I agree with your assessment and funny enough, I think my two older kids agree too Sean. It was a fun show, but for me the real enjoyment came in the first 10 minutes of the classics and watching that idiot attempt play Space Invaders along with the later Frogger match-up. The RPG stuff was completely lost on me. The first piano solo, although skilled, had nothing I recognized. As for Trevor's M.U.L.E. suggestion, hell yeah!!! http://www.c64audio.com/free/cd_new/cd/8bitweapon/MULE%20(Bitblaster%20mix).... I thought it was also interesting the entire night was Namcoless. Considering the fact that Namco is trying to make a buck off of arcade ringtones, I figured they wanted cash to use their music. Nevertheless, this is a fact that is not easily explained to my Pacmaniac son. Sean McLachlan wrote:
I went on Sat. night, and it was OK. Console heavy, but there was enough coin op/NES to make it interesting. No mention of the 2600, but I guess when most games didn't have any music for that platform, you have to understand why.
There was a ton of game music that I had never even played the game from, like Final Fantasy, and WoW. The MC (Missile Command? No, Master of Ceremonies) was some guy who worked composing music for games, and the last couple of songs he pulled out a guitar and played along. He pranced around the stage like he was a rockstar, but it really just made him look like a doofus.
Biggest hit of the night was some guy who played the SMB music on the piano while blindfolded . D00d had l33t skilz.
Anyone else go?