{"id":1084,"date":"2005-03-07T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2005-03-07T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T10:28:12","slug":"me-and-hip-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/07\/me-and-hip-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and Hip Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t play a lot of video games these days, and haven’t really for years and years. But two of the games I will always remember from my NES days are Metroid and Kid Icarus. Great, great games.<\/p>\n

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One of the things that made these games memorable was the great music by composer Hip Tanaka. The games these days have rock soundtracks and great sound effects, but the NES basically gave the music composers three channels to work with, and Tanaka made the most of them.<\/p>\n

Feeling nostalgiac yet?<\/p>\n

Download the actual NSF sound archives at Overclocked Remix<\/a>. You’ll need Meridian Prime<\/a> to play ’em back. The sound archives are just that: archives. So hit forward and reverse to hear the different tracks.<\/p>\n

Additional Fun NES Links:<\/p>\n

Super Mario Theme on Guitar<\/a><\/p>\n

Super Mario Theme on Piano<\/a><\/p>\n

Mario Twins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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