| 8-16 Bit Awesomeness Note from author: over 9000 videos in this thread, just watch the ones that interest you, or sample them ^^ 8 or 16 bit games and music have something more than a cult following, it's something i've noticed even before one of the first memes I've encountered: All Your base. Basically what this side of the article is getting at, is songs being recreated with 8/16 bit sounds, or 8/16 bit songs being recreated musically. Original Music to 8(Nes)-16(Snes) Bit Sounds According to a pending article on the knowyourmeme site: "Chiptunes, or the 8 Bit music used by old video games, is a popular way for people to rearrange music. Despite the simple electronic quality of the music, it has garnered quite a fanbase of those who have fond memories of 8 Bit gaming. A whole subculture complete with musical arrangements, art, and the demaking of game into 8 Bit has developed around this." History: The gaming music phenomena started somewhere in the arcade era, by my estimation, and probably evolved into full appreciation around the early console era (Sega, Nes, Snes). The conesole era allowed people to hear 8 or 16 bit compositions of music in their homes, and since these consoles were so poular, people could talk about them as if they were regular, ordinary music. Some of these songs, are quite awesome, a personal favourite of mine, by Nobou Uematsu (Final Fantasy Music Composer): later on, when computers and sound editing programs became common place, many ordinary songs were rendered into 8/16 bit sound. Below are some examples of this. For more info on Chiptunes and 8 bit renditions, follow this link: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chiptunes-8-bit-remixes 8 bit tunes to real life music This one always fascinated me, I mean musicians loving dusty 8 bit tunes of some video game, so much that they do a real live performance of it. I don't what to say about this one, as long as 8-16 bit songs existed, there were always people picking up guitars and playing them out, I'll list examples of what i think are some good ones. The Sweet Hybrid Still not convinced that 8-16 bit is awesome, well how bout rock bands that focus exclusively on video game songs? I'll be looking at 2 bands here Anamanaguchi and The Black mages. Anamanaguchi is a band, that uses a hacked super nintendo to play theyre own compositions. Anamanguchi makes their own 8 bit songs, accompanies with guitar and other instruments occasionally, and makes awesome 8 bit videos. The main criticism this band recieves I find is that "they don't play instruments" Well in alot of their videos it appears that way, but they can play all manner of instruments, and use them when wriitng their melodies or songs (Even Beethoven needed a piano right?). Here is a very good interview with the band done on College Humor's video game segment: Bleep Bloop. No embedding is allowed on this one: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918514 Here of some of their songs, from youtube: Now the Black mages, well "The Black Mages is a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui, and Tsuyoshi Sekito, three composers for Square Enix. Uematsu is the composer of the majority of soundtracks in the Final Fantasy video game series. The band arranges Uematsu's compositions in a rock style often similar to progressive metal, achieved with the additional use of synthesizers.[1] Since its inception, the band has expanded to six members with the addition of Keiji Kawamori, Michio Okamiya, and Arata Hanyuda." -Wikipedia Basically the Black mages specializes in songs off of the Final fantasy Series. I've encountered some of their music before, and it is quite impressive. their albums include: The Black mages, The black mages II: The Skies Above and The Black mages III: darkness and Starlight. By now your probably sick of video so, I'll just put up my favourite: Well in conclusion 8 to 16 bit graphics and music have a memetic quality to them, something that could be related either to the nostalgia factor, or just something great in its own right, I hope you enjoyed my little rant, and trip down memory lane. Well here is ThatOtakus contribution to 8 bit awesomeness, in the form of mega man |
Cloud4126Mar 9, 2010 6:25 PM
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| lol, last song is badass |
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cow-chan said: lol, last song is badass Maybe I'm a Lion yea I believe that's actually a song from FF8. love it though, got it on my ipod |
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| You can't possibly forget the old 8-Bit megaman themes, psssssh megaman 10 just go released and it's still doing it old school; gameplay and music wise. Cool songs btw. |
| if you want you can post some mega man vids and ill add them |
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| I'll be happy to take that offer, kind sir. |
| i love megaman's soundtrack instant classic |
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| it was pretty god damn epic! still waiting on that otaku for the vids though |
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| lol ok |
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| In order to save space, I've combined That Otakus thread, and mine, into one thread ^^ |
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| understandable, I typed the whole thing in here anyways but didn't want to clutter up space so I thought I should make its own thread. Good thinking! |
| guess were not doin mega man x |
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| lol, i loved that spin-off though. |
| http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918514 That interview with anamanguchi touches on that |
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| so that's where that video is from! |
| Nigga Stole ma Bike! |
| Click on this. I dare you. | MAL Fantasy Football League | Currently Watching List RWBY Club. RWBY is anime. Deal with it. |
| yes, well notify the police right away. anyways it looks like Miku Hatsune has seeped into the 8 bit era too now: |
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| Im saving that also. |
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