EXTRA 2008 piles on the videogame music nostalgia
XTRA 2008 piles on the videogame music nostalgia
There were so many renditions of classic game tunes performed at this evening’s EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event at Shin-Kiba’s Studio Coast that it was hard to keep track of them all. The yearly event organized by 5pb Records assembles game composers to perform their own songs and revive classics from yesteryear by way of pulse pounding techno arrangements. The Korg DS Trio comprised of The Black Mages’ Michio Okamiya, Ridge Racer’s Nobuyoshi Sano and Chrono Trigger’s Yasunori Mitsuda (seen above) started the night off with “Korg de Chocobo,” followed by songs from the Ridge Racer and Chrono series arranged for the Nintendo portable console.