Classic Game Room - TOMMY TALLARICO Interview pt 3, Video Games Live

[aanimeaddicttgabe]

Subterrania for the Genesis. Great music! :)

[jyatzy123]

the classic game room guy looks like a toad i just fucking noticed lmfao lookk its a laugh

[luf4rall]

i was first exposed to tommy as the cohost of electric playground and reviews of the run with victor lucas.

[Luigi84289]

@luf4rall YES that was the show! I used to watch the hell out of it those 2 were the perfect team.

[plurp7]

Terrific launch to your interview series Mark... always making CGR more and more interesting, thanks for posting!

[madden8021]

all that some people can say is earthworm jim

[SuperRetroTech]

Guitar hero has a pretty good soundtrack. ;)

[troy1002x]

I just played Castlevania on my DS.

The music.

It was awesome.

So..

Awesome..

imo

[kugelinis]

Journey to Silius for NES.

[ARCHYMIKE]

killzone has some very cool music. just pitching an opinion

[Templars1005]

So far, really fantastic interview. Mark manages to ask interesting questions while keeping the tone "professional". I hope to see some more interesting interviews in the future! Maybe Suda51!?

[segagenesis1989]

Mark, I am giving this video a thumbs up and favorite from me just for recommending M.U.S.H.A.! The musical score is one of the best soundtracks on the console. It would be very interesting to see the crowd's reaction if and when the infamous soundtrack was performed at the Video Games Live music show!

[HaganeSteel]

Just to add to this list:

-Deus Ex: GOTY.

-Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret.

-Lufia series.

-Strider.

-Shin Megami Tensei.

-Romancing Saga.

-I agree with Ys.

Seriously. I'm sure some of those have already been done, though.

Tommy has some good points about game music too.  It's also a technological/cultural thing too. MIDI forces the composer to write melodies and be creative, and I've just grown up with Japanese music, so I prefer that to the more orchestral/ambient western stuff.

[videogameobsession]

Just about anything by Tim Follin, Dave Wise, Yuzo, or Tommy would be fine by me.

The Super Bomberman games on the SNES were pretty "zanny" too.

Serious question (shhhhh!) Hey Tommy, how about some Neo-Geo music?

I'd love to hear the Metal Slug 1 ending theme/reprise with an orchestra!

Of course if you do this you MUST start it with the familiar NEO-GEO jingle. :)

[DSATim]

Earthbound ftw

[WebVManReturns]

I asked for Cosmic Carnage music while watching Part 1 of the interview.

[WebVManReturns]

I was one of the ten people who bought Cosmic Carnage.

[WebVManReturns]

Bayonetta's songs should definitely be played at a concert.

[WebVManReturns]

Vectorman = Awesome Genesis Music

[WebVManReturns]

Suikoden II has an awesome set list. It needs an entire show.

[WebVManReturns]

Kingdom Hearts only has one good song that keeps getting remixed.

[Marioxas77]

Katamari? Earthbound? Earthworm jim? Secret of mana? FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH

[vittau]

M.U.S.H.A. is awesome, and I also I have a whole bunch of obscure games that'd love to see featured like the Touhou series, Panzer Dragoon series, Radiant Silvergun, etc...

But I can also understand that, unfortunately, it simply is not viable to have these on VGL. Even though you have to keep it diverse and have some surprises, it still has to appeal to a reasonable part of the audience. Many obscure games have great music, but we can't have it all. It's just the way it is...

[McBlemmen]

i grew up with GTA san andreas and GTA vice city .. and now i listen to music from the 70's to the 90's O_o

[tres311]

Conkers bad fur day! Some of the best songs ever composed for a video game no arguement

[tres311]

Mark no1 knows the games music ur picking. No1 wants to hear musha or kung food

[tres311]

U damn skankees fan! Well atleast u ain't a redsox fan bostonians the worst only behind canadians

[LukesNewLife]

There was no way to describe..the terror i felt.

[bigasmith23]

If you muted tommy you could still tell what he was saying because of his hands

[1shoryuken]

... and so, Tommy went on youtube, typed in Musha'ss ost in the search bar, clicked on the link and the synthesized sound he heard before him was so incomprehensible, so immersive and define that he went into a higher state of consciousness and ecstasy.

Tommy Tallarico was never heard of or seen again after that.

[Manjikoa]

actually, I think the music that came before my generation was FAR better then the crap I grew up listening too. 1960-70s rock was just... awesome.

[WebVManReturns]

@Manjikoa UGH. My least fav music is from the 60s and 70s. Too much hippie music, folk music, disco music, and early metal. I think the 50s and 80s had the best music in history. Fun, fun, fun, music. Not serious. Not angry except for hair metal. Just great music for dancing.

[Manjikoa]

@WebVManReturns Dude, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater revival, Three Dog Nights and the list goes on and on... I guess some of it can be a bit preachy. I can respect that you don't want to be lectured at by your music and yeah... the less said about Disco the better. I just don't see the kind of staying power in 80s music. Don't get me wrong I like some 80s songs, but I think music in the 90s got a lot better, course I like grunge.

