It's a Damn Shame - A Rant by G Lux

[Jelux Da Casual]

Hey guys, G Lux here. I just felt like venting and figured, ah hell, why not post about like everybody else does right? That having been said, hope you take the time to read it, maybe even agree with me a little. K, here's we GO!
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Man, I remember some good times back in the day; coming home from school, pouring a bowl of Berry Berry Kix (damn straight, they don't even make that anymore), plopping in front of the TV, tuning to The Disney Afternoon, and munching away the time. I was also fortunate enough to have a NES when I was younger too. So imagine the level of stoked I reached when CAPCOM, a game company that had already brought me Mega Man dropped the D-bomb with DuckTales. "OMG, I HAVE TO HAVE IT!!!!" is what my basic response to that was, and have it I did.

I didn't write this to talk about the game since we all know it's epic, but more the music. The music in this game is awesome, so much so that DuckTales was the first game that really helped me to appriecate the diversity chip sound could deliver. I mean, Mega Man already had me hooked on "bleeps and bloops" as some people call it, but with DuckTales really showed me the range of style chiptune could do, largely in part to one song in particular.

Now, I'm pretty sure what song most of you think I'm talking about, but keep in mind I did title this "It's a Damn Shame" and the Moon music is far from that. I'm talking about the African Mines music. See, my family since before I was even born was heavily jazz influnced, all kinds of jazz, and I naturally I took to it. So when I first played this level and heard the theme music, I kid you not, I literaly put the controller down and jammed so hard I forgot about the game clock and got time over.

For the first time in a video game, I could visualize and hear the different instruments -the lead Sax with that killer intro, the piano with that wicked breakdown, and the bass guitar laying the bassline- just, yeah man, that's song's AWESOME. Even my parents thought that song was cool, and they've never liked chip sound, it always sounded like noise to them.

So what's the problem? Well, fast forward 17 years to now. VGmusic has become such a cutural phenom. I love it, you love it, I know you love it, you know I know you love it. We have sites that exist like Overclocked Remix and VGMix where the idea of making arrangements and remixes of old school vgmusic is centered. Even Newgrounds' Audio Portal has a fairly huge amount, and that's not even a dedicated focus there. It's become so powerful a force that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix's soundtrack was made, not by Capcom's in-house, but the community of OCR!! Yeah, it's that big.

SO WHY THE HELL ISN'T THERE A REMIX OF THIS SONG?!

Seriously, I can't find one, not one and I've been looking. No one's even bother to attempt it, they're all too busy remixing the f***in' Moon theme. In fact, I've only been able to find one other remix that isn't the moon theme, and it sounds more like it should be in MarioKart (Gux - The Amazon Session: OCRemix.org) If I could, I would totally do it myself. Alas, I fail at music. I don't think it's fair that the Moon stage gets all the love. Yeah, it's an awesome song, but there are others. It's right up there with Ice Cap Zone in Sonic 3 or MM2 Wily Stage 1, everybody and their mother's done it.

African Mines doesn't get the arranged and remixed respect it deserves, and that's a damn shame.
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So yeah, I'm good, hey if you liked it stop by here and give it a digg.
http://screwattack.com/node/17097

[xPreatorianx]

Awesom rant I read it truthfully. But ive never played most classic games but I do admit some classic songs from classic games should be remixed. But im not that much of a classic gamer. I still fancy an old KI match or 2. Or some classic super mario but im not that much of a retro gamer so I dont have anything to really contribute to the rant. But atleast you got it all out in the open.

[~Hale "R@CE" Caesar~]

dang G Lux, i didnt kno this meant that much too u     i'm just kiddin around well dude i'm no guy that like to make accurate verions of stuff, i like to remix myself,

 But who knows, maybe the R@Ce will remix this one day, and that reminds me, i need to post my stuff on Oc Remix, i'm trying to make a mvc2 soundtrack and make it so that everbody on their has their own theme....

but anyway, dude, you never kno what might happen,, and dude when i was a kid, i was too busy playing the big dawgs, like mario and ninja turtles and strider and stuff, i did play ducktales but i think i wasnt that good at it, but i kno it was a very good game.....

I like games like Cubicle Kickle, i think that was the name of it, but anyway, dude your right, music for a video game is what makes the game also, and u need that along with other elements to have yourself a good game.....

 If i didnt have so many things i was working on, i'd try to remix it for ya, but sadly i dont think it would be wise for me to take on anymore things right now....

 but never say never, someday you'll get your wish

by the way,m i felt the same ay about psylocke's them from mutant apocolypse "The theme of her first stage, so i got a lil ticked so i went and remade it and updated the theme now it sounds more up to dat and brand new, but all and all, Sabaki gave me motivation with his psylocke for that one, its too bad u dont make music though

[Serious Cat]

I can't find any version of EVE from Dynasty Warriors 4 and that game came out in the last 10 years. Oh, and <3 Duck Tales for the NES, bro, that game is sorely missed.

[[Asian-Jesus]]

Damn Lux, I know how you feel. I remember my younger days of lazily flipping through channels and rocking out to VG music instead of doing hw. 

Before I got into the J-Bands I am into now, such as Beat Crusaders and Doping Panda, I used to be ALL ABOUT the VG tunes. I even tried my hand at remixing stuff ala OCR, but failed hard in my first dozen attempts. Now, I've decided to put it off while I expand my musical horizons.

Although the NES was a few years before my time, it was still a part of my early gaming life.  So like you, I ended up getting into Duck Tales A LOT. After going through the game's OST, I found myself falling more and more in love with the African Mines track like you have.

Well like R@ce said, if I had the time I'd try my hand at remixing again. Perhaps a full on cover.

Hopefully someone remixes the song and you'll get to relive those awesome moments from your youth.