Mom's Minute

Super Mario Brothers Music included at Festival

Did you know that there is an annual festival that celebrates video game music? The festival is called MAGFest where fans gather to celebrate video game music along with video game musicians.  MAGFest stands for Music and Gaming Festival.

This year the festival was held in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

During the festival, live versions of video game music was played by various bands.  In mastering the craft of playing video game music, they must sometimes overcome some of the computerized versions of music and transform it to regular, old school music. An example of this type music was the score from Super Mario Bros. (pictured above).

The Japanese musician, Nobuo Uematsu,  who actually composed the video game music of Final Fantasy was at the festival and performed with his band.

Here is a graphic for Final Fantasy.

 The attendance at the festival doubled from the previous year -- from more than 3,000 to 6,100.

It is possible this increase in attendance is due in part to the huge interest in video games, as well as all the peripherals, including video game music  -- that is an important part of the video game industry.