Cal’s marching band’s tribute to the NES of yore
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by Matt Hickey on January 21, 2008

We love all things Nintendo, it’s true. Well, except that VirtualBoy thing, what’s up with that? It was a cool idea, but 3D-VR based on red LEDs? That means all of us Colorblind Americans can’t take part. Thanks for that, Nintendo.

We also love marching bands. So behold the above video that puts the two of them together in lockstep. It’s from an upside down vantage point, so you’ll have to pretend you’re in the other bleachers, but it’s pretty amazing they were able to pull this off.

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  • you already posted this exact thing a few months back. Only then it was on youtube. Don’t you people ever talk with each other about what you’re gonna post?

    It’s still bloody impressive though

  • that was damn damn awful, it’s embarrassing how much worse college bands sound than high school bands

  • I agree that it wasn’t what a competitive high school would have done, but you’re comparing apples to oranges. College bands don’t compete the same way the high schools do, and they put on a totally new show for every home game. So sometimes they reinvent music and drill and do everything a high school does in summer band camp in a week. If you want to be impressed with execution, watch a drum corp.

  • I’m colorblind and I had a virtual boy and it totally worked for me so I don’t know what you’re talking about.

  • pity it was upside down.

  • the people that are complaining about this dont realize how much work goes into it… why dont you try that some time? its incredibly hard enough as it is nonetheless doing it every Saturday. i thought that was pretty amazing

  • i thought it was pretty sweet, but i couldn’t pick out all the songs. and as for the sound, i’m still shocked people can remember to do all that formation shit and have the songs memorized, that takes some serious concentration

  • they should’ve had reel big fish show them how to play the super mario song…

  • This is amazing, coming from someone who grew up playing those games. I’m glad that there is still people that do that kind of thing.

  • Actually, colourblind people simply see certain colours as either a different colour, or grey. the idea that they simply don’t see things of the colour is a little off.

  • what is the song right after tetris. I know it but can’t think of the name. any help?

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