This is the Video Game Music Thread

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...

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well that didn't work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1UkE9h2zJg

All the Saturn Bomberman soundtrack really rules. My favorite song is the one in the levels below. It's a cool dance track built on an extremely sick loop that i want to sample one day (the bit that starts at 9 secs in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawS0rjOLMk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Usc3C-FIs

It's only a matter of time before someone rips this off and comes up with Ninja Wave. It'll have to be pretty damn good to compare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1dMfA7g8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aluIke9R7P4

I've kind of gotten a thing for these alternate soundtrack versions. The Mega Man one above is remade using this insane custom NES sound chip called the VRC6 (developed by the guy who worked on the sound for Contra) that was only ever used for the Japanese version of Castlevania III. Also the really sparse feel of the NES Metroid soundtrack has a lot to do with the fact that it was originally done for a Japanese disk-based add-on that had an extra sound channel compared to the NES- when they had to port it to the NES they just chopped out one of the sound channels making the whole thing way more ambient/atmospheric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMEzDnqIg9k

Just have to post Saturn Bomberman again. I've got this Saturn emulator (SSF) that plays the sound well but it crashes all the time so i have to use one that i can only get to play the sound effects and not the CD music (Yabause). So i end up playing mounting the game as a CD and playing the soundtrack just track by track as a CD in VLC. Usually i get bored w the game and just turn it off and leave the soundtrack playing.

It is SO amazing! Lots of really cool 90s electro dance tracks on it. Unfortunately the whole soundtrack is not on youtube unlike many other game soundtracks but the music and cues on the game disc itself are just wonderful. A song will have a nice drum & bass track underneath samples of futuristic trains arriving and departing. Or maybe Morricone-style guitar licks that devolve into really crazy masterful solos. Or simply some 808 drum loops run through a few delays and filter sweeps. Or a really sick bossa nova lounge (complete with acoustic guitars and percussion) or some death techno or melancholy minimalist house music. I wish I knew more about 90s dance because I'm having trouble describing it accurately. But it is ALL KILLER.

all menu music should be funky drummer-based

wait, is it the one that starts around the 36min mark here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoqnwm0QAwg&feature=youtu.be&t=36m20s

oh wait, looks like that's bomberman fight. didn't realize there were multiple saturn bomberman games. but the ost for that one is pretty good too!

yeah thats different. the game is literally called "Saturn Bomberman"

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkdrJWE-rqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMbiaUfUc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN94qTjXQic

not sure why those didnt embed

I still get chills from the "Dire Dire Docks" tune from SM64. I mean there's great music in every Mario game but that one really strikes a chord still.

Also the Game Boy Robocop title theme (as immortalized in "Dilbert 3") is surpirsingly well done for such a tossoff game

not sure why those didnt embed

you need to take out the s in https:

are there any really great VG soundtrack albums out there? I've had the one for Katamari Damacy for years and I love it (even though I never played the original)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3WZwiQ0VW8

and I actually haven't found too many osts that work as albums. but I think the first seranji poji album is the soundtrack to some weird apartment living sim and that's a good one.

Saturn Bomberman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4u7HeKMzY&list=PL75F71469D1059510

IT'S VIDEOGAME MUSIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htr5vY_N9BY

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

Love the ambient music for Shadow of the Beast 2 for Genesis.

this RBMA series is pretty great, love the interview with the woman who did all the Street Fighter II music & sfx: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/diggin-in-the-carts

master system sonic, bridge zone

The soundtracks to all the 8-bit mega man games are now on spottily.

What an album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txa19VilQpk