“I like it because people are walking around and playing games,” said Delage of the environment. The woman at the machine really had to fight off dancing to the music to focus on battling endless falling squares, lines and L-shaped blocks. Sure enough, drummer Michel Delage spotted an out-of-town couple stepping up to challenge House of TARG’s own Tetris machine and the band began giving them a rousing musical accompaniment. “It’s kind of neat to see the reaction when they break into Tetris,” says McHale. Mark McHale, one of the co-owners of House of TARG said that they wanted to make F8-BIT a regular thing. By the end of the evening they covered other classic video game franchises such as Kirby, Zelda, Doctor Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man 2. 15 began for the retro video game cover band, F8-BIT, who perform most months at the House of TARG arcade and restaurant. Onlookers began bobbing to the sounds of songs, pulling them back to childhood days of afternoon marathons in front of a television, playing Nintendo with their friends. It took only a few notes to silence the crowd as a montage of Super Mario motifs reverberated from well-placed speakers. A murmur continued over crowded tables filled with half-price pierogies and drinks as guitarist Alex Moxon stepped onto the stage and settled into his light.īehind him, his three band mates, Michel Delage, Jake Von Wurden and Steve Boudreau, readied their instruments for a long night of jazz.
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