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15 music videos that rip off games magnificently

Our favorite hobby inspires some incredible homages – plus two that fail miserably

Words: Henry Gilbert, GamesRadar US

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RaIdEn - 6 months 28 days ago

the californication vid was actually pretty awesome

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RaIdEn - 6 months 28 days ago

are they called black out band because the sound of their music causes you to black out from a brain splitting headache? the jonas brothers are playing next to me and they sound good to me right now! jesus murphy i need some real music

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SandroTheMaster - 6 months 28 days ago

May the Gods rape me with a spoon, I swear I've heard that Tandem song from Halcali in a video before! It wasn't that video, and now I'm completely clueless and also obsessed by it but I can't find the original video I watched. Argh!

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SandroTheMaster - 6 months 28 days ago

Huh... look at that. My memory isn't as far gone as I had judged, as I actually remembered where I had heard Tandem before. It was in a little episodic CG short that aired in Adult Swim here in my country (I'm not sure what the name was or if it aired in the original Adult Swim). It was a good short, artistic to say the least, about a hobo and his giant anthropomorphic cat. It was very sad, but always ended with the characters dancing the Tandem.

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Stabby_Joe - 6 months 28 days ago

I only got to 16 seconds on the last one... *shudders*

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noobmasteroftehworld - 6 months 28 days ago

how come that little kid sounded like an old women that sings in a church choir?

the last video made my ears burn and fall off

recaptcha: 15 1/2 zing

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Luigi49 - 6 months 28 days ago

Ilove Californacation when it first came out. The Austrian band one was funny with the pac man parody but i have never heard anything as bad as the last song. It just a rich wannbe rockstar with no talent and to much money.

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SandroTheMaster - 6 months 28 days ago

Just two more cents of commentary. Those YMCK songs looks like I heard them in Katamari, but can't be sure. And the animation I was talking about is Garakuta.

Oh, and in dealership, I just find it hilarious that the princess go check the boy by poking him with a stick, as if: "Are you dead?"

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TURbo - 6 months 27 days ago

Thank you for the Royksopp video

Great article

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Auroron - 6 months 27 days ago

I can't believe you haven't heard of Røyksopp before, they are TEH shit.

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DagDabreemie - 6 months 27 days ago

Was Eiffel 65 trying to use game concepts in their Blue video?

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Be4ch - 6 months 26 days ago

Great article. You should check out the this video by the The Lost Levels:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=46389864

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vitoruss - 6 months 25 days ago

And who could forget Judas Priest's "Freewheel Burning"?

The kid in it is playing a fake arcade racing game called 'Freewheel Burning' but when it shows the screen, POLE POSITION!
It's a sweet song too, if you're into 80s metal.

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minimaxi - 6 months 23 days ago

seriously people, that black out band is awesome, I crapped my pants laughing. It's a shame that the vocalist's already smoking marijuana at such an early age. Tsk tsk kids nowadays....

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