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Fuck yes, Video Games Live Concert
Nov. 8th, 2009 12:38 amSaturday was a damn good day.
Got me a new scarf and two necklaces from American Eagle and had lunch at Todai's. Pretty much an all day trip with the Video Games Live concert to top it all off.
My throat will be raw when I wake up, without a doubt. The Oregon Symphony was so fucking amazing along with the Pacific Youth choir. There homages to so many games: Halo, Warcraft, Super Mario Brothers, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, all the 8-bit games, Guitar Hero, Castlevania, Civilization, and more. It felt more like a rock concert than a symphonic concert with everyone screaming, fangirling/fanboyingand maybe jizz in their pants. Over all, song after song, the concert made me shiver in delight.
They did a segment for "Space Invaders". The volunteer from the audience had to wear a shirt with the player's ship design on the back. In order to move the ship around, he basically had to run back and forth on the stage as they played. Though he failed to clear the stage, it was incredibly fun.
For the Guitar Hero part, they made the winner of the preshow's GH competition play a song from Aerosmith. If he could score past 100,000, he wins and he did. (Though I still think they should have done "Through the Fire and the Flames" though that would be hard to arrange for an orchestra.)
There was even an appearance via skype of the man who invented Pong, the first video game. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years since video games were born. They even showed the first video clip of Pong being played from the 1960s.
They even brought in the pianist who could play the Super Mario Brothers theme blindfolded. He did a medley of Final Fantasy songs, the SMB theme obviously, and joined in the Castlevania homage.
Got me a new scarf and two necklaces from American Eagle and had lunch at Todai's. Pretty much an all day trip with the Video Games Live concert to top it all off.
My throat will be raw when I wake up, without a doubt. The Oregon Symphony was so fucking amazing along with the Pacific Youth choir. There homages to so many games: Halo, Warcraft, Super Mario Brothers, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, all the 8-bit games, Guitar Hero, Castlevania, Civilization, and more. It felt more like a rock concert than a symphonic concert with everyone screaming, fangirling/fanboying
They did a segment for "Space Invaders". The volunteer from the audience had to wear a shirt with the player's ship design on the back. In order to move the ship around, he basically had to run back and forth on the stage as they played. Though he failed to clear the stage, it was incredibly fun.
For the Guitar Hero part, they made the winner of the preshow's GH competition play a song from Aerosmith. If he could score past 100,000, he wins and he did. (Though I still think they should have done "Through the Fire and the Flames" though that would be hard to arrange for an orchestra.)
There was even an appearance via skype of the man who invented Pong, the first video game. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years since video games were born. They even showed the first video clip of Pong being played from the 1960s.
They even brought in the pianist who could play the Super Mario Brothers theme blindfolded. He did a medley of Final Fantasy songs, the SMB theme obviously, and joined in the Castlevania homage.
