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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross go on at length about The Longest Journey.

The worlds are in peril, and it’s up to April Ryan to fulfill the prophecies and team up with a talking bird to maintain the Balance. The Longest Journey is the magnum opus (emphasis on magnum) of the adventure genre, and we talk about every last minute of it.

• The Longest Journey - Wikipedia

• Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - Xbox.com

• Universal Hint System

• Gaslighting

• The Simarillion

• Brett Gellman

• Mr. Show - Hotdog Kid

• Cloaca

• Dale Gribble

• Twin Peaks - Cooper's Dream

• Ignignokt and Err

• Cartilage Head

• Edward Gorey

• Get Lamp

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross past experiences with Shadowrun, pen and paper RPGs, and try out weird accents.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross plug in and talk about Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis.

It’s a dystopian cyberpunk future, and your brother is dead. By committing contract crimes and hacking into computers, you get to the bottom of the mystery and save the world. This game was very ahead of its time, being an open world RPG on a 16-bit system.

• Shadowrun (Sega Genesis Game) - Wikipedia

• "I Want Candy" - Bow Wow Wow

• Starlight Zone - Youtube

• Stop Teasing Me With Fake Freedom - Rock Paper Shotgun

• Uplink - Wikipedia

• Cyberpunk - Wikipedia

• Snow Crash

• Neuromancer

• Perineum

• Shadowrun Wikia

• "Everything Bad is Good for You" by Steven Johnson

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross quaff the heady potion that is Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

Dr. Tongue is wreaking havoc on suburbia, as creatures of the night spill forth from the soil and devour the innocent. It’s up to you to grab a friend and save your neighbor’s lives. This is possibly the most difficult game we’ve covered thus far.

• Mr. Show - "Monster Parties: Fact or Fiction?" (YouTube)

• Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Wikipedia

• Zombies Ate My Neighbors Box Scan - Gamefaqs

• "Spikes" Level (Ignore the awful commentary)

• Samsara - Wikipedia

• Nintendo Hard - TV Tropes

• List of LucasArts Games - Wikipedia

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross shine some daylight on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

Being a vampire is tough. You’re doomed to an eternity of walking the Earth as a cursed living corpse, and most of those millennia will be spent running errands for your social betters. Bloodlines is a rare game in a rare genre, notorious for its troubled development and lauded for its great writing. Does it live up to its many-coloned name?

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross jump right into Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

The Mushroom Kingdom is in peril. The princess is missing, Bowser has been kicked out his home by a dimension-hopping blacksmith, and the Star Road has been destroyed. It’s up to Mario, a cloud prince who thinks he’s a frog, and a star-powered doll to set everything right.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross lose their minds re: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

Welcome, Stranger, to a macabre world of undescribable cosmic horror. Feel how insignificant you are when face with non-euclidian angles and strange beasts. Don’t ask too many questions, though, and certainly don’t forget to lock your hotel door. Mwahahaha…

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross get literary about Myst.

Come with us to a magical world of sedate wandering, perplexing puzzles, and power-hungry brothers. Myst is one of the most well-known, and misunderstood titles on the PC, and we’re here to set the record straight.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross ruminate on Mega Man X in this inaugural episode of Watch Out For Fireballs!

To get you up to speed, every Maverick is a Reploid, but not all Reploids are Mavericks. X, Zero, and Sigma are characters, not math terms. And nobody knows what the hell a Kuwanger is.