This is the Video Game Music Thread

that was one of my favorite songs from that year!

that's really great

Seems like Mega Man 2 - Wiley Stage 4 is considered the worst music of the game because it just cycles four notes through all twelve keys (which I guess is lazy composition?), but it was one of my favorites as a kid. Creepy and tense, relentlessly cycling upward.

this beat samples shinobi 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFojwKDp9k

lol my bad i meant this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nry2KXKr1OI&feature=emb_title

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

Hirosato Noda - prelude (Final Fantasy X OST)
reworked dance/hip-wiggling version that has been already mentioned in this thread, i'm sure

resent rendition of the FF Prelude Theme by three (?) presumably japanese girls on a huge Xylophon(?)

Yū Miyake - kitsch (Tekken 4 OST)
jazzy fun loop; vocal parts sound like an electrified version of Manhattan Transfer

Yasunori Mitsuda - 風が呼ぶ、蒼穹のシェバト
Xenogears OST Revival Disc - the first and the last', Track 31.
Arranged version that oozes with influence from those big 70's TV score composers like Bill Goldenberg. But maybe it's just me.

Chill & Zelda - dark world (Mikel Lofi Remix)
Ian Taylor - sea shanty 2, Runescape OST
OSRSBeatz - sea shanty 2 (Trap Remix), Soundcloud still & again popular banger on twitch.tv gamer streams; helps rng in different games

that last one reminds me of this banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxSO9jbYF0

Final Fantasy XIV - Exponential Entropy (Alexander: Cruise Chaser's Theme) by Masayoshi Soken

Forward and back and then forward and back
And then go forward and back, then put one foot forward (x2)

Transcendental minds unleashed
Exponential entropy

Forward and back and then forward and back
And then go forward and back, then put one foot forward (x8)

(crossposted to hoover tunes: what are the essentials )

Terraria - underground (by Scott Lloyd Shelly)

Description: It's a fast and whimsical track, with an almost robotic tone.

Runescape 07 - Book of Spells (Trap Remix)

RING THE BELLS @ 1:50.

yuzo koshiro's ys soundtrack is one of my alltime favorites. my partner said this one sounded like the pet shop boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELuvkU32Lg

the ff14 soundtrack is astonishing. i played a lot of hours of that game and there's still a zillion tunes i've never heard, including that one.

https://grahamdunning.com/portfolio/panopticon/

"‘Half-Life’, all in-game sounds replaced with samples from 90s rave tracks and sample CDs."

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Quest Master yet but found it on bandcamp recently and am kind of blown away. It's a Dungeon Synth "love letter to the RPG's of the 1990's". All 3 albums have been pretty fun. This is the latest: https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/the-twelve-castles-3

Kamil Orman Janowski - Shaper's Realm
(OST Path Of Exile - Atlas Of The Worlds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LPRZ3c44w

I listened to this a lot, A LOT of times looping ingame for hours.
And it still grows and makes me wanna pee.

Short interview and performance by the Panzer Dragoon musician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYGU3PWuc1I

She (Saori Kobayashi) and Yoko Kanno. That makes two female computer game composers i know.

Pascal Michael Stiefel - scootin' through clocktowers beneath the sea (A Hat In Time OST)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtDTVDg0Cs

Michiru Yamane is pretty famous.

good stuff here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

err, that was supposed to be a link to a youtube channel but apparently ILX thought it was a video URL

link

mentioned it in the console games poll but the thread blew right by it lol

the "highway star" meets jean-luc ponty "mute city" song from f-zero x is one of the all-time video game bangers

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

Actually, I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon listening to the F-Zero X OST thanks to your post--it shreds wayy harder than I remembered. Some of the tracks are like straight-up death metal w cookie monster vox and everything

e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWQEy0n6lg

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

omg i totally forgot about devil's forest

the 8-bit version of "mute city" shreds, obviously, but doesn't have the garish grandiosity of the orchestrated version

a friend of mine has done a radio show about video game music: https://www.mixcloud.com/pete_forsaken/forsaken-on-sub-fm-201400815/

F-Zero OST > F-Zero X OST, but I might be biased, the commentator on X is just too irritating

Devil's Forest is crazy haha

another banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1cZs95kYE

give the drummer some!

Yeah Big Blue was my jam from this game

lol you can buy the soundtrack on cd from discogs for the low-low price of one thousand and thirty three dollars

https://www.discogs.com/Taro-Bando-F-Zero-X-Original-Sound-Track/release/2158441

you know a fight's about to get real when this starts playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB-xej4GFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3g0Ts60220

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyBn3x0zCc

some serious waking the witch vibes on this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYbU2D4wgM

The soundtrack to Hades is great and I just nominated it in the heavy music thread. I've been thinking a lot about game music lately because of it. I also got a Switch and started playing some older titles on their NES/SNES apps and remembered how much I love the Donkey Kong Country music. Mario 2 also has great music. Just bookmarked this thread and am going to check out a lot of new (to me) stuff.

this exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhcKp2XAhs

this game and OST is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuOkxllZpc

this is pretty good
https://leyawn.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-bird-world

This one is awesome:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQxGy5maIQ0

so good

feeling it

One of my favourite things is YouTubes of people covering tunes from Chrono Trigger.

Kara Comparetto does some lovely piano versions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgI8Aw3sqmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkp72WR0hX8
(although I've noticed nearly everyone struggles to get that quick slide quite right)

wow you can tell the difference immediately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajYLHvFL0sU

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD-vbw8Jmuyg3JYDxm1QPPj1mP3soOVEx
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/super-high-fidelity-mario-the-quest-to-find-original-gaming-audio-samples/

fascinating effort/scene but i wouldn't say their end products are necessarily aesthetically 'better' than the compressed versions we heard from the cartridges

richer!

i'm not really a fan of the SMW recreations, they're an interesting curiosity but the way the original SNES version of the soundtrack sounded was so heavily coloured by the compression that these ultimately don't have the same feel to them at all

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

i do really like the DKC ones people have done though, the compressed versions of the samples on the cartridge weren't anywhere near as coloured by the compression so it really does just sound like a clearer version of the original