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=HFcSBLP_4n4
― nicegeoff, Friday, 27 November 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Mt Tamaranch music is epic; it certainly infused the experience of being near a big egg with a lot of gravitas
― MPx4A, Friday, 27 November 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NZrPluLQ6Q&feature=related
Adon's stage theme has good duelling fake metal guitars
― MPx4A, Friday, 27 November 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtRPfkq29U8
have bizarre association between this and a christmas day grandparent death false alarm
― MPx4A, Friday, 27 November 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CRWLx_zBg&feature=related
OCEAN LOADER
needs Phil Oakey vox
― MPx4A, Friday, 27 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
FTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRKigUZjmMY
― Nate Carson, Friday, 27 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
C64 mention reminds me how much I'd like to hear the Last Ninja soundtrack right about now.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 November 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
whoever's actually playing Super Turrican in that video above is blowing my mind.
― circa1916, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXyn-2GIhs
― pash rules everything around me (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 4 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW3HTUA8MHI
― zappi, Friday, 4 December 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
No Ecco the Dolphin love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLk04DibLWs
Plok! (SNES) had fucking great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbJSftFr20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRjk6Ioqd0
― C.T. Dalton (Daruton), Friday, 4 December 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lufia 2 was doooooooope
― original bgm, Friday, 4 December 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSEzF_qDcQ
― zappi, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Another personal fave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8A6dKv62hc
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 5 December 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pis_Y2bkPhY
― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 5 December 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd9Ufvc3vcw
― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 5 December 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
this is such a pimp ass thread
― farting irl (cankles), Saturday, 5 December 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
SMB2, Blaster Master and Jackal all seconded.
BTW, this is off topic, but what is the deal in Jackal, when you finish a level but don't really kick ass, instead of showing you the image of the dudes in the jeep going top speed and yelling "YEAHH!!" the game displays the dudes kind of rummaging through the jeep asking... "Here?" That always baffled us as kids. Are they trying to remember where they stowed their lunch?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 December 2009 04:27 (fourteen 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 (nine 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 (nine 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