Contra 3 the Alien Wars
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Obviously Zelda and most anything Koji Kondo has ever done.
DK CountryStreet Fighter 2
― een, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sfII music is p ass
― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.xocmusic.com/kirby/
kirby's adventure, i am partial to grape garden stage select. i sampled it for a song once.
― e honda v. (m bison), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
::hair flutters in tha wind::
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, Donkey Kong Country series (especially 2), Earthbound (for being fucking weird)
― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
magus' theme is the best ever
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
magus's theme was my shit back in the day. now I'm all about corridors of timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqZb7hY1S0
― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that is the hotness too
damn it's crazy how much nostalgia i get listenin to this shit
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2V8CFtGZE
*stares at the moon, single tear sliding down my cheek*
― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
unhhhh, cidu-chan.... uguu~~
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
youve unlocked the hidden summon spell u can now summon
^_^ TRUE EMOTION ^_^
― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hil1F2T19GY
any excuse
― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lamp i know we have a tumultuous history but i would like to say you are my all-time favorite poster
― farting irl (cankles), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Castlevania always good for some tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjazC45Qkww
― Cleveland Spider Cupid Childs (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^ Most Castlevania games have omazing soundtracks, particular favourite is Super Castlevania IV.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Mega Man II, Metroid, the first Contra, fuckin' Batman
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
castlevania 2: belmont's revenge has a grebt stk also.
for YMO sounding stuff: Legend of the Mystical Ninja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HkyAiV4Kbc
― Cleveland Spider Cupid Childs (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I remember Batman: Return of the Joker's soundtrack kicking ass, but I wouldn't trust that eight-year-old me had any sort of standards.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow that Mystical Ninja game looks pretty great. Have you ever played Pocky and Rocky?
― PublicRadio, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Mystical Ninja is totally bonkers and amazing. Can't remember the soundtrack though.
― funereal sneezeguard (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, was just coming to say Castlevania IV! Glad to see it already got a mention.
Metroid has some good stuff too. Not SNES era, but Prince and the Wu-Tang have both done tracks that sound like they could have sampled Metroid Prime.
― The nation's most valiant right back (Suedey 2), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
mystical ninja is super fun
― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I always enjoyed the sparse, moody soundtrack to Secret of Evermore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyJYQVpnf9c
― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
castlevania 3 is prob my all time fave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJaF8no9t0&feature=related
earthbound is pretty much sick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1njB6SQok&feature=PlayList&p=E4A1A079AF6E3EA3&index=0&playnext=1
― original bgm, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKhydxrZCqY
― zappi, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
boards of canada!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLaqz900Q8I
this sounds like Early Underground-era Mobyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20dF5Ao1mE
― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Castlevania seconded - the first game is just one SWEET 8-bit metal tune after another.
Also love the one, single, long looping tune from River City Ransom. Karnov's theme is fun too.
Oh! And SONIC! A lot of it is kind of nakedly trying to sound like outtakes from Michael Jackson albums but that's a good thing. The first two have a lot of good tracks, and I also have a soft spot for the theme song (with vocals!) from Sonic CD. YouTube for that I think.
Most of my favorite music from this era isn't on consoles, though - this was the golden age of MIDI soundtracks for PC games. Mark Seibert (I think was the name) did some great stuff at Sierra - love Hero's Quest for one. Also whoever did Conquest of Camelot. But the real winner is Origin - the soundtracks for Ultima 7 and Ultima Underworld are just burned into my brain, and the looming, not-quite-Imperial-March Kilrathi theme music in Wing Commander 2.
Oh, and DOOM and DOOM 2 had great, GREAT music, exactly what the games needed.
The great thing is you can find the actual midi files from the games out there on the net! Bliss.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
IMO Donkey Kong Country factory/warehouse levels music rips heavily from "Tonight x3" by Genesis.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
doot doot doot da-doot doot doot da-doot doot doo-doo dooooo dadadoot dootBONEY WHALE APPEARSdododoodododododododotododoo dodododododododdodododod dadada
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Have you ever played Pocky and Rocky?
why yes, I rented it from my local video store back in 94 or something. You should check out Parodius if you like that stuff.
― Cleveland Spider Cupid Childs (los blue jeans), Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
For years my brother aspired to write music for video games and his idols were Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Hip Tanaka (Metroid) and Dan Forden (Mortal Kombat).
