Video Games Live
My blog has finally come. I would of done it yesterday, but I decided to play Zelda instead. =D You can't blame me for that! So Friday was the day. I went to work as normal but I left at 3 which was so nice. My boyfriend also got off at that time and we went home together. He said he wanted to leave at 4:30ish so that gave me a little more than an hour to get ready. So I hop in the shower and do my thing, get out fix my hair do my makeup. We leave a little before 4:30, we're not going to drive to the city. No we're taking Bart and then walking hella far, and up this huge steep hill. Joy. Um once we're off of Bart we stop to eat really quick then we make the journey upwards. Then when we get up we're not done walking yet. Then we have to walk 2 maybe 3 blocks more to the actual place. We get there at like 6:15. Not a whole lot is going on, they have some prestuff going on. A Guitar Hero tournament I guess, they gave a prize out later for the highest score. They did that as well with Space Invaders. They were selling very little actually and hardly any of it wasnt something you could just get at Hot Topic. I forget when but a mascot of Sonic came out and we took a few pictures with him. Sadly those are the only oictures of the whole damned thing. Lame. So we kinda flitter about just waiting to be let inside for the show. Once people start lining up we join and stand and wait. Finally the gates are opened and we can go inside. We have floor seats and we get to go in the doors closest to us, sweet. We get help finding our seats and we sit. We are Section 2 Row R seats 20&22. I have an isle seat. The seats were so small and so close and very low to the ground. The was the only major thing. We had really good seats, if we had been over a little more we probably would of had like the best seats. We were in the middle section where the stage was thats why. The lights dim and it the cue that the show is about to start. They start off with a tribute to the classics, they start off with Pong. They have a live orchestra playing the music to the games. It's really something very awesome to see. My favorite from the classics was Ghost and Goblins. I'm way better at the game than my bf thats probably why, hehe. Then after that Tommy Tallarico 
came out and introduced the conductor, Jack Wall. Talked a little bit. You know there was so much I cant remember which order everything went in. I know at one time they had someone come on stage and he had to play Space Invaders. While he played the orchestra played live with him, changing depending on how he played. Also he had to play by literally moving back and forth on the stage, he became the ship. It was really very cool. Um what else, sorry this isnt exacly in order like I said. I know they showed a video of Mr. Hideo Kojima of him introducing the music of Metal Gear Solid. It was really cute, they had a guy dressed up as a gaurd and he was just walking back and forth. Then you see this cardboard box and it's moving around, stopping when the gaurd looks. At one point the guy pulls on a string and he gets an ! over his head, he's on extra alert. He just keeps walking back and forth and he has the ! for a while like in the game. Then he pulls the string and and it goes back down, he passes the box looks at it and shrugs and walks off. The box just remains there, through the whole next song thing. I think it was Myst afterwards. Then after that Tommy jumps out of the box, poor guy being stuffed in there that whole time! He said he was the only one small enough to fit inside. They did a couple of like random games. One I can remember was called Civilation, i've never even heard of it. It was cool though cause they has a choir going along with the orchestra. They did WOW as well, which didnt intrest me that much since I dont play but it was still cool with the shoir and stuff. They had a couple of people come up to play Frogger, again while the orchestra played. It was a little kid vs someone dressed as Mario. The little kid kicked that guys ass, and won a very expensive labtop for it.
They also did Metal Of Honor and they said they felt it was inappropriate to play game footage, so they showed real pictures and such of that actual time in history. It a little depressing some of the images were like whoa. I think it was good though not to show the game clips.
