Oppenheimer was a massive success and a new milestone for filmmaking, from the cast and crew and everyone else who contributed during the production was a recipe for Oscar nominations, and wins but one aspect of any film or television that elevates the story is music and composer Ludwig Göransson deserved the win but upset the gaming community in the process.
Göransson also composed the score for other great films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and even won an Oscar for Black Panther, he later worked on the sequel: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and scored the first two Creed films and his first project with the legendary visionary Christopher Nolan was Tenet, as well for the Star Wars series on Disney+ The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. The talent he possesses is monumental, however the gaming community was offended by his recent victory speech.
Oppenheimer And The Mandalorian...
Göransson also composed the score for other great films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and even won an Oscar for Black Panther, he later worked on the sequel: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and scored the first two Creed films and his first project with the legendary visionary Christopher Nolan was Tenet, as well for the Star Wars series on Disney+ The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. The talent he possesses is monumental, however the gaming community was offended by his recent victory speech.
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- 3/13/2024
- by Rouvin Josef Quirimit
- FandomWire
The Academy of Arts And Sciences supports the video game industry with their own awards ceremony and industry summit known as D.I.C.E. This year's installment and 27th overall awards ceremony will honor Nintendo composer Koji Kondo for his contributions to the video game industry. Kondo is best known for composing the soundtrack to classic Nintendo video games such as the Punch-Out! arcade game. The earliest Nintendo Entertainment System games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend Of Zelda are among his most notable work. His repertoire since then stretches across console generations, with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , Super Mario Sunshine , Super Mario Galaxy , The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and his latest work in Super Mario Bros. Wonder for the Nintendo Switch. Koji Kondo portrait Kondo provided a statement to the Academy regarding the honor: I am deeply thankful for being selected by D.I.C.E. for this important award.
- 1/24/2024
- by Humberto Saabedra
- Crunchyroll
“There’s something really special about Mario games,” says composer Brian Tyler. As a lifelong fan of the Mario series, Tyler was excited to bring the music from all of those worlds into a new animated universe for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. “I realized by hearing the music outside of the game, it immediately takes you back in a way that’s different from movies,” he says. “With movies, you typically see them once or twice, whereas when you add together the playtime of any game you like, you’re in that universe for days.”
The main challenge was to take the iconic Mario sound, from the original game’s composer Koji Kondo, and create something familiar but more expansive. “To me, the universe that the movie is in had to have the scale of a Star Wars movie, but tonally Mario,” says Tyler. “We ended up going outside...
The main challenge was to take the iconic Mario sound, from the original game’s composer Koji Kondo, and create something familiar but more expansive. “To me, the universe that the movie is in had to have the scale of a Star Wars movie, but tonally Mario,” says Tyler. “We ended up going outside...
- 11/28/2023
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
The impact of two Legend of Zelda games––Ocarina of Time (1998) and Majora’s Mask (2000)––on cinephiles of a certain age bears excavation. The games introduced novel questions of autonomy and morphability to age-old notions of myth. By way of an audience-surrogate avatar, Ocarina of Time subjected the hero’s journey to slippage in history and memory: did you do that quest you thought you did? Majora’s Mask interrogated the glitch memory-loss further, turning Ocarina’s myths into symbols of themselves and of symbolizing itself: were you even the you you thought you were? To be 10 years old and at the mercy of a newly three-dimensional world inside Koji Kondo’s totalizing scores was to feel a version of the temporal pull of Apichatpong, a glimmer of the edit’s slip towards crunched cohesion you might find one day in Resnais and Duras, all occurring inside the still-novel form...
- 11/8/2023
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
Mariah Carey has truly secured her place in history.
On Wednesday, the pop superstar’s classic holiday hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was inducted into the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.
Read More: Mariah Carey Crashes Daughter’s Vocal Practice In Cute Instagram Reel
Since 2003, the Registry has chosen to preserve sound recordings that are considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”
Carey’s song was among the 25 recordings selected for preservation by the Library of Congress, including Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” and the Super Mario Bros. theme by Koji Kondo.
On Twitter, Carey reacted to the induction of “All I Want For Christmas” by sharing a video of her call with Library of Congress’ chief communications officer Roswell Encina sharing the news.
“I’m honored beyond belief! I definitely...
On Wednesday, the pop superstar’s classic holiday hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was inducted into the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.
Read More: Mariah Carey Crashes Daughter’s Vocal Practice In Cute Instagram Reel
Since 2003, the Registry has chosen to preserve sound recordings that are considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”
Carey’s song was among the 25 recordings selected for preservation by the Library of Congress, including Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” and the Super Mario Bros. theme by Koji Kondo.
On Twitter, Carey reacted to the induction of “All I Want For Christmas” by sharing a video of her call with Library of Congress’ chief communications officer Roswell Encina sharing the news.
“I’m honored beyond belief! I definitely...
- 4/13/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Madonna’s Like a Virgin, Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” and Mariah Carey’s unbeatable holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” are among the recordings selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry this year.
