Episode 34: Fallout (Part 1)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross radiate praise for the first half of Fallout.

Great games. Great games never change...es. Continuing our infatuation with CRPGs, we delve into Gary's favorite game of all time. This is a two-parter, so we cover everything up to the Water Merchants. Does it hold up? Yeop.

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Links of Note:

• Fallout
• Fallout (GoG)
• Fallout Tactics
• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
• No Mutants Allowed
• Fallout 2
• The Chris Farley Show
• X-COM: Enemy Unknown
• Fallout New Vegas Weed Mod
• Sex Motorcycle
• I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore
• Ah! My Groin!
• Spinal Tap Drummers
• Chris Avellone
• The Fallout Bible
• Carnivale
• Backlog Killer
• Gunslinger
• Richard Dean Anderson
• Sin City Basement
• Tatoo Fantasy Island
• Before I Play
• I'm selling these fine leather jackets.
• Taxi Driver
• Septerra Core
• Shogo
• You Look Nice Today
• Maybe
• Arcanum
• Wasteland
• GURPS
• Legend of Legaia
• Shadow Madness
• The Level
• The Pitch

Extrasode 33: Metal Gear Solid

Gary and Kole talk about progressive rock, Blade Runner, and a little bit about Metal Gear Solid.

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Links of Note:

• Steely Dan
• Perchance to Dean
• Blade Runner PC
• The Flaming Lips of Podcasting

Episode 33: Metal Gear Solid

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross engage in a protracted codec conversation expositionizing about Metal Gear Solid.

You're Solid Snake. Your twin brother is threatening the world with an unprecedented nuclear walking battle tank made of existing technology. It's up to you, your codec radio, and hours of cut scenes to save the world as we know it. This game is an utter treat, and it's understandable that it has such a huge influence over basically everything that follows it.

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Links of Note:

• Metal Gear Ad
• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
• Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
• Tenchu Grappling Hook
• Moon Raker
• Codec Easter Eggs
• Crisis Core Ending SPOILERS!
• Cask of Amontillado
• The Nonary Game
• Onion Homoerotic Gun Show
• Novelty Geriatric Remote
• The Story of Everest
• Parappa The Rappa
• Bronycon
• Policenauts
• Snatcher
• Iditarod
• Menstrual Syncing
• Jack Handy
• MGS Commercial
• Captain Trips

Extrasode 32: Tomba!

Gary and Kole talk about game pitches, Gremlins 2, and John Daly.

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Links of Note:

• Tomba! Episode
• Spiritual Warfare Religious Video Games Dinocast
• Takeshi no Chosenjo
• Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
• Gremlins 2
• Milk
• Doctor Who Adventure Game
• Bart Carny
• Chrontendo
• Jungle Jim's
• Jon Daly is John Daly

Episode 32: Tomba!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross give Tomba! a stone age beatdown.

Evil Pigs have taken your grandpa's watch and cast a curse over the entire world. It's your job to... Wait, I can't do this. To treat it seriously would be lying to you. Tomba! is a fondly remembered 2.5D platformer, but WOFF! hated it. Aside from our shared fondness for exclamation marks, there's nothing to recommend Tomba!. Disagree? Listen, and hear our arguments.

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Links of Note:

• Tomba!
• Pulp Fiction Watch Scene
• BUG!
• Clockwork Knight
• Astal
• Dada
• We believe in nothing, Lebowski
• I.F.O.C.E.
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors Episode
• I Want to Be The Guy
• Magic Man
• Dishonored
• WOFF! Magnet

Extrasode 31: Arcades

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross play Action Castle, talk about the most recent season of Breaking Bad, and talk a bit more about arcades.

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Links of Note

• Parsley Games
• Action Castle
• Obesity B's

Episode 31: Arcades

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross grab the sticks and get to the bottom of why arcades are the best.

This episode is in the same vein as Episode 30. Recorded in person, both in-studio and in the field, Gary and Kole talk about arcade experiences in their entirety... from their smoky childhoods to their current-day selves exploring the arcade revival taking place in Portland, Oregon. Special thanks goes out to Ground Kontrol, the best goddamned arcade in Portland.

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Links of Note:

• Blasteroids
• Hologram Time Traveler
• Pryde of the X-Men
• Lawrence of Arabia
• AMBER Alert
• Cocktail Joust Cabinet
• Willow Arcade Game
• Blazing Saddles
• E-STIM
• Blood Wake
• The Goonies 1
• Xbox Duke Controller
• Jarts
• Nibbler
• Battlezone
• William Safire
• BurgerTime
• Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade -
• Brave Firefighters
• Japanese Inputs
• ET Landfill
• Rock Revolution
• The Earl of Lemongrab
• Just-World Hypothesis
• Special When Lit
• "Discover the Forgotten Masters" - PAX 2011
• Cthulhu Mouth Dogs
• Galaxian 3 Cabinet