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YouTuber ArachnidianDream arranged and choreographed this awesome little musical performance (after the jump) called "Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games." He and his friends dressed up as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Ash Ketchum and Link, and played the themes from various videogames. Along with the concert are some background performers doing some Pong and Tetris to go with the music.

The performance is rather splendid, especially the Kirby cover. I never realized how wonderful the Kirby theme sounds when done like this! You can get full details on the performance over on ArachnidianDream’s YouTube page. He also teases his next video, which is going to be a Pokemon meets 24 radio drama. That sounds pretty awesome!

[Thanks, C.A.!]


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Pistol Pants's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:11
Pistol Pants
The Halo bit was quite the highlight! I wasn't expecting one of the performers to get up and start with the choir bellows. Ha ha ha.
Xarias's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:20
Xarias
I THINK they were mocking Halo, which makes this 20x more awesome.
Arkhon's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:27
Arkhon
All I could think about at the Tetris part was the Brentalfloss video of Tetris with lyrics. And the Pong and Pokemon parts were the best in my opinion. The Super Mario Bros. part sounded too busy to me.
amx70s's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:31
amx70s
If you truly enjoyed the song they played from kirby then you should hear New Japans Philharmonic's rendition. It's the theme from the fountain of dreams.
Danzflor's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:38
Danzflor
That was prettu funny, i love the Pong song.
Jack8274's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:41
Jack8274
This was awesome. They did an amazing job and when the Ash guy stands up and sings, I nearly crapped my pants
grafkhun's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:42
grafkhun
Pong segment was hilarious.
A GAY DAD's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 01:57
A GAY DAD
Goddddd damn that was amazing.
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:03
garison
Ya I'm with you CTZ, that Kirby bit was brilliant.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:15
ArrestedDeveloper
Pong joke was a little to long.
Ieatlasers's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:17
Ieatlasers
Wow! A video of a group of musicians doing video game music. Ive never seen anything like this before! (ok it was still pretty cool)
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:31
runtheplacered
@ leatlasers,

So something can only ever be done once? That's a lame world you live in.
D Sane's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:34
D Sane
the little girl with the cards missed the Game Over cue when they switched up Mario themes on her...she's obviously only a casual gammer
DrManik's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:34
DrManik
That was pretty amazing for what I'm guessing is a high school quartet.
Ieatlasers's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 02:38
Ieatlasers
@runtheplacered No, but if your going to do something that has been done not only once but from what Ive seen 10 times,at least do something new. Something tells me you pay to see cover bands. Also, I wasnt dissing the band itself, I thought they were great. Im just not sure why videos like this get posted when they arent doing anything especially new. dick
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 03:47
runtheplacered
@ leatlasers,

Pay to see cover bands? Uhhh... wha? Can I ignore this part? It was a pretty big swing and a miss.

But anyway, Cool! You thought they were great! Hi-5! Me too.

So why was the video being posted? Because they were great.... like you said. I mean, right? Do we want to post things that aren't great?

cock.
Lunarmoth's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 04:11
Lunarmoth
One of the most incredible acts I've seen with string quintet and video game music.
Bravo!
I would give them 5 out of 5 starts.
Grasshopper7's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 04:23
Grasshopper7
This was, in fact, excellent! I love hearing great game music performed properly. Gotta get me to video games live before I die...
XanderSan's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 04:45
XanderSan
Taking the piss out of 'epic' Halo style choir singing AND making Kirby sound that brilliant. Hats off to them.
ww3pl's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 05:04
ww3pl
Before i started the video, i was thinking 'damn, that's gonna' be lameee'
I've watched the all of it. I am so fucking impressed.
MOAR OF THIS.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR
And great performance over the Halo theme - this is how it should be done.
This makes me almost crying because of waiting for the Video Games Live in my country .
Stevil's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 05:44
Stevil
God, I'm so jealous of their talent! That was pretty fun stuff and it just serves to remind me how complex 8-bit music really was back in the day.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 06:42
RonBurgandy2010
That was fucking awesome.
Cadtalfryn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 06:53
Cadtalfryn
The Kirby and Zelda parts were great.

The Halo bit where they mocked the Halo chanting was hilarious.
MellowBunny's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 07:28
MellowBunny
Yays for music video game nerds.

That was epic.
Frohike's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 10:02
Frohike
"Taking the piss out of 'epic' Halo style choir singing AND making Kirby sound that brilliant. Hats off to them."

QFT
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 10:52
welkstar
That was cool! Like a poor man's VGLive!
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 11:43
mix
That was very well done.

AWESOME!!!
Dimly's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 12:07
Dimly
This is really cool, but I almost wish people didn't have to do stuff like walk around with props. I guess I get annoyed when the crowd laughs and applauds. Maybe that's just be being distracted by the crown noise and wanting to appreciate the music.

Either way, this is very, very epic.

The Halo part was pretty funny.
Vigilante8's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/10/2009 15:53
Vigilante8
Pong greatness!!!
Dickey's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/11/2009 14:47
Dickey
The pong bit was killer. Halo bit was totally my favourite though.
Arkhon's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2009 01:19
Arkhon
Wow I had no idea so many people hated Halo's music...
And here I was thinking it was the best original music I've ever heard in a video game...
And that Marty O'Donnell is a great composer who deserves every bit of credit he gets...
And that Halo is a perfectly good franchise...
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