Video Game Music - What Do You Remember?
 

Childhood games to the present day now. Whether it's specific levels or the actual theme tunes.

These are my favs so far:






Something from my younger days here:







Enjoy

YouTube videos are still all white for me. Not sure what's up with that, but:

Try a different web browser. I used to use firefox but was having problems with it so I switched to Opera. Works much better.

The ones I posted show up fine at my end so maybe it's your browser?


By the way, my list is:

Metal Gear Solid 2 Theme Tune
GTA 5 - Pause Menu music (Lovely and chilled)
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country - Diddy's Kong Quest

Odd. They show up as white on Chrome (which has never happened before) and show up fine on Firefox. Good list, btw.

Remember This One?

Digger T. Rock (1991)

A very memorable game. Was about digging through various caverns and collecting gems and keys etc.

Never heard of it, but it looks really interesting. Gonna have to check it out. Also, I fixed the white screen problem. It was being caused by flash. Some more soundtracks:

For original soundtracks Half-Life 2 has been my favorite since the day I heard it, no contest. The nostalgia hits me like a brick every time. For compilation style soundtracks, GTA: San Andreas is absolutely legendary. I still drive around listening to K-DST, K-ROSE, Bounce FM, and Radio X today.

Elder Scrolls 3 always had a nice, epic sounding soundtrack.

Sorry if I've started a similar thread but I'm still a newbie here compared to people like you and to be honest, I couldn't find a thread on the subject because there's that many on here.

Besides, this is not based on favourites. More of 'What You Can Remember' from years back and what sounds good today :-)

Love the music in the Elder Scrolls games. Haven't played them for ages. I've got the 4th one and Skyrim. I'll get round to playing them one day. Too busy with GTA5 at the minute...

I'm a HUGE fan of 8-bit music, chiptunes, etc. Back in the Winamp days I used the NSFten plugin which lets you feed it NES ROMs and it would extract audio loops of all the stage and boss music.

But I think I speak for everyone when I pledge my allegiance to Yoshihiro
Sakaguchi's 1989 theme music for the Moon level in DuckTales for the NES.

Here it is performed live on the Chipophone.

I remember the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). That's what I used to play Digger T. Rock and Kirby etc.
I've seen one on amazon. It's about £40.

These days the games back then look really sh*t compared to todays graphics and gameplay but I'm glad I was born in the 80's because it was great to be around those games which (back then) were mint!

I love being ignored.

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Ah. I see.

Final Fantasy Tactics
Secret of Mana
Castlevania: SotN

are my 3 most memorable OSTs.

Tony Hawk always had good music !

And the best song to have come from a videogame.

For sure, one of the best of classic chiptune/8-bit/ etc scores. I can dig on the old school of the originals, but I gotta admit that I do love a good cover:

OP thanks for sharing MGS2 soundtrack, it's one of my all time favourite games - I would add every MGS until MGS4 soundtrack

Here's from fifa 2004:



Hitman 2


I've played so many games that I would spend hours thinking about memorable themes.

Kudos for whoever posted the song from Morrowind.

Been listening to Streets of rage OST lately.

(I've corrected Carpe Mortem's youtube link below so that all can enjoy it. An excellent remix, indeed.)

I remember this track from Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. it has the arranged soundtrack


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUS-fxZCQw8

I could probably upload a good chunk of the NES and SNES catalogs, and a few other selections all the way up to PS3 (I stopped after that).

Sticking with just NES for this post:

Time Lord



Interestingly, David Wise is the composer for Time Lord. He's the same guy who did the Donkey Kong soundtrack and a number of other classic games. According to Wikipedia, he was discovered by the Rare founders while he was demoing a Yamaha CX5 Music Computer in a music shop where he worked.

Blaster Master



^^ Very good game. Always remember the frog scene at the beginning and then the blast-off in the tank where it transitions into this song.

Snake Rattle 'n Roll



^^ David Wise, again. Fun but very hard game.

And I'd be remiss not to mention Tetris. All three songs to that game are ace:

LOVE the music of SR&R! It's a love I generally reserve for... well... everything Capcom has ever touched. But Marble-Madness-with-snakey-tongues was awesome.

Very catchy music, indeed. It does have a similar layout to Marble Madness, now that I take a look at it. Probably couldn't beat either without Game Genie. :cool:

@Overcast: The Journey to Silius--I missed that one back then. That game does have good music.

This song really takes me back.
You hear it alot in the beginning of the game and it somehow fits the characters student life perfectly.





This one is just beautiful and marks a crucial point in the FF10 game

Honestly you can arbitrarily pick almost any song from any FF game and they're all good but more than good, memorable for always fitting the atmosphere of the games

I'll still listen to the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack every now and then like I would any other great album. It's basically just a brilliant ambient/electronic-ish album to me that just happens to be the soundtrack to my favorite game of all-time.

That Jason game used to scare the hell out of me.

The Neverhood - Wonderful Madness
 

http://i.imgur.com/X8lmig1.jpg

I'd totally neglected to post The Neverhood Soundtrack by Terry S Taylor!

The Neverhood was a brilliantly strange claymation adventure with an equally bizarre soundtrack. The score featured such tracks as "Everybody Way Oh!", "Potatoes, Tomatoes, Gravy, and Peas" and "I'm Thirsty, I need Wahwah."

Ahhh, good stuff

I remember when I played Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, they played The Bitzkrieg Pop from The Ramones, that was like a long time ago :p
But that's how I got to know them :D
Still gratefull :)

Finally picked up Borderlands, dipped my toes in. Cool graphics, excellent soundtrack, and I'm in love with the robot. Fvckin adorable.

if you are looking for good video game music, then i'd definitely recommend:

Very nice. Such a great series of games.