The 2023 class of recordings includes a mix of pop hits, classic gems, and even a few left-field choices, like Carl Sagan’s audiobook of Pale Blue Dot and Koji Kondo’s original Super Mario Bros. theme song (marking the first time video game music has been added to the National...
The 2023 class of recordings includes a mix of pop hits, classic gems, and even a few left-field choices, like Carl Sagan’s audiobook of Pale Blue Dot and Koji Kondo’s original Super Mario Bros. theme song (marking the first time video game music has been added to the National...
- 4/12/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Mariah Carey’s holiday staple “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Madonna’s best-selling seminal sophomore album Like a Virgin, Daddy Yankee’s thumping reggaeton anthem “Gasolina” and the Super Mario Bros. theme will join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Wednesday announced that 25 recordings made the cut this year, including John Lennon’s “Imagine,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Irene Cara’s “Flashdance… What a Feeling” and John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
The latest selections span from 1908 to 2012 and bring the number of titles on the registry to 625. The national library’s recorded sound collection includes nearly four million items.
Songs and albums that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” — that are also at least 10 years old — qualify to enter the National Recording Registry.
Other new selections include The Police’s Synchronicity,...
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Wednesday announced that 25 recordings made the cut this year, including John Lennon’s “Imagine,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Irene Cara’s “Flashdance… What a Feeling” and John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
The latest selections span from 1908 to 2012 and bring the number of titles on the registry to 625. The national library’s recorded sound collection includes nearly four million items.
Songs and albums that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” — that are also at least 10 years old — qualify to enter the National Recording Registry.
Other new selections include The Police’s Synchronicity,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s been over forty years since Mario made his video game debut as the hero of 1981’s arcade classic Donkey Kong, although back then he was simply known as “Jumpman.” He’s had quite the glow up since then, appearing in over 200 video games, a Saturday morning cartoon, and now two theatrically released movies. And the success of Donkey Kong didn’t give the world just one star, it also delivered another: creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
Credited as the brains behind not just Mario, but Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and more,...
Credited as the brains behind not just Mario, but Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and more,...
- 4/9/2023
- by Christopher Cruz
- Rollingstone.com
This article contains mild spoilers for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
Aaron Horvath's and Michael Jelenic's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" contains multiple, perhaps-obvious, pop music cues that accent the film's many action sequences. Early in the film, when Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) have to traverse a dangerous Brooklyn street on the way to a much-needed plumbing job, The Beastie Boys' 1987 hit "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," from their album "Licensed to Ill" plays on the soundtrack. The line "Our manager's crazy, he always smokes dust" is tactfully omitted. Later in the film, when Mario, Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) have to build and drive their own high-octane go-karts, the opening rock strains of AC/DC's 1990 song "Thunderstruck," punctuates the construction.
Both of these music cues have some thematic logic. The more baffling needle drop is the placement of A-ha's 1985 chart-topper "Take on Me,...
Aaron Horvath's and Michael Jelenic's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" contains multiple, perhaps-obvious, pop music cues that accent the film's many action sequences. Early in the film, when Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) have to traverse a dangerous Brooklyn street on the way to a much-needed plumbing job, The Beastie Boys' 1987 hit "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," from their album "Licensed to Ill" plays on the soundtrack. The line "Our manager's crazy, he always smokes dust" is tactfully omitted. Later in the film, when Mario, Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) have to build and drive their own high-octane go-karts, the opening rock strains of AC/DC's 1990 song "Thunderstruck," punctuates the construction.
Both of these music cues have some thematic logic. The more baffling needle drop is the placement of A-ha's 1985 chart-topper "Take on Me,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Dead Ringers and a Queen Charlotte celebration.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie special screening
Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Seth Rogen and Sebastian Maniscalco attended a special screening in Los Angeles on Saturday for their Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nintendo’s Takumi Kawagoe, Christ Pratt, Brian Tyler, Charlie Day, Nintendo’s Koji Kondo, Illumination CEO Chris Melendandri, Kevin Michael Richardson (Bottom second L-r) Seth Rogen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Jack Black Chris Pratt and Charlie Day Anya Taylor-Joy
Dead Ringers premiere
On Monday, Prime Video hosted the world premiere of psychological thriller series Dead Ringers in NYC, with star and EP Rachel Weisz along cast members Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu,...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie special screening
Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Seth Rogen and Sebastian Maniscalco attended a special screening in Los Angeles on Saturday for their Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nintendo’s Takumi Kawagoe, Christ Pratt, Brian Tyler, Charlie Day, Nintendo’s Koji Kondo, Illumination CEO Chris Melendandri, Kevin Michael Richardson (Bottom second L-r) Seth Rogen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Jack Black Chris Pratt and Charlie Day Anya Taylor-Joy
Dead Ringers premiere
On Monday, Prime Video hosted the world premiere of psychological thriller series Dead Ringers in NYC, with star and EP Rachel Weisz along cast members Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Composer Brian Tyler jumped at the chance to write the music for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” He rattles off the games, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Kart and Donkey Kong… there are many more, and he’s played them all.
“I knew this music,” Tyler shares. “It was a part of my childhood in the same way that I grew up listening to film scores.”
