It's already about four years ago.
When I first took the ESL class at the University of Victoria, a boy from Columbia entered the class about two weeks later, so he introduced himself in front of everyone by saying,
"My name is Mario."
Then, just after this introduction, a Mexican boy started to sing,
"La la la, la la, la, la."
I don't know many about games, but I immediately noticed that the song was the very famous video game, Super Mario Brothers' theme.
This was the first time I really thought that, "Video games really are spreading across the world."
Video games often said to have bad influence on children, but I just thought that they could be one of the useful tools to unite the world. (If it's not a bad one.)
If you want to know what the melody is like, visit this page, and press the top left image after you enter. (When you want to stop the melody, press the bottom left image - the x sign - in the second box, or press the image of a flag, if you cannot find the stop sign easily.)
http://redruth.greenbean.org/%7Eben/4CR/smb_super_synth.swf
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What beautifully written English, Saku! And yes, video games seem to be pretty universal. My children all like various ones and are pretty good at playing them. I find them hard to understand--even the very easiest. Probably it is because I did not grow up with such things.
Thank you very much!
I wish I can write like this in class too.
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