Tag: Video Games
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RC 268: 16-bit Show Part 2 – Amiga Dreams
Second part of the 16-bit show and it’s Amiga time, with tunes from various demos, games, tracker tunes new and old, Amiga Remixes and more 8-bit and 16-bit arcade tunes, even taking us to the modern retro-futurist day with music from Legowelt, Actress, and games such as Fez and the Utopia influenced by what came…
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Internet famous and expectations of fame
Love this video by Innuendo Studios analysing one case of ‘internet fame’ and meltdown, specifically Phil Fish who made Fez. The irony is all the people in the comments who haven’t actually watched the video, or missed the point completely and come to grumble about a few ‘internet famous’ people. Clue: the video is not…
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Currently listening: Fred Deakin
One of the best compilations or mixes this side of Ruby Trax, Cosmosonica, Soulwax and David Holmes is Tryptych by Fred Deakin. It like the others I mentioned introduced me to several artists, and got me scrabbling to locate some of the tracks (always the good sign of any mix, podcast or compilation). And anything…
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Super Tory Boy
Meant to post this yesterday – great game by Usvsth3m aka Rob Manuel and b3ta friends – Super Tory Boy a Super Mario spoof where you get to play Dave, Gideon or Boris and privatise those services, grab the packets of cash and stomp on the proles. I’ve only gotten to Junior Minister so far,…
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RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine
In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…
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Reality Engine – TX 2 Bits and Bloops
I’ve collected a whole load more original musical digital cruft that was clogging up my hard drives and put it on Bandcamp and called it Transmission 2: Bits and Bloops…8-bit chiptunes, 16 bit Amiga (Octa)MED tracker songs, sound collages and live processing, funny songs, tape edits, video game music, rave, breakbeat/post-dubstep & acid house experiments,…