Select Official Square Enix Soundtracks for Sale

posted by Chris on May 7, 2008 8:37 AM in Games, Music

You know those booths at comic book or anime conventions selling game soundtracks? Yeah, those are usually dirty pirated bootleg knockoffs. Same goes with soundtracks you buy on eBay or from *most* websites. Square Enix bootlegs are notorious, considering they have such a vast library of hard to find soundtracks. The official SE store has a sale going on right now, so you have absolutely no excuse not to purchase the official Chrono Trigger Soundtrack for $16.99. Also on sale are soundtracks for Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and The World Ends With You. Sweet!

Click here to check out the deals.

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GM4A Presents Level Up! Game music concert in LA

posted by Chris on May 7, 2007 2:42 PM in Games

Like game music? Live in the Los Angeles area? Then check out Game Music 4 All's upcoming live show - Level Up! Here are the deets:

The official bands for the concert are: Two Playa Game 8 Bit Bandit Super Barrio Brothers Toploader The Megas

The concert will be held at CIA in North Hollywood.
Address:
11334 Burbank Blvd. North Hollywood, CA
Phone number:
818)506-6353

The doors will open at 8pm and the first band will start at 8:30pm. Tickets are $10 and this is an ALL AGES event!

Stop on by Saturday, June 2nd for their CD release party and a Guitar Hero II tournament. What else are you going to do that Saturday night? Sit at home and knit?

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From Midi to Symphony

posted by Chris on February 19, 2007 8:05 PM in Games

Guest Article by Jonny Lupsha

Video game music has seen a thirty-year transition from silence to orchestrated scores by modern classical composers that was so smooth, it's hard to imagine how it all happened.

Any gamer worth his or her salt remembers what they heard the first time they flipped on the NES and prepared for the quest to slay Ganon, Bowser, Dracula or Mother Brain. My brother and I would run from the other end of the house every time we heard my dad throwing his first punches in Kung Fu. Little eight-minute MIDI symphonies seemed as good as it could get and, many would argue, still are.

The next logical step was the analog keyboard version of Alice in Chains' "Angry Chair" in Doom II, which might as well have been my CD collection in a video game.

Trent Reznor's score for Id’s Quake was, to me, mind-blowing. The eerie industrial-ambient drones – complete with embedded grenade-bouncing sounds in one of the tracks – chilled me to the bone. I had a running conspiracy theory that violence-inducing soundwaves were hidden in that album and experimented on it for months on end. Years later, Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill scores paralleled Reznor's Quake score for the survival horror series.

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For every good Game, there's a good Soundtrack.

posted by Mike on September 28, 2006 12:01 AM in Music

The Weekly Geek's Top Ten Video Game Soundtracks are As Follows:

Caspian
1. Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Grant Theft Auto - Vice City
4. Mega Man X
5. Final Fantasy XI
6. Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion
7. Metroid
8. Street Fighter II
9. Yoshi's Island
10. Castlevania

White Mage
1. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
2. Wild Arms
3. Final Fantasy VIII
4. Final Fantasy X
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Kingdom Hearts
7. Final Fantasy X-2
8. Final Fantasy VII
9. Kingdom Hearts 2
10. Final Fantasy XI

The Geek
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
3. Katamari Damacy
4. Kingdom Hearts
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Mega Man 2
7. Metroid Prime
8. Super Mario World
9. Shadow of the Colossus
10. Xbox Custom Soundtrack Feature

Frodo
1. Mega Man 2
2. Katamari Damacy
3. Final Fantasy VI
4. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
6. Super Mario World
7. Metroid Prime
8. Super Mario Bros. 3
9. Final Fantasy XI
10. Animal Crossing

Honorable Mentions:
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Actraiser
Super Mario Kart
Secret of Mana

Check it out! Frodo and Caspian explain their favorite game soundtrack picks after the jump.

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Podcast for Monday, November 7th, 2005

posted by Chris on November 5, 2005 5:39 PM in Podcast

This week, The Geek and Frodo discuss game journalists being vultures, Donkey Kong King of Swing, awesome Super Mario World remixes and pie. Okay there really isn't any pie.
Download it here or add http://www.weeklygeekshow.com/weeklygeek.rss to your favorite podcasting software!

Here are some show notes:

- Excellent Super Mario World remix. You must download this. Do it. Now.
- Sony's new software allows WoW hacks?
- Microsoft plans Xbox 360 shortage.

Special thanks to our friends at Nintendo and Charles Vestal for the music.

Read More: Donkey Kong , game music , Microsoft , podcast , Super Mario World , World of Warcraft , Xbox 360

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