them author some new adventures. There are highs and lows, to say the least. Highs — Mark and Jeremy get all the characters in Mario and Zelda to smooch. Lows — uh, you’re gonna just have to listen. I don’t want to say it he…

Mark and Jeremy get together for a shorter than usual episode to discuss thanksgiving, parades, the free Cameo service they offer, and several oddly specific podcasts, both real and fake.

Mark and Jeremy write and perform an original episode of 1989's The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! that parodies the 2004 Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ - a movie that neither of them ever cares to actually see. They write the entire episode live on the podcast with no ideas beforehand! Head to ... if you want to read along with the scrip…

Groovy! Mark and Jeremy chat over one of their favorite movies ever, Evil Dead II! They talk horror movies, scary films, and motion pictures within the "horror" genre. It's a real fun one, and I recommend listening alongside Evil Dead II, if anything just because it's been a while and you should watch it again, right?…

Chloe Dykstra joins the podcast to watch an incredibly timely episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 featuring George HW and Barbara Bush! Mario wears a frog suit and there's a whole insane frog song. Some other stuff happens too, but we end up going on some really long tangents to discover more lore about Bob Forward, Patrick Dempsey, an…