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Video Games Live is a concert tour featuring music from a variety of video games, combined with video, light, lasers, and special effects. Debuting in the summer of 2005, Video Games Live was one of the first major video game music concerts to be performed in the United States. Video Games Live is also the first video game music concert to perform in Canada.


DESCRIPTION

Created by video game music composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall , in association with Clear Channel Communications , Video Games Live is a tribute to video game music. The concerts feature music from such video games as '' Halo '', '' Warcraft '', '' Super Mario '', '' The Legend Of Zelda '' and '' Metal Gear Solid '', as well as retro arcade sounds such as '' Tetris '' and '' Asteroids ''. The concept was to bring families to marvel at the advancement of not only video game music, but the video game industry as a whole. During musical sequences, video screens show clips from the game itself, some of which are accompanied by light shows, lasers, and/or special effects, such as smoke, or live action. Such live action includes professional actors acting out certain characters from games, including Solid Snake from '' Metal Gear Solid ''. In addition, the creators of the concert added in audience participation for further engagement.

Another attributes of this concert includes the large audience participation opportunities. Such activities include an arcade exhibit before the concert, hosted by Videotopia , costume contest, the meeting and greeting of video game music composers and developers, and live competition on stage.


HISTORY

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LIST OF REPRESENTED GAMES



SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Video Game Arcade hosted by Videotopia

  • Costume Contest

  • Meet and Greet VGM Composers and Developers

  • Special effects, including lights, lasers, and fogs

  • Live action, such as actors playing a certain character

  • Interactive Audience Segment, where audience members play a video game live onstage as the orchestra plays the music



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