Have yourself a NES-ified Christmas

by Vladimir Cole { Dec 15th 2005 at 12:45PM }

Remember that post we made about 16 awesome songs redone in 8-bit music style? Mafialligator, one of the artists behind the original album, has released 16 traditional Christmas songs in the same format. Like magic, stale songs are fresh again.

Here's the playlist. Download the songs, burn 'em to a CD, and stuff a gamer's stocking. One request: if you carol around your 'hood, play this as your instrumental accompaniment.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Perry Como
Carol Of The Bells - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych
Russian Dance (Trepak) - Tchaikovsky
Silver Bells - Bing Crosby
You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft
Let it Snow - Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Eddie Pola and George Wyle
What's This? - Danny Elfman
Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
Christmas Don't Be Late - Dave Seville
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
The Twelve Days of Christmas (speed mix)
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
Winter Wonderland - Felix Bernard
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine

[Image from The 8bits of Christmas by 8bitpeoples.]

[Via British Gaming Blog]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mike @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

i love this 8 bit music crap...the last post re: this was awesome

syco @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

I have grown to just dislike 99% of all christmas music. I downloaded that just for Carol of the Bells, as I still like that song. I can't listen to any of the rest of that, even if it's 8bitified.

Jago @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Same here syco...I like Christmas and everything...but I'm just tired of the music.

Sturat @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

It doesn't sound enough like videogame music. It needs percussion and fewer sound channels. Fan works like these mainly serve to remind us how talented the real game composers really were.

Zombie @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Seems to me they just converted the damn things from MIDIs.

bigos @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

How the crap do you unroll a tarball in Windows? BTW I am not a Linux user. I have searched the net high and low and am stumped. I want my 8bit music. Why is this so difficult?

Yoshi Likes Boys @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

At least the waves are sometimes right. That's pretty pathetic.

Peter @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

You forogt to link to the awesome record from your source image:

http://8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php?artist=The%208bitpeoples#8BP038

Nullsleep @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Interesting post. However, the image accompanying the post is the album cover for "The 8bitpeoples - 8bits of Christmas", a release from 2003 containing Christmas songs composed on 8 different hardware platforms from the Atari 2600 to the NES to the X68000. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the 16 songs mentioned in this post.

Those interested in the release that is actually pictured in this article can find it here: http://www.8bitpeoples.com

:)

Monk @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Welcome to the blogosphere, where you can steal an image from anywhere on the Internet and not have to pay royalties to the owners of that image... yet still rake in cash when people read your site and see/visit your advertisers.

vc @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Thanks for the note, Nullsleep. The image was in our content management system. Either we or Engadget wrote about the album in the past. Just to be clear: I didn't go to 8bitpeoples.com and gank the image just for this post. It showed up in our CMS when I searched for "christmas."

I'm updating the body of the post now to give credit.