They did a song from FF but they said Square would not allow them show footage while they played, they did some for KH as well. They showed Disney clips for that. I wonder why it is they wouldnt allow it, oh well though. The big thing though was when they showed a video of Koji Kondo the man who made the music for Mario&Zelda(others) saying he wished he could be there. Tommy was like wait, wait *wishes* he could be there, He is here! And they brought Mr Kondo out, and everyone is on their feet. He comes out with Link and Zelda so you know whats coming next. Yup the music of The Legend of Zelda. It was so cool. That wouldnt be the last we saw of Mr. Kondo no he would later come out and actually play. He played some Mario stuff, no Zelda which made me a little sad but still. That I feel was like an honor just to see him actually playing. There was a 20 minute break before the second oart began. They had Martin Leung play I think he also played in the first half I dont remember. He got famous for playing the Mario theme blindfolded. He didnt however play blindfolded then, which was like well if thats how your going to hype him up he better damn well do that. He is very talented though, he has very very quick fingers. Really impressive to watch him play. They had this voice actor and honestly Im not sure if he doesx actual voice work or just sounds. Cuz they had him demostrate some stuff, like a baby. Various bug sounds, A really big monster doing diffrent things. He was also very talented but they kinda just over did it with the whole big monster doing this thing. Dee Baker was his name. What other games did they do. They did Advent Rising which I guess Tommy worked on, eh was all I had to say. Im kinda drawing a blank all a sudden. Oh they had the guy who is the voice of mario&luigi(the others) come out too. OMG YES! I forget when but at one point during the second half my bf was like, "dude omg there is Shigeru Miyamoto!" I was like are you kidding? He was no I would recoginze he's face anywhere. It was crazy, he was like I'd say maybe 4-5 rows ahead of us in the next section, which was 3. On the end on the isle was where Mr. Kondo sat. So it was as far as I know it was Mr. Kondo, his translater I believe then Mr. Miyamoto. They never said that Mr. Miyamoto was there but he was and we saw him and we were sitting in the same room as him. Unfreaking believeable. Those guys are like legends, it's insane. Whew! It was starting to get late and I thought they were going to end the show without doing Halo which would of Suprised me. I think a lot of people might of been thinking that too cuz people were shouting for Halo. So Tommy was like Ok lets give them Halo!! That was really cool too. The choir and stuff on their parts, really awesome. The whole orchestra parts everything.
They played Sephiroth's theme One-Winged Angel. I am the biggest Rtard as I have heard that song a dozen times or more and I never realized they were saying "SEPH-RI-ROTH!" LoL. Yeah...Ok I gotta hurry this up im really late for work. Anyway I cant remember everything they played in the second half I think they ended the night with Martin Leung playing a medely of 10 FF songs, then he went on play some Mario. There was a meet and greet afterwards, but we couldnt stay and I was very disappointed. It was cuz it was nearly 11 when we got out and Bart stopped running at 12 and we had to walk all the way back to the Bart station. We made it back with only 6 minutes to spare and it was the last train of the night. I was so bummed though because it was like when are we ever going to get a chance to meet these people except at something like this. And we had to go home. It was so fun though and I would definetly go again and if you get a chance if it comes to where you are go and check it out. It's really something worth seeing. Ok thats long enough and Im sure theres a lot more but thats what I can think of right now and that and I gotta get out of here. hehe till next time!
came out and introduced the conductor, Jack Wall. Talked a little bit. You know there was so much I cant remember which order everything went in. I know at one time they had someone come on stage and he had to play Space Invaders. While he played the orchestra played live with him, changing depending on how he played. Also he had to play by literally moving back and forth on the stage, he became the ship. It was really very cool. Um what else, sorry this isnt exacly in order like I said. I know they showed a video of Mr. Hideo Kojima of him introducing the music of Metal Gear Solid. It was really cute, they had a guy dressed up as a gaurd and he was just walking back and forth. Then you see this cardboard box and it's moving around, stopping when the gaurd looks. At one point the guy pulls on a string and he gets an ! over his head, he's on extra alert. He just keeps walking back and forth and he has the ! for a while like in the game. Then he pulls the string and and it goes back down, he passes the box looks at it and shrugs and walks off. The box just remains there, through the whole next song thing. I think it was Myst afterwards. Then after that Tommy jumps out of the box, poor guy being stuffed in there that whole time! He said he was the only one small enough to fit inside. They did a couple of like random games. One I can remember was called Civilation, i've never even heard of it. It was cool though cause they has a choir going along with the orchestra. They did WOW as well, which didnt intrest me that much since I dont play but it was still cool with the shoir and stuff. They had a couple of people come up to play Frogger, again while the orchestra played. It was a little kid vs someone dressed as Mario. The little kid kicked that guys ass, and won a very expensive labtop for it.
