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Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 100: Super Metroid

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2015

⏱️ 146 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Gary Butterfield. And this is Cole. And rather than, you know, doing some kind of wankery about like,

0:07.6

oh, what if we found an abandoned podcast studio? Or, you know, what if somebody gave birth to a tiny cold that like sucked on my head and

0:16.9

say you saved me from you know the gigantic Mecca Jesse Thorne or something like that.

0:23.3

We decided to issue all that nonsense on this centennial episode of Watch Out Fireballs and just

0:29.6

give you guys a special message.

0:31.1

Yeah, we just wanted to say thank you so much when we

0:33.7

started this about what is it three and a half four and a half years ago now something

0:38.8

like that yeah 100 seems pretty far away but now here we are with lots of great games in the past and lots of great games coming up in the future, but it really is all made possible by you guys.

0:53.0

You know, this isn't just us doing like the pledge drive thing or whatever,

0:56.2

but honestly, like your support and your kind of joyful attention here has been a tremendously positive part of my life and so that's

1:06.3

We just want to take a time to acknowledge that

1:08.9

Yeah, it's I literally don't know what I would do without it. So the, you know, you've heard enough just

1:14.4

fun in to know that these kind of rays light are important to me. And so, you know, really,

1:21.1

really appreciate it. And thank you and thanks, you know, 1.1 times things.

1:27.6

Like 10% extra thanks to Allison Baker for making the trailer for this episode and yeah, we're not gonna,

1:32.4

and you'll never get to hear what it sounds like when we fight

1:34.3

Mecca Jesse Thorne now so so sleep on that it's kind of like that scene in Ben Hurry the

1:40.6

cheering race where everybody is just cheering at the action that happens off

1:43.6

screen or at the end the Grizzly Man. Like right now we are just listening to the sketch that could have

1:49.3

been and leaving you to imagine it. Yeah, so just use your imagination,

1:52.9

which in some ways is the greatest podcast of all.

1:55.4

And we'll just go on to talk about this

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