Ever heard of a piano teacher that fits inside your SNES? Yeah, me neither—until I stumbled on Miracle Piano Teaching System. It’s this weirdly ambitious cartridge that actually tries to teach you piano, complete with sheet music scrolling on-screen and a MIDI keyboard you could hook up (if you had one back in the ‘90s).

Boot it up, and you’re greeted with this oddly serious tutorial mode—no Mario jumping on notes here. It walks you through scales, timing, even proper finger placement. Feels more like a dusty old lesson book than a game, but there’s something charming about its no-nonsense approach. The minigames are where it loosens up a bit, drilling rhythms with quirky little melodies.

Honestly? It’s janky by today’s standards, but as a retro oddity, it’s kind of fascinating. You can tell they really believed in this thing. Just don’t expect it to replace your piano teacher.