S4E11: Tetris -or- Playing the Classics
About this episode
Jennifer Miller Hammel joins Mike and Jaymo to discuss the legacy of Tetris and its music across various platforms.
Jennifer Miller Hammel, host of Classical California’s Arcade, is t-spinning her way in to discuss the titanic tuneful tetrad of Tetris (Game Boy, 1989), Tetris (NES, 1989), Tetris DX (Game Boy Color, 1998), and Tetris 99 (Nintendo Switch, 2018) with Mike and Jaymo as part of The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog. In this episode, Jennifer shares her efforts to get video game music from game rooms to the concert hall, including how she’s brought video game music into both Classical California’s mornings and always streaming on Classical California’s Arcade featuring both video game music and the classical music that influenced it. Everyone shares some of their favorite video game soundtracks, from Street Fighter and Cruis’n USA to Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Jennifer gives her perspective on how video game music can follow the same trajectory that John Williams took film scores on to get the music integrated into modern classical music performances. Once they pick up the controllers, Jennifer helps contextualize the music attached to Tetris, from the now-iconic Tetris theme…
People in this episode
Hosts: Mike, Jaymo
Guest: Jennifer Miller Hammel
Topics covered
- Tetris
- video game music
- Nintendo Classics
- retro gaming
- game soundtracks
Keywords
- Tetris
- video game music
- Nintendo Switch
- retro games
- Tetris DX
- Classic Tetris World Championship
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Tetris, Tetris DX, Tetris 99, Street Fighter, Cruis’n USA, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Korobeiniki
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