Aug 23, 2011, 10:23 PM
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You Heard VGM WHERE?
So here I was tonight making my way to my seat at Citizens Bank Park for the Mets-Phillies game. The top of the first inning had already concluded, and the Phillies' massive HD jumbotron was showing highlights from Monday night's blowout win.
The music with the highlight starts playing, and I'm taken aback, because I instantly recognize it as videogame music. It totally throws me off-kilter because it was the most random of settings. I knew the song -- knew it very well -- but because I was hearing it in an unexpected environment, I was straining to place exactly what it is. I was just hoping the song would keep playing long enough so I could figure it out. The fast pace, the synth electric guitar, the escalating sense of urgency -- I had heard it hundreds of times before. Finally, it hit me:
FIGHT!! Ver. 1 from Grandia II
Well, that was random. And 40,000 people at the ballpark had no idea they were listening to battle music from a JRPG.
Now it's your turn. Have you heard a VGM song in a completely unexpected setting? What was the song and where was it?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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