This week on RetroNots, my spirit does not taste like cherry pop Dracula.

Welcome to this week's episode of RetroNots. I'm your host, Nadia Oxford. I also double

as the co-host of the Acts of the Blood God podcast. In the 80s it was kind of hard to convince your parents that NES games were anything but digital trash that

rotted your brain the way that cotton floss kind of rots your teeth. The NES, I don't say in my house, it was like the first thing to go on a high shelf when you're great when you're on a high

shelf of your parents closet when your grades started to slip. Books however, books were kind of slower to be banned. Books were never out of reach in my house.

It was even at the point where it was like mom can I read this completely out of age steaming king book. Oh sure, sweetie, that's fine. Mom can I watch this already in movie? No. So you know the kind of household and that was very much my household. So what if some enterprising publisher, which we write and sell Nintendo based adventures in book form.

Oh, delightfully devilish Seth Godden. I am referring to the world of power series of books that narrative Nintendo games via text. They were written specifically to engage young non-raders, especially boys, but how do they fare? How effective was a video game adventure where a gun tooting character like solid snake isn't allowed to fire a single bullet. So let's talk about it. And in fact, here to help me talk about it is the deliciously named Gary Butterfield, the writer and podcast or end director from Duckfeed TV.

And also the author of a couple of modern takes on world of power and we will certainly get to that. But first, please, Gary, thank you for joining me and say hi. Oh, hello. I know just thank you for having me. Oh, very, very well.

Appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, I am a podcast or primarily, but also do music and I've written a couple books with the duckfeed.tv network.

Yeah, living in Portland, Oregon, tall, big brown hair, big, you know, I look like a Portlander beard glasses. That's a little bit.

Oh, you got the costume. What kind of music do you like? Oh, like silly pop music, kind of like a frog pop.

I think my giant. Yeah, like like time signature three pop stuff sometimes.

I wonder your friend, Jeremy Parrish. I have not a chance to corner Jeremy about Prague. It's a different kind of Prague, but I love that about him.

I love when that's a, that comes up. And I love it specifically when it sneaks into non-prog things like you'll be watching NDS works and they'll just be an offhanded

mention of like, like young marble giants or something. Oh, yeah, he does. He's the king of Prague, the king crimson of Prague, if you will.

Yeah, yeah. This way, both know. So what is your history with a lot of power? Like, of course, these were books that were published in the 80s. So I'm guessing your old person like myself,

unless maybe just covered them later in life, which I suppose is completely, completely, you know, kids are getting into world of power books now. They're calling it power booking.

You're getting your grinding him out there.

Sorting it. Oh, I feel like someone I said, I'd into a new book.

Yeah, I'm gonna, I, I said, guy, this snorty into my nose.

That's going to go on a fun adventure of my lungs than my bloodstream.

You call your fundamental.

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