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When Otaku Collide: Trainspotting + 8-Bit = This

What happens when trainspotting otaku team up with retro game otaku?

This: All of the different tunes that play on Tokyo’s Yamanote loop train line, rendered in 8-bit Famicom chiptune sound.

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It’s common knowledge in Japan that many train stations on the Yamanote have different melodies that play when the doors open. You can even buy a soundtrack CD with all of them.

(Astro Boy fans should pay careful attention to what happens when the train reaches Takadanobaba, the character’s birthplace, at the four-minute mark.)

The music was created using a keyboard plug-in called the Magical 8bit Plug, created by Japanese chiptune band YMCK.

8-Bit Yamanote Line [Japan Probe]

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Posted by darkestpetals April 2008

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