Posted: 12/6/2008 3:05 AM
Post subject: A new moment in the history of video games?
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DarkKobold
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Video games with good music is definitely nothing new. Marketing movies with music from the movies is nothing new. However, I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a tune I knew that I'd heard before, but couldn't place. I then heard it again, and it frustrated me... http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/949455/mirrors-edge/videos/mirrorsedge_musicvid_112508.html Music from a video game, on the radio? On a clear channel station no less? We've reached a new level of penetration and marketing for video games.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:33 AM
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A friend of mine claims to have heard the Earthworm Jim "groovy" sample used on a morning show, way back when the game first came out.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:36 AM
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Is that song really called "still alive" but is not the same as the one from portal? weird.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:48 AM
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The ending theme from Megaman X8. Well, dunno if that's the ending theme, but an audio track in the CD. I don't remember the name of the song, but it is well known.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 6:22 AM
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Twelvepack wrote:
Is that song really called "still alive" but is not the same as the one from portal?
Yes, it was very inconsiderate of Electronic Arts to use the same name for Mirror's Edge's theme song as Portal's end theme.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Posted: 12/6/2008 7:17 AM
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I once heard a strangely familiar piece playing on the loudspeakers at Wal-Mart. After wondering for a while what it could be, I figured out it was the theme to Metroid Prime.
Posted: 12/6/2008 1:02 PM
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petrie911 wrote:
I once heard a strangely familiar piece playing on the loudspeakers at Wal-Mart. After wondering for a while what it could be, I figured out it was the theme to Metroid Prime.
I once heard "Dragostea Din Tei" at Wal-Mart.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 2:16 PM
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arflech wrote:
I once heard "Dragostea Din Tei" at Wal-Mart.
Well, I haven't heard anything at a Wal-Mart because I have never been to one. Take that.
Posted: 12/6/2008 5:11 PM
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I heard an orchestrated piece of the SMB2 theme during a segment before commercial break on the local news once.
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Posted: 12/6/2008 5:45 PM
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The swedsh show "Bonde söker fru" used themes from Super Mario as background music. Seriously. It had Rainbow Ride and that SMB3 world 1-theme.