Ballad Of The Nintendo (Wario's Woods With Lyrics...sorta) - Storyboards

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Published on May 17, 2010 9:35:44 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYB1tIYOpj0

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Wario's Woods (1994)

Duration: 6:19

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Hey, guys! Been wonderin' why it's been takin so long for a new video?

Well, this is why.

Ballad of The Nintendo is my biggest project yet, and has been a work in progress since december of last year. Recently I've been collaborating with Marioish beast for it. Dad's gonna do the art in about a month, and then we'll get to work on it. In the meantime, here's the storyboards.

Ballad of the nintendo uses a medley of themes from Wario's Woods (NES version) for music and tells the story of a boy who never really grew up, and never got to do what he loved. Oh, and he had a nintendo.

With this, I have attempted a song in the style of Brentalfloss (lyracizing VGM) but also trying to break off into my own domain, as the song is not ABOUT wario's woods exclusively.

These are the storyboards I drew for the song about a month ago. Yes, it's not really great art, but these ARE just storyboards, and will get better. I will update the project as I get further.

Lyrics:

Take a look at this
What do you see?
Yes, Its a big gray box, but, theres more to it to me
Everything I am
And all I want to be
Centers round the old nintendy.

I was just six
The day it came
And since that day
I was never the same, and

I would play it every chance that I could get,
I didnt have all the worries Ive now yet
Time seemed to stop when I fired up that grey box
And Id play it for hours and hours on end
For upon me the mushroom kingdom did depend
And I was happy then
Until I turned 12 , that was the end.

Arriving home
From school one day I looked over at the old TV
There was an empty space
Where the Nintendo used to be

And since then mom and dad made me work hard
Graduated top of class from Juliard
With a PHD
In science and technology
The only job I could get made mom and dad faint
I study the molecular structure of paint
And will forever more
Nothing else is in store

So here I am
College Degree
William Steinmetz Jr.
Science P.H.D.
Im everything I am
But nothing I want to be
Theres something thats missing from me.

And in
My works
Accomplishments
Theres still
Some things
Which have
Me spent, like

How can a mushroom make a man grow twice his size
How many hits can he take before he dies
And will the world flash blue
If we dont keep it clean
How can a candle hold a heart that you can get
Its 2010, why is there no Megaman yet?
These dont make sense to me
But theyre still part of my memories

The other day
When I saw a couple a kids playing on a stores wii
I said, hey check out the VC
They said those games are old and stinky

And I said
Listen to me
When I was young
Those Stinky games were so much more
Than any modern ones
We didnt need war
We didnt need gorey guns
And I think that we had more fun

And So One day
Occurred to me
This paint-Based job
Was not to be
So
I applied for a bunch of other jobs
Along with the unemployed working mens mobs
I couldnt find any
That really suited me
So when I was just about to call it quits
I saw a place where I knew that I would fit
And so I got a job.

So where am I now?
Take a guess.

(key change to D)

So here I am
Science Degree
William Steinmetz Jr.
Science P.H.D.
Head Developer
At Nintendy
Im finally where I should be
Where I should be
For eternity

So before I go
Let me say this
If you like to do something
Do not ever miss
Your chance to do it
And to find bliss
You may never get that chance again

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