Tyler has already worked across a wide swath of genres, from horror (“Scream 6”), romantic comedy (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Western (“Yellowstone”) and action (“Fast X”). But this was special assignment, Tyler tells Variety: “I had gaming magazines and I remember articles about Nintendo’s video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.”
The composer knew he had to deliver fan service to the legion of gamers who understand the original music inside-out. Says Tyler, “I want to incorporate the music that I heard in that 8-bit form...
“I knew this music,” Tyler shares. “It was a part of my childhood in the same way that I grew up listening to film scores.”
Tyler has already worked across a wide swath of genres, from horror (“Scream 6”), romantic comedy (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Western (“Yellowstone”) and action (“Fast X”). But this was special assignment, Tyler tells Variety: “I had gaming magazines and I remember articles about Nintendo’s video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.”
The composer knew he had to deliver fan service to the legion of gamers who understand the original music inside-out. Says Tyler, “I want to incorporate the music that I heard in that 8-bit form...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
This post contains mild spoilers for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" presented a rare opportunity for Nintendo, who usually keeps storytelling a low priority, to reacquaint us with the "Super Mario" characters we've grown up with and know very little about. That's why it's unfortunate that the animated film mostly maintains a break-neck speed throughout its 90-min runtime, explaining the bare minimum about the lore and the mechanics of this universe, much like the games themselves. However, if you pay attention and look in the right places, you'll find quite a significant amount of retcons and modifications to these characters' origin stories.
Surprisingly, the animated film opens not in the colorful and playful Mushroom Kingdom, but in an alternate reality version of Brooklyn, New York, where the titular brothers (played by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day) are pursuing a career as aspiring plumbers. Failing to meet his parent's expectations,...
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" presented a rare opportunity for Nintendo, who usually keeps storytelling a low priority, to reacquaint us with the "Super Mario" characters we've grown up with and know very little about. That's why it's unfortunate that the animated film mostly maintains a break-neck speed throughout its 90-min runtime, explaining the bare minimum about the lore and the mechanics of this universe, much like the games themselves. However, if you pay attention and look in the right places, you'll find quite a significant amount of retcons and modifications to these characters' origin stories.
Surprisingly, the animated film opens not in the colorful and playful Mushroom Kingdom, but in an alternate reality version of Brooklyn, New York, where the titular brothers (played by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day) are pursuing a career as aspiring plumbers. Failing to meet his parent's expectations,...
- 4/6/2023
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
After the box-office disaster that was 1993's ambitious and perhaps misunderstood "Super Mario Bros.", Nintendo has been especially protective over the brand integrity of the "Super Mario" franchise. Three decades later, the video game adaptation has become a bankable genre, especially with the success of Paramount's "Sonic the Hedgehog" live-action movies as well as this year's "The Last of Us" TV series on HBO. Now, it's Nintendo's time to shine again, so it has teamed up with Universal Pictures and animation house Illumination (known for the "Despicable Me" franchise) to bring Mario back to the big-screen in a way that is Shigeru Miyamoto-approved.
For better or worse, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is extremely dedicated to faithfully recreating every minutiae of the video games, resulting in what feels like a safe but entertaining theme park ride. As an origin story for the franchise, the plot is ultimately as...
For better or worse, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is extremely dedicated to faithfully recreating every minutiae of the video games, resulting in what feels like a safe but entertaining theme park ride. As an origin story for the franchise, the plot is ultimately as...
- 4/6/2023
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
“The Dk Rap” composer Grant Kirkhope has hit out at The Super Mario Bros Movie for failing to credit him.
Kirkhope created “The Dk Rap” for the 1999 Nintendo game Donkey Kong 64. Following its release, the track has gone on to become an iconic part of the famous game.
Prior to the release of The Super Mario Bros Movie on Wednesday (5 April), Seth Rogen – who voices Donkey Kong – revealed that the legendary tune would be included in the new film.
In response, Kirkhope expressed his excitement on Twitter, writing: “If you’d told me in ‘97, when I wrote the rap track in the history of rap tracks, that it would go on to be in a Mario Bros movie, I would’ve burst with excitement. Long live the Dk Rap!”
After seeing the film, however, the composer’s excitement turned to disappointment when he realised that he had not been credited at all.
Kirkhope created “The Dk Rap” for the 1999 Nintendo game Donkey Kong 64. Following its release, the track has gone on to become an iconic part of the famous game.
Prior to the release of The Super Mario Bros Movie on Wednesday (5 April), Seth Rogen – who voices Donkey Kong – revealed that the legendary tune would be included in the new film.
In response, Kirkhope expressed his excitement on Twitter, writing: “If you’d told me in ‘97, when I wrote the rap track in the history of rap tracks, that it would go on to be in a Mario Bros movie, I would’ve burst with excitement. Long live the Dk Rap!”
After seeing the film, however, the composer’s excitement turned to disappointment when he realised that he had not been credited at all.
