Last weekend we went to the Houston Symphony Final Fantasy Concert. Fernando had been looking forward to this event for a while and considers the Final Fantasy series (there’s 14 games!) one of the best video games of all time.  The soundtrack has also won numerous awards, so we decided to check it out. The attendees were quite the sight.  Hundreds of pasty white gamers put down their controllers or brought their Sony PSP’s to the event.  I don’t think the symphony has ever seen such a young crowd, or under dressed crowd for that matter.  Come on people, shorts, flip flops, jeans and baggy t-shirts to the symphony?!

It was great fun though. The music was amazing (hard to believe it was for a video game), and they projected video from the games on a huge screen above the orchestra.  While I fell in love with the Chocobo, why don’t they have cute Chocobo’s in Super Mario Bro.?, the best part of the night was when composer Nobuo Uematsu joined the choir.