Miscellaneous Marvels

Anything cool that doesn't fit anywhere else. My curated collection of curiosities is ever growing and always changing, so feel free to use the shortcuts below to get around faster, and also keep an eye out for updates.

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Video Game Magazine Media

Public Domain Stories

Buttons are cool, and so are these sites! Check them out! 👇

Some collect blinkies. Others collect stamps. I collect GIFs! 👇 (Updated!)

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These HTML and CSS tutorials and resources are quite helpful! 👇 (Updated!)

A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CSS

NAVBAR

The Easy Guide to Building A CSS Image Gallery

Basic Neocities Site Tutorial

[HTML] - How to Create a Box with HTML and CSS

Free Guestbook

Free Online Form Builder

CSS Margins

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All you need to know about how to save a GIF from Twitter

Twitter Video Downloader

MP4 video to GIF converter

LunaPic | Free Online Photo Editor (New!)

Make A Gif - Animated Gifs Maker, Free Gif Creator Online (New!)

These are some cool sites and links! 👇

Sites

Internet Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Snopes

Movie Mistakes

The Lost Media Wiki

The Cutting Room Floor

Hidden Palace

Super Mario Wiki

Sega Retro

The Spriters Resource

The Mega Man Knowledge Base

Links

Fleetway's one and done Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special magazine from the summer of 1995.

DC's Pinky and the Brain comic from November 1998.

The origin story of Sonic and Robotnik from Sega's fall 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog promotional comic, which predates both the Archie and Fleetway Sonic comics.

Fleetway's Sonic the Comic from September 1993, which includes the same origin story for Sonic and Robotnik from Sega's fall 1991 promotional comic.

Golden's 1989 Super Mario Bros. color/activity book.

Diamond's 1989 Nintendo sticker activity album.

Here are some cool YouTube videos, sorted by category! 👇 (Updated!)

Disneyland and Walt Disney World

Cool 360 VR recreation of Disneyland's original Alice in Wonderland dark ride, which operated in Fantasyland from June 14, 1958, to September 6, 1982. The current New Fantasyland version of the Alice ride opened on April 13, 1984.

Speaking of long-departed Disney attractions, here's actual camcorder footage of the original Snow White's Adventures dark ride, which operated at Walt Disney World from October 1, 1971, to October 14, 1994.

This next deceased Magic Kingdom attraction is a unique one, as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride contained two distinct routes that altered the riders' experience depending on their randomly assigned path. This recording is from the right track...

And here's footage from the left track of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. It truly is a shame this Disney dark ride was demolished, as the alternate routes were such a cool and unique idea. The smaller, surviving version at Disneyland pales in comparison. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride operated at Walt Disney World from October 1, 1971, to September 7, 1998.

Lost and Found Media

The 1995 Shrek animation test from the film's Chris Farley era.

The 1976 episode of Sesame Street featuring Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from 1939's The Wizard of Oz.

The fascinating tale of the mysterious Yeah Yeah Beebiss I NES game that was advertised in a video game magazine's 1989 mail-order listing.

Video Games

Pac-Man commercial featuring the late Will Lee (Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street).

Ms. Pac-Man commercial.

BurgerTime commercial.

Frogger commercial.

Q*bert commercial.

Pitfall! commercial featuring a young Jack Black.

Donkey Kong commercial featuring a live-action Mario, Pauline, and Donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong Jr. commercial featuring a live-action Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong, and Mario.

Mario Bros. commercial featuring a live-action Luigi.

Atari Lynx commercial featuring a young Tobey Maguire.

Super NES commercial featuring a young Paul Rudd.

A cool compilation of all the licensed cover songs featured on the original 1989 airing of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.

Fun glitches anyone can try in Super Mario 64.

Some cool and well hidden secrets in the original Sonic the Hedgehog. (New!)

And here are some cool YouTube channels, also sorted by category! 👇

Video Games

These channels feature video game documentaries.

These channels cover various video game top 10 lists.

This channel provides an in-depth look at inaccessible areas in video games, and also compares regional differences.

This channel covers gaming news, reviews, Easter eggs, firmware updates, cheat codes, etc.

This channel unveils recovered ROMs of cancelled games, recreations of lost beta versions, rare promotional materials, etc.

This channel focuses on the various behind-the-scenes aspects of game design, from the founder of Traveller's Tales.

This channel compares old magazine reviews of video games added to Nintendo Switch Online, PlayStation Plus, and other subscription services.

This channel looks back at video game releases from over 30 years ago (today).

This channel features a Goomba (stuck between two pipes) playing and critiquing video games.

This channel focuses on old or obscure Japan-exclusive video games.

This channel highlights weird or spooky video game topics.

This channel is dedicated to video game skyboxes, liminal spaces, unemployment rates, drowning competitions, and other odd content.

This channel chronicles one gamer's journey to beating every N64 game (and he means all of them).

