Yellow Magic Orchestra
is the birth canal through which video game music comes into existence. Listen to theirself-titled albumandSolid State Survivor, and you’ll see what Japanese computer geeks (and everyone else, eventually) were listening to when the video game revolution started. Say thank you to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi. Without them, noSonic the Hedgehog,Bombermanor electronic music, as we know it.Watch this person get a perfect score while playing Rydeen, a YMO classic, on the Gameboy Color version ofBeatmania.Guitar Heroes, eat your hearts out!You can also get a taste of the original, trippy video for Rydeen after the jump, and other noodling with early video games.Rydeen
