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.

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Need proof that  Super Mario Bros. is a fixed, universal constant? That its signature tune is actually a direct wave-length that helps us attain Nirvana? In this next fucking video the theme is played on an Old as Fuck Instrument (that’s actually the name, don’t question me, question the translator) and it sounds goddamn stellar.

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