This is the Video Game Music Thread

i love that game's music!

(ps thank you for posting the version of this video with the sound properly synced, it really annoys me that the most popular one is completely off sync)

I really like the music off the Mass Effect series. Imagine if Vangelis and Steve Moore had a baby. For some reason I always think that "Fever Dream" was part of this video game soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w097Q0fZE-A

^ a lot of Boards of Canada's early, early stuff sounds a hell of a lot like this videogame's soundtrack. I'll try digging it up somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBISfv-6hfo
First time I heard this I fell madly in love with it. All the music in SMB2 is beautiful. Funny thing is the first time I ever played the game it was at my friend's house and he had the sound turned down so he could listen to The Beach Boys, so it was also the first time I ever heard them! Quite a landmark day that was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLoSAb1-bc
Again, fell madly in love with this. Monkey 1 and 2 I had both before we had a sound card, so we got the PC speaker sound, which you can hear above is fucking incredible! So glad someone saved this for the internet. They've re-done this music in many ways, but this is still my favorite version. Epic glitch pirate music, far better than most adventure movie soundtracks. This is up there with Star Wars for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg__USr9YNM&feature=related
This is my favorite MI theme. I think this is the original midi version I heard back when I was a kid. We ran out to get a hint book and ended up buying a Soundblaster card. I still think about recording a cover of this using my theremin!

OTM with Mass Effect. The understated atmosphere it helps create, especially that piece, is so unexpected but so perfect for that type of game (space epic).

That MI2 rendition of the main theme is my favorite of the series. Never heard the PC speaker version before, though, that's crazy! Still gonna go with the awesome General MIDI version tho.

recently played through Super Metroid for the first time a couple weeks ago and thought this theme was really haunting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTp4d38cPtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldk-0uilbiU

I don't know shit about any game created after, like, 1983. But this electro-metal-funk thing drilled itself into my brain for all eternity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzx1mBV2PU

(Never even played the game btw, not even once)

i wish i could play through super metroid for the first time again ;_;

It was really great, I'd rank it with the best games of all time. I wish I'd owned it as a kid.

via s/nes or did you emulate it? kinda been lookin for a time-passer

Emulator. It's definitely a time-passer — there were several moments where I had no idea how to go on and just stopped playing in frustration.

Earthbound Zero I actually did quit in frustration — it's so illogically hard (as opposed to being ~challenging~) that it just became not fun anymore.

huge earthbound fan, but that's what I've heard as well, so I never got too deep into zero.

I was at the final boss! I died like 20 times before I said "fuck this."

super metroid was like a horror game to me when i was a kid - so atmospheric and lonely

all time metroid jam is Kraid's Lair obv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wHwJoxw4i4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-U3sVX2G3w

The OG Metroid title music is soul-crushing electronic minimalism the likes of which have never been topped.

er.....except for that pretty bit. Huh, never heard that part before!

I guess the "Space Invaders" two-note theme wins for all-time 'soul-crushing minimalism'. But the first part of "Metroid" is still fucking killer.

CTRL+F "DuckTales NES"

super metroid was like a horror game to me when i was a kid - so atmospheric and lonely

otm, this is exactly what i love about many of the metroid games

Is it just me, or does the second part of this sound a lot like Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY

super metroid was like a horror game to me when i was a kid - so atmospheric and lonely

otm, this is exactly what i love about many of the metroid games

― teledyldonix, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 8:34 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Definitely agree. Super Metroid was really scary when I played it. More recently, I just beat Metroid Fusion and even that was pretty creepy: thinking SAX would pop out in any scene, especially with that music.

I know this thread is suppose to be about the OST and not kitschy covers, but I really enjoyed Metroid Metal's interpretations.

Europa Universalis III
Andreas Waldetoft - para bellum
Andreas Waldetoft - conquistador

same OST, not original
Jon Sayles - riu riu chiu (Mateo Flecha)

Mark Morgan's dark ambient soundtracks for the first two Fallouts really make those games, and were just remastered and offered for free download by the composer, some 15 years after the games' original release. Much of it would fit comfortably on a Lustmord album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAEHVtqM8go

On a similar note, I also have a softspot for Robyn Miller's soundtrack for Riven, the sequel to Myst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aouzEAym22k

I still maintain that the Interstate '76 soundtrack, mostly sly variations on 70s funk warhorses, is among the best funk albums of the last 20 years. This abandonware site has it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1L69-3OqaU

damn, thanks a lot for reminding me of that Fallout soundtracks release! so nice to know they finally are available for download. needless to say, this soundtrack is superb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrWArNKQcY

this is really, surprisingly great. never even played this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73n7HTcmb5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xa2wHCErJ8

this is rad tambien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_RnUZf9n4&feature=related

yep, some of the best game music ever

That second embed is great, I recently heard it in the ILXORS listening room for the first time! Think it was Moka who queued it.

No, that was me!

I just wonder how he was able to do filtering on the snes sound chip. My only guess is that they're samples.

Ohh right, sorry Corey, credit where credit is due! :-)

I think they're samples, yeah.

I love how SNES composers were able to work around the limitations of the chip — like in the Follins's music for Plok! they used samples of chords so they could fit in more voices and give the music a really dense texture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw

Ooh, my favorite Doom music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGuX6YGm0S0

You really have to hear these with the original adlib/sound blaster chip sounds.

enjoying hitting play on all the 8bit youtube posts on here and letting them mesh together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yATI48dcsMU&feature=related
based on the music of megaman 2 stage 2

I think they're samples, yeah.

Me too, but I think there must be several of them per instrument. "Bramble Blast" would require a separate sample for each bass note. I would love to see the software with which they used to make those tunes.

based on the music of megaman 2 stage 2

haha, that is batshit

Mark Morgan's dark ambient soundtracks for the first two Fallouts really make those games, and were just remastered and offered for free download by the composer, some 15 years after the games' original release.

O_O i did not know this *downloads furiously*

not video game music per se, but Mafia II from last year might have the best era-specific soundtrack i have ever heard.

http://www.gameculture.com/2010/08/20/complete-mafia-ii-soundtrack-track-list

regarding the fallout soundtracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8

too lazy to really dig and see if this was somehow posted before, but this whole soundtrack is my video game music jam of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Ao63nmzuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4

this is practically some sweet math rock joint for fuck's sake. no wonder the advantage records work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64wMFoVEn08

-_-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8iFvGPfA1I