I'm not saying that video game music is bad- hell, I have the Wipeout
CD, but the people who described what I listen to as such were not
being complimentary.
On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:37:33 PDT Fletcher Sandbeck
<sandbeck@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
quoted 1 line Aaarghh! Don't you want to kill> > Aaarghh! Don't you want to kill
those people? Have you ever gotten,
quoted 23 lines "Nice video game music!"? I used to play IDM at my former place of> > "Nice video game music!"? I used to play IDM at my former place of
> > employ and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who would
> > ask what it was and express interest in it. They are probably still
> > listening to Hootie but at least they had a moment in their lives when
> > they experienced true greatness.
>
> Actually, I quite like video game music!
>
> I remember the groovy vibes of the Legend of Zelda. The soulful flute
> playing of Link still brings tears to my eyes. That was the first
> interactive techno. Crank the mono tv speaker up to ten and wail on
> that B button!
>
> Brian Eno eat your heart out!
>
> YMO had the right idea! Video Game was a brilliant song, Defender
> samples wasn't it? Does anybody know if they actually wrote any
> video game music?
>
> Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music.
>
> [fletcher] - [who owned the Pac Man Fever album when he was a lad]
>