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128 - What Makes Old Video Games Great?

No Dumb Questions

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Playing Cassylvania With Chip and Atom

i still think the simple magic is what makes it awesome, that there are only so many things going on at once. To me, the music is hugely important. The one that gets me is i'll be hit in tennis balls and i will remember this song from playing cassylvania with chip and atom in fifth or sixth grade. I start thinking, whent i put my grown up brain on this o these intervals make any sense? Why did this guy do why did he write te how do you think of that melody? Nobody writes melodies that inventive. And then i started listening to it, where cestral arrangements and stuff people have done with it cause they're nervs.

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