Gary Butterfield
Co-Host of Watch Out for Fireballs!
Gary Butterfield is an author, musician, and the host of Check It Out, Comrade!, Bonfireside Chat, Watch Out for Fireballs!, and others. Buy his book, Souls of Darkness.
Gary Butterfield has hosted 561 Episodes.
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329: Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Episode | September 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 52 mins
Listen, there's a lot to talk about here. You could talk about how we've been doing this show for a decade, or about how Sonic exemplifies the tension between freeform arcade gameplay and the slower, more exploratory form of platformers that would ultimately win out in the end, but the real story here is that I need you to imagine a screenshot of a notes app post where I apologize for mixing up the seed drill and the cotton gin in this episode.
Big thanks to Gwen Static for this awesome remix of the theme song!
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328: Katana Zero
Episode | September 2nd, 2021 | 2 hrs 41 mins
It's rain-soaked, neon-soaked, and blood-soaked.
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Dispatch: Crafting
Episode | August 26th, 2021 | 2 hrs 25 mins
In this episode we answer your questions, talk about crafting in games, read your responses to August's games, and announce October's games.
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327 Premium: Chrono Trigger
Episode | August 12th, 2021 | 3 hrs 59 mins
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This week, we set our wayback machines to 1995 to discuss one of the most beloved games of all time.
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326: Paradise Killer
Episode | August 12th, 2021 | 3 hrs 20 mins
watch out for fireballs, woff
Thank you Nicholas!
Welcome to the Courtesy Dome where two polite midwesterners sensibly argue whether this game is good or bad. Is it a cool mystery story with a neat aesthetic? Or is it an effectively linear, barely interactive time tax? ONLY YOU CAN DECIDE.
Paradise Killer is an odd duck. Part visual novel, part mystery adventure game, part 3d collectathon platformer? With light dating sim elements. We spoil the whole mystery here, so listener beware!
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325: Sam & Max Save the World
Episode | August 5th, 2021 | 2 hrs 22 mins
It's the heartwarming tale of two psychopaths who save the world from people more dangerous than even them.
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Dispatch: Oops! All Questions (Part 1)
Episode | July 29th, 2021 | 2 hrs 15 mins
Our mental health meters were running low and we didn't have a topic in us, so we just did a bunch of questions. We also read your responses to July's games before announcing Septembers crop.
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323: Heat Signature
Episode | July 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 42 mins
Thank you I See Spiders!
We all know defenestrating is one of the coolest things you can do in video games. But what if you could do that... in space? With a near best in class group of gadgets and weapons, In an immersive proc gen ludic playpen with real time pause? You'd get Heat Signature, quietly one of the coolest games we've done for the show. Check it out!
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322: The Stanley Parable
Episode | July 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 43 mins
One day Stanley heard from nowhere a podcast about a narrator that was describing his life.