Halloween VGM: Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2 is my favorite of the “classic” style of Resident Evil games, and I know I’m not alone as many people still claim the series was at its best with RE2. The earlier games had a great sense of the classic B-movie frights of being trapped in a spooky house (or in the case of RE2, a spooky police headquarters) with the undead. This particular track, simply called The Front Hall, is probably…

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Buying virtual things that no one will see

I took yesterday off from work due to feeling like crap, which gave me a lot more time to devote to gaming. Or at least that’s what I thought it would do. As it turns out, I simply devoted my time to doing weird time-wasting activities. Like going into Playstation Home. I hardly ever go there anymore. But the lure of Halloween events was too great, and I had to see what there was to…

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Problems with Halloween VGM

It's come to my attention that the music player has vanished from my recent Halloween VGM articles. I'm working on getting them back up ASAP. Edit: Looks like the problem might be with the Chrome browser. The music player is still there if I view the site in FireFox.

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Halloween VGM: Super Mario 64

For a change, this one is a pretty spooky song from a pretty spooky level from a not very spooky game! Super Mario 64’s haunted house level, Big Boo's Haunt was one of my favorite levels in the game. It was such a weird place. You get there not by jumping into a painting like every other level, but by diving into a tiny house in a bird cage that’s inside a Boo! Once in…

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Halloween VGM: Silent Hill

Silent Hill is scary for a lot of reasons. It has crazy monsters, great dark atmosphere, and a pretty haunting soundtrack. Most of the music during the game tends to be sort of industrial in nature, but the opening self-titled song is a classic. Every Silent Hill game has a great title song associated with it, but the first one definitely feels spookier, while the later songs, like Silent Hill 3’s “You’re Not Here” and…

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Halloween VGM: Monster Party!

Today’s spooky soundtrack come from a game for the NES that wasn’t a huge hit when it came out, but I think over the years it’s gained a little bit of a bigger status by being available through emulators, and just how plain weird the game is. Monster Party starts off like a simple platformer, with simple happy music. Then you get about halfway through the first stage, and all hell breaks loose. Literally! Just…

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