YTCracker - Nerdrap Entertainment System

This is something I had been meaning to tell Big Red about. But then we did lists on our favorite video games and we are always talking about music, so I figured this would be a good entry. I found out about YTCracker when one of his songs was featured in commercials for G4's X-Play. It was catchy sampling from an old Nintendo game DigDug with a sound byte from Gauntlet, I think. I searched the Internet and found all kinds of info on YTCracker. (his name still makes me chuckle)

You can go to his website http://www.ytcracker.com and download alot of his music for free, including Nerdrap Entertainment System. It features 7 songs with the background rhythm being supplied by music from classic Nintendo (NES) games. I still haven't quite been able to place them all and have even searched the net for help. So if anyone out there can help me figure them out, drop me a note. The subject matter of his raps revolve around nerdy subjects: video games, computer programming, hacking, file sharing and most of all revenge against the stupid jocks.

The opening to my favorite track, N.E.S., starts out with the famous Contra code: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start! For someone who grew up with the NES, that is like crack man! Another one of my favorites is Surgerunner in which he talks about his longing affection for Surge, super sugar soda that was the answer to Mt. Dew. I wondered whatever did happen to that?

Anyone, take a walk down memory lane and see if you can get all the references. I know I probably fit into this category a little more than Big Red but it is a good time and it is free. So you got nothing to lose! Go download it!