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Maestro Mario
- How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art
- By: Andrew Schartmann
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4 out of 5 stars 186
"Pa-dum-pum-pa-dum-pum - PUM!" Super Mario Bros. for the NES contains some of the most recognizable tunes in popular culture, and yet it’s safe to say that only a handful of people have thought beyond the music’s entertaining surface. After all, what could possibly be art-worthy about an early Mario score? Or any early game sound for that matter? In search of answers to these questions, Andrew Schartmann takes us on a journey from the primitive "pongs" of arcade machines to the complex musical fabrics woven by composers of the NES era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book & narration, missed opportunity on SFX
- By Livio David Reinoso on 01-04-20
- Maestro Mario
- How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art
- By: Andrew Schartmann
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Great writing
Reviewed: 10-04-17
Mr. Schartmann has some great insights into the music behind early video games and Nintendo. For more information, I would recommend his second book Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. This book goes into much more detail about the music theory behind the NES games.
The performance by Kaleo Griffith does not do the book justice. Very disappointed in that.
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