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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Retro game lyricist Brentalfloss rings in the holiday season with a musical tribute to the only Super Nintendo game to come bundled with a mouse and a mouse pad. Take that, uDraw!
These days, strategy guides are big business, but it hasn’t always been this way. In the early 90s, for example, magazines and cheat lines ruled, leaving strategy guides to, well. Do their own thing.
And nine other songs, including a RickRoll (although, it’s not really a RickRoll if you know its coming). Thanks to reader Mrjuandrfl for spotting an anthology of classic songs composed on Mario Paint.
It takes talent and patience to lay down these tracks with that kind of interface, is all I can say. I’m trying to imagine someone working on the percussion for “Never Gonna Give You Up.” and can’t believe they lasted more than six runs through that opening drum roll without quitting in disgust. Guess that means they got it right on the fifth try.
(And I can’t believe I made it through a post about Chocolate Rain without the obligatory move away/breathe in joke.)
We’ve linked the YouTube video of the Zelda theme and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” after the jump. The rest can be found at the link.
Theme from Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! Chocolate Rain Rick Astley: “Never Gonna Give You Up” Theme from Sonic the Hedgehog The Beach Boys: “I Get Around” Theme from Super Mario Bros. 3 Genesis: “Land of Confusion” Queen: “Bohemian Rhapsody” Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
