Episode 39: Video Game Music and Sound

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross make some noise about video game music and sound.

We talk about it a lot: music and sound can make or break the game. In this unusual episode of the show, we do a deep dive into the history and particulars of why sound is important.

NOTE: At no point do we talk about Parappa the Rapper in this episode. That's a travesty.

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Links of Note:

• Ginkgo Trees
• PDA for the Blind
• Arcade Ambience
• Hobbit 48 FPS Controversy
• Brazil
• The Eloi
• Jack Chick Tracts
• Papa Sangre
• TMNT Comics
• Project Fedora
• Red Book Audio
• Spiderweb Software
• Blade Runner
• Steve-O
• Firefly
• Fantastic
• Prius External Speakers
• Radiolab: Memory and Forgetting
• Musicophilia
• We defy you to not like REM

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Extrasode 38: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about illicit deals, John Leguizamo, motion sickness, and a little bit about Yoshi's Island.

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Links of Note:

• Deviantart Poochy
• Witches
• Super Mario Bros. the Movie
• The Pest
• Saturn
• Yoshi's Story
• Quest 64
• Jeremy

Episode 38: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross crack open Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Well, this game is delightful. It looks and sounds awesome, and is some of the best platforming to come out of the Mario series. Oh, and throwing eggs is great, too.

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Links of Note:

• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
• Dolls
• David Cronenberg
• Willow Pigs Scene
• The Witches
• Yoshi's Island DS
• Yoshi Touch and Go
• The Cars - Touch and Go
• Creation Museum
• Eraserhead
• Idiocracy
• Homunclus
• Shy Guys
• CABVI
• Tomba! Episode
• Poochy
• Beaver Boys
• Ghost World
• Blues Hammer
• Skeleton Wheel
• Mr. Show - Indomitable Spirit
• GERD
• Vore
• Lyrebird
• Regicide
• Swimfan
• Kyle XY
• Don't Look Back
• Mega Man 2 Dragon Boss
• Jacob's Ladder Party Scene
• Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island
• Synecdoche NY Funeral Monologue
• Tetris Attack
• Life Finds a Way
• chain chomps are dogs
• Billy from Pee Wee's Playhouse
• Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
• Wes Anderson
• P.T. Anderson
• Punch Drunk Love
• There Will Be Blood
• Ninjas vs Podcast

Extrasode 37: Parasite Eve

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about comics, Dino Crisis, Spec Ops: The Line, and a little bit about Parasite Eve.

WARNING: WE SPOIL THE SHIT OUT OF NEW X-MEN.

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Links of Note:

• New X-men
• The Walking Dead
• Dinocrisis
• Spec Ops: The Line

Episode 37: Parasite Eve

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross take a microscope to Parasite Eve.

Organelles have run amok on New York City! It's up to you to kill an actress who is possessed by your younger sister or an ancient woman from Africa or something! Squaresoft got really, really ambitious when they made this RPG/Survival Horror game. It was almost one of the best games we played, but it fell apart spectacularly toward the end. So it goes.

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Links of Note:

• [Parasite Eve]
• The 3rd Birthday
• Trespasser
• Parasite Eve Novel
• Mitochondria
• Firestarter
• Wicked Firestarter
• Lupus
• Star Ocean
• Vagrant Story
• "Piano Destruction" - IMDB Tag
• Blue Car Syndrome
• Bunk
• Hotline Miami
• Retirony
• Klugman is Dynamite
• Jane Lynch in Wreck It Ralph
• Sling Blade
• The Selfish Gene
• "ABC Speech" - Glengarry Glen Ross
• The New No-Nos
• Billy and the Cloneasaurus
• I'm comin' to join ya', Elizabeth!
• Absurd Magneto Power
• My Uncle Ain't No Monkey
• The Bechdel Test
• "Seether" - Veruca Salt
• Einhander

Extrasode 36: Shadowrun (SNES)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about ice levels in games, GameStop woes, and HollywoodIsCalling.com.

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Links of Note:

• Sonic 3 Ice Cap Zone
• Little Penguin Lost Speed Run
• Jey Boy Jet Girl
• Axe Cop
• Hollywood is Calling
• "With Reshiram" (Eminem Parody)

Episode 36: Shadowrun (SNES)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross learn the true name of Shadowrun (SNES).

You're Jake Armitage, but you don't know that. You wake up dead in a city crawling with people who want you to be even deader. You point and click and shoot your way to answers about who you are, and who killed you. This is a weird, weird game, but we kind of liked it.

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Links of Note:

• Shadowrun (SNES)
• Isometric Perspective
• Paul Kidd
• Nightshade
• Hardcore Gaming 101: Shadowrun
• Shadowrun (Genesis)
• Never Deal With a Dragon
• Link to the Past Endings
• Poochie the Talking Dog
• Mulholland Dr.
• Race War!
• Solipsism
• Dr. Nick
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Dr. Claw
• Legend of the Mystical Ninja 64
• Minesweeper
• Sigma / Summation
• Uplink
• Vulcan Point
• Escape from New York
• Dear Esther
• Snow Crash
• Neuromancer
• Superman Does Good
• The Goonies
• The Sandlot

Extrasode 35: Fallout (Part 2)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about unacceptable living spaces, media fidelity, and a little bit about the last half of Fallout.

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Links of Note:

• Goon Lairs!!!
• Chris Avellone in Fallout
• The Things They Carried
• Swordfish
• Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever
• Remora
• Cymothoa Exigua
• Trailer Park Boys
• Toby Radloff
• Hope Davis
• 48 Frames per Second
• Record Made of Ice
• Mountain Goats Recording Process
• Unacceptable

Episode 35: Fallout (Part 2)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross offer glowing praise for the last half of Fallout.

Your vault has water. Hooray! Now you just have to deal with the big green dudes. It's a story as old as time, with irradiated ruins, power armor, and TV monsters straight out of Videodrome.

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Links of Note

• Fallout
• Dragon Quest - Joining the Dark Lord
• "Let's Play Global Thermonuclear War"
• Terrasque
• Bull
• Trashcan Man
• Mermaids
• There's no basement in the Alamo!
• Pink Tail
• Island of Dr. Moreau
• Goon Lair
• Duck Amuck
• Shub Niggurath
• Night of the Living Dead - Ending
• Shane
• No Mutants Allowed
• Progeria
• Master's Diary
• Tzimisce
• Sonic R Soundtrack
• The Weekend Web
• Lou Reads

Extrasode 34: Fallout (Part 1)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about The Stand, Dark Souls, we spoil the shit out of the Walking Dead, and a little bit about the first half of Fallout.

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Links of Note

• Fallout: New Vegas
• Deal With It Gifs
• Renegade
• Highlander
• Holiday Spice Pepsi
• The Pitch
• The Stand
• Dark Souls
• The Walking Dead
• The Walking Dead Compendium
• Carbon Monoxide: The Silent Killer
• Feels Good Man