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"Diggin In The Carts" a video game music documentary: First episode up A documentary by Red Bull Music Academy featuring classic Japanese game composers

Sep 6, 2014 at 10:10:13 AM
Teknoman (9)
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http://www.redbullmusicacademy.co...

Its actually pretty cool and will eventually have covered the history and interviews of:

Hirazoku "Hip" Tanaka
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Magashi Kayema
Nobou Uematsu
Manami Matsume
Yoko Shimomura
Tekenobu Mitsuyoshi
Junko Ozawa
Michiru Yamane
Yuzo Koshiro

New episodes are going to release every Thursday until October 9th. On that note, I had no idea Hip Tanaka was in a reggae band at some point / was inspired by reggae for some of his early compositions. Pretty nice production values over all, except they do a close up of the composers a little too often, having them make funny faces lol.

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Sep 6, 2014 at 10:42:52 AM
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Dude! This is so awesome, being a synth guy and music lover in general, to see those digital waveforms drawn out by hand is just simply amazing!

Sep 6, 2014 at 11:06:52 AM
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Yeah I cant wait until they get to Sakimoto, Uematsu, Yamane, and Koshiro.

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Sep 6, 2014 at 1:18:28 PM
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Thanks for sharing, these look great! I wanna see the Gimmick composer one.

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Edited: 09/06/2014 at 01:27 PM by NESMASTER14

Sep 6, 2014 at 10:15:18 PM
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Very cool. Great post!

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Mar 27, 2015 at 12:05:40 AM
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What a cool idea for a series of films. I just checked out Episode 2 on YouTube and it's quite the treat with all of the expanded audio titles on the Famicom!

People need to watch this series!

Mar 27, 2015 at 10:52:04 AM
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Great!!

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Mar 27, 2015 at 12:24:47 PM
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I love 8-bit music so I'll definitely take a look and have a listen. Thanks.

Mar 27, 2015 at 1:12:54 PM
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So awesome. Only a few episodes in and looking forward to more.

By the way, has anyone ever played or heard of Lagrange Point before this? What kind of game is it?

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Mar 27, 2015 at 1:35:52 PM
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Its a famicom RPG. And also I think the largest game released for the famicom/nes

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Mar 27, 2015 at 2:46:27 PM
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Originally posted by: guitarzombie

Its a famicom RPG. And also I think the largest game released for the famicom/nes


It's not the largest, Metal Slader Glory is the largest.  

Lagrange Point's claim to fame is that it can do FM synthesis sound using Konami's custom chip the VR7.  It was the only game to ever use this expansion chip.

It's not supposed to be that great of a game, and most of its appeal is in its technical prowess.




Edited: 03/27/2015 at 02:47 PM by compile_6502

Mar 27, 2015 at 3:05:42 PM
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Tiny Toon Adventures 2 also uses the VRC7, but as a mapper only, the FM output goes unused.

Lagrange Point is pretty good, the killer soundtrack is nice window dressing.

Mar 27, 2015 at 4:08:30 PM
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Originally posted by: Guntz

Tiny Toon Adventures 2 also uses the VRC7, but as a mapper only, the FM output goes unused.

Lagrange Point is pretty good, the killer soundtrack is nice window dressing.


Nice didn't realize that about TT2

Mar 27, 2015 at 11:22:58 PM
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Originally posted by: compile_6502

Originally posted by: guitarzombie

Its a famicom RPG. And also I think the largest game released for the famicom/nes


It's not the largest, Metal Slader Glory is the largest.  

Lagrange Point's claim to fame is that it can do FM synthesis sound using Konami's custom chip the VR7.  It was the only game to ever use this expansion chip.

It's not supposed to be that great of a game, and most of its appeal is in its technical prowess.

 
Oops!

Lagrange point is also not even as big as kirby haha. 



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Mar 28, 2015 at 2:30:54 AM
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Originally posted by: guitarzombie

 
Oops!

Lagrange point is also not even as big as kirby haha. 

 
Interesting, I didn't realize Kirby was the largest release in NA