tecthread: new video game music discovery!!

[Samus Aran]

Despite having Link's Awakening since I was a little tyke, I never had any clue that it contained homages to a certain Japan-only game that the LA team previously worked on, entitled "Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru," or "For the Frog the Bell Tolls."

The homages in question are found in a certain little villa. Prince Richard is from this other game, and so is the music in his house. I guess this also explains all the goddamn frogs in his house, which I never understood until now.

Maybe you guys already knew this, but I seriously just discovered it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwCFA4f1ipQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lL9_jGX78[/youtube]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i love it when vidya companies do silly and non-obvious homages to music from older games like this

lol the original version is so much more stylish

[Commander Fuckass]

i love it when vidya companies do silly and non-obvious homages to music from older games like this

lol the original version is so much more stylish

i have DX so deal w/it shitnerd

[Samus Aran]

i have DX so deal w/it shitnerd

i'm pretty sure he's talking about the original version of the song that this thread is about. as in the version in the original game, which is not link's awakening.

really dp, if you're going to say something like "deal with it shitnerd," at least know what the fuck you're talking about.

[snoorkel]

woha cool. that game has all kinds of weird cameos and easter eggs in it, if i recall

/whenvideogameswerea ctuallycool

[Samus Aran]

woha cool. that game has all kinds of weird cameos and easter eggs in it, if i recall

/whenvideogameswerea ctuallycool

yeah, link's awakening has a lot of mario series cameos, in particular. chain chomp, yoshi, goombas, and piranha plants. there's also a monster that looks and acts just like kirby.

[snoorkel]

yeah, link's awakening has a lot of mario series cameos, in particular. chain chomp, yoshi, goombas, and piranha plants. there's also a monster that looks and acts just like kirby.

that really confused me when I was younger (like 5 or 6 and first playing gameboy), because I thought itwas from super mario 64 ()which is isn't of course but I played that first)

but then it was in a zelda game 

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i have DX so deal w/it shitnerd

lmao

[Kalahari Inkantation]

yeah, link's awakening has a lot of mario series cameos, in particular. chain chomp, yoshi, goombas, and piranha plants. there's also a monster that looks and acts just like kirby.

ugh, i adore the gb/gbc zeldas for this reason

and we'll never have another one again

[Samus Aran]

btw, this "For the Frog the Bell Tolls" apparently plays quite like Link's Awakening, using largely the same game engine, and there's an English fan translation for it, so it does have a following

kind of interested in trying it out sometime

[don't let's]

I've read about this before but I never checked out exactly what it was in homage too.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

yeah, link's awakening has a lot of mario series cameos, in particular. chain chomp, yoshi, goombas, and piranha plants. there's also a monster that looks and acts just like kirby.

so that means mario is part of the zelda timeline...

[Commander Fuckass]

i'm pretty sure he's talking about the original version of the song that this thread is about. as in the version in the original game, which is not link's awakening.

really dp, if you're going to say something like "deal with it shitnerd," at least know what the fuck you're talking about.

calm down kaz....

[Classic]

I love it. 

[Classic]

[youtube]m2LoG00_tbs[/youtube]