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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!

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    Episode 98: Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon Apr 16, 2015
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    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross delve into Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon.

    If you're judging this game on adorableness, it passes with flying colors. If you're judging it on mechanics, it's the best introduction to Roguelikes you're likely to get. If you're judging it on story... Wait, where's Rafaello? I love him so god damn much.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • Roguelike Radio
    • Dark Sun
    • Sillicon Valley
    • Underwater Moonlight
    • 3 word phrase
    • Shiren the Wanderer

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    Extrasode: Commander Keen in "Goodbye, Galaxy!" Apr 09, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Commander Keen 4 and 5, along with some straggler responses to Call of Duty 4.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Darkest Dungeon](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLxdHfMPF8)
    • [Keen Dreams](www.youtube.com/watch?v=scC5hbMQYlE)
    • [Thank you for Smoking](www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI)
    • No, I cannot find anything for Pork, The Zork Like.

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    Episode 97: Commander Keen in "Goodbye, Galaxy!" Apr 02, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross walk backward and talk about Commander Keen in "Goodbye, Galaxy!"

    We're always looking to shore up blind spots in the games we cover. After nearly four years of doing this show, it's important to avoid ruts. Commander Keen represents a particular stripe of PC platformers that was ultimately an evolutionary dead end. But in his time, Commander Keen was charming and fun. This episode actually covers two games: "The Secret of the Oracle" and "The Armageddon Machine". The former is an essential play, the latter is dull garbage.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [ID on SMB3](www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4HJkeQSg0)
    • [Moraff's World](www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPaEx35bWSA)
    • [Errant Signal on Doom](www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyOF2RsO3ck)
    • [The Wrestler](www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-GFxjTyV0)
    • [Terrence Trent D'Arby](www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIHsHYaig0)
    • [What Brownian Motion Actually Is](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion)

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    Extrasode: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Mar 26, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to... well, some weird stuff, because nobody wrote in about Call of Duty 4 on time.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Jan and Dean](www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Qr6Ky1Lbg)
    • [The Fabled Lands](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabled_Lands)
    • [Wolf in White Van](www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/books/…rnielle.html?_r=0)

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    Episode 96: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Mar 19, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross noscope with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

    Call of Duty has become emblematic of AAA bloat. Podcasts like ours tend to dismiss it out of hand as the poster child for a kind of game that hasn't just run out of ideas, but refuses to be reflective about the ideas it does have. It could be argued that it all began here. However, it's more complicated than that. Call of Duty 4 is a perfectly fine shooter with moments that really stand out. Moreover, it's a game that has heart, from a series that notoriously lacks it.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Hardline](www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0TfCQAQJAE)
    • [See how no one ever hits anyone else?](www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE9CEC7hZJw)
    • [Generation Kill](www.youtube.com/watch?v=bobBTYwkDhc)
    • [Aerial America](www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIc-lcvmEw)
    • [Gary owns one of these](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidator_%28Chernobyl%29)
    • [Heat](www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xbBLJ1WGwQ)
    • [Dragon, throw me](arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Ready…,_Marry_Me)

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    Extrasode: Game Books Mar 12, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to game book and Choose Your Own Adventures.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Choose Your Own Autobiography](www.amazon.com/Neil-Patrick-Harr…phy/dp/0385346999)
    • [The Aviator Book](www.amazon.com/Howard-Hughes-The…ife/dp/0312329970)
    • [The Crystal Trap](zelda.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crystal_Trap)

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    Episode 95: Game Books Mar 05, 2015
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    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross venture forth to discuss game books, choose your own adventures, and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

    What is game? It's any interactive experience that has both failure states and a success state. By that reasoning, game books are games. Also, it's in the name. This special episode is all about non-video interactive narratives, books with branching paths and mechanics.

    We cover the Bantam Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, the Goosebumps Choose Your Own Scare, and more. For as nostalgic as this topic is, there's a surprising connection between these books and the current crop of narrative-driven games we play today.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [You Chose Wrong](youchosewrong.tumblr.com/)
    • [Clickventure](www.clickhole.com/clickventure/mys…ow-island-1880#2,)
    • [Quest for Glory](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory)
    • [Gamebook Archives](www.gamebooks.org/)
    • [The Two Jakes](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbiQAr8miI)
    • [Black Bug Room](marvel.wikia.com/Black_Bug_Room)
    • [Lonewolf Online](www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books)
    • [Mormon Afterlife](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_glory)
    • [All My Circuits](theinfosphere.org/All_My_Circuits)
    • [Sexist Xanth books](www.avclub.com/article/revisitin…y-of-xanth-104382)
    • [@dril](twitter.com/dril)

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    Extrasode: Star Control II Feb 26, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Zack Johnson read your responses to Star Control II, then talk about disgusting stuff for a little while.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Ultranomicon](wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Star_Control_II)
    • [Chubby Bunny](www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/chubbybunny.asp)
    • [Rainbow Party](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_par…_%28sexuality%29)
    • [S-Rank](www.giantbomb.com/s-rank/3015-2962/)

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    Episode 94: Star Control II Feb 19, 2015
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    Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Zack Johnson open a hailing frequency to talk about Star Control II.

    The Ur-Quan and their battle thralls have dominated this quadrant of the galaxy, and it's up to a human crew with some Precursor technology to reunite the Alliance of Free Stars and act as liberators. This is a game that defies categorization. Part space combat arcade game, part resource gathering, part adventure game... the larger picture of all of these pretty little parts is an engrossing world filled with varied and interesting species and civilizations, each with their own stories to tell. This ranks really high up there on our list of favorite games we've done on the show, and we really recommend you check it out.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [3DO controller](www.google.com/search?q=3do+cont…g&biw=999&bih=810)
    • [Star Control 1. Mute the dude](www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX0M2Ftf6ho)
    • [Article on Starflight](www.filfre.net/2014/10/starflight/)
    • [The Velvet Fog](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Torm%C3%A9)
    • [2001 Sequels](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Spa…novel%29#Sequels)
    • [JW Stillwater](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtxoRjYEhU8)
    • [Kingdom of Loathing](www.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?lo…74e3120d1fb6)
    • [Video Games Hot Dog](videogameshotdog.com/)

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    Extrasode: Jet Set Radio Feb 12, 2015
    Show notes

    Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Jet Set Radio.

    The audience was mostly in agreement with us that the game is a case of style over substance. But tune in to hear the praise anyway, because damn is that style good. Also, Brayton Cameron calls in to educate us on where the music in Jet Set Radio comes from.

    LINKS OF NOTE:

    • [Alcatraz Audio Tour](www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XLoMqydKN4)
    • [African Grey Parrot](www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH80gzSs790)
    • [Shibuya-Kei](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya-kei)
    • [Iron and Blood](www.youtube.com/watch?v=xotDSUM4v0k)
    • [Revolt of Gamers](www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N-rD0F3Psk)
    • [Noah's Arcade](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDP9jfIwe7A)
    • [Umberto Eco's Getting Up](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco)

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