Super Mario 64 Endless Stairs

By guest blogger GK.

Here's a remarkable piece of music we discovered last decade while playing Mario 64. If you find it completely unremarkable, think of Escher. In the game, after achieving a certain number of stars you could be admitted to a staircase but attempts to climb it to the second floor of the castle were thwarted: you could climb as long as you liked but when you turned around to descend you'd discover it was just three or four steps back to the first floor. Later, with even more stars in hand, you could finally get to floor two. M64 was the best video game ever IMO, very cute and fun. My spawn liked to watch me play, for the stunning displays of incompetence.