UC Berkeley Band Plays Classic Music from Videogames

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When I was going to school, I lived right next to the stadium for two years, and had season tickets to the football games. After the game was over, the marching band would stop over by the hall and play our drinking song (in exchange for a keg to be delivered to the band later that day). My room freshman year faced straight out into the courtyard, so we always had a front row seat to this performance -- they played the music, our hall bellowed the lyrics. While I remember them playing for us (on occasion) themes from classic movies such as Star Wars, Raiders of the Last Ark and Rocky, I think the whole hall would have totally geeked out at a performance like this:




parakkum noted that if the Cal band was more like this when we were going to school, he might have showed up to games more often. I would have shown up more too, but the team sucked while I was going to school, and they only started winning after I left.


List of videogames/songs in the extended.

  • Pong
  • Tetris
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Pokemon
  • Legend of Zelda Overworld Theme
  • Super Mario Bros. Main Theme
  • Super Mario Bros. Underworld Theme
  • Super Mario World Yoshi-s Theme
  • Super Mario Bros. Underwater Theme
  • Super Mario Bros. Running Out of Time Theme
  • Super Mario Bros. Stage Complete Theme

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