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Oldie but Goodie - Video Games Music. Crypt of the Necrodancer - Heart of the Crypt (4-1 with Shopkeeper) - Real Voice Version. How Video Games Changed Popular Music. There was a time when video games, much like the tiny computers that powered them, seemed like a passing fad. In the late seventies, millions of young people flocked to arcades for all the flashing colors and fantastical worlds, for unprecedented feelings of authorship and control. To skeptics, however, arcades could be deeply annoying places, in part because of their noise and hectoring sounds, which served little purpose beyond “hailing” passersby.

But Koji Kondo, a Japanese fan of progressive rock and jazz exploring his post-collegiate plans, heard something different. He went to arcades because he liked the way they sounded. He heard the music of the future. We are accustomed to thinking about pop music in terms of its most familiar metadata: songs and albums, scenes and artists. By the time Kondo went to work for Nintendo, in 1984, the capabilities of video-game sound design had evolved from the early, primitive days of the Atari 2600.

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Final fantasy. Mega man. Chrono trigger. Portal. Replay: A Metal Tribute to the History of Video Games. The best 8-bit music top 100. Video Games live. Twitch to Broadcast Video Games Live – A Multimedia Concert Presented by Amazon Video Games Featuring Music Premieres and More from Top Titles During week of San Diego Comic-Con, top orchestras and choirs premiere new songs from highly anticipated video games, including Destiny™, Dota 2 and event sponsor Assassin's Creed® IV Black Flag SAN FRANCISCO- July 15, 2013 - Twitch, the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, today announced it will be partnering with Video Games Live™, the world’s first and most successful video game touring concert series, to live stream their multimedia concert and pre-show on July 20th, 2013, beginning at 6:00pm PDT. The free concert – which is being presented by Amazon Video Games and sponsored by Assassin's Creed® IV Black Flag – will be held during the week of San Diego Comic-Con at the San Diego Civic Theatre.