- 4/5/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
When Rocky Morton's and Annabel Jankel's 1993 film "Super Mario Bros." first hit theaters in May of 1993, it was immediately greeted with skepticism by Nintendo fans. The live-action adventure took characters and some of the more notable iconography from Shigeru Miyamoto's popular video game series and repurposed them into a bizarre, dystopian tale about a parallel universe, the evolutionary fate of dinosaurs, and fascism. The whimsical, cartoonish fairy tale elements of the 1985 game were absent, replaced by something steely, dank, and coated in athlete's foot-style fungus. Fans were concerned that the movie wasn't a faithful adaptation of the game, and it was rejected on this basis for many, many years.
Reviews weren't kind either. The film currently holds a mere 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Gene Siskel called it one of the worst movies of 1993. It didn't help that "Super Mario Bros." was also a notoriously troubled production...
Reviews weren't kind either. The film currently holds a mere 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Gene Siskel called it one of the worst movies of 1993. It didn't help that "Super Mario Bros." was also a notoriously troubled production...
- 4/5/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Plot: Two plucky Brooklyn plumbers are whisked away to a magic kingdom where they encounter a princess and battle an evil villain.
Review: He’s Nintendo’s most famous character, but boy, has Super Mario ever proven to be a tough character to adapt to the big screen! As we previously covered on our show Awfully Good, the 1993 big-screen live-action version of Super Mario Bros was a disaster. But now, thirty years later, a faithful version of the classic video game series has finally hit the silver screen, with it doing the series justice in the only way they ever really could – by making it animated.
Coming from Universal and Illumination, The Super Mario Bros. Movie seems likely to spin off another popular franchise for the two studios, who already have the Despicable Me, Minions and Sing series going strong. Fans of the game will appreciate all the easter eggs,...
Review: He’s Nintendo’s most famous character, but boy, has Super Mario ever proven to be a tough character to adapt to the big screen! As we previously covered on our show Awfully Good, the 1993 big-screen live-action version of Super Mario Bros was a disaster. But now, thirty years later, a faithful version of the classic video game series has finally hit the silver screen, with it doing the series justice in the only way they ever really could – by making it animated.
Coming from Universal and Illumination, The Super Mario Bros. Movie seems likely to spin off another popular franchise for the two studios, who already have the Despicable Me, Minions and Sing series going strong. Fans of the game will appreciate all the easter eggs,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
In 1993, the live-action adaptation of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros was so hideously chaotic that it led the games giant to largely shun the film industry until 2019’s Detective Pikachu. Instead of a moustachioed, hyperactive Italian plumber hopping across platforms and down pipes, we were presented with a depressive Bob Hoskins trapped in what looked like the rotting set of a Broadway musical production of Blade Runner. At least you couldn’t call it predictable, though. The Super Mario Bros Movie, an animated rendition of the game courtesy of Illumination (aka the Minion people), is nothing more and nothing less than what you’d expect from a Mario film.
Its comfortable mediocrity is no better captured than in its choice to cast Chris Pratt – the current face of generic, easy-to-market heroism – in the starring role. Pratt, it should be said, is perfectly capable of the sort of outsized performance Mario needed,...
Its comfortable mediocrity is no better captured than in its choice to cast Chris Pratt – the current face of generic, easy-to-market heroism – in the starring role. Pratt, it should be said, is perfectly capable of the sort of outsized performance Mario needed,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
The Super Mario platform game series started in 1985, expanding into a media empire that evolved far beyond its beginnings. The Super Mario Bros. Movie brings its collection of vibrant characters to the silver screen, bolstering its Nintendo game references aimed at longtime fans with humor best suited for younger crowds. It’s a gorgeous world to observe, but it doesn’t have the inventive storytelling to match.
‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ pits Bowser against the Mushroom Kingdom L-r: Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) and Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day) | Nintendo and Universal Pictures
Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) and his brother, Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day), decide to combine forces and start their own plumbing company. However, their family and previous colleagues don’t hold much faith in their success. The brothers set out on an adventure to save the city from an incident flooding city streets, which leads them to the sewers.
‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ pits Bowser against the Mushroom Kingdom L-r: Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) and Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day) | Nintendo and Universal Pictures
Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) and his brother, Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day), decide to combine forces and start their own plumbing company. However, their family and previous colleagues don’t hold much faith in their success. The brothers set out on an adventure to save the city from an incident flooding city streets, which leads them to the sewers.
- 4/4/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In an industry where even great creators often remain anonymous, game designer, producer, and director Shigeru Miyamoto has rightfully achieved superstar status. As the creative mind behind such revolutionary franchises as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong, Miyamoto has helped turn Nintendo into a company synonymous with the very idea of video games. His early titles are the reason that many of us started playing video games, and many of them remain undisputed classics to this day.
Yet, the very first game that Miyamoto ever designed exclusively for the Nes/Famicom console has never been ported to the U.S. In fact, it’s the only game that Miyamoto designed that has never been ported to North America to this day.
Anyone familiar with Miyamoto’s history and significance is typically stunned by that information. Sure, Nintendo hasn’t always been the best when it comes to...
Yet, the very first game that Miyamoto ever designed exclusively for the Nes/Famicom console has never been ported to the U.S. In fact, it’s the only game that Miyamoto designed that has never been ported to North America to this day.
