‘Terrible music and absurdity’: introducing Trombone Champ, the internet’s new favourite video game

‘Terrible music and absurdity’: introducing Trombone Champ, the internet’s new favourite video game

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/sep/23/trombone-champ-the-internets-new-favourite-video-game

This endearingly ludicrous viral music game is more than a one-note comedy

On Wednesday morning, I saw a tweet from games magazine PC Gamer that made me leak from the eyes with laughter. It contained a video, in which a wide-eyed, pained-looking cartoon trombonist struggled to hit the notes of Beethoven’s Fifth while the composer himself stared sombrely out of the screen in evident disapproval. It is a golden comedic combination of terrible music, fart noises, earnestness and absurdity. This is the video game Trombone Champ, and it has since gone wildly viral.