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.
