The Flipside of Gaming
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.
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):
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Let’s watch a good old fashioned crazypants video. From MangoSauce. In this one (2 minutes), Toad reveals a number of disturbing beliefs to Mario. Things escalate, and they escalate, and they keep going. Well see for yourself:
See? As crazy as a box of rotating weasels. Well that’s what I got this week. See ya.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
Witness this person as he uses all the tricks at his disposal to make his cat let him by in the hallway in record time (1 ¼ minutes):
He’s been speedrunning annoying his cat for some time! Here he bugs his cat until he goes inside (any%, 1 minute):
How many pets his cat can handle (1 ¼ minutes):
And annoying his cat until he gives up the chair (video has 2.3M views somehow, 1 minute):
It’s not the usual Sunday silliness, no it’s a different kind of Sunday silliness, but hey it’s April Fools Day! Wait, you’re saying it isn’t April Fool’s Day any more? It’s even May now? Crap.
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.
The things we post here on Sundays tend to vary a lot in quality, but there aren’t many vids that are tonally pitch-perfect as this mash-up between the old Legend of Zelda cartoon, from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and Beavis and Butthead (10 minutes), from KhalidSMShalin.
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!