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Several bands ( http://www.pressplayontape.com/ (C64 Rock), http://www.minibosses/, http://www.neskimos.com/) play live in front of large audiences some of which are your regular concert crowd. And they seem to enjoy it very much (the bands too :)

If you think the music of the Commodore 64 was lame you haven't heard it. Some of its tunes are fantastic masterpieces. Get a couple of interpretations at http://remix.kwed.org/ and have a listen! Few of the renditions are utter crap while most of them are really well (select those rated best).

X-Com was a brilliant blend of strategy and role-playing elements that manages to make every game exciting and different.

Fallout 2 was amazing -- a huge world, violent weapons, and intensive role-play action. Anything post-apocalypic gets marks up from me :)

NESkimos -- Best. Nintendo. Metal. Ever.

I have to also give "big-ups" to my hometown players: The NESkimos.

The NESkimos fuckin rock your socks off. You don't have to Slashdot their homepage ... but you can Slashdot Soundclick here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?band ID=91259

Also worth mentioning is The Advantage (you can even find their CD on Amazon.com), but as they are from the West Coast they only get ups, but not big- or otherwise. I will admit they do some good work with Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania(s).

I'd have to say that PAX05 was one of the greatest geek events I've been to. Some of the highlights: The sheer number of different things to do there never left you bored. Between Consol free play, the many different tournaments (Halo 2, Super Smash Bros Melee, Omegathon...) and 4 floors dedicated to gaming left few to be desired.
Turbine pulled out the biggest surprise of all, by hosting a 21 and over event at the Doubletree on Friday night, where they provided free food and drinks to any PAX attendee meeting the age requirements. But more exciting about this event was their unveiling of their new D&D Online. Watching them try and beat one of their scorpion like monsters in a visually stunning environment and consistantly getting PWNED! by their own game multiple times... it was hillarious. To add to the comedy they allowed a select few attendees to play a little game called draw a card from the deck of not too many things. some of the more interesting cards were those marked T.G.C. True Geek Confessions. A few geeks described their experiences turning down sex for alternative geek activities, and the best by far was an individule who asked his girlfriend to say "Help me Obi Wan Kenobe... You're my only hope" during an "Intimate Moment".

I had planned on driving home to Seattle after this event, however due to the great quantity of free drinks, I was only able to attend the 5th floor parties in the hotel, where we played more video games, I had a rather humiliating game of Texas Hold 'em with some of the guys from the Gamer Transit Authority followed by a transfer to the room of The N35K1M05 (NESkimos)" Simon offered to sign my tin of Bawls mints that I was given for free at PAX. However the ink rubbed off in my pocket.. oh well.

Overall I had more fun in 37 hours than I have in over a month.

My only complaint would have to be that the number of consols available for consol free play needed to be increased. The first floor hallway outside the entrance to the exposition hall was lined with xbox, ps2, & gamecubes. however they were not organized very effectively, there was not enough Xboxs/copies of HALO 2 to satisfy the number of people who wanted to game. As a result we would have to stand in a long line and check out the game and the controllers (if available) and then once we had everything and sat down to game, made our profiles, and got linked up to another box for some 4 on 4 action, a PAX Enforcer would come over and tell us our time is up after this game and we'd have to forfeit all the items we waited so long to obtain. Nevertheless it was quite frustrating. I'm definatly glad to hear that they will be moving to a bigger location next year. I can't wait

What I consider to be the best of the game related musicians, The Neskimos.
http://www.neskimos.com/

The Neskimos are much cooler. My favorites are the Ninja Gaiden covers.

The Neskimos do punk rock covers of NES songs

Te Minibossses are more of a ska band. Like the Neskimos, they mainly cover NES era game music.

Hard rock more your style? Try Game Over, a self-described "Nintendo Metal" band. Not very much up for download on their site, but what's there is good.

And let's not forget OC Remix, the unofficial hub for remixes of game music.

The cool thing is, a lot of this music is actually quite good. Give it a shot. And by the way...yes, all of the MP3s on these pages are legal to download. Enjoy. :)