He says it takes real skill to perform video game music because a game system can make sounds that human fingers can't.ĭANIEL BEHRENS: There are virtuoso people everywhere you look. They perform rock tributes to music from old video games like what we just heard. Notice that music first.ĭaniel Behrens plays guitar for the band Armcannon. The technology used to make this digital sound is pretty old-school, but the music has a whole new life when you hear it live. TOTTY: This is music from a 1995 video game called "Chrono Trigger," an epic time-travel adventure. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "CORRIDOR OF TIME" THEME) LINDSAY TOTTY, BYLINE: Earlier this month, thousands of gamers congregated at a hotel outside Washington, D.C., to spend a weekend playing and listening to classic video games like this one. And every year they celebrate those soundtracks at a video game music festival. INSKEEP: There's the grand orchestral theme from the bestselling game "Halo." But for many gamers, the best soundtracks recall a low-tech era. And today, many of the bestselling games have blockbuster budgets, which you can see on the screen and often hear in the music. Video games are a multi-billion dollar industry.
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