Discussed herein: the original Legend of Zelda , the band Deep Purple, the man responsible for what are arguably the two most famous composi...

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Earthbound , a thoroughly strange Nintendo game that pits plucky psychic children against animate g...

Short version: the right idea, but the wrong video game franchise. More than two years ago, I posted here on this blog about a Japanese dis...

On one hand, this post may appeal especially to the video game-literate members of my audience. On the other, it speaks to a larger sensatio...

There’s a certain thing that happens online among video game-oriented people, where someone posts a clip of some game music that everyone ha...

For a long time, I hated Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers,” but much in the way that the opening scene of The Americans reignited m...

Does everyone suffer from the strange syndrome in which the duration of a memory has little correlation to the significance of the event tha...

I’m going through a Serge Gainsbourg phase. That’s something awful people say to indirectly tell you that they’re classy, worldly, cultural,...

Fellow nerds, help me out. So I like Pink Lady , the Japanese duo who scored big in the late 70s and early 80s and, as I noted in a now-year...

I have a soft spot for the late 80s. And in saying that, I actually mean that I have a soft spot for the pop culture of the 80s and not my e...

It makes me happy that years of geeky pursuits have trained me to notice things most other people wouldn’t. Like music. From a bygone Game B...

(Apparently I’m starting September by firing the geekiness in full force.) I have this thing where I like something and then find out the th...

Worth noting: The composer of the Donkey Kong Country games owes a debt to to Vangelis’s “Antarctica,” at least for Donkey Kong Country 2 ’...

Hey there. Meet the Great Giana Sisters. Look familiar? No? How about a different perspective: Get it now? Yes, these sisters are distaff ri...

Warning: This post examines Night Work, the new Scissor Sisters album. Related YouTube clips feature the album artwork, so there will be Rob...

I downloaded this song months ago and haven’t tired of it yet. It’s “Black Magic” by Magic Wands, from 2008. And I think it may be a winner....

It may be one short, “citation needed” sentence in the Wikipedia entry for the Super Mario Bros. theme , but it was enough to get me thinki...

After I posted the bit about Coldplay, Creaky Boards and Legend of Zelda in which I marveled at the strangeness of a non-electronic rock ba...