To go along with the last post on video game easter eggs: What happens when you give a Mario piano score to someone who’s never heard it in his life? Awesomeness.
Tom Brier: the skills of a programmer and musician (hyper logical with just the right amount of hum and twang)
If you’ve ever owned Super Mario World, how can you not smile to these tunes. Gets intense in the final 60 seconds of the level.
The entire last third of that video, when he was playing quickly, I was like “Oh sh*t, I’m running out of time! Got to get to the giant hurdle!”
<-Yoshi one @2min50s when they start to orchestrate their own makeshift flute and tuba trio
Love them ragtime soda shop tunes ♪ hello my baby, hello my darlin’ ♫ 
What a brilliant, mind-blowing time to be there (for the guy recording all of this): these people bringing-to-life a completely oblivious Nintendo experience never had… all of them diligently mastering the midi-based tunes 
Youtube and reddit comments:
@ 1:29 he’s like AWWWWWWWWW YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS AWESOMEEEEE—
Tom Brier is my background music at work while programming. Always.
reply: As Tom is a programmer too, I suppose he is his background music also! I’ve heard him say that he has written music down during breaks at work, actually, so I guess it is true.
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I don’t understand. So he’s NEVER played these video games before/never heard the tunes? I don’t understand how that’s possible.
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reply: I think most of us who were in the Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/Vectrex era never got into the Nintendo/Sega era that came along later because we had all graduated to computers.—
Is the piano tuned a certain way to give it that ragtime sound, or is it just the notes that are being played?
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bit of both.
