Gaming's Best Ambient Tracks

Or rather, "the author's favorite ambient gaming tracks".

Still, a neat list. Always fun to listen to this stuff.

Gaming's Best Ambient Tracks

Some N64 link bait from Vice

THE WEIRD, WEIRD GAMES OF THE NINTENDO 64

N64 article? I'm hooked!

Unbelievable Beetlejuice Minecraft roller coaster

My brother Jon sends me this link of a video of a Beetlejuice roller coaster... Just watch.

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Pac-Man Fever!

I'm reading Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, and in the section about the insane Pac-Man craze of 1981-82, they note that the game was so big that it even inspired novelty songs.

Check Out "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner and Garcia.

Songs about video games are common enough these days, but remember, this was on the radio. The radio.

Super Mario World Sight-reading by Tom Brier

My brother sends me these clips:

What a player! Sight-reading that whole thing? Phenomenal. I almost don't believe it.

And what a song, too! I'm sure this piece can evoke an emotion or two from people who can remember this glorious tune from childhood.

Also check this one: