Gary Butterfield
Co-Host of Abject Suffering
Gary Butterfield is an author, musician, and the host of Check It Out, Comrade!, Bonfireside Chat, Watch Out for Fireballs!, and others. Buy his book, Souls of Darkness.
Gary Butterfield has hosted 836 Episodes.
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Episode 411: Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands
July 12th, 2021 | 38 mins 6 secs
Do you have fond memories of this? Sorry! It's pretty bad!
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Episode 410: Knuckles' Chaotix
July 5th, 2021 | 48 mins 39 secs
The only game that could possibly embody the sheer awkwardness of the Sega 32X.
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Exquisite Suffering 119: Champions of Zulula
June 29th, 2021 | 49 mins 29 secs
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Champions of Zulula is an amateur DOS fighting game where you play as any number of champions from strange, fantastical races like "Squid" and "Ostrich" who have gathered in Zulula to fight for supremacy.
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Episode 409: Chaos Legion
June 28th, 2021 | 42 mins 19 secs
A divine agent has gone rogue, taking the sacred texts with him and throwing the whole world into chaos. It's up to you to find him and stop the crisis in the most mind-numbing way possible.
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Episode 408: The California Raisins: The Grape Escape
June 21st, 2021 | 32 mins 59 secs
Dried fruit almost had a home in the NES in this mediocre platformer published by Capcom.
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Exquisite Suffering 118: The Jetsons in By George, In Trouble Again
June 18th, 2021 | 38 mins 48 secs
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Science fiction allows us to create infinite worlds of infinite possibility, exploring truths and synthesizing concepts with no limitation whatsoever. You could, for example, say that the far future of the Earth will basically just be the 60s but with robots.
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Episode 407: Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness
June 14th, 2021 | 35 mins 25 secs
And the award for "most obscure Lovecraft game adaptation" goes to...
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Episode 406: Celebrity Deathmatch
June 7th, 2021 | 57 mins 27 secs
It's basically the Super Smash Bros. of cramming as many sexual predators into a game as possible.
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Episode 405: F-18: No Fly Zone
May 31st, 2021 | 37 mins 11 secs
This game is nothing, but it's also a reminder of a forgotten era of Windows 3.1 aesthetics and production values.
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Exquisite Suffering 117: Brain Dead 13
May 26th, 2021 | 38 mins 25 secs
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This forgotten followup to Dragon's Lair and Space Ace is charmless, confusing, and it expects us to care about an imp named Fritz. So instead, we revisit the concept of Roomba Force.
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Episode 404: Timecop
May 24th, 2021 | 36 mins 57 secs
Timecop was created out of necessity once someone realized "Time" and "Crime" rhymed.
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Episode 403: Rescue: The Embassy Mission
May 17th, 2021 | 35 mins 38 secs
This cinematic game for the NES is slightly divisive between us, as it awkwardly fumbles to be Rainbow 6 before Rainbow 6 was possible on hardware.