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 Member 259 Level 18.63 Mar 2006 
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How did you discover video game music existed outside of video games?
I was 14 or 15 when, like everyone else around that age with an Internet connection at that time, I had Napster.
Of course, I downloaded mainstream music. But one day I browsed somebody's files and found the music to a Mountain Dew commercial. ("Mountain Dew commercial.mp3") This made me wonder what other things besides mainstream music Napster users had. So I started searching for random things like TV shows, TV channels and then single keywords like "commercial," "speech," etc. And then...I noticed my Nintendo 64 next the TV.... "Nintendo".... OMG. The limited-to-100-results came back almost instantly....Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, Zelda...etc. I remember the first track I downloaded. "Nintendo - Mario Kart 64 - Rainbow Road.mp3" I started playing it and was amazed that I could download Nintendo music from other Napster users. While Napster was running I downloaded every single track I could find to every single game I had ever played. I downloaded more Nintendo music than mainstream music. During this time I wondered how the music got into MP3 format. I assumed somebody just recorded the music through their computer's sound card and shared it on Napster. (I didn't specifically call it, nor know of "game rips" then.) I encountered another VGM fan on Napster and he told me they came from "soundtracks." I didn't know video games had soundtracks! I did a little bit of searching online and found some OSTs on www.gamemusic.com. But around that time Napster went under and I started using Gnutella and then Kazaa. But by then I had had a job and started buying them from that site with money orders. Disgusted with Kazaa, I started using Audio Galaxy and downloaded an MP3 that had a URL (I think) to Gamingforce Audio...which in turn led me to this message board and it's massive amount of FTPs with VGM. So, how did you discover video game music existed in a different medium other than just the game cartridge/CD/DVD? Jam it back in, in the dark. 
Last edited by Joe Wiewel; Jun 4, 2006 at 11:51 PM.
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