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GreenTechnoFox
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12 Mar 2013, 3:45 pm

I often listen to instrumental video game music, and I often ponder to myself, "Should the music I listen too be a genre of music all it's own?" :?:



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12 Mar 2013, 6:07 pm

It's often just a mishmash of other genres, and with the hardware limitations of the time, it had a distinctive sound. I guess it could be considered it's own genre. Some of my favorite music is from old videogames.



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12 Mar 2013, 7:57 pm

Some of that old video game music is truly unclassifiable. Genres in general are sort of artificially created anyway.
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12 Mar 2013, 8:58 pm

I think it should be yes... Many a soundtrack from games really are good enough to win awards against established types of music. My entire library of music are gaming soundtracks though...


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12 Mar 2013, 10:26 pm

Yes, definitely.

The Final Fantasy and Ace Attorney soundtracks are partly what got me into writing my own music.



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13 Mar 2013, 5:25 am

Depending on what you mean by video game music, it already is.

1.Chiptunes is a music genre that was first used in video games.
2. All video game music is a subgenre of sountrack music.


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