Videogame: The Movie: The Game

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Videogame: The Movie: The Game
Videogame: The Movie: The Game cover
Studio album by Xoc
Released February 8, 2006
Recorded Optical Pies Recorders, Orangevale, California, November 2005–January 2006
Genre Chiptune, Rock
Length 72:07
Label XocMusic.com
Producer(s) Xoc
Professional reviews
Xoc chronology
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(2005)		 Videogame: The Movie: The Game
(2006)		 Mizzle Radish Motet
(2006)


Vintage lobby poster of Videogame: The Movie.
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Vintage lobby poster of Videogame: The Movie.

Videogame: The Movie: The Game, also known as VG:TM:TG, is a concept album of 45 chiptunes and arrangements. On December 2, 2005, Xoc completed a fictional 1,800 word historical account of both Videogame: The Movie, allegedly the very first video game movie, and Videogame: The Movie: The Game, an illegal NES game that appeared years after the movie yet had no significant connection.

The album itself was comprised of original chiptunes, alongside instrumental arrangements of nearly each original track, and was released on February 8, 2006. The albums two components are also known as Videogame: The Movie: The Game: The Cover Album and Videogame: The Movie: The Game: The Original Soundtrack.

Created for Men of the Sea's Videogame Soundtrack Contest 1, VG:TM:TG was selected by the competition's judges as the most enjoyable and most creative album.

Contents

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Detailing the production of Videogame: The Movie in the backdrop of the video game crash of 1983, the film was portrayed as poorly made back in 1981, and later further ruined by clumsy rewrites to add in mentions of a fictional "Amarigatachi" gaming system in the attempt to cash in on the forecasted success of the video game market, finally released in June 1984 and completely ignored due to Star Trek III, Ghostbusters, Gremlins and The Karate Kid also being released in theaters that month. The leading cast was comprised of three actors (Jonathan Brandis, Jill Bennett and Ed Flanders) who all eventually committed suicide.

Bootleg copies of Videogame: The Movie: The Game for the NES began appearing in 1988, believed by some to be made by Tengen as reprisal for the legal battle against Nintendo over the rights to publish Tetris. The game featured game engines and mechanics stolen from several Nintendo games, many of which had been released that same year, suggesting an inside job. The originality of the soundtrack admist the creative theft responsible for the rest of the game remains a mystery.

[edit] Track listing

All music written by Jason Cox.

Xoc Cover Versions
  1. "Hometownton, U.S.A. / Scoreboard" – 2:07
  2. "Clichédius vs Cincinnadius" – 2:13
  3. "Volcanic Caverns" – 2:12
  4. "The Hartford Circus Fire" – 2:25
  5. "Underground Catacombs" – 2:29
  6. "Crystal Frozen Cold Chilly Ice World" – 2:28
  7. "Underwater Maze / Hurry-Up" – 2:24
  8. "Level Boss Theme / Complete" – 2:08
  9. "Glen of Misapprehension" – 2:16
  10. "Title Screen / Level Select" – 2:20
  11. "March To The Base" – 2:43
  12. "Lunar Tower Ruins" – 2:29
  13. "Stealth Mode / Alert Mode" – 2:49
  14. "Lubang Island" – 2:17
  15. "Cutscene / Cardiac Castle" – 2:10
  16. "Final Boss / Death Jingle / Game Over" – 2:19
  17. "End Credits" – 2:33
    Original NES Versions
  18. "Hometownton, U.S.A. {NES version}" – 1:45
  19. "Scoreboard {NES version}" – 0:55
  20. "Clichédius vs Cincinnadius {NES version}" – 2:04
  21. "Volcanic Caverns {NES version}" – 1:37
  22. "Acquisition Jingle {NES version}" – 0:03
  23. "The Hartford Circus Fire {NES version}" – 1:43
  24. "Underground Catacombs {NES version}" – 1:50
  25. "Level Start {NES version}" – 0:05
  26. "Crystal Frozen Cold Chilly Ice World {NES version}" – 2:16
  27. "Level Complete {NES version}" – 0:04
  28. "Underwater Maze {NES version}" – 1:47
  29. "Hurry Up {NES version}" – 0:11
  30. "Level Boss {NES version}" – 2:01
  31. "Boss Defeat {NES version}" – 0:05
  32. "Glen of Misapprehension {NES version}" – 1:58
  33. "Title Screen {NES version}" – 1:20
  34. "1-Up Jingle {NES version}" – 0:02
  35. "Level Select {NES version}" – 1:05
  36. "March to the Base {NES version}" – 1:24
  37. "Lunar Tower Ruins {NES version}" – 1:30
  38. "Stealth Mode {NES version}" – 1:15
  39. "Alert Mode {NES version}" – 0:27
  40. "Lubang Island {NES version}" – 1:25
  41. "Cutscene {NES version}" – 0:21
  42. "Cardiac Castle {NES version}" – 1:14
  43. "Final Boss {NES version}" – 1:28
  44. "Death Jingle / Game Over {NES version}" – 0:13
  45. "End Credits {NES version}" – 1:37

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