Saturday, January 7, 2012

Video Games Musicals: The Future?

So a fairly new channel on Youtube called RandomEncountersEnt has caught my attention with their video game musicals (I'm also a gamer in addition to my love of musicals).

The first musical of their's that I saw was Pac-Man the Musical: A Pacapella Song. Which as a fan of the old arcade machines this peaked my interest in what they did (I am still terrible at Pac-Man however).

One thing they do that makes them unique is the fact that they do what they call "Bonus Encounters" which are generally short behind-the-scenes, additional little musicals, skits, or just odd little tidbits, here is Pac-Man musical temp track which was shown to the cast before recording.

RandomEncounters preformed one of their most popular musicals Needlemouse: The Musical at Sega's Sonic Boom at E3. Sega is the publisher of the Sonic the Hedgehog games that Needlemouse is based on. If the actual company recognizes the song as good advertising without having to do any work themselves than we know that we have something.

Check out their others musicals such as:

Check them out, they're pretty good and just keep getting better.

Website Story

Website Story is a parody of West Side Story. It was posted by College Humor on Youtube on Aug 6, 2009. It is a parody set in the modern times. Several songs a parodied including

  • When You're on the Net = When You're a Jet
  • I'm on Twitter = I Feel Pretty
  • Pandora = Maria
  • E-Harmony = America
  • Evite = Tonight (They make a blogging joke in this one)
The description of the video says "CollegeHumor's first Broadway musical since (LOL)Cats"

Watch it here: http://youtu.be/FtPb8g8Jl6I