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Sundry Sunday: Earthbound Flying Man Animation Collaboration
This one's an intersection between two weird and highly idiosyncratic cultural phenomena. (6 minutes) Please attend.

Earthbound is, of course, the classic SNES JRPG, known in Japan as Mother 2, created by Shigesato Itoi. It has […]
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wrestling.social
January 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Gamefinds: Urjo
A second webgame in a row, Urjo is a logic puzzle game about choosing which of each space in a grid should be red or blue, with the following conditions:

1. Every row and column must contain the same number of red and blue spaces.

2. Every numbered space must have the same […]
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wrestling.social
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Gamefinds: words.zip
words.zip is a fun word search kind of game. It's an infinite field of random letters. You try to find words snaking through the array. Words can twist and turn, and can also go backwards, but can't go diagonally, cross themselves, or intersect with any other word that […]
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wrestling.social
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Crashing Scribblenauts
A quick one today, busyman demonstrates six ways to crash Scribblenauts games. To remind: Scribblenauts is a game where you have a magic notebook that creates things you write in it, if you just know the word for it. It's one of a very small number of games that attempt to […]
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wrestling.social
January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Playing Majora’s Mask on Day 4: What and How
The gameplay of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is famously limited to three days. After three days the moon crashes into the town, destroying it. You have to go back in time before then (which also saves the game) and continue completing subquests […]
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wrestling.social
January 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM
A Thing Called Packri Monster (Take 2)
Sometimes Wordpress is infuriating.

What I remember doing is working hard on a post proclaiming to the world the existence of a weird offshoot of the Pac-Man universe called Packri Monster. I wrote it, and I saved it (I believe) so it would be posted on […]
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wrestling.social
January 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Incision Review
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RUQc14U2QD8

This is a review of Incision played with a press key provided by the publisher.
https://setsideb.com/incision-review/
#indies #review #incision #indie #review
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Sundry Sunday: The Universe of Sonic the Hedgehog
Along the same lines as videogamedunkey's Explanation of Kingdom Hearts (previously) is this gloriously insane video that untangles all the non-linearity and heedless added backstory of the various Sonic the Hedgehog games and presents them […]
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wrestling.social
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
World Record: All ? Panels in Mario Kart World
There was an All ? Panels in Mario Kart World run at AGDQ this year, and it was great, but that's not what this is. No, this world record was recorded (geez that phrasing annoys me) in the practice room at the event. (28 minutes, don't bother […]
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wrestling.social
January 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A Website Served From a Floppy Disk
We appreciate all kinds of electronic entertainment here at Set Side B, and fun and interesting websites definitely fits that idiosyncratic bill. It's a simple guestbook-style application. The whole site, including the OS, is served from a single 3½-inch […]
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wrestling.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Trainspotting in Mario Kart World
Mario Kart World, of course, has an open world mode, and much of the interest of an open world racing game is dynamic situations produced by the traffic.

There's been explorations into where the cars and NPCs come go, and we posted a video on that topic a while […]
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wrestling.social
January 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Blippo+ Completion Patch
Really minor thing here, I've already mentioned it on social media in a couple of places, but here it's a bit more auspicious?

I mentioned Yacht and Panic's entertaining 90s alien cable simulation Blippo+ before. Blippo+ has 11 weeks of programming, with the last week […]
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wrestling.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Zefyr: A Thief’s Melody Review
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6RtxzRVg5lw

This is a review of Zefyr: a Thief's Melody, played with a press key provided by the developer.
https://setsideb.com/zefyr-a-thiefs-melody-review/
#indies #indie #review #zefyr #zeldalike
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Sundry Sunday: Mike Fallek’s Internet Instructions
The internet is a busy place. Wouldn't it be nice to have a set of easy-to-understand instructions on how to operate it?

Yes? Well, too bad. What you get instead is the sarcastic internet instructions of Newgrounds user MikeFallek (1½ minutes) […]
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wrestling.social
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
An Arcade Ridge Racer Obsessive Explains How to Play Well
WARNING: This isn't a Youtube video! It's good old text, like Frog intended the internet to be!

Over on The Gamesoft Fun Club, David Cabrera explains how great arcade Ridge Racer is, that isn't exactly like the Playstation version, in […]
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wrestling.social
January 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
AGDQ 2026’s Awful Block, with Bug Blasters
AGDQ 2026 still has a day and a half to go, but a highlight so far has been Awful Block from early Thursday morning. Among other games they did Rock 'n' Roll Adventures (16 minutes), Golf With Your Grandmother (1 hour 33 minutes), The Running Man (16 […]
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wrestling.social
January 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Resurrecting Sinistar
Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archeology Documentary is a 166-minute, that's approaching three hours long, documentary about the effort to recover the source code of the Williams arcade classic, made by SynaMax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac

SynaMax also […]
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wrestling.social
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Adventure 751, from Compuserve, Recovered and Playable
Interactive Fiction blog Regna in Blue reports that a rare variant of classic Adventure, that was playable on Compuserve for many years and only went down when their game offerings went offline in the mid 90s, has been recovered and made […]
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wrestling.social
January 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Editing JPEGs in a Text Editor
Patrick Gillespie made this fun Youtube video showing what happens when you do an objectively silly thing: open JPEGs in a text editor. It's only six minutes long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWFHn1wS1U

I absolutely love doing crazy things like this. JPEGs […]
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wrestling.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The Sound And Music of Games (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/B6eKNgYMGVI

This is the conclusion of my chat with composer Mark Benis about composing music for games. We talked more about working with designers, and how designers can best utilize […]

[Original post on wrestling.social]
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Sundry Sunday: Lore Sjöberg Rates 1st Gen Pokemon + AGDQ 2026 Begins Today
About 3½ years ago, when I started doing this blog and Sundry Sundays, I would post a greater variety of thing here.

One thing I delighted in posting were video game-related ratings from web comedy master Lore Sjöberg […]
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wrestling.social
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
TheZZAZZGlitch’s Lists of Interesting Pokemon Things
Lists are severely worked content delivery methods, but darn it if TheZZAZZGlitch's video lists aren't actually really interesting. These are all early Pokemon game glitches and their application, and usually go quite deep into their code.

In […]
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wrestling.social
January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The Weirdest Star Wars Game
And we're off! Let's start 2026 off with Flandrew's look at the weirdest Star Wars game, the Famicom-only one Namco made. (11 minutes) It's kind of a meme at this point, but gosh it's even weirder than the Star Wars Holiday Special […]
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wrestling.social
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Sound (and Music) of Games With Mark Benis Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mfK7TopKdhQ

For this perceptive podcast, I (Josh Bycer) spoke with composer Mark Benis who has worked on a number of game soundtracks to discuss his role and what it's like […]

[Original post on wrestling.social]
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM