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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
Niero at 06/21/2007 13:35
BOWIE OR GTFO
Yashoki's Avatar
Yashoki at 06/21/2007 13:41
How much power does it take to play one of those songs? >.>
Aaron Linde's Avatar
Aaron Linde at 06/21/2007 13:41
Who gives a shit? TESLA COIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLGGGGGGG
signal's Avatar
signal at 06/21/2007 13:43
Didn't bowie play Nikola Tesla in the prestige?
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BluDesign at 06/21/2007 13:44
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
Ryan 2502 at 06/21/2007 14:00


kthxbye
Topher Cantler's Avatar
Topher Cantler at 06/21/2007 14:04
HOLY SHIT THAT'S THE GREATEST THING EVER
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 06/21/2007 14:09
Nigga please, I can burp my ABC's
Ryan 2502's Avatar
Ryan 2502 at 06/21/2007 14:13
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
Grapefruit Juice at 06/21/2007 14:24
Yes, that’s grand, now I’m off to Hot Topic to buy an irreverent T-shirt too further confirm my hipness. </sarcasm>
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Surf314 at 06/21/2007 14:58
FREEBIRD!
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Shenanigans at 06/21/2007 15:06
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
Shenanigans at 06/21/2007 15:07
Oh no. Epik fail!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkTrqTd0hw
Shenanigans's Avatar
Shenanigans at 06/21/2007 15:07
I have stopped caring.
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Amayirot Akago at 06/21/2007 15:14
That is the single most awesome thing I've ever seen. And heard.
Milofo's Avatar
Milofo at 06/21/2007 17:29
I wouldn't want to be the one to pay the eletric bill.
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fearian at 06/21/2007 18:17
'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
Rosseh at 06/21/2007 19:13
shit, someone took the freebird comment. Now what am I supposed to say? Smoke on the water? GTFO.
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Dexter345 at 06/21/2007 19:48
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...
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brimtastic at 06/21/2007 20:48
Tesla Coils FTW. People better figure out how to cure cancer pretty damn soon, or this will definitely be the peak of human evolution.
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Lord_Satorious at 06/22/2007 01:07
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.
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bunnyrabbit2 at 06/25/2007 04:30
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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