Mario and Link Lament Their Love Lives Through Rap: "8-Bit Ho"

[John Funk]

Mario and Link Lament Their Love Lives Through Rap: "8-Bit Ho"

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When a young lady is in someone else's castle and breaks your Piece of Heart, the only thing to do is to drink a potion and write a song about it.

When I was younger and playing the legendary Zelda: Ocarina of Time, it amused me to no end that one of Link's wordless attack shouts sounded an awful lot like he was yelling "Skank!" at his opponents. I'm just throwing that out there, really, because it seems very appropriate to the video seen here.

Patrick Donahue's "8-Bit Ho" may not be the most faithful interpretation we've seen of Zelda and Peach, but it's certainly damn entertaining. If you can't appreciate the way the lyrics relate romance to common videogame concepts, you can probably appreciate the catchy chiptune beat, right? And if you can't appreciate that, well then you'll just have to settle for people dressed as classic NES characters bumping and grinding.

Though for the record, that "a Mega party!" expression will haunt my dreams.

(Via Joystiq [http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/27/zelda-and-peach-are-a-bit-more-outgoing-in-this-new-music-video/])

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[JediMB]

Excuuuuse me, Princess!

 

[Vaccine]

"A Megaaaa party!" *Creepy smile*

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

That made my day.

 

[mjc0961]

That's great. Hammer in the "warp zone" and the power glove really cracked me up.

 

[LadyRhian]

I guess that makes Peach and Zelda "Power Tools".

 

[lewism247]

Ha ha that was pretty good....

It's gonna be stuck in my head now isn't it?

 

[SnipErlite]

Oh my fucking god, that is awesome.

A MEGA party

EXCUUUSE me princess.

The hammer bros. bit

The Boo bit


This is brilliant.

Also, was that a party with one guy and 4 girls on the dancefloor?

..........nice.......

EDIT: The line "So Triforcin' that down your throat".

Fucking win.

 

[Tears of Blood]

Oh wow.

And at the end they parody porn. Interesting, to say the least.

 

[Willis_D]

Megaman will give me nightmares....

Awesome song though

 

[CyberAkuma]

Yeah, Princes Peach is a total slut!

Awesome song

 

[linkvegeta]

I would be more amused if i havent seen like 10 versions of trying to make anything mario gangster.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

To be honest, I always viewed the relationship between Zelda and Link as a sort of "platonic love", since they were never really an outright couple. It always seemed more like a "really close" friendship than a romantic bond.

But anyway, a well done music video.

 

[Electrogecko]

Never noticed that young Link shouts "skank," but I did notice how adult Link sounds a lot like an umpire when he rolls. On top of the way the grunts are similar to those of an umpire, he actually says "strike" randomly.

 

[Fasckira]

Made me chortle!

 

[BabyRaptor]

That was...epic. Just awesome.