Watch Out for Fireballs! 488: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Bob Mackey of the Retronauts joins Kaye this week to talk about Majora's Mask, whose pitch is that you only have three days to save the world, but you have as many three days as you want. This is the bleaker and more ambitious sibling to the beloved Ocarina of Time, and it's a standout title in its own right even if it's (wrongly, in our opinion) divisive. The inhabitants of Termina walk daily under a reminder of their pending doom, and Link and his many transformation masks are their only hope against Skull Kid and his mysterious cursed mask.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	The The The
0:07.0	I'm not going to be the
0:23.6	I'm going to be
0:24.6	the My name is Kay Ross. My name is Kay Ross.
0:26.6	My name is Bob Mackie.
0:57.2	And you are listening to Watch Out for Fireballs, a games club podcast.
0:59.4	And this week, we are talking about the legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, which is an action
1:02.8	RPG developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 in 2000.
1:07.8	And as you heard, we're joined by Bob Mackie.
1:13.8	Thanks for, thanks so much for coming on, Bob.
1:16.9	Hey, everybody.
1:19.2	Not a problem.
1:19.9	And it's my understanding that Gary did not want to go near this game with a 10-foot clown pole.
1:21.2	Is that true?
1:25.4	Gary is done. I'm not sure
1:26.4	if it was a clown pole. I don't think he's specified. Gary is done with 3D Zeldas of all types.
1:28.8	I completely understand because from this era, this is really the only one I would ever want to
1:34.8	replay when it comes to Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and the Winwaker, this is the one I would easily go to out of all of those. And I really do like the Winwaker a lot. Yeah. You know, I never, I've never played Winwaker, actually. Wow. I know, right? I didn't have a GameCube when it was contemporary. And by the time that we came out, I was just, I picked up Twilight Princess and bounced off of it. And I'm like, ah, maybe not Zelda for a while. Well, of course, you had a Wii, right? I did have a Wii, you. Yeah. That's one of the 10 games worth playing. One of the, like, maybe three games that never actually went to the switch quite yet.
1:40.2	I know, right?
2:02.7	Did the wonderful 101 ever come to the Switch, or is that still stranded? Oh, you know what? They did a Kickstarter for a modern-day port. I have it for Steam. I have to imagine it probably was on Switch. Okay. Yeah. At least as long as it's off of the Wii U island.
2:03.6	I am like a defender of the Wii U in the way that I like am a booster for the Dreamcast.
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