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What music was? Uematsu’s soundtrack for one of the most famous video games: Final Fantasy.
But video games music didn’t start with all of this quality. The first games, like “Pong” – a game in which the players hit a ball back and forth across a center line- has beeps that that indicate when the player bumps the ball or lose a life. Soon, programmers realized that they could use their limited resources to create and insert some songs at the begining of the games or some loops as background music. For example, who doesn’t remember some “Pacman” sounds? In “Space Invaders”, as the ships started to come down, the aliens, and as they got closer and closer, the sound got faster and faster, and as they're getting closer and closer, people would start to panic. Like the purpose of all music, it’s supposed to make you move and make you feel. Video games soundtracks began to take influence from more places, like the Russian song in “Tetris”. But in those times, video games music was too limited by its hardware. Despite these limitation, the most popular video games music appeared: The Super Mario Bros theme, composed by Koji Kondo.
It wasn’t until early 90’s when video games music began to improve with the apparition of the SNES. This console supported stereo sound and brought digitalized sound to console games. In those years, other consoles could boast similar abilities yet didn't enjoy the same popularity as the SNES...
Next part will show us the next generation of consoles, the current one and their application...
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The following video is from Video Games Live -an impressive concert of the most popular games of all time. Enjoy it =]
11 comments:
i play video games since i was about 5 years old... and i have to admit, i never listen carefully to the background music xD hahaha lol..
but there's something weird about it, when i listen to the music without being playing i can remember of what vg is it from.. i think that happens to all videogamers xD
waiting for the "round 2"
I like videogames and after play something, I always remember for a while the music or the melodies, althought I think it's hard to the most of people put atention to what they hear when they play .___.
A time ago, I heared something about orchestras who play music from videogames, but wasn't really popular...
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I like the Videogames too, but my favorites are accion an first person shooter, anyway, I love the BGM in various games like: Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Mario xD, and some MMORPG like: Ragnarok Online, Maplestory and Trickster Online. And some animes like: Evangelion, Ragnarok, Bleach, Tengenn Topppa, and more xD.
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lol it's just amazing to see how video games music has evolved trough time
i remember when i had a nintendo, my second console, and it's music used to sound really cool, to the point that you just were thinking about it every day xD
super nintendo did his great job too
i can still recall some musical masterpieces there
Soundtracks From Contra 3, Donkey kong 2, Earth Worm Jim saga etc...
And now we can enjoy from electronic music, to Classic Orchestral music, and EVEN ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS!
that's about it ^^ thanks for sharing
Music & Videogames ...
What else can you ask for?
There are a lot of great songs in videogames, specially in those based on terror/gore/thriller.
I used to play SNES a lot...now it seems so old, however, in our times, boy was that fun!!
waiting for part 2...see ya!!
*-* i love the music of the video games in special tetris
nice video.
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yo adoro a nobuo uematsuu tengo todos los tracks de ff me encantan ^^ me transporta a otros lugares, obvio sin ayuda de kimikos, pero weno mmm tengo en el oficio de los videojuegos desde que tenia 4 años asi ke pues me familiarice hasta con la musica ^^
Desde que conoci final fantasy hace mas de 12 años, me encanto su banda sonora, y a pesar de ser bastante arcaicas, aun me siguen gustando muchisimo.
Excelente tema, bastante interesante.
Atte Elmordil
well. i didn't play much games when i was a kid..
i never had an atari, just the nintendo and super nintendo and I barely remember those details...
any way good post... i find it funny, but i never put much attention to the music of the games that i play
that...
kisses...
(what annoying the word verification!)
Tania
Wow. You made me remember all my childhood with my first console, the classic Nintendo :D
I´ll never forget the castle´s song when you´re fighting with Bowser or the sound of those ducks or the dog in Duck Hunt. Now there are amazing games like Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi´s Island or Earthbound who makes shiver my spine every time I hear some song from them.
Nice report !!
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