This is the Video Game Music Thread

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

haha i was going to post on this thread about 'marble madness' and then i looked upthread and saw that i posted EIGHT YEARS AGO on this very thread about 'marble madness'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_QydNXI_ok&feature=related

i get a lot of rose melberg jive off this, but it could just be standard-fare j-pop vocals

only bummer about it is that this song is so good that you spend the rest of the game hoping something'll trump it

^ That soundtrack is great. It features a pretty good Illreme song, subsequently got me into the rest of his stuff, which is real, real good.

Lonely Rolling Star is my fav Katamari tune!
This is a close second tho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zU7wNWpJDY

Is that Nomiya Maki singing?

yes!

"lonely rolling star" is great, i adore it

<3 the katamari soundtrack and esp. this one which kind of makes me swell up w/emotion tbqh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mbmYeYUIA

could you guys recommend me to anything similar to that katamari song i posted? is that a particular style? i hear lots of j-pop but have never really associated it with anything mentally/aurally aside from figuring it not a too distant cousin from that "gee gee gee" k-pop song.

i was at an arcade last week and played this korean rhythm game. most of the music was fairly forgettable but i liked this one (despite the lyrics making no sense).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bk1__1RT_Y

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recently I fell in love with Machinarium and its great soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDvawzJ3s8

...which you can download as a bonus after you buy the game!

ah! been looking for the name of that game all over! i played the demo and dug it lots but couldn't justify paying the $10 asking at the time

I bought it back in August when it was a part of the 3rd Humble Bundle, would've been quite mad had I paid 10 bucks and then got stuck on a puzzle :x still - a wonderful game, worth buying on a nearest price drop it gets

Some Chrono Trigger songs are very sample worthy. Just realized Wiz Khalifa samples "Schala's theme" on never been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlk9eMWkpU

This ones would make fine samples too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjhnaOiV1c&feature=related

Also love for Earthbound's Onett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC99a8VRsIw

holy shit @ wiz khalifa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJG-Pi0yRCc

earthwrom jim had some fuken WOMP ASS music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CB1fFeb1n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz9eYvuZOYg