Video Game Music

Hmm. that could work.

plus, i keep confusing the memory of the tune vs the sound effect of the transceiver text.

In college my friend Ando got into downloading MIDIs of Mega Man tunes and rearranging them with hot riddims, then playing the whole mess through his wall of synthesizers and drum machines and FX boxes etc before mixing down to cassette. I wish I had some mp3s of that or a CDR somewhere. So money.

(Okay, the last track was actually crap.)

not to mention I also actually purchased the OSTs for both Katamari Damacy and the JP release of Gran Turismo 3, which is so much better than the US version.

I am going to win this thread. Ugh.

title music in Starray (amiga defender clone, best ever in fact)

one of the tunes on Super Hang-on, i think it was the third choice (Winning Run?)

my all time fave though was the title music on 'The Plot' on the Spectrum. beautiful little ditty.

if anyone can find me the music from Alone in the Dark 2, in any format (including midi), i'll love them forever.

I used to do this with the first one on gameboy. Years later a friend's band recorded a song with almost exactly the same guitar solo, claiming it was unintentional. I love their version as much as I did Turrican's!

if anyone can find me the music from Alone in the Dark 2, in any format (including midi), i'll love them forever.

Amazing! I've got that game on CD somewhere, so maybe I can get the music out of it somehow. It was the panpipes that made AITD. (Strangely, tying in with my reply to Ste, I was in a band about four years ago named after that game.)

*this part is a lie

BY ALLEN RILEY

I disagree. I have both albums in my itunes and I listen to the KD soundtrack a lot but I always wind up turning off the new one or skipping to what I consider to be the "good" songs — which are few and far between, imo.

I've only heard the music from FF X, but I liked it because it seemed very incidental and unassuming. It didn't get in the way and held up well after constant replay.

PEACHnesynth
TOADnesdrum
TRIFORCEnesynth

i'll post some of the tunes i've made on the YSI thread.

i can already see my dissertation floating down a green pixellated pipe.

It was Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did Chrono Trigger (with the Final Fantasy guy) and uh, Tsuganai: Atonement.

I fucked up the sound quality on the nintendo mix somehow when I finished it. It was edited together using Cool Edit 96 (registered to PhRoZeN cReW 97!!!!) and I somehow saved it wrang. It's gotta be cleaned up!

faxanadu
dr. mario
mario 3
wizards & warriors
maniac mansion
wagan land
double dragon
james bond jr.
deja vu
mother
castlevania
batman
kid icarus
dragon warrior
mario
magician
wagan land 2
marble madness
mega man 3
8 eyes
metroid
xexyz
zelda

nice job!

At least there's Tetris and Castlevania there for good tunes... Most of the other stuff sounds like generic action/fantasy film scores.

(all I need is my mp3 of that 20 minute live rendition of the FF VI opera)

Trontage!

sounds like generic action/fantasy film scores

what i was thinking too. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I like the Kingdom Hearts stuff.

still looking for a list of games haruomi hosono composed the music for. i know he did the early namco arcade games but he must've done some console soundtracks!

http://www.esnips.com/web/fatboysgim-VideoGameMusic

http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/starfox.jpg
http://www.superdsblog.com/wp-content/starfox.jpg
Staring into Fox's eyes always creeped me out during the SNES intro song

allen's NEX MIX link doesn't work anymore :__(

anyway, deadly premonition's soundtrack is rad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTDsaf_ybo

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/1169/43723803.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5eBlwac6U

sleazy as fukkkkkkkk

classic

ah nexmix. classic material

http://tmtmwrk.com/post/4159318606/ludacris-roll-out-street-fighter-2-biggie

http://www.spin.com/articles/history-video-games-rap-songs-samples-supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlJarpX5ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnGAus8iG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnGAus8iG0

<3

http://groupees.com/gsg

basically i'm in just for the Spelunky soundtrack, even though i don't know if i'll ever listen to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN_LilvnQ2g

i really like the Gradius sound. sequential interstellar techno that is actually melodic instrumental metal

This is cool, though most won't even be familiar with the original music (game only shipped 10,000 copies in the States). Not sure how many units they shipped to other countries, if at all (other than Japan).

http://store.bravewave.net/album/resurrection-panzer-dragoon-saga-20th-anniversary-arrangement-2

Brave Wave is proud to announce the release of a new arrangement soundtrack for the legendary SEGA Saturn RPG, Panzer Dragoon Saga. Saori Kobayashi, the game's original co-composer, has selected 20 tracks from the original game and given them fresh, new arrangements that will allow longtime series fans to reminisce about the game's iconic music while simultaneously experiencing it in a brand new way.

Joining Kobayashi is Eri Ito, one of the original vocalists for the game. She lends her powerful and dramatic vocals to two songs. Five tracks are backed by the Washington D.C.-based video game music band, Triforce Quartet, with three songs featuring the backing of Boston-based flutist Maho Azuma.

The channel "8-bit music theory" is self-explanatory. Maybe I only find it interesting because I know very little about music theory. Try the video on Mega Man 2 at least.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw/videos

that's awesome!

shit you weren't kidding about the Mega Man 2 video. so good

mix of pause screen/title screen/save room themes, very soothing:

https://soundcloud.com/purpletapepedigree/retrovertigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHZKPc0z30

saw this in the used bins today. may have to go back and buy it. a fucking yars' revenge storybook album. mix of rambling story and actual score with game samples. the song "yars' revenge" is blatantly ripped from "living in the plastic age." "fly yar warriors" is also something but i can't place it right this second. who the fuck made this?

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

this song from the 7th guest just kinda lives in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axozvje4L1I

i'm just a complete sucker for that motif when in the 5 chord the 5th steps down to the 3rd. there's for sure something in earthbound like that too. foundational!

in the cup of coffee song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LZ1GqSrEE

"Arranging Jazz Standards in Game Soundfonts pt.8" (warning: annoying loud synthetic voices at beginning of video)

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeVUFo4R/

did we ever poll video game music?

would we like to?

ok guess not lol i would have just been forcing everyone to listen to nier automata music anyway

i mean, i like the idea but it's so big! You'd have to do it by eras. How do you compare Pac Man interstitial songs to the soundtrack from Journey?