Super Mario 64 Music - Looping Steps

[realwaluigi]

damn, when I first played Mario 64, that music illusion along with the fact that I wasn't actually GOING anywhere scared the hell out of me

[baddam95]

Mario wasn't at the top yet and he was climbing for ages. I wasn't tired but Mario told me the air was getting thinner and thinner.

[xZippy38]

I warned you about stairs bro.

[Cheesecakebro]

HOW DOES THIS WORK

[SecretGrenadeStash]

one morning before school i taped the joystick up and had mario walking up the stairs endlessly while i was at school. I got home and he was still going up.

[TheLuigiMario113]

@SecretGrenadeStash lol

[Ericthestickman]

Mario: How am I gonna get up here?..OH YEAH! *does backward long jump* Mario: yeahgiddaijijsnfijdsmgjihmjidd­dmjfismjyeahyeahyeahHHHOO!

[Samail666]

Annnd backjump!

[bees32189v2]

this music is extremely creepy 0_0

[wargor1]

Maybe if I climb the stairs for a long time, I can reach the end...

Okay, now I go down a little bit just to see... What ?! I only climbed this ? :o

[TheJonBola]

One day I'll get up there!!

[spotoftrouble]

Must. Reach. End.

[SuperSonicFan932]

then comes Super Mario 64 DS and ruins the magic behind the never ending stairs :P

[ivansjunk]

Cmon I have 69 stars!

[eejay30]

@ivansjunk Right now i have 86 Stars! BOOOOO YAAHHHHH

[NGburrito15]

I was watching something about a musical illusion from Vsauce, had no idea it was actually used in this game, EPIC! :D

[Draguinclan]

The Stairs to God

[MrWench]

This freaked me out so much as a kid. The music just kept going and going...

[MKD12playstation]

and wonder how many man (kid) hours were wasted total trying to reach the top?

[Imygyn]

This is a nice example of Shepard Tone in a video game.

[shanedawsonluv123]

I remember when I was little spending hours trying to get up those stairs -_-

[kenjutsukata1o1]

My face when I realized the stairs weren't going to end:

ಠ_ಠ

My face when I turned around and saw I hadn't actually gone anywhere:

o_O;

[RavinKaito]

Time to ass ride the steps to the top with a glitch XD

[Samman296]

So many flights... Of God damn stairs.

[RottenBananaFire]

i remember when i was a kid and this scared the shit outta me lol. then again, a lot of things on n64 scared me as a kid: this, andross in star fox, and A LOT of parts of Ocarina of Time.

[EmolgaTheBaby]

i spent like 3 hours on this.

[mrchrismax1]

im going in.

6 hours later

almost there!

8 hours later

al...most th...ere ohhhhhh Fu** this

[ripplestar64]

"I'm gonna get up there!"

*2 hours later*

"I'll be up there soon!"

[great445566]

is it me or the super mario 64 sign is getting bigger

[K4inan]

Anyone else who feels like the image is closing in?

[Marigio300]

the endless stair case is the best exercise machine ever.

[Wiintendoh]

thank god for blj

[TheHorrorKing1]

Am I the only one who thought this tune was a bit....eerie?

[Scweeb64]

@TheHorrorKing1 Hell the fuck no! I know what you mean!

[Griff747]

I spent almost an hour when I was a kid just going up the stairs over and over forever.............. :/

[goomzilla]

It's like a musical illusion - you're tricked into thinking it keeps going up a note each time forever when it's really just looping two parts... genius!

[crashcrazy555]

@goomzilla you just made me realize that XD It's pretty cool

[EbenSWF]

@goomzilla It is quite clever, I realized that they made the loop seamless by playing the same thing on two octaves, so by the time one is too high to hear, the lower octave overlaps the higher one, and the higher one jumps down a couple octaves. Like you said, genius!