Watch Out for Fireballs! 39: Video Game Music and Sound
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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🗓️ 7 February 2013
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
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.
LINKS OF NOTE:
Ginkgo Trees: newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/11/gin…rk-city-parks/
PDA for the Blind: www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/10/55915
Arcade Ambience: arcade.hofle.com/
Hobbit 48 FPS Controversy: screenrant.com/peter-jackson-hob…-fps-controversy/
The Eloi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgWet59Uyc
Jack Chick Tracts: www.chick.com/default.asp
Papa Sangre: www.papasangre.com/
TMNT Comics: www.comixology.com/Teenage-Mutant-…omic/ICO003444A
Project Fedora: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyWbjStUQ-c
Red Book Audio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(CD_standard)
Spiderweb Software: www.spidweb.com/
Blade Runner: www.spidweb.com/
Steve-O: i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article9…teve+o+tattoo.jpg
Firefly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0O29rZiIRA
Fantastic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oys78UgaE
Prius External Speakers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFj4pe_ANY
Radiolab: Memory and Forgetting: www.radiolab.org/2007/jun/07/
Musicophilia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_kE3kcC5
We defy you to not like REM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VshL7On45bs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast is brought to you by audible.com. |
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| 0:08.0 | out for Fireballs. |
| 0:09.0 | Over 100,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, |
| 0:11.0 | Android, Kindle, or MP3 player. Oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. |
| 0:53.0 | And you're listening to watch out for Fireballs. |
| 0:55.0 | It is a podcast about old video games. |
| 0:57.0 | And this week we are talking about all of video game music and sound, which is a broad topic. |
| 1:04.0 | It encompasses games that were released from 1972 through current day. |
| 1:10.0 | For most systems that are out there, least those with speakers and it was |
| 1:13.4 | published by pretty much everybody yeah everybody published everybody |
| 1:16.9 | plays this hope cranium the if you you may recall from a middle of summer we did an episode about arcades. |
| 1:24.0 | That was pretty popular and we liked having the opportunity to not be to kind of break up from our format. |
| 1:29.4 | So we thought that maybe once or twice a year'd do one of these general all-purpose episodes. |
| 1:35.0 | Yes, so this week's episode or this two weeks episode, let's just say that. |
| 1:40.0 | So this episode is going to feature two aspects. |
| 1:43.6 | Think of it is like two sides of an album. |
| 1:45.4 | The first half is going to be about video game music, the second half, about video game |
| 1:49.8 | sound. They are distinct but related. |
| 1:52.4 | And Gary is going to specialize in the first half and I'm going to specialize in the second half and then we're going to clean up the remainder after both of those are done in the in the EP. |
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