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Brains On! Science podcast for kids

From 8-bit to orchestras: How does video game music affect you?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever played a video game, you know how important music can be when it comes to gaming. But what if you choose to play without music? How does that affect your playing? We’re going to dig into the psychology of video game music, explain how the interactivity of video game music works and figure out what “8-bit” means.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Should I say it now?

0:01.2

You're listening to Brains On,

0:02.8

where we're serious about being curious.

0:05.0

Brains On is supported on part by

0:07.9

a grant from the National Science Foundation.

0:15.7

Recognize these tunes?

0:30.0

You probably do if you've ever played Super Mario 3D World, Skyrim, or Minecraft.

0:53.8

But it wasn't always a given that your games would have a soundtrack.

0:57.3

Board games certainly didn't.

0:58.8

And early arcade games.

1:00.0

The predecessor to video games.

1:01.7

Didn't have music either.

1:03.3

So how did it come to be here?

1:04.9

And what kind of effect does it have on you?

1:07.0

We'll find out now.

1:08.4

Keep listening.

1:21.4

I'm Molly Bloom, and my co-host for this episode of Brains On is 12-year-old Henry Goldman.

1:26.5

Hello.

1:27.2

So Henry, you play video games?

1:29.4

Yeah.

1:29.8

Do you remember the first video game you ever played?

1:33.1

The first video game I ever played was probably Q-Brunner,

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