Comments on: UC Berkeley Marching Band Goes 16-Bit

By: Kristian

Kristian — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:45:14 +0000

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

By: BigTrumpetObophone

BigTrumpetObophone — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:48:09 +0000

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

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:27:45 +0000

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…”

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:44:03 +0000

No offense but renditions of video game music is SO played out. This trend needs to be retired.

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:42:34 +0000

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

By: Patricio

Patricio — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:27:08 +0000

Yes, we’re such geeks…but we don’t care, we’re Berkeley alums, therefore we are better than you.

UCB Class of 94

By: ari

ari — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:52:30 +0000

as a member of the marching band colorguard at my school,

it makes me wonder where the heck their colorguard was.

By: Oomi

Oomi — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:45:00 +0000

neat!

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:43:06 +0000

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

By: Mr. Binky

Mr. Binky — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:26:35 +0000

This video would be SO much better muted.

By: peach

peach — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:57:06 +0000

they could have at least done pacman.

By: aaron

aaron — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:19:41 +0000

check out the notre dame vs. duke marching band on youtube

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:27:51 +0000

My Alma Mater, too.

By: east coast redneck

east coast redneck — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:19:21 +0000

just more proof that california needs to fall into the ocean. how out of touch with reality is the west coast?

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:14:43 +0000

would have been nice to see it from the side of the stadium they performed to but still pretty cool

By: PapaTango

PapaTango — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:40:32 +0000

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.

By: Rosi

Rosi — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:09:34 +0000

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.

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:38:18 +0000

Go Bears!

//class of ’84 (that sounds so old).

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:34:12 +0000

It’s too bad they suck, or they could have really been onto something with that.