Great videogame music


Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Chris Huelsbeck, Ben Dalglish - all genius. The Rambo tape loader music by Martin Galway with it's morse code intro is just pure excellence.


As is the Crazy Comets music by Rob Hubbard.
 
Pretty much every single Mega Man game has great music - I have so many favourite tracks from the series that it would be very difficult to list them all! (A pretty obvious one, though, is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPTG7x4LgSw, which is Prometheus & Pandora's theme from Mega Man ZX, along with their theme from Mega Man ZX Advent, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NscuHPnHqbs, which is a remix of Trap Factory, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xgW9fP4bg, a remix of both of those tracks which appears on the album "Rockman ZX Soundsketch - ZX Gigamix"; Of course, these are favourites amongst many, many, many others.)


Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest also has a truly fantastic soundtrack. It sets the backdrop for the piratical epic that the game is *perfectly*. The soundtrack for the original Donkey Kong Country is also pretty great, but I never felt that Donkey Kong Country 3's soundtrack was quite up to the standard of the other two (though it does still have some good tracks in it). The new tracks in Donkey Kong Country Returns are great, as well - they're the stand-out part of a soundtrack that was unfortunately mostly just anaemic remixes of the original DKC's music.


Diddy Kong Racing's music is surprisingly good, too, and it fits in with the originally-intended theme park setting of the game (which was how it was meant to be before the story was changed prior to release - when you view the game with the knowledge that the location was meant to be a theme park, instead of someone's curiously-racing-themed island, it makes much more sense in context). The added tunes in Diddy Kong Racing DS are great, too - the new Jungle Falls track is perpetually stuck in my head lately. :p


The theme tune from Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo for the Commodore 64 is excellent, as well. It's well worth listening to, as it's an original composition rather than a SID conversion of a TV theme tune. Special mentions also go to the C64 versions of the Dizzy games (ESPECIALLY Magic Land Dizzy), Little Puff in Dragonland, Jack the Nipper II: Coconut Capers, The NewZealand Story, Ninja Rabbits, and Short Circuit, as well as Ocean Loader 5. Some truly superb SID music going on, there!


Last, but certainly not least, the truly epic soundtracks from Star Fox and Star Fox 2 for the SNES are truly brilliant, and the few new (i.e., non-recycled-from-Star-Fox-64) tracks in Star Fox Assault (GameCube) and Star Fox Command (DS) are very good, too.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Chris Huelsbeck, Ben Dalglish - all genius. The Rambo tape loader music by Martin Galway with it's morse code intro is just pure excellence.


As is the Crazy Comets music by Rob Hubbard.
Loved hubbards crazy comets music jst thought last ninja was more emotional music and sticks in my head more
 
Game music is one of my guilty pleasures, much to the dismay of my significant other & everyone else that knows me..


I'll limit myself to relatively recent stuff (otherwise there's just too much to mention)


A fairly recent (last couple of years) favourite of mine has got to be Machinarium the entire thing is a delight from start to finish.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIezdmmbMs&feature=relmfu


& how could I not mention Mr Jespyr Kyd's simply astounding Freedom Fighters soundtrack (in the dictionary under epic)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOCpvHnGvNE?feature=oembed
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I used to fire up Led Storm on the Atari ST just to hear the opening bit of music.


The original Tomb Raider soundtrack was perfectly suited to the game, the music played on it's own really conveys the sense of wonder the game created.


The soundtracks for Myst and Riven were released on CD, and although the Myst one has some rather dated instrumentation, they are both really evocative.


The ICO soundtrack has some painfully short but really great ambient/electronica bits. The music that plays during save/load sequences is under 2 minutes long on the CD, but it's an endless loop in the game - I think I may have drifted off into a dream a number of times just listening to that load screen!
 
Rise from your grave!

And a valid reason for digging this thread up again a couple years later, the Altered Beast boss theme is amazing when played loud

http://youtu.be/gEk_4ec1vZE
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Back
Top