This is the Video Game Music Thread

That second one is badass — reminds me of the music from Darius Twin:

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

The music for Super R-Type was great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EuN1wXOljY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hahr56i6ReE&feature=related

I was disappointed when I found out Keiichi Suzuki wasn't doing the music for Mother 3, but Shogo Sakai did a good job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptb4MMI3puw&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5xdue7GFcc

I'd love to hear the music for a lagoon level on Super Mario 64, but I'm damned if I know what it's called, I just remember rushing around in knee high water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20dF5Ao1mE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUdH1uwSfGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpi9D1ZxUQ

i'm trying to find more music (game or non-game) in a similar style to the Machinarium soundtrack, this has to be my favorite game soundtrack of the past several years. it's all a bit eno-esque i guess but more lush and structured

my 2 favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDvawzJ3s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8HXFrqpCI

Not dissimilar to the new Bonobo album actually, which I've been praising on ILM this very weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1vexQzA9Vk&feature=player_embedded

I'd love to hear the music for a lagoon level on Super Mario 64, but I'm damned if I know what it's called, I just remember rushing around in knee high water.

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:07 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

that level is called dire dire docks. the music is posted upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5tdcizbkI

what video game music does this remind me of?

The music in this game sounded like something produced by Trevor Horn. I'd forgotten about it until just now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkplK2KnQ2E&feature=related&fmt=18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GKueb8P8o&feature=related

There's no way near enough Rob Hubbard on this thread.

His metallic percussion sounds are genius and he always had a way with textures but with a hummable tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQuR1LHAVI&fmt=18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwgAzgK7ws&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkf_H8zejU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozr54lqRoBc

Defcon - Everybody dies
ambient soundtrack adjusts to gameplay, this is the final phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1lvJ2-N2Q

^ love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322V5rD6ko4

playing through this for the first time was a magical experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVVsUq-JlgU

I love this 'song' (even though it repeats itself over and over in the game)
A rapper should sample it

I feel like autistic peeps would like that song too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJg7vZMtfgc

bizarre but entertaining. So says Mr Stewart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvXBFwcyek

but

could have chosen any track from this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26VUw440rY

i did enjoy that Deadly Premonition song

The original tune is nice and pleasant (as well as, at least for myself, distinctly Japanese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yextE9SLo&feature=related

Now this song plays during "train-travelling" sequences in which you dictate the path of your train and defend against baddies and such. What's genius though is that the CHUGGA-CHUGGA-CHUGGA is kept nice and LOUD and it dawned on me that these two noises didn't conflict, but compliment eachother... the train benefits as the percussion, which is is why I'll forever keep stock in Nintendo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YyJb2Olrc8
^peruse through that if you're trying to figure out what the hell I'm trying to say.

yeah! like it shouldn't really work - especially when you first get in the train, and you notice how overloud the sound effects seem, but it totally comes together

Come to think of it, Japanese are just dope in general in the music department.... the songs are always memorable, usually cheesy, but never groan-inducing. As of late the only American videogames I've been playing have been war games, which seem to think sweeping orchestral symphonies appropriate no matter the war.

was this one mentioned? i always thought this game started really really cool. Test 1,2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIZwsCGjW0

The Art Style: Light Trax piece is surprisingly good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqEfB6IYmE

i love that game's music!

(ps thank you for posting the version of this video with the sound properly synced, it really annoys me that the most popular one is completely off sync)

I really like the music off the Mass Effect series. Imagine if Vangelis and Steve Moore had a baby. For some reason I always think that "Fever Dream" was part of this video game soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w097Q0fZE-A

^ a lot of Boards of Canada's early, early stuff sounds a hell of a lot like this videogame's soundtrack. I'll try digging it up somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBISfv-6hfo
First time I heard this I fell madly in love with it. All the music in SMB2 is beautiful. Funny thing is the first time I ever played the game it was at my friend's house and he had the sound turned down so he could listen to The Beach Boys, so it was also the first time I ever heard them! Quite a landmark day that was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLoSAb1-bc
Again, fell madly in love with this. Monkey 1 and 2 I had both before we had a sound card, so we got the PC speaker sound, which you can hear above is fucking incredible! So glad someone saved this for the internet. They've re-done this music in many ways, but this is still my favorite version. Epic glitch pirate music, far better than most adventure movie soundtracks. This is up there with Star Wars for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg__USr9YNM&feature=related
This is my favorite MI theme. I think this is the original midi version I heard back when I was a kid. We ran out to get a hint book and ended up buying a Soundblaster card. I still think about recording a cover of this using my theremin!

OTM with Mass Effect. The understated atmosphere it helps create, especially that piece, is so unexpected but so perfect for that type of game (space epic).

That MI2 rendition of the main theme is my favorite of the series. Never heard the PC speaker version before, though, that's crazy! Still gonna go with the awesome General MIDI version tho.

recently played through Super Metroid for the first time a couple weeks ago and thought this theme was really haunting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTp4d38cPtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldk-0uilbiU

I don't know shit about any game created after, like, 1983. But this electro-metal-funk thing drilled itself into my brain for all eternity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzx1mBV2PU

(Never even played the game btw, not even once)

i wish i could play through super metroid for the first time again ;_;

It was really great, I'd rank it with the best games of all time. I wish I'd owned it as a kid.

via s/nes or did you emulate it? kinda been lookin for a time-passer

Emulator. It's definitely a time-passer — there were several moments where I had no idea how to go on and just stopped playing in frustration.

Earthbound Zero I actually did quit in frustration — it's so illogically hard (as opposed to being ~challenging~) that it just became not fun anymore.

huge earthbound fan, but that's what I've heard as well, so I never got too deep into zero.

I was at the final boss! I died like 20 times before I said "fuck this."

super metroid was like a horror game to me when i was a kid - so atmospheric and lonely

all time metroid jam is Kraid's Lair obv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wHwJoxw4i4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-U3sVX2G3w

The OG Metroid title music is soul-crushing electronic minimalism the likes of which have never been topped.

er.....except for that pretty bit. Huh, never heard that part before!