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Sundry Sunday: Parappa is Bad at Driving

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

It’s been ten years since a little line drawning animation called URappinBad! shows up on Newgrounds. Now its creator Kevin Fagaragan has gone back and not only made it into a full color animation, but shows it side by side with the original.

This is the new video (3 minutes), which has the comparison at the end, and its Newgrounds page:

And this is the original by itself (1½ minutes):

Be on the lookout for cameos by Parappa’s friends PJ Berri and Katy Kat, Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken, and UmJammer Lammy. Both videos of course feature music taken directly from the Playstation classic Parappa the Rapper, which still has one of the best soundtracks in gaming. They got the music stuck in my head all over again. “When I say boom boom boom you say bam bam bam, no pause in between! C’mon let’s jam!

Sundry Sunday: Cursed Images and Game Music

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

I think I’ve posted some of these before, but I don’t think I’ve done all of them, and I’m cleaning some links out of my list. So let’s take another look.

These are from a six-or-so year old meme that began with putting creepy (but not too creepy) music to battle music from perennial retro JRG favorite Earthbound. Earthbound had lots of weird and crazy enemies, so they fit fairly well. But they’re not all Earthbound collections, just so’s you knows.

I’ve got quite a few of these links. I could spread them across weeks, but I’ve got other posts to make, so I’ll just unload them all at once. Watch as many as you can stand.

First, the Earthbound collections. 3 minutes:

8 minutes:

Now, 9 minutes:

They’re getting longer in length. 12 minutes, if you’re getting tired of them I can’t say that I blame you:

This one’s 16 minutes:

And the mother (heh) of all collections, 51 minutes, using music from all three games:

The meme mutated a bit into science diagrams that look like shitposts, and with other game music. This one’s Miitopia (8 minutes):

And, with Splatoon music (11 minutes):

Last one! With Toby Fox music (13 minutes), you know, Undertale and Deltarune and stuff:

I’m glad to get those out of the list! Something different next time, whew.

Sundry Sunday: A Stardew Valley Cartoon

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

Everyone loves Stardew Valley, and its engaging and quirky denizens! Whether it’s alcoholic bus driver Pam, or horny mayor Lewis, or Pierre the Capitalist, or the evil corporation you can let take over the town, or that one person who’s like that. Sure, you know, that one!

Many of the personable and mathematically romanceable characters of Stardew Valley can be spotted in Emmanomia‘s STARDEW VALLEY ANIMATION (3 minutes). Here:

Sundry Sunday: A Phone Call From Kirby

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

It’s a little old, but we do claim here that sometimes we’ll post things that are decades old. This one’s only five years of age.

It’s an animation of audio from a (adjusts glasses) “Kirby drama CD.” I don’t want to image what the rest of it is like, but this part at least is funny and adorable and pretty much keeping in Kirby’s character of being enthusiastic about everything. It’s only 45 seconds long:

Who set up Popstar’s phone service? This seems to be a land line! Did Waddle Dees build it? Did they contract it out to Magolor, who has set up a network of satellites Starlink-style? Did King Dedede pay for it? Is it a naturally occurring phone system? Who the heck knows, poyo!

Sundry Sunday: Tourists Happen Upon Street Fighter II Battles

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

Its from Dorkly, a gamer content channel on Youtube. I usually try to keep the finds we present here to one-person operations or similar. But the animation (2 ½ minutes) is entertaining, and it addresses the experience of those people standing to the side watching others beat the crap out of each other. I’m surprised they don’t take an accidental Hadoken from time to time. Doesn’t seem very safe to be at ringside for a Psycho Crusher.

Sundry Sunday: Foreman Spike & the Bros.

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

If you’ve been following Sundry Sunday for a while here, you might have caught on to a few trends. One, too many Nintendo characters. And two, I have a high resistance to schmaltz.

There’s fifty-pound bags full of unearned sentiment just laying around the Youtube platform, and most of it I will have no truck with. A lot of it depends on your past connection with characters, and despite surface appearances, I don’t have a lot of connection with game characters. And it feels like theft, to cloyingly play off of pre-existing characters in such cheap and easy ways.

But that’s not to say it can’t be done well, as in this short voice-acted slideshow that was released soon after the recent Super Mario Bros. Movie. The (newer) SMB movie definitely has its faults, but it also has some pretty deep cuts from throughout Mario’s history, and the best of those has to be Foreman Spike, semi-antagonist from Wrecking Crew, and Mario & Luigi’s boss in the mundane world of plumbing.

