Videogame Music - Basics
Since the vgmq clips are pretty popular, I'll have a section here, although this isn't so much trivia as it is cannon fodder, or maybe even a tutorial. So here are this week's first five songs:
119 | 28 | 6 | 111 | 120 |
If you're a pro, you can get each of these by listening to each for less than 1 second. Well, #6 might take 2 seconds. But if you're not a pro, like David or Alan, then they might take a bit longer. So this is like... a familiarity tutorial for people like David and Alan.
Truth be told, I have no idea what I want to accomplish. But maybe what I'm saying is that, if you like videogames, you should know these 5 songs. Maybe you've played the game, maybe you just heard it somewhere before, but in any case, you should know the song and its source.
So take a guess, and finalize your answers before posting. And Duy, Hawk, Ambrose, etc... don't guess unless you really don't know :P haha...
I predict that Alan will get 5/5. I predict that David will get... hmm, this is tough, but I'm leaning toward 5/5.
Join us next week, when I'll post 5 easy, yet harder, songs.
119 | 28 | 6 | 111 | 120 |
If you're a pro, you can get each of these by listening to each for less than 1 second. Well, #6 might take 2 seconds. But if you're not a pro, like David or Alan, then they might take a bit longer. So this is like... a familiarity tutorial for people like David and Alan.
Truth be told, I have no idea what I want to accomplish. But maybe what I'm saying is that, if you like videogames, you should know these 5 songs. Maybe you've played the game, maybe you just heard it somewhere before, but in any case, you should know the song and its source.
So take a guess, and finalize your answers before posting. And Duy, Hawk, Ambrose, etc... don't guess unless you really don't know :P haha...
I predict that Alan will get 5/5. I predict that David will get... hmm, this is tough, but I'm leaning toward 5/5.
Join us next week, when I'll post 5 easy, yet harder, songs.
posted by Unknown at 9:19 AM
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I'm glad you posted easier songs; all those other songs were so unfamiliar to me that I didn't really try. It's nice that I can participate in this trivia, now! Let's see how I do for these ones!
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119 -- omg, was it really that fast?
Um... FF1 maybe?
28 -- again, they seem so much faster than I remember them! Tetris, for NES maybe? I'm just guessing from the tinny sound.. .
6 -- it actually took me a while before I figured what this one was, even after the melody started. There's so many frilly sparkly instrumental lines (those ones that zoom up) covering up the melody! At any rate, it's some Zelda game, though I don't know which one.
111 -- okay, now I *know* that they're sped up. I've listened to this song far too many times at your house! ... though I'm not sure which stage it's for? ... um... is it for the Pokemon stage, where the battleground keeps on changing?
120 -- lol, it sounds so different when it's sped up! At first I was thinking the Oil level from Sonic 2 -- the one with these middle eastern and new-agey sounds in its music. Um, it's from Chrono Trigger, I think? I don't recognize it any further than that, but I know there's nothing in Chrono Trigger that sounds like these sped up instruments..!
Btw, what is "cannon fodder"
Hmmm...I dunno, perhaps some of these were too easy...since I did get all of them after about a second...but at least they made a good intro. I think I would've been able to get a few of the "real" ones...I tried a few with Duy on his comp, but I haven't tried many of the others on my own. Anyways:
119 = FF (6?)prelude
28 = Tetris
6 = Zelda ("Hyrule Field" from OoT, not sure where it's originally from though)
111 = LOL...you picked one of my favourite video game tracks, SSBM character select music
120 = Zeal Kingdom Theme
seems like David's answers are basically in the same general area as mine, so your prediction was correct, Bao!
yay, my prediction was correct indeed, at least, generally.
none of the tracks were sped up, although the Final Fantasy track sounds possibly faster than usual, but maybe that's the way it was in FF1.
Anyway, that prelude probably came from an early FF, but it's found in "all" Final Fantasies, I think.
Tetris is correct.
the Zelda is from Zelda 1, but if guessed anything from zelda 1 to Zelda 3 you're probably correct... unless you picked Zelda 2, haha. so as long as your answer had zelda, let's say it's right.
Alan was right about the 4th one - it's the Smash Bros. Melee menu select music.
The last one is from Chrono Trigger, yes, Zeal Palace... or 12000 BC or whatever you'd like to call it.
So my predictions were correct, so you all graduated.
I'm not sure where the term Cannon fodder came from, but basically it refers to really easy enemies.. like, if you send an army of men against a battalion of tanks and gattling guns, the army of men would fall like flies, so the cannons would make short work of them and it'd be too easy. That's the gist of it.
Cool, glad we passed the test, sir!
And yeah, your definition of cannon fodder is basically correct, cannon fodder is stuff that's expendable, stuff that you wouldn't mind losing, stuff where you'd use when "sacrafices must be made."
And I think the prelude wasn't in FF8.
Ah, but the prelude was in the FF8 DEMO!!
Is "next week" here yet...?
oh, it isn't...?
darn!
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