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Kangaroo, I Don’t Know What to Do

I rode a ride called the Kangaroo at Kennywood last weekend. This was installed in 1962, closed in 2021, and restored in 2022. It’s called a flying coaster, although it’s not a ROLLER coaster, but a circular ride with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh, Zelda | Tagged amusement parks, apes, apple panic, atari, bayeux tapestry, bionic commando, birds, cereal, condors, crazy climber, crazy kong, demon lords, demons, dragon quest iv, ernest shepard, forest of gugu, fuddlecumjig, harold lloyd, henry mancini, joey kangaroo, kanga, kangaroo, kangaroos, katy kangaroo, kenny kangaroo, kennywood, king kong, lode runner, monkeys, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, piglet, psaro, rabbit, ricky the kangaroo, roo, safety last, saturday supercade, scott joplin, shoes, space panic, sunsoft, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, tony the tiger |

Cactus Creeps

Picture by BlazingDazzlingDusk Although a lot of people keep small ones in their houses, the cactus is a pretty terrifying plant, so I’m not surprised that some video games use them as enemies. The two that immediately come to mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged 1000 needles, 10000 needles, bobcats, cacti, cactiballs, cactrots, cactuars, cactus cats, cats, cryptozoology, doki doki panic, dragon quest rocket slime, dragon quest v, fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods, final fantasy vi, folklore, gigantuars, gyroids, haniwa, link's awakening, mario hoops 3-on-3, mario sports mix, oracle of seasons, paper mario color splash, paper mario: sticker star, pokeys, saguaro, super mario bros. 2, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tetsyua nomura, tombstone city, william t. cox, yoshi |

Kirby’s Come Undone

One game I’ve been playing recently is Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, the 3DS port of the Wii game that came out some years ago, which I was interested in but never played. Kirby was turned into yarn some time before Yoshi … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged angie, coo the owl, dark matter, dimitri, dream land, kine the ocean sunfish, king dedede, kirby right back at ya, kirby's dream land, kirby's dream land 2, kirby's epic yarn, kirby's extra epic yarn, meta knight, moosh, mount dedede, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, patch land, prince fluff, rainbow islands, rick the hamster, ricky the kangaroo, yin-yarn |

Lode Runner, Lode Runner, Going Faster Miles an Hour

In this post, I intend to address some connections between video games, many of which I haven’t actually played. I do remember playing Lode Runner on the Apple II in my elementary school days, though. You run around mazes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Comics, Mario, Mega Man, Sims, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged bomb man, bomber nebula, bomberman, bomberman 94, broderbund, bungeling empire, captain snes, choplifter, club nintendo, dr. left, dr. light, dr. wily, dr. wright, eric and the floaters, kangaroos, link's awakening, lode runner, mr. write, oracle of seasons, raid on bungeling bay, simcity, the minish cap, wario, wario blast featuring bomberman, will wright |

Holy Ghost in the Machine

It’s a well-known fact that, back in the earlier days of Nintendo, they censored a lot of religious references in the English translations of games. It’s stated here that their policy was to exclude “symbols that are related to any … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Zelda, Zoroastrianism | Tagged a link to the past, alltrades abbey, bible, celestria, censorship, corvus, crosses, devils, divinegon, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, farore, fiend, final fantasy vi, goddess, hades, hera, hylia, hyrule, jesus, kabbalah, kefka, nayru, nintendo, odin, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, poseidon, rubiss, satan, sephiroth, sophia, temple of dharma, tetsuya nomura, triforce, warring triad, zenith dragon, zenithia, zenus, zeus, zurvan |

I Can’t Wait to Bomb Some Dodongos!

Maybe the Creationists are right that humans and dinosaurs once co-existed, as per this pictorial evidence: Or maybe video game makers just realize the universal truth that dinosaurs are cool, which is probably why Young-Earth Creationists now prefer to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Monsters, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged ceratopsians, death mountain, dimitri, dinosaurs, ganondorf, gorons, king dodongo, link, ocarina of time, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, stegosaurus, the legend of zelda, triceratops, triforce |

Bringing Ganon Back

Ganon is defeated at the end of pretty much every Zelda game, yet somehow he always comes back to fight another day. Usually the games are silent on how he keeps returning, but both the Oracle games and The Adventure … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Focus on the Foes, Monsters, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, ganon, mother brain, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, princess zelda, the adventure of link, triforce, twinrova |