The Flipside of Gaming
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Tay Zonday was the Chocolate Rain guy (5 minutes, over 143 million views!), and his voice is still as deep as ever. He’s made a new song, (5½ minutes) with Dave Days and Gary Brolsmo, reminding us all about the long and strange journey the internet has carried us through. It’s only had 19 thousand views so far, but maybe we can do something about that?
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Still DragonCon. Still low effort posts. Here’s ProZD on why he doesn’t play fighting games (23 seconds).
Tomorrow is the last day. Back at it then. Richard Garriott is at DragonCon again this year, maybe I’ll be able to make a post about his talk.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Ah yes, this is exactly the kind of nonsense that Sundry Sunday was intended to showcase. I’m telling you, quality randomness like this don’t come down the intertubes that often. From TheIridiumic138, it’s just a bunch of clips from NBC television, that’s the National Broadcasting Company, but presented in the form of a WarioWare video game collection (3 minutes). It’s exactly as simple, as stupid, and as brilliant as that. It’s even filled with deep cuts like the old animated NBC peacock segments, which were before even my time! And it ends with a perfect Conan O’Brien bit to cap it off. You really have to see it to believe it, so why not watch/realize now:
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
anothermartz made a couple of Parappa the Rapper videos that look and sound very close to the original, albeit in its remastered Playstation 4 incarnation. Listen these!
Note: anothermartz admits to the use of “AI” to match the texture of his voice to the originals. Even though they say it was an open source model and locally-hosted, this is usually a strike against an item for inclusion here, but I learned about it late. I considered scrapping the whole thing and starting over, but at 2:30 AM one wants to just conclude matters and get to bed.
The first one is more timeless and generally better, it stars the vaguely disreputable flea market denizen Prince Fleaswallow, teaching the young Parappa a bunch of questionable facts, as well as one that is, sadly, true. (2 minutes).
The other, also by anothermartz, is a lot more timely, replacing the put-upon Inspector Mooselini with Nigel Farage (2 minutes), the UK MP being investigated on corruption charges who’s so disliked and disrespected now that he called an election with mere months left to go in his term to stall that investigation, but as a result had to defend his office from a surprisingly credible threat from Count Binface, a joke candidate space overlord who would have been a much better MP than he has been. We only rarely touch upon political topics here, not for lack of interest but because they’re usually a distraction for us, with the whole retro/niche/indie thing, but this nicely aligns with gaming, so here you are.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Three more entries from the long-lived Steamed Hams Simpsons meme that has charmed hearts and rotted brains for many years now.
#1: Chalmers is a Robot Running Classic Mac OS (3 minutes), by Dress Up Geek Out. The shortest of the three.
#2: The Graphic Adventure Game (7 minutes). It’s an actual game by neodement, in the classic Lucasarts SCUMM style, on GameJolt, which posting channel MS-DOS Friends credited but didn’t link to.
#3: As a Mobile Game Ad (30 seconds). By Tyrone Deise, it makes me twitch just watching it, so I’m glad it’s so short. I think you will be too.
#4: A last-minute addition, Recreated in Japan-Only N64DD Talent Maker (8 minutes). Prepare for an unforgettable bludgeon! And an unexpected few seconds of Totaka’s Song!
Extra: Another Steamed Hams Game, by MonsterJail on itch.io. No video that I could find for this one.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Wario and Waluigi should need no introduction. (Wario shouldn’t anyway; Waluigi has not gotten most attention since the early 2000s.) After establishing them as the Nintendo-flavored version of “Bizarro,” we are informed by Michael McWhertor of Polygon that Camelot, the originator of Waluigi, had brainstormed up a wa-version of Peach too, which was rejected by Nintendo because they hate awesomeness.
It’s been two years since that article came out, and soon after fan material regarding this quasi-evil apparition began to appear. On DeviantArt (that place), user Niko–Neko has made to date 95 images of the princeless-waif, some just artwork, some comics, often involving her partners-in-wa, Wario and Waluigi. (Note: some images slightly NSFW, nothing explicit, but there’s at least one image where she’s wearing her cape and little else.)
I’ll leave you to explore Niko–Neko’s renditions of her hapless adventures on your own, as they’re not the actual point of this post, not directly at least. Instead, I invite you to partake in gawking at GabaLeth’s playlist of eight of those comics with voice-acting. (Total length about 4½ minutes)
I now leave you to dream about lovably incompetent dark princesses and the things they might do to you if they got you in their clutches. “Yow, it hurts so good! How may I serve you, oh Mistress of Darkness….”
Um… forget you read that.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
This video’s from Dorkly (3 minutes), which isn’t a source I often link from, but what I can say I’m a sucker for mockery of all this “AI” awfulness being foisted upon all us by every large tech company. Also its pretty well-written, and hey, Dr. Eggman has a terrific Bluesky account too (not related to Dorkly as far as I know, also I think I linked to it before but I’m looking for an excuse to mention it again).
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
This week it’s simple. It’s easy. I won’t say it’s pure, I won’t insult your intelligence by going that far, but I will insult your intelligence with a video game music done in the Seinfeld theme song style round up. Let’s go.
Note that these are game music compositions done in the style of the Seinfeld theme. A different category would be the Seinfeld theme done in the style of different games. That I will leave for some other time.
Super Mario Bros. Underworld Theme (36 seconds):
Super Metroid Norfair (2 minutes):
Gameboy Tetris (1 minute):
Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone (2 minutes):
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Gerudo Valley (3 minutes):
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Porky Draws gives us (by which I mean, gives the world, not us particularly, we’re just pointing to it as usual) an epilogue to the Banjo-Kazooie games (2 minutes) where persistent enemy Gruntilda (who is active and alive and everything) casts spells on Banjo and Kazooie’s internet connections. It’s pretty short, but I feel the effort should be recognized for the excellent Gruntilda voice and keeping her words in rhyme. (The worst thing about Banjo-Tooie, other than it being way too big and convoluted as well was that they dropped Gruntilda’s rhyming dialogue.)
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
It’s another Legend of Zelda related video. The subtitle (in Japanese) of the Famicom game was “The Hyrule Fantasy,” and so is the title of this two minute animation from OUSM.C. (2 minutes)
Fantasy is a devalued currency these days. Light and beauty have given way to swords and fighting monsters. It’s hard not to blame Dungeons & Dragons for at least part of this, but The Lord of the Rings series put a heavy weight on war and battles over wonder, and the many other things people have appreciated about J.R.R. Tolkien for decades.
I appreciate this video for being focusing on the small moments of the Zelda series, even though, as a video game, it’s mostly been about slaying monsters and collecting items than taking a moment out to enjoy an alternate world, at least until Breath of the Wild came out.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
From Random Encounters fifteen years ago, it’s a four-minute musical starring people dressed up as Sonic the Hedgehog characters, though a full minute of it is credits. There is no guarantee that this will entertain you, but then there’s no guarantee that it won’t awaken something within you either.
Extra: Dr. Eggman has a hilarious Bluesky account (not for kids).
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Submitted for your perusal: a version of classic game tune The Death That I Deservioli, the epic Lap 2 music from Pizza Tower that plays if you’re cocky enough to ignore the exit gate and be transported to the end of the level to escape again within the time remaining.
It’s a deserved-ioli popular piece of game music. Here, it’s played with stepper motors (3 minutes), in a cover written by Jonathan Kayne:
If you’re not familiar with the terrific Wario Land 4-inspired Pizza Tower, here’s the same piece from the game.