Anyone familiar with Miyamoto’s history and significance is typically stunned by that information. Sure, Nintendo hasn’t always been the best when it comes to...
- 5/19/2022
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
M83 have announced a new album, Dsvii. The sequel to 2007’s ambient album, Digital Shades Vol. 1, the new LP will be released on September 20th via Mute and is available for pre-order.
The album, which follows 2016’s Junk, is primarily influenced by video game music. “It felt so refreshing to play all of these old school games again,” frontman Anthony Gonzalez wrote on the band’s website. “There is something so naïve and touching about them. It’s simple and imperfect. And this is exactly what I tried to achieve with Dsvii.
The album, which follows 2016’s Junk, is primarily influenced by video game music. “It felt so refreshing to play all of these old school games again,” frontman Anthony Gonzalez wrote on the band’s website. “There is something so naïve and touching about them. It’s simple and imperfect. And this is exactly what I tried to achieve with Dsvii.
- 7/12/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
If you’re a fan of The Legend of Zelda, there’s a good chance you’re either suffering from withdrawal after taking down Ganon in Breath of the Wild, or you’re constantly replaying Nintendo’s masterpiece as you eagerly await the recently-announced sequel. Of course, there are plenty of Zelda clones on the market, but there are very few that manage to scratch the same itch. And then there’s Cadence of Hyrule.
The latest title from developer Brace Yourself Games is many things — some might call it a full-blown sequel, while others would comfortably label it as a crossover between Crypt of the Necrodancer and The Legend of Zelda. However you slice it, one thing’s for sure: it’s easily one of the best Zelda games ever made, and one of the best games of 2019 (so far).
That’s a rather lofty claim, but Cadence of...
The latest title from developer Brace Yourself Games is many things — some might call it a full-blown sequel, while others would comfortably label it as a crossover between Crypt of the Necrodancer and The Legend of Zelda. However you slice it, one thing’s for sure: it’s easily one of the best Zelda games ever made, and one of the best games of 2019 (so far).
That’s a rather lofty claim, but Cadence of...
- 6/25/2019
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
The Nintendo 64 was in heavy demand upon its release in 1996. Time Magazine called it “that rare and glorious middle-class Cabbage Patch-doll frenzy.” Nintendo’s third home video game console (nicknamed N64) was launched with two games outside of Japan: Pilotwings 64, and Super Mario 64, arguably one of the greatest video games to date, and one which all platformers would be compared to henceforth. Super Mario Bros. defined the standards for side-scrolling platform games in 1985, and with Super Mario 64, Nintendo took the franchise to a whole new level.
Nintendo set itself a nearly impossible task when creating Super Mario 64. It was one of the earlier three-dimensional platform games, with degrees of freedom through all three axes in space, and featured relatively large areas which are composed primarily of true 3D polygons as opposed to only two-dimensional sprites. The game established a new archetype for the 3D genre and showed us what the...
Nintendo set itself a nearly impossible task when creating Super Mario 64. It was one of the earlier three-dimensional platform games, with degrees of freedom through all three axes in space, and featured relatively large areas which are composed primarily of true 3D polygons as opposed to only two-dimensional sprites. The game established a new archetype for the 3D genre and showed us what the...
- 9/3/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
There are about eight Mario adventures that could easily be listed within the lexicon of the greatest games ever made, and Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System sit on that list. Super Mario World helped define the 16-bit era, transforming the classic Mario formula into something bigger, faster, brighter, and some would say, better. Meanwhile the follow-up, Yoshi’s Island, is a wonderful vision of pastel colors, majestic landscapes, and beautiful sprites that represent a mishmash of creativity, and imagination that only Nintendo could bring to life.
As the story goes, Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to be able to ride a dinosaur and actually conceived the idea during the 8-bit days but the limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System made it impossible to include the additional character on the first four games in the series. Yoshi lived only...
As the story goes, Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to be able to ride a dinosaur and actually conceived the idea during the 8-bit days but the limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System made it impossible to include the additional character on the first four games in the series. Yoshi lived only...
- 9/1/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Nintendo Entertainment system was released in 1985 and retailed for $199 in the U.S.. The standard package included an 8-bit graphics console and two classic game controllers. Other bundles featured the Nes Zapper along with the supported Nes game Duck Hunt. If you were one of the luckier kids, your parents shelled out a few extra bucks for the Deluxe Set which featured all of the above, but also included the optional Robotic Operating Buddy, or R.O.B.. Nintendo released 17 launch titles, the first of 30 ‘black box games’, and they included 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, the aforementioned Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman and Wrecking Crew. But of all these games, gimmicks and accessories, it was Super Mario Bros. that put Nintendo on the map, selling a record forty million units worldwide and becoming the...
