# Kid plays Super Mario Bros. theme on guitar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222 "2004-04-15T19:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222/21 "2004-04-16T04:40:08Z")
Years ago, when I was playing SMB on the SNES, I made up words to go with the Mario theme. And then I would sing them while Mario was battling the Koopas at the end of each round. _LOL_ This is probably something I shouldn’t ever admit again, though. 😛 “His name is Mario and not Luigi … he was a fool-a for Princess Toadstool …” (a small sample … and no, I do -not- have a sound file of it!) ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222/22 "2004-04-16T06:00:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Ah, that ain’t nuthin’. A friend of mine has MP3s of all the music from SMB as performed by a full orchestra. Apparently, a few years ago, it was the musical event of the season in Japan. There were 5 of these events, actually, each a few years apart. Each one had a live orchestra play various game music tracks, and there’s a CD for each of them. Unfortunately, they’re impossible to find nowadays, but if you look hard enough, you can find mp3s of them. [More info here.](http://www.altpop.com/stc/reviews/ogc.htm) There have been numerous other similiar events where they orchestrate game music, including a recent one where a band called “The Big Band of Rogues” did ska/jazz arrangements of Mario and Zelda music. Game music is a lot bigger in japan than it is…outside of japan. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222/23 "2004-04-16T06:13:25Z")
You know, I think they used that orchestral version as some of the music at Japan’s entry in the SAQ fireworks competition here a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222/24 "2004-04-16T06:32:47Z")
That’s nice, but what I really want to hear is the Metroid Brinstar theme on a guitar. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222/25 "2004-04-16T17:21:20Z")
A couple of years ago I was working at a summer camp when a coworker of mine started humming the SMB theme. We all thought it was great, but the kids we were teaching didn’t get it… they must’ve been about 9 or 10. I didn’t realize that SMB was starting to turn into a generational thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-plays-super-mario-bros-theme-on-guitar/240222.md?page=1)