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Sundry Sunday: Nathorz’s Sounds of Link and Zelda

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Nathorz is an animator who has made several videos that took game character noises and put them into humorous contexts. To date he’s made videos with the sounds of Luigi, Kirby, Wario, Yoshi and Donkey Kong. The longest of any of these videos is 1½ minutes, so they’re not going to eat up your day.

Most recently he made a video, again just a minute and a half long, with noises from various incarnations of Link and Zelda. Warning: this includes the old Zelda cartoon from the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Additional warning: includes a cameo from “Suaveamente Ganondorf” at the very end.

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Sundry Sunday: Master Chief Sings

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

I’m really dipping into the archives today, from long-time internet funnypeople Waverly Films comes a 15-year-old video hyping from Master Chief’s mercifully short singing career. It’s just a minute and a half long.

Waverly Films has been at the Youtube funny video business for a long time, and although it’s been five years since their last output, every once in a while their members put out something new, so we haven’t yet lost hope that we’ll see something new from them, someday.

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Sundry Sunday: Metal Gear Nonsense

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

othatsraspberry is a hilarious maker of comics and has a Bluesky account. One of the things they’ve made comics about is the Metal Gear games, a surpassingly fertile ground for visual weirdness, because the games themselves are often very weird. (FISSION MAILED)

That’s right, no video today! We can do other things on Sundays than linking to video! And not Nintendo either! Let us rejoice in a world without Mario, for 24 hours at least!

Here is one comic, to give you a taste. For more, hie the away to that Bluesky feed or comic page!

Source: othatsraspberry’s comic archive page

An extra for you. We’ve had two items on Kirby Air Ride lately so I figured I wouldn’t devote a whole post to this, but if you still have room for more (Kirby always has room for more), the first game in this tournament match between Awsm_599 and heynoww has to be seen to be believed. The full video is 23 minutes, the relevant section is the first 7½ minutes, but if you stick around it also ends in an unexpected way. It’s a demonstration of why it’s important not to be too careless when playing City Trial. (I notice that I had linked to the end of that first round in the last KAR post, but the whole game is a nailbiter.)

Possibly

As it turns out, I linked a video today after all. It’s a hard habit to break.

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Sundry Sunday: Wario’s Day Off

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

I’m a little late on this one, I was watching the end of SGDQ late last night. This week’s video is from deep i the files, a fan animation by Mario Ramirez of Wario stealing a statue from Bowser Jr. and Kamek. It’s pretty simple and disjointed, but watchable. It’s around 6 minutes long.

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Sundry Sunday: Wigglewood & Amazing Digital Circus

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

It was vitally important to tell all of you about Pugberto last week, I’m sure you’ll all agree. A couple of other items had to wait a week before I could present them to you.

The Amazing Digitial Circus has a fifth episode now. It got over 40 million views in a few days so there’s a good chance you’ve found it by now. Still though, here ’tis (25m):

The Amazing Digital Circus has merchandise, and some pretty amusing videos to sell it. There’s a new one of those too (4m):

Over on a much less trafficked portion of Youtube, the hapless heroes of the Wigglewood Tales have a couple of new videos too, The Bandit (2m):

And, the Mystic Emporium (2m):

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Sundry Sunday: Pugberto Dancing Universe

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Not a Youtube link this time! Over on Bluesky (“blu-skee”) there exists the manifestly ludicrous account Pugberto Dancing Universe, in which a Photoshopped pug animated to various pieces of game music that, I’d say, greatly improves them.

Embeds don’t work as well from Bluesky as from Youtube, so I’m just going to have to link them and insist that they’re worth the clickthrough. Here’s the music from the first level of Super Bomberman:

Select Your Heroes (“I Wanna Take You For A Ride”) from Marvel vs. Capcom 2:

The jazzy “Corkboard” game select music from Kirby Super Star:

And the character select music from Metal Slug 3:

There, wasn’t I right about how great Pugberto is? There’s a lot more in that Bluesky feed.

Okay one for the road:

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Sundry Sunday: Donkey Kong Planet & DKTV

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Just a few days ago I linked to the complete two-season run of the CG Donkey Kong Country cartoon that got made and aired on Saturday mornings. Well, there’s more where that came from.