- 7/27/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The first game I ever remember playing retains the endorsement I’ve always given it for containing my favorite musical piece from any video game, even after the twenty or so years since I first heard it. I am referring to “The Ballad of the Wind Fish” from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, originally exclusive to the Game Boy. I remember replaying the games climax over and over for another chance to hear the song which beautifully emulated real instruments despite the audio limitations of the time. In a game where each dungeon’s trophy is an instrument, “The Ballad” is a fitting reward and finale for collecting them all before waking the Wind Fish and vanquishing evil from Koholint Island. This is but one magical, musical moment from the series, and perhaps one of the reasons The Legend of Zelda remains so relevant and revered after...
- 3/8/2015
- by Tim Maison
- SoundOnSight
Gaming may be a few decades old, having long ago ridden its light cycle out of the arcade, yet many still seem to think game music consists of bloops and bleeps.
It's an idea as outdated as disco. So it;s fitting that Nile Rodgers -- the legendary producer and Chic member who best connects that era to this one thanks to his Daft Punk collab "Get Lucky" -- is the person most responsible for giving game music a proper hearing in North America.
Back in 1998, three years after the first PlayStation popularized CD technology in gaming -- dramatically increasing game music's complexity by allowing prerecorded streaming rather than just live sequencing -- Rodgers launched Sumthing Else Music and Sumthing Distribution to get game soundtracks off screen and into stores.
But this story really begins back in the late '70s, when Rodgers first became a gamer.
“When we first started making records,...
It's an idea as outdated as disco. So it;s fitting that Nile Rodgers -- the legendary producer and Chic member who best connects that era to this one thanks to his Daft Punk collab "Get Lucky" -- is the person most responsible for giving game music a proper hearing in North America.
Back in 1998, three years after the first PlayStation popularized CD technology in gaming -- dramatically increasing game music's complexity by allowing prerecorded streaming rather than just live sequencing -- Rodgers launched Sumthing Else Music and Sumthing Distribution to get game soundtracks off screen and into stores.
But this story really begins back in the late '70s, when Rodgers first became a gamer.
“When we first started making records,...
- 8/8/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
By Matt Hawkins
[Source]
When one tries to list the names of those responsible for Nintendo's successes, you often get the usual suspects: Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma, Koji Kondo, Gunpei Yokoi, etc.
But even the most dedicated Nintendo devotee might not recognize Masayuki Uemura. And who is that you might be asking? Why, he’s only the guy who designed the Famicom, which would become the Nintendo Entertainment System in America.
The Famicom, unquestionably one of the most influential and flat out important pieces of hardware related to gaming of the past 30 years, turns 30 in just a few days. July 15, to be precise. So Famitsu sat down to ask its maker to ask some questions, with Polygon was nice enough to translate the answers for those of us who don't know Japanese.
The entire thing, top to bottom, is a fascinating read. Though one stand out portion is about the moment...
[Source]
When one tries to list the names of those responsible for Nintendo's successes, you often get the usual suspects: Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma, Koji Kondo, Gunpei Yokoi, etc.
But even the most dedicated Nintendo devotee might not recognize Masayuki Uemura. And who is that you might be asking? Why, he’s only the guy who designed the Famicom, which would become the Nintendo Entertainment System in America.
The Famicom, unquestionably one of the most influential and flat out important pieces of hardware related to gaming of the past 30 years, turns 30 in just a few days. July 15, to be precise. So Famitsu sat down to ask its maker to ask some questions, with Polygon was nice enough to translate the answers for those of us who don't know Japanese.
The entire thing, top to bottom, is a fascinating read. Though one stand out portion is about the moment...
- 7/11/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
Kings of Summer, a film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts that won much critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is about three teenagers who decide to live off the land and build a house in the middle of the woods. The soundtrack for the movie is set for release on May 28, and features a melody composed by Guster’s Ryan Miller along with hip-top tracks by Kevin Writer and Douglas James. Vogt-Roberts and Miller modeled the melody after the 8-bit esque melodies of Koji Kondo, which provided the music for classic Nintendo video games like Zelda and Donkey Kong....
- 5/24/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
It's Friday, so why not listen to a dude rap about being link over Koji Kondo's "Legend of Zelda" scores?
"A Boy Without a Fairy" is the second full-length album from nerdcore rapper Dr. Awkward, a collection of words that once upon a time would have had me punching my monitor. But we're at a point now where the boys and girls making rap albums about their favorite video games are a little deeper than just giving a clunky shoutout to Boba Fett or whatever over a cheap beat.
Dr. Awkward went to the source, sampling the original "Ocarina of Time" score of longtime Nintendo composer Koji Kondo for the eight tracks in "A Boy Without a Fairy" to solid effect. His hyped-up flow mixed with the down-tempo Kondo score gives the whole thing the feel of something from the West Coast circa 1997-98 (think The Spooks), but with less of a kick-you-in-the-chest beat.
"A Boy Without a Fairy" is the second full-length album from nerdcore rapper Dr. Awkward, a collection of words that once upon a time would have had me punching my monitor. But we're at a point now where the boys and girls making rap albums about their favorite video games are a little deeper than just giving a clunky shoutout to Boba Fett or whatever over a cheap beat.
