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Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 71: Hardware

Watch Out for Fireballs!

Duckfeed.tv

Video Games, Leisure

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2014

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross drop some science in a survey course about video game hardware.

Rounding out our roster of Kickstarter special episodes, this one is a whirlwind tour of the boxes and dinguses that make video games work. Side A is systems and controllers, while Side B is weird accessories.

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0:00.0

Let's get down to the brass tacks, nuts, and bolts. Let's get down to the Watch Out for Fireballs Hardware Special. Oh, Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:35.0

the uh, the thing.

0:37.0

Oh, uh, the way. Oh, uh,

0:38.0

the way,

0:40.0

uh, Oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to a very special

0:59.8

episode of Watch Out for Fireballs, the Retro Video Games Podcast.

1:03.7

This week we are talking about hardware, which we recognize as an incredibly broad topic, but we really

1:09.7

want to talk about because we think that those boxes and the dinguses that you

1:15.3

plug into those boxes make experiences possible. Yeah it's also very weird for a

1:20.0

podcast about retro video games to branch out to Malibu Comics from the early 90s.

1:25.0

But we're going to be talking about hardware, Prime, Guck,ar Man of the Atom.

1:34.0

All of those hard case, I think I already said hard case,

1:39.0

Archer and Armstrong.

1:40.0

All of those shitty also rans.

1:43.0

Whoa, that is, I don't even know what you're talking about, you might as well be like from an alternate universe.

1:48.0

That is a pretty, that is definitely a deep cut. That's not like a deep cut. That's a cut from like four continents over.

1:56.0

Yeah, it's not even like cut. And actually now they think about it, instead of hardware, he might be called hard case.

2:02.0

So it is a false cut. It's like that

2:06.0

Pokemon move that you use to reduce somebody down to 1 HP. But yeah I'm on I just want to throw out there. I didn't want to say anything about it

2:15.3

But I am going to say anything about it because I already fuck something up is that I'm on all kinds of cold medicine because I'm super sick

2:19.7

Yeah So if you notice my voice not working or if any point I just start like coal makes some good point and in response I just start, you know, choking.

2:29.0

It is because I'm super sick, so I apologize.

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