This is the Video Game Music Thread

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

YES to Dr. Mario.

holy shit my favorite song of the now

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

just heard of it today while getting acquainted with juke via some random mixes on youtube , it played at the end of that one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiTEMAsFZ80&feature=related

hah! i knew that wave race 64 tune reminded me of something i recently heard.

omg bove, that is horrible.

Found this wicked DKC2 covers today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGMdoWLUAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTe0-uAdRdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HXrs3dNp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf29ShkoAiA

I really LOVE that lead! It is a Pulse Width modulated sound, (PWM). In addition, PWM is a technique used in modern ovens to regulate the heat in a high precicion (Often using micro controllers pulsing the element of the oven).

Riskteven 4 hours ago

trippy bakery music

just saw a commercial for medal of honor warfighter that used ella fitzgerald's 'after you've gone' as background music. i'm guessing it's taking cues from games like bioshock and fallout (and maybe to some extent gears of war commercials too?) that deploys these really gorgeous 50s + 60s songs. i think they serve different purposes. in bioshock + fallout the music underlines a kinda of ambient nostalgia (fallout is a 50s cold war conception of the future, bioshock this randian dystopia). in medal of honor (+ i think similarly, tho not from same decades, "mad world" in gears of war commercials) made ironic stylistic contrast between action + fps hyper-violence to music's distant, restrained pop.

i think it would be really cool if there was a huge explosion of drawing on those decades for video game soundtracks - i think they made a nice shift in tempo from video game hyper-futurism

I still say that the mafia ii soundtrack is maybe the best 50's comp of all time.

http://www.mafia2game.com/community/us/features_song_list.php

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

LOVE this song. I learned how to play it and if you play it slow on a keyboard w a nice fake accordion setting it's super romantic.

Also, that guy has videos on how to make sound effects. Check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKCQqvpOa1Q&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arcH-ZPR2W0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaOVNEL92Lc

cracked me up at the time. well it still does but now i like it i think.

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaOVNEL92Lc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzg2vuqia0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEooC-rK3Y

Note the double-bass blast beat at 0:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlq-ATFa_9s

at :45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOnK4olyWj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnH8uBbXzfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HznCzbzwZM

(from beatmania iidx 3rd style and ddr 4th mix)

so much lag on era in DDR. Memories...