Video games seem to have it all. Even from their early
arcade days, when the game had a singular, simplistic objective, video games
had the populace enamoured. As time progressed, they expanded, evolving into
interactive complex stories with surprise twists, with a variety of
increasingly spectacular gameplay, not to mention the inevitable increase in
graphic quality. One of the things that has always been at the core of great
gaming, however, has been the soundtracks. To keep the sound of a game fresh
and interesting when you have hours upon hours of playing ahead of you is a
feat in and of itself, but audio directors always find new ways to go above and
beyond when it comes to catchy game music. But for some of the older video
games, from the 64-bit era and beyond, their soundtracks find themselves being
lost to the ravages of time despite their superior quality because the sound
has become outdated in these High Definition times. Thankfully, a website
called OverClocked Remix has made it their mission to remix popular video game
soundtracks, bringing a whole new dimension to the catchy tunes that filled our
childhood. One of their most recent collaborations is entitled “NiGHTS: Lucid
Dreaming,” an album comprised entirely of remixes from the Sega Saturn game
“NiGHTS into Dreams.”
