Videogame Music

[WolfbrotherKronos]

I've just been listening to a lot of video game music and thought we could share some....

 

One of my favorites!

 

[Thane Vakarian]

good memories on this one:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0

[Nolder]

The whole soundtrack is pretty good but here are my two favourites from FTL. The second one gets going about a minute in.

 

 

[beanie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfsqpfd6kU&list=PLBOUWKR43GVahib9dGVKlXLDhg7EGBcwx

 

:nod:

[Guest]

legend of zelda series has mostt distinctive music in my opinion thogh maybe just becuse of followed it for long time and lots of peoplle have made their own unique versions of the songs.

 

song of time from ocarina of time is probablly favourite music ever heard from video game, partly becuse when first played the game when it came out hadnt really heard anything like it before in a video game and it was prety mysterious to me before i knew how important the temple of time was (lol apparently i was one of few peple back then who didnt use a walkthruogh from a magazine or anything and guess thats why took me a decade of ocasionaly coming back to the game to finaly find all the golden skultulas myself). then it became my favourite ocarina song to play:

 

 

this is somone's arrangement of it:

 

[Hayl3y]

 

 

<3

[Lanthirrhos]

[Lanthirrhos]

I'll ditto Zelda music. It goes without saying, for me.

 

Same for FTL really, but that Song of Healing man... Temple of Time... Spirit Temple... Stone Tower... Hyrule Castle. Pretty much all of ALttP, OoT, and MM.

[F Horn of Valere]

When I got my first CD player, I put this disc in since I only had one music CD.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4INLEmh_I

 

THIS though is my favorite version of any video game music:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZki6TcY4w

[Lanthirrhos]

 

[WolfbrotherKronos]

[Thane Vakarian]

[WolfbrotherKronos]

Definite favorite

 

[Lanthirrhos]

 

Because it was one of the first games that I sunk way too much time into.

[WolfbrotherKronos]

Anyone up for some chant.

 

[Samuraiflip05]

I am having trouble with the link buttons. 

 

There is an Accapella choir singing old video game songs

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX351G-xgUY

 

 

Then all the music from the fallout series is fun. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvuidVdYN4

[Shad_]

Hijacking this dead thread with an obscure but awesome Amiga 500 track from some cheap Arkanoid ripoff, circa 1988:

 

[Shad_]

Also, I maintain a video game music rumble game on the FFShrine forums if anyone's interested.  We're covering the Zelda series and World of Warcraft at the moment, and Final Fantasy in a separate thread.

[lord of the dawn]

i find my self partial to mass effect music. particularly this track: 

 

 

though i do have a soft spot for mirror edges ambient tracks:

 

[Shad_]

Nice.  I am really unfamiliar with anything after about 2000-2005.  Apparently one of the Mass Effect 2 composers, Jimmy Hinson, got his start on OC Remix.  That's pretty awesome.

 

I'm a bit of an obscurist myself.  Feast on some Tim Follin NES prog rock madness:

 

[lord of the dawn]

im okay with this haha.

 

i find my self more into castlevania stuff when it comes to the older games. all the games good or bad had fantastic music: 

 

 

or one of my personal favorites: 

 

[Shad_]

Nice!  I featured a couple tracks from Belmont's Revenge when I tackled the Game Boy in my vgm game a few years ago.  The Game Boy had some deliciously pure tones and great panning effects, though few composers really put them to work.  Ryuji Sasai knew what was up:

 

[lord of the dawn]

there were some fantastic songs on belmont's revenge. haha, alot of the older composers knew the tools they had and used them incredibly well, and it shows haha, but moving on a bit from the game boy, you had so much on the game boy advance too, just a ton, and it was fantastic. i havent seen any megaman stuff yet, so imma gonna fix that:

 

departure best track on MMZ2 and thats saying something: 

 

 

though megaman in general has some fantastic tracks though

[Shad_]

One of the interesting things about the Mega Man series is that Capcom recruited a different composer for nearly every title and yet almost all of the early ones feel distinctly consistent.  The rather unknown Takashi Tateishi's Mega Man 2 is the obvious crown jewel of the bunch.  And it happened to spawn the most epic vgm fan tribute I've personally ever watched:

 

[lord of the dawn]

yeah? i didn't know that capcom did that haha.

 

and im not goona lie, thats an awesome tribute. speaking of awesome and tributes, ever heard of the Protomen?

 

 

 

i love stuff like this, taking the story and making it their own, its both creative and awesome

 

though i recomend listening to the album in order, thats just one of my favorite tracks