games music

[Manyaraña Recargado]

what are your favorites?
mines, mario bros and castlevania

[NoodlesMacintosh]

Mega Man 2.

[Nanbawan]

Ace combat 4 is the one that comes to mind. It's true the Castlevania games have good BGMs.

Gran Turismo of course, even if they're not original musics. At least in Europe. it's a bit the same concerning the tune selection of GTA (Vice City/San Andreas).

A lot of Core/TurboGraphx had catchy themes, mainly for shoot-them-ups.

And what about the very cinematic BGMs of FPSs like Medal Of Honor or Call of Duty ? Maybe Metal Gear Solid also ?

As I write about it, I remember Formula One ('95) on the PSOne, well, if you like Joe Satriani's guitar sound. Anyway, there were good original musics.

[Crewbasher]

Gotta say Halo (the first one). First time my friends and I turned on the XBox and heard the Gregorian chanting, we were like "ooh...". Plus the game was great for picking great battle-march-like songs when the combat was about to pick up (if anyone can find it, I believe my two favorites were "Covenant Dance" and "Rock Anthem for Saving the World" - my friend bought the soundtrack).

Although who can argue with Super Mario Bros.? #2 also had a catchy little ditty. And I loved how SMB3's "underground" levels were a funky version of the underground ones from the first game.

And of course, Tetris. That is a great theme.

Nowadays, I've noticed that a lot of games (namely sports/racing ones) have been using actual songs on their soundtracks, which is nice, but it was fun to listen to the themes from the old games - maybe it's just a nostalgia thing. To be fair, though, there are a few good ones here and there on the newer systems. I particularly like the Fuzion Frenzy soundtrack (xbox), and most of the Final Fantasy ones (esp. VII and X).

[Manyaraña Recargado]

i forgot goal!
very nice,i just loved listening to it again and again in my family game back in the 90's :D
another good soundtrack,fifa 97.only one of the saga i remember with original music composed for the game.

[servotron]

If you like old school video game music check out "Duracell".

http://andrediamant.free.fr/duracell.htm

Very cool, geeky, hard rocking stuff, all based on old SEGA games.

[Nanbawan]

As you speak about SEGA, it reminds me of some musical themes.

Sonic the Hedgehog, of course and particularly Sonic CD which had amazing soundtrack.

How can I forget about the Shinobi episode named 'Shadow Dancer' on the MegaDrive/Genesis ! I also remember about 'Streets of Rage' with the level boss' musics notably.

[Auriaprottu]

Gran Turismo of course

I have actually posted about this game's (GT3) music in a bassplayer's forum thread. Still not sure if most of the "bass" is real bass or keyboard, tho. Great tunes either way.

Other games with music I like:

Perfect Dark

FIFA 2000 and 2001- I liked "Joy", "I Can Fly", "Brisco" (I think that's what it's called), and "It's Only Us", plus a couple more, but I don't have either game anymore, and can't remember which tunes go with which games.

[Goodsport]

Bill Brown (http://billbrownmusic.com/) and Jeremy Soule (http://www.jeremysoule.com/) are among two of the best game composers around. :cool:


-G