Birds and videogames. That’s what we’re all about these days. I don’t play videogames anymore, and birds are kinda annoying, but I still like them both for some reason.
With all of the Nintendo shilling on this blog, the humble grey E-brick known as Game Boy has never been mentioned once, and that’s got to change now. Let’s start at the beginning with the start screen.
When you flick the switch on the spinach green screen, the Nintendo title slowly cascades, foreshadowing the infamous “Tetris effect” you’ll eventually succumb to, where you see floating shapes even with your eyes closed. There is a ding, like that of a convenience store. But this is no single ding, or even a ding dong. It’s a kind of double ding. A blong or a bling.
An octave of C’s from C6 to C7 greets the player on start up. The genius sound-designers at Nintendo decided to place a grace note in front, almost insignificant, but you feel it’s there. I just love grace notes, especially appoggiaturas. They’re the poor man’s pitch bend. Imagine this sound was a single ding. How pedestrian that’d be! Like walking into a deli.
