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**Watch Out for Fireballs!**

Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that covers video games from every era, from retro to newer releases, indie to AAA. Each week we dive deep into the game’s mechanics and narrative to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Hosted by Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross, this show has been going since 2011. New episodes every Thursday. For full versions of our premium episodes, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv!

Latest Episodes:

Extrasode: Silent Hill 3 Mar 31, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Silent Hill 3.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Project Scissors](www.kickstarter.com/projects/playis…issors-nightcry)

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Episode 124: Silent Hill 3 Mar 24, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross ooze affection for Silent Hill 3.

A teenage girl is in trouble. The world is warping around her, and strange people are saying that she's destined to birth Paradise. That's the setup to Silent Hill 3, one of the scariest and most upsetting games in existence. The story has problems, but for atmosphere and dread it has almost no rival.

If you haven't played the original Silent Hill, don't worry: We go out of our way to provide all of the context you need to understand what's going on here. Enjoy!

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Silent Hill: Revelation 3D](www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4iOhWswYM)
[Circumcision nonsense](storify.com/jasperrolls/the-sil…on-meltdown-of-2015)
[Subway scene. Couldn't find unaltered version](vimeo.com/117515059)
[Ghost Stations](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_station)
[The gates are open. This is the last time this will appear in show notes. Drink it up.](www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBkKYJdFq0)
[Session 9](www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsxkRNvEbhM)
[Suicide House...](comedybangbang.wikia.com/wiki/Crappy_Howl-o-ween!)

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Extrasode: Interactive Fiction Mar 17, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Interactive Fiction.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[MUD](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD)

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Episode 123: Interactive Fiction Mar 10, 2016

Show notes

gary butterfield and kole ross, interactive fiction_

Two men speak into microphones about interactive fiction, also known as text adventures. They cover the basics of the medium, a brief history and discuss four games in-depth: "Planetfall", "A Mind Forever Voyaging", "Slouching Towards Bedlam", and "The King of Shreds and Patches."

LINKS OF NOTE:

[The Special Special Special](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5E1vx961o)
[Get Lamp](www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15itQ_EhRo)
[11/22/63](112263book.com/)
[The Descent](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZj0Q9rq9E)
[Parsley](www.memento-mori.com/parsely/)
[Cruelty Scale](www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cruelty_scale)
[Yeats Second Coming](www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html)
[Zork](www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEllOW2r1Y)
[Gateway](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(video_game))
[80 Days](www.inklestudios.com/80days/)
[Planetfall](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall)
[A Mind Forever Voyaging](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging)
[Slouching Towards Bedlam](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bedlam)
[King of Shreds of Patches](maher.filfre.net/King/)
[Device 6](simogo.com/work/device-6/)

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Extrasode: The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Mar 03, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Dunder Mifflin Chatroom](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Out_(The_Office))
[Onimusha](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sueu7x2lAUE)
[Information Society](www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuXvpkOLmM)

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Episode 122: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Feb 25, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross excoriate Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

This episode isn't for the faint of heart... What started out as a well-intentioned desire to talk about a beloved action-adventure game turned into a hit piece against an entire era and genre of games. But we cite our sources, and go to great pains to remind you: Just because we don't like this game doesn't mean we don't like you.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Chamber](marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Jonothon_St…smore_(Earth-616))
[Boyhood](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oX0xiwOv8)
[Project Milo](www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIbGnBQcJY)
[That Neogaf post](www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488564)
[Very Bad Things](www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsAm2UvcKI4)
[Mazikeen](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazikeen_(comics))
[Red Dawn](www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc)
[Shadows of the Empire Hoth](www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMH9G3WSEs)
[The Timekeeper](www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muhJtqQIy4)
[Tom Halverford's Company](www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYeup5zrZbs)
[Quantum Conundrum](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg97ZEkqhzE)

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Extrasode: Sanitarium Feb 18, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Sanitarium.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[The Perfect Drug](www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSLqeZzTU8I)
[Tiny Wings](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky65XZXLcLU)

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Episode 121: Sanitarium Feb 11, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross commit to talking about Sanitarium.

You wake up with no face, no memories, and no name. You're surrounded by people banging their heads against walls, talking about mechanical bugs and Aztec prophecies. Diagnosis? Crazy. This horror-themed adventure game is an odd duck because it's played from a bird's-eye perspective... but does it ever quite get off the ground?

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Extrasode: Mega Man Legends Feb 04, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Mega Man Legends.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Broad City](imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:fil…21182807.gif)

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Episode 120: Mega Man Legends Jan 28, 2016

Show notes

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross respectfully disagree about Mega Man Legends.

It's the first fully 3D Mega Man game, but it doesn't take a lot of cues from the series that preceded it. You spend most of your time dungeon crawling, but the interesting stuff happens when you're just kickin' it in the city. It rests firmly in the "awkward teenage years" of the PSX. It's Mega Man Legends.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Tron Bonne](www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhy9U2TMzwo)
[Red Ash](kotaku.com/the-red-ash-kicksta…disaster-1721094852)
[MML3](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Legends_3)
[Megabustin' makes me feel good](www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE)
[Puckerface from The Godhand](berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Conrad)
[Water in Flint](* [Megabustin' makes me feel good](www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE)
[Puckerface from The Godhand](berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Conrad))
[Ignignokt](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mooninites)
[Guantanamo Bay as run by "Skull Face," Nicola and Bart](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4XY26P4z_E)