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Originally Posted by Alex's Trip
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I am really not kidding about the video game music. In a way it's on a higher level than other forms of music. It plays on a loop (unless it's like one of those skateboarding games where they have songs by real rock bands, which by now they've probably configured it so that you can make a playlist of those provided songs, and listen to that while you're playing a course), but yeah, it plays on a loop and it has to be good enough to be distinguishable from any other video game music, and good enough that it can be played on a loop and not become annoying in the process. Good enough that it becomes memorable and inseparable from the game it appears on. Tetris has great music. Mario in most forms has had great music. Yoshi's Island has some of my favorite video game music, especially the parts where Yoshi is in a cave of some sort. Zelda on NES, and the list goes on.
Something similar is probably the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies approach to using classical music in their cartoons.