This is the Video Game Music Thread

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

finding that lovely too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEDX-2M7Qk

zero mentions of "one-winged angel" in this thread, which is a shame because it's truly batshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDD-iYkHBhc

an all-time classic transformed into stars of the lid's next album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3a8zqTzats

Loop Hero has some really good SNES-chip music. there are like 8-12 different songs and they all rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjAzHlmJ2l8

That was one of the first game soundtracks I bought on CD, but I never played the game

i might be mistaking this for SoM, but i believe there's a rom hack that lets you provide the soundtrack as WAV files and are played uninterrupted by the other sounds on the screen which constantly take away instruments from the soundtrack

a stone cold classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTdZedIqU98

koshiro is GOTY

Not sure where to post this, but I have this Cool Notes 12" and the synthesizer and overall vibe of this track have always made me think of some lost Japan-only import SNES game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EOhMRtfYA

In fact, just playing it again reminded me of Hal's Hole in One Golf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFVVlbwndI