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

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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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