Video Games Live at Gen Con

GameDaily reports on the upcoming concerts at this year's Gen Con. Video Games Live will be playing this Friday and Saturday, to coincide with the second and third days of the annual RPG event. From the article: "'Performing Video Games Live with such a distinguished orchestra, venue, and convention helps to further legitimize the important cultural and artistic aspects of video games and their music,' said Tommy Tallarico, famed video game composer and co-creator/executive producer of Video Games Live." I uh, won't be able to make them. Because, you know, I'll be gaming.

Re:A video game concert...

[88NoSoup4U88]

Erm, if this [youtube.com] isn't a good idea to get younger people interested in orchestras (and their possibilities besides "boring" classical pieces), I don't know what is. The link leads to an 8-minute vid of them in action; Great stuff imo.

Re:It's interesting the advancement of music in ga

[spyrochaete]

It was only a generation or two ago that the only places a real score was worked on was RPGs

Totally untrue. Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games all had fantastic scores based on the mood and setting of scenes. Countless Nintendo games like Ducktails, Contra, Kirby's Dream Land, and and the Super Mario Brothers series had memorable and professional soundtracks. Even games for the Commodore 64 and Tandy took advantage of those systems' advanced sound and music processors.

Saying that RPGs had the only legitimate soundtracks is just an opinion, and certainly not the most common one. Even my parents would play Tetris and Dr. Mario with the music on even though they'd heard the songs a million times.