[katsujinken10]

What tunes would I like to hear live? So many to choose from but...

Level 4 from R-Type - /watch?v=QmssFI9qh7A

Level 2 from Journey to Silius - /watch?v=F6sjYt6EJVw

One Night In Neo Kobe from Snatcher - /watch?v=Ofr8qqdZ_f0

The last one in particular would have me grinning from ear to ear :)

[nintendoboy17]

Also, Tommy I think I remember you looking at Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (one of my favorite PlayStation 2 games and I think it had a great soundtrack) on Judgment Day as a "Buried Treasure". Can't remember much of it sadly, but what did you think of that game's soundtrack?

[nintendoboy17]

Yeah, despite the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive limits, it did produce some great music. I really like the Sonic games BGM's.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

STARFOX!

[gj7aj]

Theme from Phantasy Star 2 and Revenge of Shinobi on the Genesis.  Great music on both of these games!

[AlbinoWatermelon]

Games that I haven't heard yet in the video that I'd suggest are the Duke Nukem theme, the Gex: Enter the Gecko menu music and what I consider to be the best piece of video game music ever written, the jet pack level music from Crash Bandicoot 2.

[spartanHOA]

I just looked up music for Musha. It is amazing.

[WhatThePresidentSays]

GTA series soundtrack never gets old

[zgrabgah]

So, how many people caught him confusing lynx with jaguar. Lol, T2k does have an amazing soundtrack though

[GinkoArtEtc]

I miss Judgement Day

[filipechannel]

ele vai roubar sua mulher !

[redmario7]

I agree that classic video game music was the best, but today's music are remaining better and improvement than two decades ago.

Have Elder Scrolls songs add to your playlist, Mr. Tallarico!

[LAtrailers]

COSMIC CARNAGE LMAO

[thecristovar]

Mark should interview Mohammed from Qatar :P

[allthingsawesome2]

cool

[maniacchris]

tommy tallarico is a douche bag. Always hated that guy.

[burucchi]

Mark needed to tell him to add Ys music to the show, hahaha. And Falcom in general. Believe it!

[brodiger]

i Hope Tommy Performs Dragon Quest someday

[fsmetal]

I do not understand why people love the music for Halo and Kingdom Hearts. Final Fantasy, with the exceptions of X-2 and XIII, does have wonderful music, as does Metal Gear Solid and God of War

[calantlor]

Earth worm buging u 4 years .... im still gonna bug u XD

[cansecoisgod]

FACT: THE MUSIC TODAY IS CRAP!! The End

[olfan92]

@cansecoisgod i miss rock music, rock is the shizzle :)

[Alianger]

why u no appreciate the genesis sound chip all of a sudden?

[bobopatchigglerrulez]

@Alianger he was saying it can either have really bad music, or really good music, some companies knew how to make good Genesis music while others didn't, games like Sonic, Streets of Rage, Super Hang on, Toejam and Earl have great music, but games like Road Rash, X-Men, and Toy Story... not so much

[Alianger]

@bobopatchigglerrulez Sure and that I do agree with. What bothers me is to see him perpetuating the view that the Genesis in particular had some of the worst sounding tracks, as if there was something inherently wrong with it and devs had to somehow overcome this to make it sound good. You never hear someone mention the NES when on the subject of bad sound. He then goes on to make fun of Cosmic Carnage which is actually a good example of the sound chip capabilities.

[Trusteft]

EXOLON!!!

[Skoolkidsproduction]

Where the hell is Mohammed from Qatar.

[XBladenoJutsu]

Yes! Musha is another example of the YM2612 used right. I can think of a ton of Genesis games with great music. Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, the Thunderforce series (especially IV), Streets of Rage, Sonic of course, Battle Mania Daiginjou, Devilish, Midnight Resistance, Verytex, Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III, Vapor Trail, Golden Axe, the list just goes on and on.

[Luigi84289]

@XBladenoJutsu The Genesis was superior to the SNES in every way. It was designed to be a home arcade machine. The YM2612 worked in conjunction with it's programmable sound generator.

[XBladenoJutsu]

@Luigi84289 I know this already. I also know about most of the specs of the old consoles, especially the NES, Genesis and SNES because I make NES and Genesis chiptunes, and you really learn alot about them that way.

[Luigi84289]

@XBladenoJutsu Wow that's cool man. 

[XendmustB3]

Hannah Minx?

[nickranzeru]

@XendmustB3 ?

[DavidRoyThompson]

Haha nice, Cosmic Karnage!

[Picogeta]

I had a chance to meet and chat with Tommy Tallarico when he brought VGL to Portugal. Outstanding guy, it was a real pleasure. Glad to see him well.

[DavidRoyThompson]

@colormokey , that's great man

[ColorMokey]

First

[InternetSenation]

@ColorMokey But you're still a faggot.