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Yeah, What They Said is a new feature on tunequest. Some people call it "link sharing." These links won't necessarily be music or iTunes related, but I'll try not to stray too far from the topics on this site. Mostly though, it'll be stuff that's cool, but that I don't have time to write about. Behind the Mario Maestro's Music: Koji Kondo was in his mid-20s when he wrote the iconic ...

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When I was in middle school, I became a big fan of the first few entries to the Mega Man series of games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Game play was straight-forward. The stories were fairly one-dimensional Mega Man good; all others bad, but exciting. And each level, named for an element or mineral (Bubble Man, Heat Man, Air Man, etc), proved to be a uniquely constructed ...

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Even in 8-bit audio, the theme to The Legend of Zelda is a rousing piece of music. But add a full orchestra to it, and you have something phenomenal. The Tokyo Symphony really imbues the song with both an expansive power and a lofty tenderness. Enjoy. Zelda

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