# Kenan and Kel and childhood | Shelf Quest

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kenan-and-kel-and-childhood-shelf-quest/
- Published: 2026-08-12T14:15:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-12T15:36:22+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/video/kenan-and-kel-and-childhood-shelf-quest/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- Kenan and Kel revisit childhood gaming memories on Shelf Quest.
- They discuss games, sitcom-era stories and parenting.
- The episode also promotes their mobile game Orange Pop.

## Summary

Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell appear on Polygon’s Shelf Quest, revisiting their childhood gaming memories and the comic partnership that made them familiar figures to a generation. The episode centres on nostalgia for 1980s and 1990s games and culture, while also showing how both now share games with their own children.

They discuss gaming during the era of their sitcom, including memories involving Coolio, and Kel recalls learning to dance through Dance Dance Revolution. The pair also mention Castlevania and Sonic, Kenan’s gaming regrets, and Kel’s shopping trip at videogamesnewyork; the segment promotes their free-to-play match-three mobile game, Orange Pop.

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