Fear The "One-Winged Angel" Alarm
April 06, 2007
Some video games have moments so memorable and so intense that the music from these moments becomes instilled in the overall gamer consciousness. Take a look at this video clip from Kotaku in which security camera footage shows the robbery of a game store. The store's owners are asking for help in identifying the thieves on the video, but what caught my attention was the music the store owners chose to use to score the clip: "One-Winged Angel" from Final Fantasy VII. Obviously the music was added just for the purposes of putting the clip online, but one of the Kotaku commenters made a point of mentioning that the music was added after the theft and not actually the store's alarm noise, and that prompted this humorous response from commenter dv8godd:
Although it was totally obvious to me from the start that this was the case, reading your comment made me imagine for a moment that One-Winged Angel was the store's alarm. I can just imagine how that would play out...
Criminal One, "Dude, what the hell is that? We're in, but..."
Criminal Two, "No man, we have to get the hell out of here... that music... something really awful is about to happen!"
Now there's an idea. Video game store alarms should emit piercing warning sounds and music from memorable games. Imagine smashing your way into a store and hearing the music that heralds Sephiroth's approach. I don't know about you, but I'd start running and never look back.