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College Bands and Video Game Music

In the past few years I have noticed that a lot of college bands have taken up video game music during half time and time outs and other breaks in the action. I had to do a double take the first time I heard The Legend of Zelda's Overworld Theme being playing by the University of Maryland band during a Terps Basketball game. It seems that the generation of kids who are now in college all grew up with video games in their lives. And now they are nostalgically celebrating those wonderful tunes.

Here's a must see video of the University of California Golden Bears band not only playing a medley of video game songs, but acting them out in formation. Thanks to Heromaster118 for posting it in the forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRfQlMu2VY

Do you have any examples of college bands playing video game music?

6 comments on College Bands and Video Game Music

That's my hometown playin'

That's my hometown playin' this shit.haha

Well I've been to a couple

Well I've been to a couple of HS football games over the past few years that have played some vgm. Most notably Wily Stage 1 bgm from MM2

haha, thats an awesome vid.

haha, thats an awesome vid. :)

Ahaha, my school played the

Ahaha, my school played the mario theme during halftime. It was pretty spectacular.

When I was at the university,

When I was at the university, we had our own band, we loved to play various melodies from games. They played different melodies from Mario, Mortal Kombat, GTA.

LOL I'm currently studying at

LOL I'm currently studying at the university and we have a band, we still like to play music from different games)))