10 Classic NES Themes Played on the Guitar
Despite being simply the background music to video games, the themes to Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda are about as recognizable as any song to appear on the Billboard Top 100. Anyone born in the 1980s or later will instantly recognize those themes, along with countless others from the days of 8-bit gaming. I still can’t decide whether it’s because the themes are really catchy or because of the endless repetition, but Nintendo themes seem to have an uncanny ability to lodge themselves into your head for days. I still find myself humming the music from the one-on-one “versus” part of Trojan.
Anyway, some people have actually taken the time to learn and play Nintendo themes on the guitar,and some of them are pretty damn good. I put 10 of my favorites below.
Contra
Double Dragon
Super Mario Bros. (underwater)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euq3Emxxkj8
Metroid (Kraid’s Lair)
Castlevania
TMNT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIJ4szjxFts
Final Fantasy (battle theme)
Gauntlet
Pro Wrestling
River City Ransom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJY4ggM–A
Do you play guitar yourself?? I think video game music on guitar is one of the best things in the world – but how could you miss this!??!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_yTkkr-txA
Excellent links, anyone that loved 8bit jams needs to check out http://www.minibosses.com/ I actually saw them preform live a real fun time.
Kraid was by far my fav in the list.
This one is more of my favorites, especially how rare the Mario song is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_m4Ud6b-94
Haha you have just made my day! Video games composers are underrated in my opinion…
Shadow