Watch: Miyamoto Playing The ‘Super Mario Bros’ Theme With The Roots
Here’s Shigeru Miyamoto jamming the Super Mario Bros. theme with The Roots. Straight-up wonderful, man. And. Jesus Christ. Maybe it’s because I’m overtired, and it’s the end of the semester, and 2016 sucks, and 2017-whatever feels terrible, but the innocence and nostalgia of this almost moved me to tears. I need some rest.
Here’s footage of Shigeru Miyamoto playing the Super Mario Bros. theme song with The Roots. It’s probably the most famous song in video games being played by the most famous video game designer and producer — he’s also the most adorable.
It’s a big day for Nintendo with Miyamoto doing the press rounds ahead of the launch of Super Mario Run next week. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé was also on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to show off the new Nintendo Switch console.