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Video Games Live (VGL) is a concert event put on by the video game industry to help encourage and support the culture and art that video games have become, featuring music from over 25 major titles. Video Games Live (VGL is a concert series created and produced by industry veterans and video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall Each featured segment is complemented by projected video footage, synchronized lighting, and on-stage interactive segments with the audience.

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Video Games Live is the largest and most successful video game concert in the world, already having performed worldwide to over 100,000 people by 2007. The concert's debut performance took place on July 6th, 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern Amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles California, USA, that is used primarily for music Performances The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil LAP or LAPO is an American Orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States Over 11,000 audience members participated in the largest video game concert to date. Video Games Live was the first video game concert to ever perform in Canada, The United Kingdom, Brazil and New Zealand. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island It is also the first U. S. video game concert to perform in Asia at the 12,000 seat Olympic Park Stadium in Seoul, South Korea. Olympic Park Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor Stadium located in Olympic Boulevard in inner Melbourne. Seoul ( soʊl is the Capital and largest City of South Korea. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː

The concert features a broad spectrum of video game music, including Final Fantasy, Halo, World of Warcraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda and Metal Gear Solid, as well as retro arcade games such as Tetris and Asteroids. Halo is a Science fiction Video game franchise created by Bungie and owned and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Warcraft universe is a Fictional universe in which a series of games and books published by Blizzard Entertainment are set Video Games See also [[List of games featuring Sonic the Hedgehog]] Nearly all games in the series feature a teenage hedgehog named "Sonic the Hedgehog" is a High fantasy action-adventure Video game series created by Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and developed and published is a stealth-action Video game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and first published Tetris (Тетрис is a Video puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 1985 while working for the Dorodnicyn Asteroids is a video Arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc

In addition to the music, VGL concerts also include video footage from the games, synchronized to the music and projected on large screens at performances. Due to ESRB regulations and the environment of the show, all footage is approved for all ages, meaning graphic violence in some of the game music played (ie: Halo, Medal of Honor, God of War) is never shown during a concert. The Entertainment Software Rating Board ( ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, Advertising guidelines and Some VGL concerts may also include exclusive "never-before-seen" video game footage from games that have yet to be released. In contrast to all the other video games featured, SquareSoft has currently opted to retain exclusive performance rights to their Final Fantasy video footage, preventing it from being shown at the Video Games Live event. was a Japanese Video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. SquareSoft previously organized a competing series of Final Fantasy music concerts called Dear Friends: Music From Final Fantasy. Dear Friends -Music From Final Fantasy- is a Concert tour featuring music from the Final Fantasy video game series that toured the United States

VGL also boasts energetic lighting (also synchronized with the music), special fx, interactive music segments with the crowd, pre and post show festival activities, and interactive onstage games for selected audience members to participate in. Examples include an onstage Frogger competition, and a "live-action" rendition of Space Invaders. Frogger is an Arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami, and licensed for worldwide distribution by Sega / is an arcade Video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978

History

Video Games Live premiered with an historic sold-out concert in July 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern Amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles California, USA, that is used primarily for music Performances Afterwards, organizers prepared the show for a 25-city tour of indoor venues, beginning with dates in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal Due to a number of external and scheduling factors, organizers announced on October 25, 2005 a delay of a full scale tour. Shows were performed to critical success in Seattle and Vancouver.

Having performed 3 successful shows in 2005, they re-launched with an 11 show world tour in 2006 in places such as North America, Brazil, Canada and the United Kingdom. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Based on the success of tour in 2006, the show dates expanded to over 30 cities in 2007 and included such groundbreaking locations as South Korea, New Zealand & Spain. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Tour plans for 2008 have already begun and dates have started to be posted.

A complete historical record of tour dates and locations may be found at the Tour Dates page of the Video Games Live website: [1]

VGL in the schools and universities

VGL works with the local Visitors Bureau and Board of Education as well as the "Grammy in the Schools" program to raise awareness of the arts, music and culture by inviting classes to performance rehearsals, and "behind-the-scenes" tours as a way of introducing the industry to the youth. Students will also have the opportunity to speak with industry professionals, composers and musicians.

VGL also helps to provide Alfred Publishing with orchestrations and arrangements, enabling over 75,000 schools and universities across North America to play music from favorite video games. This includes arrangements for Drum Corps, Marching Band, and School Orchestra as well as individual instruments such as piano and guitar.

Description of interactive segments

Segments featured in Video Games Live

Featured solo performances

Note: All solos do not include the orchestra, but instead a solo pianist or guitar player. is a Platform game developed by Nintendo in late 1985 and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Martin Leung, also known as the Video Game Pianist or the Blindfolded Pianist, is one of the first Pianists to gain worldwide recognition for playing popular is a Console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation Video Tetris (Тетрис is a Video puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 1985 while working for the Dorodnicyn is an Arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution Ms Pac-Man is an arcade Video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. Galaga is a Fixed shooter Arcade game and the sequel to Galaxian. Dig Dug is an Arcade game released by Namco in 1982 for Namco Galaga hardware

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