July 14th, 2007 : My Mom and Super Mario 64
These two subjects have very little in common, until recently.
A few months ago I found a neat little site called, NinSheetMusic. This site is where several people transcribe video game music to piano sheet music. I have very limited piano skills, but I have been dabbling enough that I can plunk out some neat sounding pieces. Many of the Metroid songs and Final Fantasy songs are far beyond me, but I did find that there were some Zelda and Mario songs I was able to play.
I started out with the Super Mario 64 Select Screen, and then found the Super Mario 64 End Theme. This is one of my favorite songs, and I am practicing at it fairly regularly, so I can get the whole thing memorized.
My mom, loves the live music in the house, and since I am the only one who plays with the piano, and I only play with video game music, I have on multiple occasions come across my mom while she is humming the Super Mario 64 Ending Theme.
It’s really rather interesting to hear my mom, who never has anything to do with video games, humming a video game song, let alone the ending theme to a Mario game. So if anyone asks, yes, she beat the game. And in only 20 minutes at that!