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Sure, I bet your ability to pound out Final Fantasy's Prelude on 88 keys is an avid display of skill and sensitivity for the ladies, but in their heart of hearts, women don't want someone who can drum up alligator tears while gettin' romantic on an instrument as weak as a piano. When real men kick out the jams, they do so wielding the might of Zeus via the marriage of technical wizardry and geekish intention -- on a Goddamn Tesla coil. 
 
We've seen all sorts of themes from all sorts of games played on all sorts of instruments, but these lads have put a stop to the musical arms race with but two videos. If I had my way -- and I will, once my glorious coup is staged -- we'd toss every instrument on this Earth into a raging funeral pyre and play our victory march on the only remaining (legal) musical instrument: the Tesla coil. 
 
The sheer awe is just one benefit to the revolution, but there are others. Even a Phil Collins concert would be amped to eleven by such an instrument -- will this rendition of In The Air Tonight be his last? It might be, once we tether ol' Phil to the coil with ten feet of steel drag chain! Tickets could sell for hundreds of dollars, and hell, we could even donate a buck or two of each ticket price for funeral costs. It's win-win, baby!
 
Oh, right -- games. So, uh, the Super Mario theme, right? Not only on your cell phone anymore, heh heh -- my God, check out those friggin' arcs!
 
I give up. Hit the jump for the Tetris theme, too.
 
[Thanks, Dan!] 

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Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 13:35
Niero
BOWIE OR GTFO
Yashoki's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 13:41
Yashoki
How much power does it take to play one of those songs? >.>
Aaron Linde's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 13:41
Aaron Linde
Who gives a shit? TESLA COIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLGGGGGGG
signal's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 13:43
signal
Didn't bowie play Nikola Tesla in the prestige?
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 13:44
BluDesign
I would go see any band that integrated Tesla coils into their setlist.

Beats the piss out of Metallica, Rammstein, and Great White's "Flames a Shootin'" tours of years past.
Ryan 2502's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:00
Ryan 2502


kthxbye
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:04
Topher Cantler
HOLY SHIT THAT'S THE GREATEST THING EVER
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:09
Rainbowblack
Nigga please, I can burp my ABC's
Ryan 2502's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:13
Ryan 2502
Getting over the whole "AMG tesla coils say bye to your Mammoth Tanks" phase I went through there...

Seriously it's fantastic. Brilliant. Cool. Brilliant. Fantastic.

I approve.
Grapefruit Juice's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:24
Grapefruit Juice
Yes, that’s grand, now I’m off to Hot Topic to buy an irreverent T-shirt too further confirm my hipness. </sarcasm>
Surf314's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 14:58
Surf314
FREEBIRD!
Shenanigans's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 15:06
Shenanigans
Okay. They have the explaination of how this works on YouTube. You can watch it here:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkTrqTd0hw[/rul]
Shenanigans's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 15:07
Shenanigans
Oh no. Epik fail!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkTrqTd0hw
Shenanigans's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 15:07
Shenanigans
I have stopped caring.
Amayirot Akago's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 15:14
Amayirot Akago
That is the single most awesome thing I've ever seen. And heard.
Milofo's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 17:29
Milofo
I wouldn't want to be the one to pay the eletric bill.
fearian's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 18:17
fearian
'Who gives a shit? TESLA COIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLGGGGGGG'

'HOLY SHIT THAT'S THE GREATEST THING EVER'

'That is the single most awesome thing I've ever seen. And heard.'

QFT. QFfuckingT.

that is the pinicale of mans achievements to date...
Rosseh's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 19:13
Rosseh
shit, someone took the freebird comment. Now what am I supposed to say? Smoke on the water? GTFO.
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 19:48
Dexter345
I'm confused. I never knew Tesla coils made tonal sounds, and especially not sounds that are tunable to different notes. Are we sure this isn't some sort of synthesizer playing the sound with a synchronized light show courtesy of the Tesla coils? Either way, this is pretty frickin' sweet...
brimtastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/21/2007 20:48
brimtastic
Tesla Coils FTW. People better figure out how to cure cancer pretty damn soon, or this will definitely be the peak of human evolution.
Lord_Satorious's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2007 01:07
Lord_Satorious
That was awesome in a way that few things can be quite that awesome. Did you ever 'feel' the music you were listening to? I bet not like if you reached out and touched this music with your bare hands.
bunnyrabbit2's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2007 04:30
bunnyrabbit2
For the first time ever, you can see music with your eyes. With your eyes dammit. That was awesome beyond awesome
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