Classic video game systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy have on board sound generators that actually

create all of the music that you're hearing when you play a game on one of those systems in real

time.

They're actually musical instruments unto themselves to the point that modern bands will take them out on stage

plug them in and use them as part of their show. It kind of takes the idea of playing

Nintendo to a whole new level, doesn't it? The And the Welcome to Strong Songs a Podcasts, about Music. I am your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm glad that you join me to talk about music

performed by Nintendo's,

music performed by Game Boys, and sometimes music performed by

game boys, and sometimes music performed by human beings. We've got some Nintendo rific music to talk about on this episode and I am excited to get

into it so find a comfortable place to sit, turn up the volume, plug in your controllers, and

enjoy the show. I never had a Nintendo growing up my parents would not allow me to own a set-top

console though of course I did still manage to play a lot of video games

throughout the 1980s and 1990s mostly by visiting my

friends houses and then eventually by getting a few different ways of playing

games myself from those early days of surreptitiously installing doom onto my dad's laptop so that I could play it very early in the morning and then un-install it before he woke up so he would never know I had done it to my 10-year run as a professional video game critic and writers, spending most of that time at the video game website,

Kotaku, video games have been a pretty big part of my life, a bigger part of my life

than I would have probably predicted back in the late 1980s when I first played

Super Mario Brothers. I've always found a great similarity between video

games and music and specifically the act of playing video games and the act of

playing music. I am all about cross-media analysis and I think that my

understanding of music has always made my understanding of video games

maybe a little bit different than most peoples and that always made it fun to

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