This channel features two dudes and an animatronic skeleton raging and reviewing frustrating video games from yesteryear.

This channel examines what happened with various video games that either failed due to lack of quality or sales. (New!)

This channel analyzes what's so great about various video games.

Lost Media

This channel covers a lot of animated lost media.

This channel covers a wide range of lost media.

This channel covers a lot of cinematic lost media.

Cool, Edgy, or Controversial Retro Video Game Magazine Ads, Covers, and Other Media (Descriptions Included) 👇

Ads

Donkey Kong, Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision, 1982 (a boy and girl joyfully playing the ColecoVision port of Donkey Kong on a New York City rooftop. Behind them, a tuxedoed man on a spiral staircase prepares to dodge a barrel about to be thrown by Donkey Kong, who's on a neighbouring skyscraper with Pauline. The Empire State Building and World Trade Center are visible in the background).

Valis III, Genesis, 1991 (a teenaged girl wearing Yuuko Asou's Valis armor and wielding her Valis sword, standing in front of a gigantic TV displaying gameplay footage).

Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Genesis, Sega CD, and SNES, 1994 (a large crowd of kids and teens fist pumping with animated Mickey gloves).

Sega 32X, 1994 (a little boy learning about "the birds and the bees" from two Sega machines).

Kirby's Avalanche and Kirby's Dream Course, SNES, 1995 (badass Kirby's mug shots).

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, SNES, 1995 (Baby Mario's trashed nursery).

wipE'out", PlayStation, 1995 (dazed Sara Cox with a nosebleed).

Crash Bandicoot, PlayStation, 1996 (various photos from Crash's trip to Seattle).

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, SNES, 1996 (a badass gorilla with various piercings and tattoos).

Sega Saturn, 1996 (a naked woman strategically covered by various gaming screenshots).

Star Fox 64, N64, 1997 (a used Star Fox Air barf bag).

MediEvil, PlayStation, 1998 (Sir Daniel Fortesque's tombstone).

Small Soldiers, PlayStation, 1998 (a toy soldier getting a deltoid tattoo).

Turbo Prop Racing, PlayStation, 1998 (a powerful gust of wind at a beach blowing away a chair, towel, parasol, cooler, various toys, the shorts off a lifeguard, the lifeguard himself, and the bikini tops off two sunbathers).

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, PlayStation and N64, 1999 (Gex and Marliece Andrada parodying Janet Jackson's topless Rolling Stone cover).

Um Jammer Lammy, PlayStation, 1999 (a girl in a crop top with a belly button piercing and belly button tattoo).

Perfect Dark, N64, 2000 (a "future" description of 2023 A.D.).

Dragon's Lair, Game Boy Color, 2001 (Dirk the Daring, preparing to strike Singe the Dragon, with his sword).

Shantae, Game Boy Color, 2002 (Shantae with her arms crossed, glaring disdainfully at a djinn's bottle).

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, Game Boy Advance, 2003 (Crash modelling a Speedo at a swimwear store, to mixed reactions from the female clientele).

Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, 2003 (Rayman relieving himself at a men's room urinal, garnering awestruck stares from all the other men at the neighbouring urinals).

PlayStation 10th-Anniversary Ad: Ten Years of Passion, 2005 (a smiling young man wearing a crown of thorns shaped like the PlayStation controller's iconic triangle, circle, cross, and square buttons).

Penny Arcade ESRB "E" Rating PSA Ad: The Andersons, 2006 (a little boy playing an E-rated multiplayer game with his dad).

Penny Arcade ESRB "T" Rating PSA Ad: Jess, 2006 (a teenaged girl playing a T-rated handheld game).

Penny Arcade ESRB "M" Rating PSA Ad: Chris, 2006 (a young man playing an M-rated console game).

Covers

Nintendo Power, September/October, 1988 (Simon Belmont, carrying Dracula's severed head, and standing over a pile of the Count's dismembered body parts).

Super Play, December, 1992 (Link in his birthday suit, strategically covering himself with his Fighter's Shield, while Princess Zelda enjoys the view).

Next Generation, February, 2001 (Duke Nukem and Lara Croft parodying Janet Jackson's topless Rolling Stone cover).

Other Media

Sonic's secret chili dog recipe from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog series (clip & save).

Bad Box Art Mega Man in the first issue of Archie Comics' Mega Man series.

All the Mega Men in the multiverse uniting to sing Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again in the final issue of Archie Comics' Mega Man series.

Donkey Kong riding a mine cart passed some mysterious yet cool gorilla statues in Fleetway's 1995 Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special magazine.

Pauline kicking Donkey Kong in the shin after having enough of his shenanigans in Fleetway's 1995 Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special magazine.

Tales from the Public Domain 👇

Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas by Stephen Leacock

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs

Hans the Hedgehog by the Brothers Grimm

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

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