Here’s a fantastic clip of the UC Berkeley (my alma mater, yay!) marching band paying tribute to video games.
How many video games references do you recognize? Hit play or go to Link [College Humor] – Thanks Chris!
Anthony
It’s too bad they suck, or they could have really been onto something with that.
Rosi
I got: Pong, Tetris, ???, Pokemon, Zelda, Mario, Kirby, ??? and Mario again. It’s a shame the video was upside down though.
And Anthony, I’d like to see you try to play an instrument well, while marching around a field, trying to get into the correct shapes (which you can’t see by the way), with thousands of people watching you.
PapaTango
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the line-up was Pong, Tetris, Mortal Kombat (the Mortal Kombat Dragon is opposite of the viewer, look upside down to see), Zelda, and the last four are from Super Mario–the first being from the first underground stage in the first Super Mario, the second from Super Mario World, the third from the underwater stage from the first Super Mario, and last, the stage finish theme from the first Super Mario.
Cheers.
SenorMysterioso
would have been nice to see it from the side of the stadium they performed to but still pretty cool
east coast redneck
just more proof that california needs to fall into the ocean. how out of touch with reality is the west coast?
Emma
The only reason I recognized Mortal Kombat was because I had to play it every Friday night when I was in marching band! This was so fun to watch, and I bet if my high school band had done that, people would have paid more attention
ari
as a member of the marching band colorguard at my school,
it makes me wonder where the heck their colorguard was.
Patricio
Yes, we’re such geeks…but we don’t care, we’re Berkeley alums, therefore we are better than you.
UCB Class of 94
Kat
Oh my goodness. I feel like a dork because 1. It made me miss marching band so much and 2. I knew every single song in that medley and played every single one of those games. lol
Geekazoid
No offense but renditions of video game music is SO played out. This trend needs to be retired.
Holly
these recordings NEVER sound good. it would have been great to actually see the band perform because the recording quality never does any justice for the big band sound. i remember back in my high school marching band all the parents would rant and rave about how well we did, but when we went back and watched the tape, we were AWFUL.
@Geekazoid: this trend will retire when clothing goes out of style. chin up- in twenty years you’ll be saying “remember when EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOM covered the old-school video game theme songs in every medium available? those were the days…”
BigTrumpetObophone
that is flipping amazing…for those of you who are not in awe…if you have never been in a marching band then you have no idea how hard that would have been
go bandos
Kristian
As former Drum Major of the Mighty Sound of Maryland, I must say that none of this is nearly as cool as our Cartoon Tribute, in which I was fortunate to conduct our rendition of the Johnny Quest theme.
/nerd mode off
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