Nintendo

If Creative Classic Mario Paint’s Theme Had Lyrics, They Might Sound Like This

Retro game lyricist Brentalfloss rings in the holiday season with a musical tribute to the only Super Nintendo game to come bundled with a mouse and a mouse pad. Take that, uDraw!


August 16, 2010
In Real Life

A Few Notes Of Elton John In Mega Man 2′s Soundtrack

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Reader Andrew G has, since he was six, always thought that the theme for Dr Wily’s Castle from Mega Man 2 sounded like Elton John’s “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That”. Both were released in 1988.


December 28, 2009
In Real Life

Final Fantasy Classic, With Lyrics: Soak It In, Mofo

Brentalfloss is back to camp out in our corpus callosum or medulla oblongata or wherever it is songs of this type embed themselves. If Styx were members of my church growing up, this would sound like 4/5ths of the hymnal.


December 20, 2009
In Real Life

Let’s Tap — To Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville.


September 26, 2009
In Real Life

Imagining Lyrics To Zelda

First there was Mega Man. Then Duck Tales. Now YouTube singer/songwriter Brentalfloss takes on his biggest challenge yet: The Legend of Zelda. Does he triumph, or will Ganon win the day?


February 5, 2009
In Real Life

Imagining DuckTales Lyrics

From the writer of the Mega Man 2 song lyrics, which forever changed the way gamers viewed the Capcom classic, comes the lyrics to the moon level from classic Disney platformer DuckTales.