Video Games Live

TygerKrash

Figure some of the folks in here might be interested in this.
Video Games Live are performing in the National Concert hall.

They're an orchestra that play video game themes, with a big video screen showing clips from the games. Most of it tends toward the retro.. donkey kong mario etc..

http://www.nch.ie/Box-Office/Performances/Video-Games-Live-(1).aspx

Da Bounca

Quality. I'll be going to this.

Retr0gamer

Got my tickets already

Atavan-Halen

Hmm, its only €23 might check it out

o1s1n

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll def be popping along to this.

CiDeRmAn

Gotta get myself to this, although it does sound like a Nerd magnet, an accident here and no one will be left to buy retro goodies, hmmm......

You guys all go, I'll be buying some fertiliser and some timers online....

zzap64

TygerKrash wrote: »

They're an orchestra that play video game themes, with a big video screen showing clips from the games. Most of it tends toward the retro.. donkey kong mario etc..

Hummmph, where's the C64 SID covers?? Think I'll stick to Press Play on Tape

o1s1n

zzap64 wrote: »

Hummmph, where's the C64 SID covers?? Think I'll stick to Press Play on Tape

The only album I have of theirs is Run/Stop Restore. It's really great though. Must get some more.

zzap64

o1s1n wrote: »

The only album I have of theirs is Run/Stop Restore. It's really great though. Must get some more.

I've seen them live a couple of times as well. Very good. Rock and C64 all in one. What could be better? x-)

CCCP^

That Tommy Tallarico guy did the soundtrack to Cool Spot, very memorable. I think I'll check this out.

Retr0gamer

And the earthworm jim soundtracks and advent rising. Think his soundtrack for advent rising was the only decent thing about that game.

o1s1n

zzap64 wrote: »

I've seen them live a couple of times as well. Very good. Rock and C64 all in one. What could be better? x-)

Rock and Megadrive...although nobody has really done it too good yet. Megadriver is good but a little meh, I want something with a bigger production value :pac:

Love chiptune/circuit bending stuff though. Usk, Nullsleep & Bit Shifter to name but a few. This years Blip Festival was just on a few days ago I think. Wish I could have gone!

appleidog

I am going to so drag the Girlfreind to this. , Geek fest ahoy! now Who would be wearing there Gaming shirts to this?

Retr0gamer

It's kind of hilarious looking at the youtube videos of this. There's a philharmonic orchestra playing yet at the start of every song you'd swear the crowd were at an AC/DC gig and Thunderstruck had started up.

CiDeRmAn

I'm trying to go but I have no mates who are into this, damn, just bought tickets to Kila and Eddie Izzard as well, may be tricky to swing another concert! Especially if I'm going solo!

I wonder if there will be a leaning towards Tallarico's own compositions, because they are simply less known than the great Nintendo themes, I mean, do we really want to hear Earthworm Jim or would we prefer a medley of Zelda pieces?

appleidog

Just bought the tickets Whoop Whoop! My Gf is all for the bioshock music which will rock!. We will be dressed as mario and peach so look for us

o1s1n

So...anyone else getting tickets? Just thought I'd bump this seeing as I just got mine

Now the big question, to dress up or not? :pac:

Tallon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_6LG8dyE0U

Tallon

Thanks for bumping, never knew about this

Trevor451

Dam I would love to go to this but I have no friends who are interested in VGM and I would not like to go myself

Tallon

Trevor451 wrote: »

Dam I would love to go to this but I have no friends who are interested in VGM and I would not like to go myself

Tag along with one of us, Ill be going with one or two others, your more than welcome

Trevor451

Tallon wrote: »

Tag along with one of us, Ill be going with one or two others, your more than welcome

thanks but I am 14

o1s1n

Final bump seeing as this is on Sunday. I can't wait! Think I'll break out the Sega jacket heh

Atavan-Halen

I'm still in 2 minds whether to go. Do you think you could buy tickets at the door?

o1s1n

(Just in case you didn't see in the other thread)

There are tickets still available, but I don't know about buying them at the door. I have to pick my tickets up at a machine so would imagine they'll have a box office too.

TygerKrash

Looks like there are only tickets for the 3.30 show, not the 8pm tomorrow. (at least from looking at the website).

Atavan-Halen

Who's going to the 3.30 show?

Tallon

I have a spare ticket for the 3:30 show, drop me a PM if you want it

Atavan-Halen

Thanks Tallon! But I want to see if I can get tickets for the 8pm show

TygerKrash

I know its late in the day but It turns out I have a spare ticket for tonight. drop me a PM if you're interested.

o1s1n

Well that was pretty damn amazing!

Retr0gamer

That was excellent and the meet and greet at the end was brilliant as well. The guys were really sound. Got my CD signed by the guys. I'll be there nextr year!

Dark Savior

Great show last night.Even my wife enjoyed it and she doesn't do "video games".Pretty funny comments after the 14 year old had done the Guitar Hero challenge:D.Definitely going to this again next year.

rgfuller

I went to the 3.30 show - thoroughly enjoyed it even if the hall wasn't full, will definitely plan to see it again if/when they come back.

Also bought the CD which I listened to last night - great stuff for a tenner!

Dark Savior

Did the person at the 3.30pm show win the arcade challenge?? The guy at the 8.00pm show came close with 2 maybe 3 invaders left.He must be sickened to be so close to winning a nice mame set-up.

rgfuller

No such luck - his strategy was wrong - he left a full width of invaders for most of the 2 mins and had quite a few left when the time ran out - he also used about 7 'lives', not a space invaders player at all I'd say.

How did the guitar hero guy do at 8pm - the 3.30pm kid tried on expert but failed before the end (maybe a bit of lag looking at the big screen), he got to retry on hard and scored about 140k.

Retr0gamer

We had Chris from Family Guy play at 8pm. He got well over 200,000 in expert but failed at 93% mark. I say it was due to lag during the end solo.

djsim

I must admit, I thought that it was a great show. The family travelled up from Limerick to watch it, and even though we kinda got lost travelling from Dublin (ended up on the galway road) the show was great.

I was well impressed with the musical score of warcraft (never played it:pac:)
I also liked the retro section at the start. Will attend next year again the show comes back.

erikwetbeard

Retr0gamer wrote: »

We had Chris from Family Guy play at 8pm. He got well over 200,000 in expert but failed at 93% mark. I say it was due to lag during the end solo.

Yeah There was annoying lag.
P.S. I'm Dean Conway (Chris)

Retr0gamer

You did really well. I can only struggle through the easy songs on hard at the moment.

ghostchant

Was a great show, loved the megaman, chrono trigger & metroid sections. Fair play to you Dean, what exactly did you win? (can't remember the list of things he'd mentioned beforehand)

Burning Eclipse

erikwetbeard wrote: »

Yeah There was annoying lag.
P.S. I'm Dean Conway (Chris)

Kudos for asking to play on Expert (knowing that you'd score more points with more notes )