I do get a little weird about it when they're Pokémon games. I got a used copy of Diamond recently whose first owner was very obviously a little girl, and I traded over one or two of her pokémon before I wiped the cart. There was something about a Geodude named JOE and a zubat named FRIGHTEN that was so adorably amusing.BoringSupreez wrote:Do you feel a bit odd when you load a previous owner's save and start messing around? To me it kind of feels like looking through someone's mail or something.
On a completely separate note, does anybody else think that 8-bit and 16-bit video game music will eventually get broadly recognized as its own type of folk music?
I mean, this was a highly unique genre of music whose pieces reached hundreds of thousands of people both directly and indirectly. Those pieces were also rooted in experiences, meaning that the music was almost always experienced in some associated context. Like sea shanties that evolved around specific work on sailboats or ballads that preserved the goings-on of local heroes or events, to have knowledge of a video game tune implies a mutual familiarity with a greater surrounding circumstance. It's something to connect over. Types of old gaming music even have their hallmark instrumentations, just like different types of traditional folk music have theirs (dulcimers, banjos, accordions, concertinas, etc.).
I mean, it's already functioning as folk music as it is, in my opinion, and legacy composers are getting more known and appreciated. So I'm not sure what I'm actually wondering here. Just rambling I suppose.