― lindseykai, Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D65TT5Ieb4M&feature=PlayList&p=28A6F84189D36D57&index=7
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
koji kondo in link to the past - kakariko village is wicked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCp6ngH_mQ
― Josh L, Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Duck Tales moon theme OTM! I used to imagine that the mouth motions of the enemies on that stage were them sounding out the main riff. That game had pretty great music in general though, nice long elaborate tunes with several parts. The Amazon track is pretty clear in my head.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9xwkMr3e4&feature=related
― rent, Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG YES. Worth it if only for the loopy, unbelievably irritating but still kind of jaunty "you're about to die" theme.
Also great bassline on the main gameplay theme music.
Reminds me indirectly of GAUNTLET.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Also great bassline
yes! i remember this.
opening of rygar used to get me pumped to battle the beast that says aoooogah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNrzw8wKjkQ
― rent, Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I05_AU3vjfY
― original bgm, Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
that DK Country one is brilliant
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11wAyy4gOqo&feature=related
― original bgm, Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
dk country is a pretty overrated game but the music is dope, no doubt.
― original bgm, Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Switchblade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjloIU9zSN4
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Link's Awakening for Game Boy had some inspiring shit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg87Fn6Jnbg
― adamj, Friday, 27 November 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Blades of Steel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zfn_ape5Qw
― A. Begrand, Friday, 27 November 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwaTdxHU4l8
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Friday, 27 November 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6XeZrYjf0
Got a projector the other day, and it's a bit old so the resolution isn't all that, but it is PERFECT for playing emulated NES, SNES, and Genesis games. Suddenly something that was bleeping out of a tiny box is larger-than-life and devastatingly cinematic. When i have the projector going (an InFocus DLP, $200 used on amazon) I crank the volume and have a drink and a smoke and last night when I tried Ninja Gaiden 2 the opening cutscene blew my freakin' mind. The sound is a little crappy on that youtube video but with bass boost on a stereo the drums are nearly perfect old school metal. I use NesTopia, which allows you to mix the individual sound channels, and turn down the square waves just a little bit.
I was having a great time w this game until i got to level 2 or something and the eagles started and i ran into a half hour straight of cursing "I hate the effing eagles!" before quitting.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAfTLSGxFxc&list=PLB0xooEkKbSY6eXEfztYHdFLKokmN13vU
This is a brilliant song in the Genesis Castlevania when you are at the character select screen. Some killer drums here!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg0GZZuCak
One last one. I learned how to play this on a piano. Play it at half speed and it sounds like a Yma Sumac backing track.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sitting down w Megaman 2 theme music trying to figure it out and damn if it doesn't start off sounding really close to Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning". You have the droning bass notes (pretty much playing the exact intervals and timing of John Cale's viola) and a responding arpeggio up a few octaves that starts on the 1&.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPXRHS4XNQ
all u ever need
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 April 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD0E16116DDDFB9E
amazing music throughout though
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 April 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
the music in rare's games was often great
― teddy dominatrix (dyl), Saturday, 13 April 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(composer)
man what a genius
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4guZ5SozW8&list=PLC600EF6ACFCD6654
It sort of makes sense that Ecco The Dolphin would have a killer soundtrack. But this song is just devastatingly cool.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Charlie Brooker brought my attention to this one. pretty nice eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-02RffS0E
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
i ran into a half hour straight of cursing "I hate the effing eagles!" before quitting
take it easy
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fnTJ5SF2uM
This ambient synth jazz could have been written by Angelo Badalamenti. Someone photoshop a Moogle dancing w the drawf in the Black Lodge.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
robocop otm, was the same on the amstrad...best thing about the game by some distance iirc
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Friday, 29 November 2013 03:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-BhyAkDdY
Here is another song from Final Fantasy VI that has a really great bass line. The bass sound is wonderful in this game, it almost sounds like a live take rather than sequenced. To me, it's a very Sgt. Pepper bass line!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClyOAepcIA
― clouds, Friday, 29 November 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsxJyJ-SLiA
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nKAZ1uJY8
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Hah I've been playing along to my friend playing Super Mario Bros. I guess I should've grabbed a fedora and filmed it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSW4M28XQg&list=PL2A1A350EBB242BDF
Really insanely cool guitar solo on this one. Hard to believe it isn't a real guitar!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 27 February 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
a lot of Treasure games have good soundtracks but Dynamite Headdy's is the most slept-on, it's so theatrical and suits the world perfectly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGKsDze8gs
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Thursday, 27 February 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
sometimes i'll fall into a k-hole where i just listen to this credits music for half an hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_onEJ82rk
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Thursday, 27 February 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
There was a time when video games (especially NES/SNES ones) were my life when I was a kid.