They also did Metal Of Honor and they said they felt it was inappropriate to play game footage, so they showed real pictures and such of that actual time in history. It a little depressing some of the images were like whoa. I think it was good though not to show the game clips.
They did a song from FF but they said Square would not allow them show footage while they played, they did some for KH as well. They showed Disney clips for that. I wonder why it is they wouldnt allow it, oh well though. The big thing though was when they showed a video of Koji Kondo the man who made the music for Mario&Zelda(others) saying he wished he could be there. Tommy was like wait, wait *wishes* he could be there, He is here! And they brought Mr Kondo out, and everyone is on their feet. He comes out with Link and Zelda so you know whats coming next. Yup the music of The Legend of Zelda. It was so cool. That wouldnt be the last we saw of Mr. Kondo no he would later come out and actually play. He played some Mario stuff, no Zelda which made me a little sad but still. That I feel was like an honor just to see him actually playing. There was a 20 minute break before the second oart began. They had Martin Leung play I think he also played in the first half I dont remember. He got famous for playing the Mario theme blindfolded. He didnt however play blindfolded then, which was like well if thats how your going to hype him up he better damn well do that. He is very talented though, he has very very quick fingers. Really impressive to watch him play. They had this voice actor and honestly Im not sure if he doesx actual voice work or just sounds. Cuz they had him demostrate some stuff, like a baby. Various bug sounds, A really big monster doing diffrent things. He was also very talented but they kinda just over did it with the whole big monster doing this thing. Dee Baker was his name. What other games did they do. They did Advent Rising which I guess Tommy worked on, eh was all I had to say. Im kinda drawing a blank all a sudden. Oh they had the guy who is the voice of mario&luigi(the others) come out too. OMG YES! I forget when but at one point during the second half my bf was like, "dude omg there is Shigeru Miyamoto!" I was like are you kidding? He was no I would recoginze he's face anywhere. It was crazy, he was like I'd say maybe 4-5 rows ahead of us in the next section, which was 3. On the end on the isle was where Mr. Kondo sat. So it was as far as I know it was Mr. Kondo, his translater I believe then Mr. Miyamoto. They never said that Mr. Miyamoto was there but he was and we saw him and we were sitting in the same room as him. Unfreaking believeable. Those guys are like legends, it's insane. Whew! It was starting to get late and I thought they were going to end the show without doing Halo which would of Suprised me. I think a lot of people might of been thinking that too cuz people were shouting for Halo. So Tommy was like Ok lets give them Halo!! That was really cool too. The choir and stuff on their parts, really awesome. The whole orchestra parts everything.
They played Sephiroth's theme One-Winged Angel. I am the biggest Rtard as I have heard that song a dozen times or more and I never realized they were saying "SEPH-RI-ROTH!" LoL. Yeah...Ok I gotta hurry this up im really late for work. Anyway I cant remember everything they played in the second half I think they ended the night with Martin Leung playing a medely of 10 FF songs, then he went on play some Mario. There was a meet and greet afterwards, but we couldnt stay and I was very disappointed. It was cuz it was nearly 11 when we got out and Bart stopped running at 12 and we had to walk all the way back to the Bart station. We made it back with only 6 minutes to spare and it was the last train of the night. I was so bummed though because it was like when are we ever going to get a chance to meet these people except at something like this. And we had to go home. It was so fun though and I would definetly go again and if you get a chance if it comes to where you are go and check it out. It's really something worth seeing. Ok thats long enough and Im sure theres a lot more but thats what I can think of right now and that and I gotta get out of here. hehe till next time!