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Editor’s note: I’m going to go ahead and highlight the Community Jukebox tonight, even though I got some grief from James for breaking the submission rules a few weeks ago. There are lots of well-known tunes this week. How many of them do you know? – Aaron


Wow, I sure have learned a lot about video game remixes this week! This version of the Jukebox may be the best one yet. And it’s all thanks go to the Bitmob community. You folks really made my day with this one.

And on that note, I present the first special edition of the Jukebox: Jukebox Remixed. But please, check your UFOs, multicolored bracelets, fairy wings, and ecstasy at the door.

You silly raver.

Hit the jump for this week’s tunes:

 

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There are two ways to listen:

Method 1: Pick and Choose

My Pick:

1. Still Alive (Teddybears Remix) taken from Mirror’s Edge

Community Jukebox:

2. JENOVA Celestial taken from Final Fantasy VII, suggested by Steven Lippert

3. Bowser Is Pissed taken from Super Mario Bros., suggested by Tom Mead

4. Twinkle Park Lightspeed Remix taken from Sonic Adventure, suggested by Michael Hartnett

5. Sons of Chaos taken from Final Fantasy VII, suggested by Nicholas Michette

6. To Far Away Times Remix taken from Chrono Trigger, suggested by Brian Shirk

7. Time Shock taken from Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII, suggested by J. Cosmo Cohen

8. Mischievous Robot taken from Cave Story, suggested by Evan Killham

9. The Brink of Time Track 1 taken from Chrono Trigger, suggested by Alex R. Cronk Young

10. A Link to the Past (RAC Mix) taken from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, suggested by Andrew Hiscock

11. Bionic Commando (Rusko Remix) taken from Bionic Commando, suggested by Mark Steward++good

Method 2: Let It Ride (click here to listen in a separate window)

~James D., read at The Sophist, heard at, Sophist Radio

P.S. I cannot vouch for the name of any of these songs. Also, very sorry to Travis and Patrick.Your submissions were simply too conventional in their instrumentation. One was a lounge version, played on real (or virtual) instruments, and the other was a piano arrangement.

Not to worry, I’m holding onto them for future special editions!


Submissions are closed for this week, but if you’d like to know how the Community Jukebox works, please keep on reading:

Every Monday I will be posting fifteen well-known and not-so-well-known video game songs.

There’s a catch –; I will not be providing all of the songs; I’ll provide only the remainder of the total fifteen. To clarify, most will be suggested – hopefully songs I’ve never heard – and hopefully only a few will be chosen by me.

Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to have it so that five, or even one song is donated by myself, thus truly making it the Community Jukebox.

It’s important to note that all submissions will be credited to the community members who provided them.

The only guidelines are that any song chosen must be from a non-music game, or from a music game with original content. Licensed songs are also OK, but they must be from something other than a music game.

This means that Fallout and Grand Theft Auto songs are fair game, whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs aren’t. If licensed songs become too prolific, however, I may stop taking them as submissions.

Also, to note, I will try my hardest  to find the original names of every song, yours or mine, but if I can’t, I will give it a name, and mark it with an asterisk. In addition, all songs are set to open in a new tab, so feel free to click away and have them play in the background as you surf Bitmob or get some work done.

Songs appear in no particular order whatsoever, save that community submissions will be segmented from my choices and shown last.

Each week, I will also be choosing my favorite submission, The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week. The winner will receive exactly nothing, except being last song with this beside their entry: ++good.

As a small guideline, if you’d like to win the The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week, try to pick something obscure or, at the very least, recent. We all know titles like Mega Man and Final Fantasy had great music  in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and I will be featuring songs like these every week (that’s my bread and butter).

But, in the interest of keeping the Jukebox new and surprising,  if you can come up with a great song that I’ve forgotten, or, better yet, never heard, you’ll have a leg up on the competition. Just keep in mind what I said at the top, and if you’ve read my Meet the Mob, the size of my game case.

Either way, feel free to submit whatever you like. Please. I can’t reinforce enough that all submissions are welcome.

As an added bonus, I will also try to add an immediate comment about the awesomeness of the winner commenter’s song and why everyone else should pay special attention to it. This will be an in-joke for those who keep up.

Most importantly, since I hope to keep doing this for awhile, only one submission response per person per post. That way I’ll have less to parse, and you folks will be able to submit for an extended period of time. If you sumbit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.

Again, only one submission response per person per post.