These were cool:
*Goonies II - guide song (NES)*Goonies II - first-person mode (NES)
But my ultimate favourite, which I was pretty much beyond obsessed with was Metroid for the NES. Every. Single. Song.
I hear it now, and it's like a hundred memories hit me. Place, time, smells (!), environment, touch, everything. It's insane. There was probably something wrong with me.
Metroid's escape scene (NES):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2k01qmi99k
Metroid's ending (NES):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUGG6SFiQQ
I was also into bands porting the tunes into traditional rock instruments. Even though The Advantage is one of my favourites, the Metroid Metal tunes really nail the intensity for me:
Escape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OK09_eyiQs
Ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXGYx4BRBs
Also, T&C Surf was cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciigfD7Li0U
And another fave was Punch Out's training theme
― ∞, Thursday, 27 February 2014 04:53 (ten years ago) link
for those about to metroid:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzzV6xtSFE&t=2m35s
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 27 February 2014 06:22 (ten years ago) link
is that liz lemon's agent?
― clouds, Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
Journey To SiliusMega Man 2 & 3Demon's CrestSuper MetroidChrono TriggerAll The CastlevaniasSonic The Hedgehog 2Yoshi's IslandZelda: A Link To The Past & Link's AwakeningStriderF-Zero
I also love modern throwback games that have 8/16-bit inspired soundtracks, like Fez, Super Meat Boy & VVVVVV
― Greatjon, Thursday, 27 February 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
One time on my birthday a friend gave me a CD with the complete Streets of Rage 3 soundtrack. Some of it is absolutely crushing industrial techno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0UG6auhzs&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZnIWJA0WN0&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofmHCsZMMjw&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECE
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, those are some pretty great soundtracks. Always was fond of this Enigma ripoff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdloNuj-RhE
― Vinnie, Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IIKv9e6q4
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if this quite the right thread, but, man, I always dug the Last Ninja soundtrack but I'm not really sure how far I ever made it as a kid and the second level ("Wilderness") theme is blowing my mind right now. The sounds they got out of the SID chip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsRszs2_9U
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 21 August 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link
I remember Kirby's Adventure having a pretty ahead-of-its time soundtrack, all blippy and minimal, and unless my TV's audio is weird, surprisingly deep bottom end on some tunes
― punksishippies, Sunday, 21 August 2016 05:34 (seven years ago) link
these are pretty amazing. Wolvertine Adamantium Rage for SNES and Genesis both have mind-blowing OSTs in completely different ways. Genesis has some kind of fantastically noisey slowcore industrial stoner metal thing going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcV4lduB1uQ
SNES has some really crazy electro drum kit sounds and samples of thing like record scratching and someone going w-w-w-w-wolverine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBwVsgLYP9Y
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
lol Wolvertine
https://laurelrusswurm.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/maxhead.gif?w=320&h=200
B-be-be sure to drink your W-w-Wolvertine
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Genesis had some pretty epic soundtracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-AHModlMAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQIiIKummwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-PtDDS2Lw
― carpet_kaiser, Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
most of the Terranigma score is generic, but it has some pretty weird / worthwhile moments like this one
https://youtu.be/J3vk5N8TyYU?t=51m3s
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 October 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
god i love that Genesis synth sound
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
NES
duck talesbugs bunny birthday blow outbubble bobblemeagmancastlevaniabattle toadsriver city ransompac-mancontradr. mariolegend of zeldakirby's adventureghosts n' goblins
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 16 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
The Gunstar Heroes soundtrack is my all-time favorite Genesis OST, but you almost don't notice it when you're playing because the game keeps you busy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuyQP__4kI
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 16 October 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
You all ought to check out Smooth Mcgroove’s acapella (probably autotune assisted) covers of videogame classics. There’s almost a hundred of them so here’s a sampler with my three favorite game songs:
Ducktales - Moonhttps://youtu.be/Nhy2aNEPshw
Chrono Trigger - corridors of timehttps://youtu.be/JtKCt8Afk9s
DKC2 - Stickerbrush symphonyhttps://youtu.be/_fxEPM8OKFU
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
xpost to Moka, that guy rules
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
yeah wow this is a major songwriting step up from the last couple of AC records
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link