Dr. Awkward went to the source, sampling the original "Ocarina of Time" score of longtime Nintendo composer Koji Kondo for the eight tracks in "A Boy Without a Fairy" to solid effect. His hyped-up flow mixed with the down-tempo Kondo score gives the whole thing the feel of something from the West Coast circa 1997-98 (think The Spooks), but with less of a kick-you-in-the-chest beat.
- 3/15/2013
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Ryan Lambie Feb 21, 2019
The Legend of Zelda turns 33 today, so we're looking back at how the franchise was born...
The evolution of video games as we play them today is the result of dozens of development studios and the hard work and ideas of hundreds of individuals. At the same time, few people working in the industry have had quite as much influence as Shigeru Miyamoto, who’s widely recognized as one of the most important figures in gaming history. The creative mind behind, among many other things, Donkey Kong and Super Mario, there’s scarcely a genre that hasn’t, in some form, felt the impact of Miyamoto’s ideas.
During the development of what would become the enormously successful Super Mario Bros. – which would go on to sell more than 40 million copies around the world in the years after its release in 1985 – Miyamoto began work on what is...
The Legend of Zelda turns 33 today, so we're looking back at how the franchise was born...
The evolution of video games as we play them today is the result of dozens of development studios and the hard work and ideas of hundreds of individuals. At the same time, few people working in the industry have had quite as much influence as Shigeru Miyamoto, who’s widely recognized as one of the most important figures in gaming history. The creative mind behind, among many other things, Donkey Kong and Super Mario, there’s scarcely a genre that hasn’t, in some form, felt the impact of Miyamoto’s ideas.
During the development of what would become the enormously successful Super Mario Bros. – which would go on to sell more than 40 million copies around the world in the years after its release in 1985 – Miyamoto began work on what is...
- 11/22/2011
- Den of Geek
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has been given a trailer on its European release day. The video features producer Eiji Aonuma and series composer Koji Kondo, who give a special thanks to fans of the Nintendo series. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is a significant revamp for the adventure series, offering new controls and a departure from the traditional overworld and dungeon-exploring formula. It is also a prequel (more)...
- 11/18/2011
- by By Matthew Reynolds
- Digital Spy
It’s a weird night when, despite not being anywhere near a game convention, 1 in 5 people around you in a queue are dressed as childhood (and current) videogame heroes. The people who are not dressed as such spend their time enviously eyeing up those who are, whilst preparing to see an orchestra. It’s not an event I can say happens often but…damn it’s a buzz that tickles my nerdly soul.
Me and the two life-long friends in my company have been looking forward to this for a good few months. We squeeze through the thousands of people indoors whilst trying to navigate our way to the merchandise (doors open and 70% of the stock sold out in 10 minutes), the bar, and the loo, as you would in any gig. Though this is far from a normal gig, reflected by the outfits ranging from the casual, to the suited-and-booted,...
Me and the two life-long friends in my company have been looking forward to this for a good few months. We squeeze through the thousands of people indoors whilst trying to navigate our way to the merchandise (doors open and 70% of the stock sold out in 10 minutes), the bar, and the loo, as you would in any gig. Though this is far from a normal gig, reflected by the outfits ranging from the casual, to the suited-and-booted,...
- 10/29/2011
- by Robert Stafford-Williams
- Obsessed with Film
The Legend of Zelda's 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert was held in London last night. The event saw hundreds of Nintendo fans pack into the HMV Hammersmith Apollo to watch the Royal Philarmonic Concert Orchestra and a choir perform songs from the series's back catalogue, according to Official Nintendo Magazine. Introduced by series producer Eiji Aonuma, the evening saw a surprise host in Zelda Williams, the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams, who said that the event was a "rush". "Wow, what a rush! Walking out on stage in front of a symphony and an enormous audience to introduce the Legend of Zelda concert?" she said. The evening concluded with composer Koji Kondo playing 'Grandma's Theme' from Wind Waker on the piano. The concert was performed in Los Angeles last week, and (more)...
- 10/26/2011
- by By Matthew Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. Each week we bring you the highlights from Gcrn, with descriptions and links to each and every episode. But first a word from Gcrn’s TFG1MIke:
TFG1Mike checking in with the Blogomatic3000 fans. We have a Brand Spankin’ New site design! The GeekCast Radio Network Version 3.0 launched September 1, 2011. The site has a brand new layout while retaining the old color scheme. We also have streamlined content. Say you are looking for podcasts on cartoons well there is a tab for just that. Head on over to GeekCast Radio Network v3.0 to leave your thoughts on the new site and see what Steve/Megatron has to say about it. Any and all comments are appreciated. We also announced 2 new podcast projects for 2012 see what they are below.
Attf v2.0 – Episode 13 – Brainiac!
TFG1Mike checking in with the Blogomatic3000 fans. We have a Brand Spankin’ New site design! The GeekCast Radio Network Version 3.0 launched September 1, 2011. The site has a brand new layout while retaining the old color scheme. We also have streamlined content. Say you are looking for podcasts on cartoons well there is a tab for just that. Head on over to GeekCast Radio Network v3.0 to leave your thoughts on the new site and see what Steve/Megatron has to say about it. Any and all comments are appreciated. We also announced 2 new podcast projects for 2012 see what they are below.
