16 NES-ified covers of hit songs streamed to Xbox 360 playing Kameo

19 Comments by Vladimir Cole Nov 20th 2005 6:30AM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Retro, Wireless, Microsoft Xbox 360

A Something Awful forum user has put together a package of 16 remakes of popular songs synthesized using an NES's audio system. We're currently wirelessly streaming all of these MP3s from the laptop being used to write this post to the Xbox 360 that we're using to play Kameo. Good, sacriligious fun.

REM - Losing My Religion
Europe - Final Countdown
Radiohead - Karma Police
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Slayer - Angel of Death
David Pomeranz - Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now
Coldplay - Yellow
Rick James - Superfreak
Semisonic - Closing Time
(Silence)
Hidden NESmix Intro
Zero Wing (Opening Theme) (4x4 Remix)

Download the package of songs here or here.

[Via 4cr]

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(Page 1) Reader Comments

SilverDogg: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

woah! thanks a lot for the files! =D

these songs kick ass ^_^

Rymix: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Simply terrific. Sweet Home Alabama is cute as hell.

Efren: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Nice!

Hey.. guys, for the love of god please review Smash TV from Live Arcade!

Biggg moneyy Big prizess! I LOVE IT!

thomas_h: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

someone know of an eu mirror? i get like 18k speeds.. it'll take me one hour.. :(

Spence: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Sexual.
it's quite emo though.

2kings: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

im using these with Gta:LcS

Cassidy: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

'Superfreak' sounds like the most badass Boss battle of all time.

I loves me some Nintendo music and these are just awesome.

matt t: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

ok, so when there was that new york concert of 8-bit music, you guys liknked to the sweetest song ever. i forgot to download the song! Please tell me what was it.

Try 8bitpeoples...: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Nullsleep did an incredible cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" with video game synths. Very recommended.

http://8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php?artist=Nullsleep#8BP029

Mesu Kasumai did some great covers of 80s songs on various video game and computer synths. Also recommended.

http://8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php?artist=Mesu%20Kasumai#8BP032

Momus: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

I like some of these better than their originals, but couldn't they have done Fake Plastic Trees instead of Karma Police? And It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) would have been righteous.

Oh no, I've said too much!

Carl Winslow: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

The Final Countdown!! G.O.B. would be proud.

matt w: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

These are great. I agree with Carl, the second I heard The Final Countdown I thought of G.O.B. Curse you Fox Executives! I love 8-bit music.

Nathan Chan: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

I won't be listening to it for hours, its quite slow. Are there other mirrors up?

Jamie: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

I will be mirroring these shortly as soon as they get finish downloading.

Diddy: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

I'll use this in my next album and credit no one :p

eston: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Well God. I wasn't expecting these to make del.icio.us/popular. I'm kalocin on the SA forums, and this was a project that I worked on with a bunch of other forum goons - I'm going to contact them and show them this.

Thanks for the coverage, guys. :)

Jim: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

beyond awesome! ^^

Kevin: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

anybody who liked this should check out http://www.8bitpeoples.com

flatluigi: Dec 18th 2005; 9:06PM

Does anyone have links to the seperate songs for those not blessed with a non-dialup connection?

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