--- title: A Cappella Video Game Music: PacMan, Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Halo description: From Pac-Man to Tetris to Halo canonical: https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-07T16:10:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:14.955Z og:title: This A Cappella Medley Is a Musical Journey Through the Evolution of Video Games og:description: From Pac-Man to Tetris to Halo og:url: https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b020a866e2a830a/69869eb335ba6fc990c0353a/screen-shot-2014-08-07-at-11-30-57-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-08-07 at 11.30.57 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This A Cappella Medley Is a Musical Journey Through the Evolution of Video Games twitter:description: From Pac-Man to Tetris to Halo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b020a866e2a830a/69869eb335ba6fc990c0353a/screen-shot-2014-08-07-at-11-30-57-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Take a Musical Journey Through the Evolution of Video Games With This A Cappella Video by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 7, 2014 4:10 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 7, 2014 4:10 PM UTC Behold: nearly three decades of video game music in a 16-minute a cappella extravaganza. From the hypnotic, rhythmic Tetris theme to the ominous, haunting sounds of Halo, this medley by the YouTube channel [Triforcefilms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyIHhI96Btk) is pretty comprehensive. In case you don’t feel like carving out 16 minutes to watch the whole thing, here are all the games included in [this epic musical journey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyIHhI96Btk&feature=youtu.be), along with the times they show up: 1\. Pac Man 1980 – 00:43 2\. Super Mario Bros 1985 – 00:58 3\. Legend of Zelda 1986 – 01:38 4\. Dragon Warrior 1986 – 02:26 5\. Tetris 1989 – 03:10 6\. Ninja Turtles 1989 – 03:36 7\. Sonic the Hedgehog 1991 – 04:14 8\. Doom 1993 – 04:55 9\. Super Metroid 1994 – 05:38 10\. Super Mario 64 1996 – 06:07 11\. Duke Nukem 3d 1996 – 06:46 12\. Pokemon 1996 – 07:13 13\. Resident Evil 1996 – 07:57 14\. Final Fantasy 7 1997 – 08:30 15\. Zelda Ocarina 1998 – 09:43 16\. Metal Gear Solid 1998 – 10:25 17\. Halo 2001 – 10:59 18\. Katamari Damacy 2004 – 12:01 19\. Oblivion 2006 – 12:34 20\. Uncharted 2007 – 13:21 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/"},"headline":"Take a Musical Journey Through the Evolution of Video Games With This A Cappella Video","datePublished":"2014-08-07T16:10:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:14.955Z","description":"From Pac-Man to Tetris to Halo","url":"https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Video Games","Music","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b020a866e2a830a/69869eb335ba6fc990c0353a/screen-shot-2014-08-07-at-11-30-57-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b020a866e2a830a/69869eb335ba6fc990c0353a/screen-shot-2014-08-07-at-11-30-57-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-08-07 at 11.30.57 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3089082/a-cappella-evolution-of-video-games/","name":"Take a Musical Journey Through the Evolution of Video Games With This A Cappella Video"}}]}] ```