Favorite Game Music TRACKS (blast from the past?)

scumble on 22/5/2012 at 13:34

My favourite from Apidya was always The Pond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7XtGHg3gwY) 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7sk4YVS8g) 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QLsmUIiIQ) 3. Was one of my ideas to produce a remix/reworking myself.

Allister Brimble Knocked out some Good Stuff with 4 channels:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MApnPJWqOLQ) Body Blows Title

The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpcO2yMxO3U) Project-X Rave-like intro - and because it's so short I'll shove the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNtRUmo15M) loading screen groove in too

The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h954mvdXVLg) Alien Breed Intro

Hired Guns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK54wmy_wmw) Loading Music and the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cCnG0mrnAg) intro music (not Allister Brimble, some guy called Brian Johnston)

Off the Amiga Track momentarily with the Ridge Racer Revolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6Fz5PC0iw) Demo Music - video seems to be a bit glitchy though.

Livo on 22/5/2012 at 14:07

The Secret of Monkey Island - (http://youtu.be/Onie4N5FTlE) Opening Theme (CD version). My name's Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate!

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - (http://youtu.be/ypujHAXCqQo) Darkness at the entrance to Atlantis (CD version). I couldn't find the original version by itself, there's plenty of Let's Play videos where you can hear it though. Definitely find this song a little unsettling when playing through the game as a young child and fumbling around in the dark trying to find a way into Atlantis.

Metal Gear Solid - (http://youtu.be/_aN5wXfZClQ) Tank Hangar. I found this song really got me pumped the first time I was playing through MGS as a 13 year old; this track helps you feel that you are infiltrating a well guarded base and you need to stay alert.

Medievil - (http://youtu.be/1UrzMFmvpKI) Menu Music - Demo Version. I played a demo of this PSX game a lot, and I was highly disappointed that this song isn't in the full version. Well, the melody was reused in the track "The Crystal Caves", but it doesn't feel quite as magical, for lack of a better term.

G Police - (http://youtu.be/zrS41W6GKBM) Flight Music Track 4. Quite memorable and very appropriate for the game setting. I miss the good old days of Psygnosis...

Duke Nukem 3D - (http://youtu.be/ciCncvz1wfk) Stalker. Enough said.

Wipeout 2097 (XL) - (http://youtu.be/vjxDfJiiT0E) Loops of Fury. The entire soundtrack is phenomenal, and one could strongly argue that In Motion by Cold Storage or the instrumental version of Firestarter are the tracks people associate most with Wipeout 2097, but this track gets me in the mood for anti-grav racing.

Half-Life - (http://youtu.be/raqLH-raNvw) Drums and Riffs. The song that plays after you launch the rocket in the chapter 'On A Rail'. This one has stuck in my head for a long, long time

Half-Life Opposing Force - (http://youtu.be/9KkrRf3lEPY) Alien Forces. This is the track that plays before you fight the final boss. Does a pretty good job of psyching you up for the battle I reckon.

Rainbow Six - (http://youtu.be/f4GNnblXr1k) Theme Song.

Kuuso on 22/5/2012 at 14:10

The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts5OGIDhz_s) track (about 4:20) from the original Syndicate, when enemy agents are near. The music in this game is wonderful altogether.

Warcraft 2 has the best soundtrack from the series and probably of any RTS. All of the songs are fantastic, but maybe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMU_sacP-LM) this one takes the cake.

The former only takes place, if you don't count Sacrifice as an RTS, because it probably has the most inventive soundtrack I've heard.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y91qAuBtVyQ) James theme wins.

BrokenArts on 22/5/2012 at 15:16

I've always been partial to (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDilnYTKe9k) Undying Main Theme

SubJeff on 22/5/2012 at 15:49

Half-Life 2s incidental music is all great and fabulous for atmosphere.

In fact so much of a games atmosphere depends on the music. Its a real art form getting it right.

arandomgamer02 on 22/5/2012 at 21:04

Earthbound - One of my favorite all time video game soundtracks. While it had plenty of upbeat/quicker tracks, I love the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXYHhlJ4-k) flashback melody. It makes you really appreciate the time you spent with all the characters.

Banjo Kazooie/Tooie - Another of my favorites, not just because of the quality of the music, but how many different versions of one tune were created to match a specific place in the world (e.g. the overworld theme changes to carnival instruments when you get close to the carnival world). Love all of the tracks but one of the signature ones is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnlMwW8nyI) Glitter Gulch Mine

Duke Nukem 3D - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CezOHqlXAFY) Let's Rock

Doom II - My clearcut favorite is the theme to (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffl2ShaWyGM) Suburbs/Map 16 . This level in particular is high on adrenaline, in large part due to massive amounts of spawning monsters in open spaces (like all the other levels...:p) Also gotta love the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhCNx-8Qos&feature=relmfu) harpsichord but they only used it once :mad:

Ulukai on 23/5/2012 at 19:37

Quote Posted by Koki

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes7RQFnzk4) And since we're digging up Amiga classics

Well, since we are: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3n6BRUVAl0) Xenon 2 Intro

scumble on 24/5/2012 at 06:12

That was a pretty reasonable rendition of Bomb the Bass's Megablast, although I think it needed most of the A500's memory to hold all the samples.

Another track: (http://youtu.be/IU_-9rjg41M) Mr. Handagote from Machinarium

Ulukai on 24/5/2012 at 19:01

Going back in time still further, an 8-bit classic: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP6K0TBiPO8) Croco Magneto. I can't begin to describe how awesome this was at the time.

"This was actually released free in the public domain back in the day, and it pisses over loads of commercial CPC software. It also has one of the best soundtracks to grace a CPC"

And he's right.

Sulphur on 5/7/2013 at 20:09

OCR recently crowdfunded an (http://ff6.ocremix.org/) album. This happens to be a remix project for the entire FFVI soundtrack. I haven't listened to the entire thing yet (74 songs!) but there's quite a few surprises in there. The most adorable one I've come across right now, though, is Shadow's theme:

[video=youtube;3PbAebwc2zE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3PbAebwc2zE[/video]

Yup, the budget OCR got let 'em go ahead and make the track what it was meant to be anyway: an ode to Ennio Morricone.

The fanfare theme, as well, is... well, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_p39iF_GS3A) surprising.

Lots of unorthodox choices, but executed well. The sheer density of stuff is going to take a while to chew through, but it looks like that money ensured a consistently high baseline for quality with this project.