Two items this week. One is this simple yet charming video of someone who made a crank organ (festooned with plush parrots and a decorative octopus) and configured it to play the ending music, titled simply “Staff Roll,” to Super Mario 64. It’s very nice to listen to, and it’s only about three minutes long. … Continue reading "Sundry Sunday: A Handmade Crank Organ Plays Mario 64’s Ending, and…

Everyone that counts loves Pannenkoek, whose two Youtube channels pannenkoek2012 and UncommentatedPannen are probably the best, certainly the best-known, videogame internal explainers on the internet. They somehow made people care about an obscure Super Mario 64 challenge to get through the game in as few A button presses as possible. How can that even be? … Continue reading "Three-Up From…

A comment says, Fludd was their favorite They Might Be Giants album, but that doesn’t quite work; Fludd’s from Super Mario Sunshine, the 3D Mario game after Super Mario 64. Even so, Seanathan S has made quite the recreation. (3 minutes) No vocals, but if you know the song you can recognize the track that’s … Continue reading "Sundry Sunday: Birdhouse In Your Soul Using Mario 64 Instruments"

My first Multilink Monday of the year, my concession that I have way too many tabs in my “Set Side B” group and I have to do something to clean them out. Hopefully at least one of these things will hit the right atoms in your brain to induce pleasure, or “trigger dopamine,” in the … Continue reading "Multiink Monday 3/26/2026"

I had a different post planned for today, but decided to put it off for tomorrow to polish it a little. So until then, PannenKoek, the Mario 64 obsessive who’s the reason we all know about the A Button Challenge, has a recemt 32-minute video all about the Chain Chomp in Bob-Omb Battlefield, an iconic … Continue reading "PannenKoek Demonstrates EVERY Chain Chomp Glitch in Mario 64"