An ode to Nintendo

When I was 13, I got what the greatest video game system at the time, the Nintendo NES. My brother, friends and I would spend a lot of time trying to master games like "Super Mario Bros.," or beat each other senseless in sports games like "Mike Tyson's Punchout," "Blades of Steel," and "Double Dribble."

With that in mind, here is a tribute to that game systems of days gone by, when the world got along just fine without mindblowing graphics, Internet connection and movement-based gaming, all set to a classic song by a classic band.

Football, marching bands and video games, oh my!

Back during my days at Iowa State University in Ames, IA, I had a friend who played in the marching band say on more than one occasion that football games were a marching band show with a football game thrown in. Considering Iowa State football fans had little to cheer about during the mid-1990s (Sure, we had Heisman candidate running back Troy Davis, but we only won six games during my four years as an undergrad, including an 0-10-1 campaign during my freshman year), he may have had a point.

Fast forward a few years to this past Saturday's game in Columbus, Ohio, between Ohio State and Nebraska. As Ohio State was beginning their pounding of the Cornhuskers, the marching band had their own great performance at halftime with a tribute to video games. How many games can you identify?