Attf v2.0 – Episode 13 – Brainiac!
- 9/5/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The Legend of Zelda's orchestral tour will visit the UK in October, it has been revealed. The concert series, which is touring around the world as part of the franchise's 25th anniversary, will be hosted at London's Hammersmith Apollo on October 25. A 70-piece orchestra will play a variety of songs hand-picked by series composer Koji Kondo and his team. "The Legend of Zelda series is famous for its beautiful music and we are thrilled to celebrate 25 years of memorable soundtracks from this iconic series by letting a symphony orchestra bring this music to life," said Nintendo's (more)...
- 8/4/2011
- by By Matthew Reynolds
- Digital Spy
It’s the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda and Nintendo is gearing up for Zelda’s birthday with a symphony concert tour, starting on Oct. 21 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. Gamers who were lucky enough to attend Nintendo’s press conference at E3 know what that means. Get ready for a symphony orchestra, the likes of which can only be compared to Star Wars. Nintendo composer Koji Kondo took the iconic songs of our childhood to the next level when he transformed E3 into the Lincoln Center with a full 70-piece orchestra heralding famed Zelda anthems and sound effects. “The Legend of Zelda has few peers in the pantheon of video game giants, and the games and their music have always shared a deep connection,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Through these concerts, fans nationwide will be able...
- 7/21/2011
- by Bags H.
- BuzzFocus.com
Maybe the word “Ocarina” means nothing to you. It is a strange word. It could be the name of some long-lost defunct kingdom from Middle Europe, or perhaps a rare Eastern delicacy invented by Marco Polo to pad out his memoir. But if you’re someone of a certain age and temperament — someone who owned a Nintendo 64, in the long-ago era when videogame consoles were so resolutely un-chic that a major multinational corporation could actually create a controller seems specifically designed for tri-ped sewer mutants — then the word “Ocarina” can’t help but send you senselessly on a memory-spiral into...
- 6/19/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
I've always loved instrumental music but there's something particularly special about video game music. My personal theory is that it's different from other species of earworms, because it's soaking into your neurons while your cognitive faculties are flexing to solve some gameplay riddle or another.
With the Grammy powers-that-be reorganizing categories to recognize music appearing in video games, my first thought was "It's about damn time!" Once my indignation cooled, I wondered about game music that would've won Grammys if the new openness had been in place since the earliest days of the medium. Here's a quick list of killer tracks that I've loved over the years.
1. "Creation - The State of Art"
"A Gamer's Guide to Rez"
Ken Ishii
"Rez" creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi took his inspiration from the rave music scene so the whole soundtrack vibrates with glowstick energy. (An official CD release came out years ago and has...
With the Grammy powers-that-be reorganizing categories to recognize music appearing in video games, my first thought was "It's about damn time!" Once my indignation cooled, I wondered about game music that would've won Grammys if the new openness had been in place since the earliest days of the medium. Here's a quick list of killer tracks that I've loved over the years.
1. "Creation - The State of Art"
"A Gamer's Guide to Rez"
Ken Ishii
"Rez" creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi took his inspiration from the rave music scene so the whole soundtrack vibrates with glowstick energy. (An official CD release came out years ago and has...
- 4/30/2011
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
Of all the hundred million reasons to praise Super Mario Bros. 3 — the warp whistles, the shy ghosts, the questionable assertion that raccoon body parts allow you to fly — you should never forget about the iconic musical score by legendary game composer Koji Kondo. Musician Scott Bradlee has put together an acoustic version of the score, set to a hypnotic speed-run of the game. It’s a classy, jazzy tribute, full of fun little moments — pay special attention to the moment around 10:35, when Mario fights Bowser. Check out the full video below:...
- 4/27/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Of all the parts that make up a good video game, the soundtrack seems to be one that’s often ignored or at best, pushed to the back burner and simply labeled “ambiance,” while the flashy, sparkly graphics take the forefront. In what seems to be an effort to get users to appreciate the music sans gameplay, musical genius Mahito Yokota has uploaded the entire score of Super Mario Galaxy 2 to his YouTube Channel.
Throughout the development cycle, the sound of Galaxy 2 changed drastically. Originally, Yokota had composed over 25 songs using Latin instruments like steelpans, bongo drums and congas, but it was scrapped by lead composer Koji Kondo (who scored Zelda). Yokota then produced two more scores; the first was very pop-oriented, and the second, which was the final, was completely symphony orchestrated and overlaid with the synth sounds that make it “sound like space,” according to Yokota. The effect...
Throughout the development cycle, the sound of Galaxy 2 changed drastically. Originally, Yokota had composed over 25 songs using Latin instruments like steelpans, bongo drums and congas, but it was scrapped by lead composer Koji Kondo (who scored Zelda). Yokota then produced two more scores; the first was very pop-oriented, and the second, which was the final, was completely symphony orchestrated and overlaid with the synth sounds that make it “sound like space,” according to Yokota. The effect...
- 5/24/2010
- by Jeremy Swinarton
- GameRant
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