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Tommy Tallarico’s dream of bringing video game music back to the concert halls has been revived.

The second concert in the Video Games Live “concert series” brought to you by the G4 host and musician is at 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl (Hollywood, CA), Spetember 21, 2006. All the music will be perfromed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and conducted by VGL co-creator, Jack Wall.  Expect to hear goodies such as the themes from Mario, Zelda, Halo, Halo 3, Warcraft abd Final Fantasy, a retro game medly and performances by Brian “BT” Transeau, guitarists Steve Vai and Dweezil Zappa and various game composers.

Pre-show begins for ticket holders at 5:30 p.m. and will feature game competitions, pre-released game demos, a costume contest.
Ticket prices range from $3.00 for crappy fourth level seats to $65 for first row garden boxes. Don’t forget to wear your Zelda costume - unless of course you’ll do a gold bikini justice.

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Check out this great Nintendo commercial that is currently airing in Japan. It will make you feel like...Mario all over again.

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Nintendo, which seems to have one mission these days, to end my gaming career, has just put another nail in my coffin. It’s new game, “Trauma Center: Under the Knife”, for the portable DS system, allows you to perform various medical procedures on patients. It’s actually a first in video games, a game where you are trying to save people, not kill them. Despite that lofty goal, I can assure you that my patience for saving the patient’s would be rather low. And my rate of yelling at the screen would be rather high.

Anyway, video games seem to always want to be more and more real, but a game where you play a doctor? What’s part two of this game going to be about? You get sued for malpractice because you rushed the operation so you could make your tee time? Then you have to become a virtual lawyer and defend yourself? Someone really needs to tell Nintendo to get back to making games about plumbers who eat mushrooms.

Oh, how I should’ve been a plumber.

Dave Rubin is a comedian and writer who has pitched shows to HBO, Showtime and Comedy Central. His cable access show, “The Anti Show” was secretly shot at NBC studios in New York. Dave lives with his gold fish, Fritz. Read more of Dave’s musing at The Daily Dave.