4/18/2007 - EHS Winter Percussion, NES

If you are still a disbeliever of the retro trend, take a look at this video. It's a high-school percussion band playing the themes of some of the classics: Legend of Zelda, Double Dragon, and Super Mario Bros.

Sure, LoZ and SMB have had their remakes and emulations on the Wii and the GBA, but Double Dragon was perhaps in the second or third tier of those old NES games. If you want to play the NES version, you'd actually have to dust off the old system, or use an emulator.

It's debut was around 1988, around the time when these high-schoolers were still infants. So it's doubtful that they "grew up" playing Double Dragon. And yet, here it is, a central part of their presentation -- and the crowd recognizes it. How did they come about integrating the music of a good-but-not-great game in their collective minds? It's something that you'll hear me say again and again: RETRO IS IN!

Anyway, the kids here did a good job. Not just in their music interpretations, but their entire presentation. The costumes look really authentic and the enlarged covers of the 8-bit games are the icing on the cake!