As it turns out the people who animated it, “Medialab,” had other plans for the character. It’s not very well known, but in France they made another show, a general cartoon anthology, with the characters performing in bumpers between them, like the original version of Cartoon Planet. It was originally called Donkey Kong Planet, and it’s both bizarre and entirely in French.

Then, the model who was the co-star, along with the DKC characters, left the show. They rebranded it to DKTV, and, um.

You have a choice. You can start off with this 10-minute explainer video by Carlito. It’s the standard Youtuber, “can you BELIEVE this happened??” video. It’s not really bad, I’ve definitely seen worse, but it’s not really a sterling example of the genre either. Here it is embedded:

Or, if you’re a jaded connoisseur of bizarre video like I am, you might want to just go ahead and jump into the deep end of the pool, unprepared. If you’re like that, I got you covered. This is what you want (41 minutes). Don’t say you weren’t warned.

More about this show is on the Super Mario Wiki.

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Sundry Sunday: There’s Something About Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

From TerminalMontage, who’s shown up here multiple times before. I thought maybe I might have already posted this, but a quick search seems to indicate that I haven’t, and it’s a useful intersection between Nintendo things, roguelike things, and silly things.

Specifically, this Something (5½ minutes) is About the original releases of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team, Red and Blue. And you’ll probably best see what all the About is about if you’ve played the original.

I’ll throw in some notes about the references in this video:

The rescue mechanic, which involves teleporting rescued Pokemon. How the hell does it work?
Kecleons, the shopkeepers in PMD, are as scary as depicted here. To think that this would be a lasting legacy of the Nethack Devteam’s Izchak Miller.
The music in the volcano segment is from the game, and it does the thing that the kids these days call “slaps.”
Make sure to fast forward through the credits for a final closing gag, where we find out who Cyndaquil really is.

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Sundry Sunday: Earthbound Meets Peanuts

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Given how similar their art styles are, it’s surprising that there aren’t more stylistic crossovers between Charles Schulz’s and Shigesato Itoi’s respective classics of popular media, but this is the first direct connection between them that I can name.

A weird dog is bothering the kids of Polestar Preschool (2 minutes), so Paula calls Ness over to do something about it. But this dog is a bit smarter than it lets on at first. Video uploaded by russmarrs2.

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Sundry Sunday: Toad Sings Chandelier

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

oh god this hurts my ears (3 ½ minutes). it hurts so much that i’m typing this in lowercase because capital letters are too loud now.

its the most screamy of all game characters, that’s right toad. he’s singing. he’s singing real bad, and real loud. its funny if your ears can take it, i suggest though keeping the volume low. i’ll see you later, i’m going to listen to some whispery asmr.

the video dates back to 2018, and it has over ten million views. to each their own, i guess.

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Sundry Sunday: Eggpo, in Instruction Book

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Eggpo is a video game-themed series that was part of the “Two More Eggs” animations that The Brothers Chaps, Mike and Matt Chapman, creators and makers of Homestar Runner, made for Disney’s XD service. While the series is nine years old now, nearly all are still viewable on XD’s Youtube channel, minus a couple that were removed for some reason.

This is the fifth of the Eggpo cartoons, and clocks in at a minute-forty. We’ve seen the previous four here so far. They’re about a couple of Goomboid creatures from an 8-bit game questioning their places as underlings in video game world. They’re pretty good, and short. In this one, the Eggpos explore their game’s instruction manual. It’s not explained how they got in there.

There’s another game-related sequence in Two More Eggs, “CG Pals,” which follows the adventures of a bunch of low-polygon friends and their adventures in the Third Dimension. Since there’s only two Eggpo cartoons left, maybe we’ll look at those after Eggpo runs out.

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Sundry Sunday: DOOM Music A Cappella

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Been focused so hard on the Loadstar Compleat project over the past couple of weeks that my brain can burn ANTS with just the power of SUNLIGHT. So have a quick one minute video of some people performing the music to the famous first level of DOOM, but with just the sound of their mouths.

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