Monday, March 16, 2009

Then + Now = Awesome

Remember the good old days, when you were like 6 or 7 years old. Video games had 2 buttons. You were the coolest kid on the block for knowing that pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start at the title screen for Contra gave you 30 lives. You had your very own technique of getting your Nintendo games to work, that only you could do. Your world got flipped upside down when Shawn Michaels threw his Rocker teammate Marty Jannetty through the glass window at Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's barbershop. Riding bikes was cool. The Chicago Bulls and the Atlanta Braves continuously dominated their respective sports. Life revolved around wrestling. You had snack time to help break up the dreadful 6 hours that you had to spend at school. Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, and Kris Kross were all household names.

Man, things were so awesome back then and we never even really understood how truly awesome they were. Well, the years have flown by since those days. Video games can be easily confused for live television. There are at least 10-buttons on most controllers. The Bulls and Braves aren't even close to being the teams they once were. And thanks to cough syrup addictions and voice syntehsizers, music will never be the same.

But what happens when you combine these two, very different worlds? When you take the technology from the early 90's and the music from today and put them together?

I think it's safe to say that something pretty magical happens.

Click here to check it out for yourself...



-Props to B for sharing

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