A Montage of Classic Arcade Game Deaths, Set to Haunting Chiptune Version of “Mad World”

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by James Plafke | 12:10 pm, March 25th, 2011

This montage of death scenes and animations from classic arcade games should push your nostalgia button, but also ends up being a somewhat hauntingly beautiful video due to the chiptunes version of what seems to be the Gary Jules version of the Tears for Fears version of “Mad World,” which you may remember from your college dorm viewing party of Donnie Darko.

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http://profiles.google.com/trixie.in.dixie Patrice Christian

It’s a cover of the original, not the lame Gary Jules version, which is much slower and for me, kills the song.
Vikter88

Where were all the Mario deaths?
http://logit42.com Reita

Every Tear for Fears song is rubbish. Gary Jules made a masterpiece out of trash.

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