Songs from video games that sound like "real" songs, or vice-versa

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"Goal Scoring Superstar Hero" from Sensible Word of Soccer sounds like any 1994 post-aceeed house music. The vocals on it are terrible, though, possibly because they have to relate to the joys of playing as a second division Venezuelan football team, rather than the carte blance most lyricists have.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 June 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

I've said before that the opening music to Marble Madness sounds like the very last part of the opening movement of Debussy's La Mer. Also the music for Level 1 of The Adventures of Dino Riki uses a chord progression very like that of "Solar" by Miles Davis.

― Phil (phil), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, it's more like a cross between "Tune Up" and "Solar", i.e. never mind...

― Phil (phil), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

There was a piece of segue rock music on NHL 98 (EA Sports...) that sounded JUST like an Aerosmith song.

― jm (jtm), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the opening to the theme from the C64 game Deep Strike (written by Rob Hubbard) sounds very similar to Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'", and the opening to the theme from the C64 game Sanxion (also written by RH) sounds almost exactly like that weird, pulsating opening to the Sweet's "Fox on the Run" !

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

On Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Master System and Game Gear, the boss on level 1 act 3 (a sort of lobster and balls bouncing around) the music sounds just like "Cubik" by 808 State.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

Wiley & UKG to thread

― ss, Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

Also I found this really cool thing on slsk called Nullsleep 'The Gameboy Singles'... 7 songs made on what I assume is a Gameboy sound card. Does anyone know of any other music made on console soundcards?

― ss, Saturday, 14 June 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

Nintendo Teenage Robots on DHR. Don't buy it though, it's not very good.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 June 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

Richard Joseph, composer of the theme music to Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Magic Pockets and Mega-lo-Mania, http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=73696.

― James Mitchell, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Gah. Damn my hyperlink: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=73696

― James Mitchell, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Kometenmelodie #2 on "Autobahn" sounds a lot like something that might have been on some early C-64 computer game 10 years later.

Also, the arpeggio chords at the beginning of Orbital's "Out There Somewhere" are very much remiscent of C-64 game music by Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway etc.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Parts of Driven by Estroe and Drachma by Metope Make me think of playing Sonic.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a part in the Guardia Castle music in Chrono Trigger that is basically Percy Faith's "Theme From A Summer Place" in 4/4

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"Ace Reject" by the Sugababes has a very video-game sound to it that I just can't place.

― musically, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what level or where it was from, but there was one track I heard off the donkey kong soundtrack (why i was listening to it, I don't know) called funy's fugue that was pure acid house, if I remember correctly.

Aparrently Rare, the company behind it, was based in manchester, in the early 90's nonetheless, so it makes perfect sense.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

the music from all the Donkey Kong Countries is awesome.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXI-_An3yFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35M7xhA-oVo

― ufo, Friday, 20 July 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

Let's consider these.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 November 2021 02:06 (two years ago) link

In answer to the original question, Parappa the Rapper's driving test rap takes a riff from Can's 'Turtles Have Short Legs'.

― emil.y, Thursday, 18 November 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link

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