There are slight hints that, despite his abrasive personality, there is a tiny bit more to Spike than seems at first, and that’s what makes the slideshow, from GabaLeth, feel like it’s slightly more entitled to its emotion than your standard cartoon sugarjob. And it’s only a minute long. Here:

Extra: here’s nine minutes more from the same account, of various Movie-themed clips.

Sunday Sunday: Fanmade Music Video Starring Vibri

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

Vibri is from NaNaOn-Sha’s classic bring-your-own-CD rhythm game Vib-Ribbon. P. Carredo is a Youtube content maker who’s done a lot of videos starring the angular rabbit. And Roll Along is the last of the six playable songs in that game, notable for being difficult due to its fluctuating beat, which speeds up and slows down in a way that’s tricky to match.

Mix them all up and we have this music video. The second pink Vibri is her version from Vib-Ribbon’s sequel Vib-Ripple, which came out on the Playstation 2 and so has better graphic effects. (2 ½ minutes)

Sundry Sunday: The Sounds of Luigi

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

Something of a follow-up to last week’s post, this one’s another of nathorz’s animations of Nintendo voices (1 ½ minutes), this time of perennial second-banana Luigi. Most are from Charles Martinet’s voicing, but there’s also Danny Wells from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and John Leguizamo from the first Super Mario Bros. movie. There’s also some voices I don’t recognize; I presume Luigi from the more-recent Super Mario Bros. movie is in there somewhere.

Some other of nathorz’s animations include sounds of Kirby, Wario, Yoshi and the Kong of Donk.

Sundry Sunday: Mario Gibberish

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

Since Mario 64, Charles Martinet certainly recorded a lot of noises for Mario and Luigi. If you look far enough (specifically, to the Mario & Luigi games for GBA and DS) you can find some entertaining random Italian-like sounds. Mayo on Youtube combined some of these noises with comical animation, to produce these very short (1/2 minute) videos.

Luigi:

Mario:

Together:

And with an unexpected intrusion:

Sundry Sunday: There’s Something About Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket

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

I never got into the Pokemon Trading Card Game scene. I never got into Magic either. The thing about trading card games, I’ve always said, sometimes twice in a row even, is they seem more like a business model than a game.

It’s not that they don’t have good design, really, but that the purpose of that game is to make it so that players buy more cards. And despite that, whenever I bring this up among obsessed players, they say it doesn’t take money to win. No, but it makes winning much more likely. More money gets you more cards, and statistically, that means you get better cards. More money means you can outright buy better cards from traders. Money rules all, just like it does in the actual real physical world, and that’s something I play games to escape.

Recently the Pokemon Company released a second app version of their money-printing game. This one promises streamlined rules, and lets you get booster packs without paying cash, although being “free to play,” monetization is sadly a big part of the game.

Word is, it is also infuriatingly difficult to win at, an experience that TerminalMontage, creator of the “Something About” series of animations, captures aptly in their new animation. (8 minutes)

My opinion of the Something About cartoon is scattered. There’s some funny episodes in there, but it also relies a lot on the “earsplitting scream EXPLOSION” gag. It happens at least once in this video. And sometimes it substitutes hyper-energy for actual jokes. Yet, hidden amidst the LOLrandom, the good ones really are good. Will you find this one to be so? There’s but one way to find out.

Sundry Sunday: Oh no! It’s the Lemmings 2 Music Video!

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

You know, it’s a effort sometimes to keep up this weekly game culture section. Youtube’s algorithm sucks unless you have an account you use for one purpose and none other, for it’s always trying to send you things related to the very last thing you watched. That means its efficacy as a source of finds varies widely and wildly.

Today’s find, however, is the kind of insanity that makes the effort worth it. It’s no thanks to the Youtube feed either, but from a Bluesky post. As it turns out, they made a music video for Lemmings 2, involving adorable Lemming puppets (4m).

And as it also turns out, the title screen theme music of Lemmings 2: The Tribes is a version of that song (also 4m)!

Sundry Sunday: Pizza Tower Music Played On Stepper Motors

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

Stepper motor music videos have been a staple of Youtube for, geez, many years now. A sampling: Africa, Piano Man, All Star, Ghostbusters and, um, that song. Closer to home, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Still Alive and Megalomania. That’s just scratching a very deep surface.

Well a newcomer to this crowded field is this rendition of Pizza Tower’s “Lap 2” music, The Death That I Deservioli. (3 minutes)