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    Posted: September 30 2012 at 12:20
Speaking of Gentle Giant, there's one piece of music in Chrono Trigger that sounds *very* similar to "Talybont" from Free Hand, I think.
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I noticed when I bought the Wii edition of `Tetris Party' that the majority of the selectable in-game soundtracks were all very proggy! Very pleasantly surprised!

I also was playing Ozric Tentacles `Waterfall Cities' at work a while back, and someone asked `Are you listening to video game music?' lol!
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How do i actually post videos here? Embarrassed
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDxvZXPHpSY

8-bit Close to the Edge, sounds awesome.
There's a lot of 8-bit prog there.
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:22
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

That 8 bit Red is genuinely awesome. Let's have an 8 bit Octavarium.


S'been done.




Edited by Trouserpress - August 15 2010 at 07:22
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Originally posted by CinemaZebra CinemaZebra wrote:

I still haven't beat it. Stuck on the Shadow Queen for about two and a half years. LOL It's a masterpiece of a game, but it's easy throughout the entire thing and then it gets crazy hard at the last level.

Yeah, Shadow Queen is a bitch.
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Points: 905 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 22:29
It's interesting to note that Koji Kondo (composer of a lot of the Mario and Zelda music) is actually a proggy and credits Genesis and ELP as influences.
 
Someone here pointed out before that Zelda's Lullyby sounds slightly similar to Hands of the Priestess Part 1 off of Voyage Of The Acolyte. It may just be a coincidence but the first few notes are quite uncanny.
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That version of Red is hilarious, yet awesome. Somebody should produce King Crimson: the video game.
 
Myself, the only video game music I've ever really enjoyed is Sewart Copeland's soundtrack to the original Spyro the Dragon.
"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH!    WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!!   WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

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That 8 bit Red is genuinely awesome. Let's have an 8 bit Octavarium.
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:44
Oh man, these are great. It seems there's a Windows program you can make these in simply by dropping a midi file in. I know where to get a very good midi file of a Cardiacs song which would be perfect for this kind of treatment but I'm on a mac. Wah!
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

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Nerdgasm.
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King Crimson- Red, the 8 bit video game sounding version:
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Originally posted by CinemaZebra CinemaZebra wrote:

I still haven't beat it. Stuck on the Shadow Queen for about two and a half years. LOL It's a masterpiece of a game, but it's easy throughout the entire thing and then it gets crazy hard at the last level.
The Shadow Queen was a tough boss battle, indeed.  I actually had to grind two or three levels and stock up on a lot of items before I defeated her.  It was a bit of a shock how tough she was considering that the rest of the game was quite easy (by far the most well-balanced RPG I've ever played.)  Maybe my favorite Mario game; the storyline and atmosphere were surprisingly dark as far as the Mario games went, and it's just a blast to play from beginning to end.

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I LOVED the original Paper Mario. A game I sailed through but still really enjoyed because it was just so lovely and fun. Haven't played the subsequent games but only because I never owned their systems. Will probably be emulating them before long.
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I still haven't beat it. Stuck on the Shadow Queen for about two and a half years. LOL It's a masterpiece of a game, but it's easy throughout the entire thing and then it gets crazy hard at the last level.
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Points: 5148 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 20:01
Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

This always reminds me of Gentle Giant:



That was a great game.
It was.  The first RPG I ever beat (if not exactly played.)
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:55
Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

This always reminds me of Gentle Giant:



That was a great game.
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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:48
^ One case where the remastered edition is very much worth it. Some speed changes were finally corrected, and such. 
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