Music in Video Gaming: Great Achievement or Greatest Achievement?

In my very first blog post, I presented gamer comics to you fine people, showing why they were super awesome (in scientific terms.) Then in my second blog post, I presented more comics, but in a more parody milieu.

And now we go once more into the breach. The gaming breach. And don't think for a second I'm not proud of sneaking a Shakespeare reference into a blog post about video games.

OC Remix. The OC Remix is mercifully unrelated to the prime time soap opera of similar name. Instead, it's a community dedicated to remixing music from various video games and presenting them in new and interesting ways. Some of them are serious adaptations of themes from games (such as this version of the iconic Gerudo Valley theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) while some are more parody (such as this version of the Chocobo Theme from the Final Fantasy series.) They're not all great, they're not all even good. Some of them are just plain bizarre. But it's an interesting take on part of what makes video games as popular as they are.

ZREO. ZREO has largely the same idea as OC Remix, except that it focuses specifically on Zelda. The Zelda series has always had extremely memorable music, from the very beginning on the eight-bit system. Anyone who's ever played will know that the theme is so recognizable that once learned, it's never forgotten. Yes, I can name that tune in three notes. (Video games, Shakespeare, and old game shows are the pop culture reference hat trick.)

ZREO is beautiful and OC Remix is creative beyond measure. That's all you need to know.