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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross heap praise on Katamari Damacy.

It's simultaneously a singular expression, and one of the most eclectic games we've covered for the show. Katamari Damacy is an extremely simple game with one goal: to instill as much joy in you as possible. And it works.

• [Our Place in the Stars](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6d3h-NpS8)

• [Meet Dave](edgeoftheframe.files.wordpress.com/2011/11…st1.jpg)

• [The Clumps](www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8zi7Dg8TM)

• [Noby Noby Boy](www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymw6r-DVMtU)

• [Slither](www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-f8wU6Fpeo)

• [Monkey Shines](www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpG4R3Sjf4Y)

• [Booji Boy](www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ty3RuzQ8xo)

• [Dolls](www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ykP9fQRWKA)

• [He was a bad man](www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAzvb38PyI)

• [Snail Dick](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molluscum_contagiosum)

• [Pegg V. Geeks](simonpegg.net/2015/05/19/big-mouth-strikes-again/)

• [Judy is your Viet Nam](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYZTFKSQ60)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Super Metroid.

• [Dragon Age Inquisition](www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqxfkgSUog)

• [Landstalker](www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5hat4xLoVI)

• [Alundra](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTyDw2OthMo)

• [Metroid Chronology](kotaku.com/the-spectacular-sto…gs-riche-1284029577)

• [Mr. Bucket](www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqd41B-WAFo)

• [Project Ukulele](www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/…t-ukulele.html)

• [Metroid Music](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNszpBbpvY)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross gush about Super Metroid in this centennial episode of Watch Out for Fireballs!

"Break Glass in Case of Emergency". There's a whole category of game that Gary and I avoid playing for the show. They're in the upper echelon. They're top tier. If we brought them out regularly, everything else would feel like a chore.

But sometimes it's a special occasion, and you have to bring out the fine china. And Super Metroid is some fine, fine China. On one hand, it's an expansion and elaboration on the stuff that made Metroid 1 and 2 unique. On the other, it's a foundational text that cemented a whole new genre in place. Listen, as we break the glass and talk about one of the best games of all time.

But first, get hyped by watching this trailer, created for us by Allison Baker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGM20MejGGg

• [Bloodstained](www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bl…al-of-the-night)

• [Really cool Super Metroid speedrun](www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmfV8IhsHq0)

• [What We Talk About...](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Tal…_Talk_About_Love)

• [Birdman](www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc)

• [Castlevania 64](www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2PTrBlcPM)

• [James Adomian is amazing](www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyo9b4_6iY)

• [Homsar](www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Homsar)

• [Wolverine Origins](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_%28comics%29)

• [Parish rules. Anatomy of Super Metroid](www.anatomyofgames.com/2014/03/10/th…uper-metroid/)

• [Butter Avengers](images.dailykos.com/images/141704/l….jpg?1430789335)

• [Teenage Dirtbags Preview and Amazing Video](www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross hide in a corner while Amnesia: The Dark Descent happens.

This game won our Spring Survival Horror poll, and for good reason. Frictional mastered the "first person, pursuit-based exploration horror" genre, and created a game that's so scary that a lot of people can't even play it. Listen in, especially if you're one of those people.

• [Danse Macabre](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre_%28book%29)

• [Sanity Patent](patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse…954&RS=PN/6935954)

• [Novint Falcon](www.novint.com/index.php/novintfalcon)

• [Curated list of custom stories. I can't vouch necessarily](www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbjsbYIO6sc)

• [The Nothing](www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG-lsrXKRM)

• [Dat fountain](www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw…w&ved=0CCIQ1QIoAQ)

• [Road to Damascus](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_…Paul_the_Apostle)

• [SOMA](www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5iRmZPQ3VA)

• [I can't find the right commercial but I didn't dream up Wyler's](www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQhzqVVZKU)

• [Torture Museum Reviews](www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews…llas_Texas.html)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon.

• [Michael Kupperman](michaelkupperman.com/)

• [Azure Dreams](www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9KVgt4014)

• [CoD Analysis](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvN51r1o1Nc)

• [Masters of Doom](www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Crea…ure/dp/0812972155)

• [Anachronox](www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdE2R-j0CI)

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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.

• Roguelike Radio

• Dark Sun

• Sillicon Valley

• Underwater Moonlight

• 3 word phrase

• Shiren the Wanderer

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

• [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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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.

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

• [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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