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Dreadful Ditties

@dreadfulditties.bsky.social

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🎶 Licensed #VGM covers and unlicensed commentary about #NES, #SNES, #Genesis, #Arcade games & more. 🧪 Genre mashups, faithful rearrangements. 💀 Faking it one ditty at a time. 📡 #gamemusic #retrogaming #coverartist #gaming🔗 linktr.ee/dreadfulditties

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 18h

This is peak #vgm and I will not hear otherwise. The Tandy 1000 was such an experience. :D #dos #spaceinvaders

TANDY 1000 DOS Game Music: Super Space Invaders (1991) by Jolyon Myers

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 18d

Some people have no joy in their lives. We try to bring some and they lash out. That’s on them. Keep on rockin’.

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 20

Do you remember that day? The day it rained?

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 15

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is a great perspective. I will celebrate it by adding myself to your total followers. :D

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 8

It invokes the joy and disappointment of the Sega Channel in ways that don’t make sense in today’s streaming world.

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 8

Runners without class, that's who! 😀

Mostly, I'm just musing about SR4 and how they phased out the Decker at the time. But the OG oversized keyboard style decks are the real deal.

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 8

Back in my day, Shadowrunners used cyberdecks and we LIKED IT.

#shadowrun #ttrpg #gaming

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 4

Beautifully well done!

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 3

Agree completely.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Sep 2

That pizza dude is up to something.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bug! was a beautiful mess and is perfect for it. Fight me.

a video game scene with a frog and a man in a hat

ALT: a video game scene with a frog and a man in a hat

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 27

This hallway and what chases the protagonist out of it in Hellraiser (1987).

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 26

Okay, but, like, hear me out. Kinda want to push this further, musically, but it makes me yearn for an event that plays with this idea. 🎶 #deadbydaylight #retro #VGM #covermusic #gamemusic (Sega 'ditties' splash provided by @feralknights.bsky.social )

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 25

fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand

ALT: fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 25

Next on rotation: ToeJam Jammin’ from the beautiful mess that is the #Genesis classic ToeJam & Earl. If this doesn’t make you mentally hear screeching Super Hi-Tops, random belches, and that elevator ding, I’ve failed you. #vgm #gamemusic #toejamandearl

ToeJam Jammin' (ToeJam & Earl)

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Skips A Beat Music @skipsabeatmusic.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here is my soprano saxophone cover of 'Gusty Garden Galaxy' originally from the game "Super Mario Galaxy." Listening to this song has always put me in a good mood. Hope you enjoy! 🎷• 🎹
#saxophone #sopranosaxophone #gustygardengalaxy #videogamemusic #nintendo #musicsky #space
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Gusty Garden Galaxy - Soprano Sax

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is amazing. I both need, and have no need for, context.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 25

Candyman. Hellraiser? No problem. But Candyman was traumatic.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 25

Shadowgate. It continues to be one of the best games that never holds your hand and practically begs you to push random buttons just to see what happens. So many hours hand-drawing maps and taking notes of cause and effect. Timeless.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 22

Brave of you to say something so bold.

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 22

The 1990s were truly a (f)lawless era.

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 22

All of the Bubsy buzz really makes us want to go back and finish a cover of one of the Genesis ditties from Bubsy 2. 😹

#bubsy #vgm

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 21

Four more tracks already in the hopper for the next release. Really hoping to exhume some really oft-neglected tracks, though, so as to not fall into the trap of covering the tracks that everyone already knows. 🤔

Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · Aug 21

Shuffling over to track 8 of our Bitslapped release, we have Pirate Lagoon from Diddy Kong Racing, released on the #N64 in 1997. Originally composed by the legendary @davidwise.bsky.social, lovingly covered using fresh instrumentation. #vgm #gamemusic #gameaudio #gaming

Pirate Lagoon (Diddy Kong Racing)

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