What is your favourite or recomendations? Here are 5 of my favorite or most nostalgic video game listening experiences (Although there are manymore).
1) Ico - Heal (when saving a game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jcKQqZLbJk So nostaglic and almost BoCish.. Beautiful plus I couldnt reccomend the game enough, really underrated.
4) Final Fantasy 7 - Main theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UARM4q7hHU - Back in 1997 This was pretty much the theme of my life lol. Spent many hours playing this game.
5) Guild wars - Eye of the storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph69o2lurEY Its weird, if you didnt play the game you may think the music sucks but if you spent a good part of your life addicted to the game, the music is nostalgic as hell.
Street Racer (snes) Title Theme:
Ducktales (nes) Moon Theme:
Skyroads (MSDOS) Road 7:
Jill of the Jungle (MSDOS) End:
Cyclones (MSDOS) Track 5:
Novastorm (MSDOS) Level 4 + Boss:
Epic Pinball (MSDOS) Title Screen:
Xixit (MSDOS) Pentagonal Dreams:
Jazz Jackrabbit (MSDOS) Tubelectric:
One Must Fall 2097 (MSDOS) Powerplant
Tempest 2000 (JAGUAR) Mind's Eye
Little Big Adventure 2 (WINDOWS95) Main Theme:
Burn:Cycle (CDI) Psychic Roulette
Wizball (C64) Main Theme:
Cannon Fodder (AMIGA) WAR (never been so much fun)
Turrican (AMIGA) Everything:
Hybris (AMIGA) Main theme
Jazz Jackrabbit had a kick ass soundtrack. I remember it was one of the reasons why I played that game as a kid. Also, both LBA games had incredible music as well. The music on the intro video of LBA2 gave me chills.
I have a habit of muting game music so I can pick whatever music I choose, but recently, I've been giving game soundtracks a better chance to allow myself a more wholesome experience. As such, here's some of my favourites:
Terraria - Overworld theme
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Desktop #4
Anno 2070 - Every Ending Needs a Beginning (and lots of others)
Borderlands 2 - Ice
These are just off the top of my head. There must be others.
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Mexicola wrote:Funnily enough, I was discussing something similar on FB with another Twoismer.
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Holy shit! Did he write that main melody himself, I can swear I've hear it somewhere else but can't put my finger on it, but might be classical music. Just crazy good writing I'm asuming. That's incredible. Bravo!
Indeed he did. Back in the day, Rob Hubbard was THE man for music on the C64. Look him up, especially his work on Commando, Sanxion, etc, although go do a search and pick up some gems. The guy was as prolific as he was talented
Rob Hubbard was indeed the man. The C64 didn't really have a way to say "play this note for this long" like most home computers, it had the chip and you had to program the music, and the PLAYER yourself. It's like having to make your own synths before you could play.
My fave of his was Thundercats
Other randoms spring to mind...
LED Storm -
Pulsator - (Spectrum +3s had their audio wired wrong so everything was overdriven. In the day this sounded like grungy electric guitar sounds).
Super Ghouls and Ghosts - Loved the whole thing but I especially liked Ice Forest for some reason
I grew up with Donkey Kong Country, Spider-man 2: Sinister Six, and Mario Brothers on my Gameboy Color and many of the Sonic games on Genesis. Sometimes I would just sit there for hours listening to the music. If a game didn't have a sound test I wouldn't play it very often.
Ah - there's lots of good music I've heard in video games over the games but I'm going to have to go with what first comes to mind here...
Streets Of Rage series (1991 - 1994):
The first two games' soundtracks in the early 1990s had their finger on the pulse, with a lot of House vibes from the Sega Mega Drive's Yamaha FM chip - which, given some of the popular tunes of the era made use of Yamaha FM synths proper, was arguably the best hardware for that particular sound. Had it originated on any other console, I don't think it would have done it as much justice as the Mega Drive.
However... For the 3rd entry, the style and approach to composition was changed quite a bit... From the reviews I've seen and heard over the years, was not as well-received... But it was quite radical stuff with its fast tempo beats and erratic generated patterns; interesting to listen to in a whole different way. However there were a few tunes that are a bit more reined-in and controlled (I would guess much less automated) that had some of the composition qualities of the previous two games.
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Tekken 3 PlayStation Remixes (1998)
Some stand out for stylistic reasons, rather than catchy melodies or such - I can't think of many titles I've played with original music where the whole soundtrack at time of release technically sounds so contemporary as to be almost ahead of the game (excuse the pun)... But when Tekken 3 got ported to the PlayStation in the late 90s with exclusive remixes, it was something else - and a shock of the new compared with the previous games (which had some catchy tunes, but the instrumentation wasn't on a par with modern styles) - this had a real cutting edge. I'd been used to most other game music sounding either conventional for the genre or limited in some way or another... But at the time it genuinely felt like it was pushing forward on all counts (and in retrospect, looking at the possible influences, I reckon it was at least remarkably on-point for no later than 1998. I'd still struggle to try and categorise some of the tracks...)
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Sometimes I just like games for their use of sound and music as part of the experience (Rez for example) and others for how well they convey mood and emotion... I'm not a huge RPG fan on the whole, but I played Final Fantasy VIII and X respectively; definitely always a great range of style - and importantly, mood - in those soundtracks that capture the feel of a location or moment.
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There were some cute and (possibly annoyingly) catchy 8-bit tunes in games I played in the 80s, even if they didn't wow... I might post some for nostalgia sake, if I can remember exactly what the games / levels were...
Lots an LOTS of 16-bit era chiptunes. SO MANY SNES soundtracks that were amazing.
In terms of soundtracks when they started just using normal audio files, I love the Jet Set Radio soundtracks, love the Half-Life soundtrack (though it's only available in poor quality) and love all the Halo soundtracks.
