Favorite Video Game Music?

[tmont]

What's your favorite video game music? We're talking in-game music, not "soundtracks to crappy video game music." And let's not include sound effects, because then we all know Frogger and Arcade Pac-Man would win unanimously.

 

My personal favorites are Mega Man 2 and Crystalis for NES. I also liked the "Base" music in Contra. It had that nice groovy, almost pornographic quality to it that you just don't find in modern games.

 

Oh, and let's keep it classic, as in anything up to, but not including, the Playstation. So, like pre-1995, or whenever the PS came out.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

SID music from Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Chris Hülsbeck, Martin Galway, Maniacs of Noise and other great SID wizards.

 

A selection of my favourites:

 

The Last Ninja Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees

Wizball Martin Galway

Commando Rob Hubbard

Arkanoid Martin Galway

Crazy Comets Rob Hubbard

Cybernoid Jeroen Tel / Maniacs of Noise

Last Ninja 2 Matt Gray

Ghosts'n Goblins Mark Cooksey

R-type Chris Hülsbeck & Ramiro Vaca

The Great Giana Sisters Chris Hülsbeck

Parallax Martin Galway

Comic Bakery Martin Galway

Turbo Outrun Jeroen Tel / Maniacs of Noise

IK+ Rob Hubbard

BMX Kidz Rob Hubbard & Jori Olkkonen

Mega Apocalypse Rob Hubbard & Simon Nicol

Katakis Chris Hülsbeck

Gerry the Germ Rob Hubbard

Hawkeye Jeroen Tel / Maniacs of Noise

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[christianscott27]

Y's books II & III on the turbo duo

 

i'm not familiar how this game sounds ported to other systems (esp those without CD audio) but its beautiful on the turbo cd/duo.

[Ralph3]

Castlevania all the way!

[Trip_Cannon]

SNES had some great ones, some of the stand out favorites of mine:

 

Star Fox

Super Turrican I & II

Legend of Zelda

Axelay

Castlevania

[+kisrael]

Yeah, Rob Hubbard's "Skate or Die" was amazing.

 

I still love the funked up Tochotta and Fugue in 2600 Gyruss...

[keilbaca]

My very favorite? The Millenium Fair music on Chrono Trigger for SNES.

[JB]

Chrono Trigger and Lunar: Eternal Blue both had excellent soundtracks.

[geosteve]

Imagitec's techno beat behind Jeff Minter's Tempest games, especially T3K

[sega saturn x]

I'm a star wars sucker through and through but i think kotor has the best music. They added some really great scores and used the old stuff to.

[chrisbid]

marble craze

[madmjennifer]

I don't know about favorite, but the music for the first and second levels of Super Mario Bros. on NES is indelibly linked with pizza in my mind because the first place I heard that music was in Pizza Hut. They had one of those cool table models. So, I guess that is my most memorable video game music. As for favorite music, I don't know. I always liked games that you could change the radio channel and hear a different song. I'm not sure which racing game that was on, but I'm pretty sure it was a racing game for SNES. Maybe Top Gear?

[SteveW]

Battlemorph on the Jaguar would have to be my favorite. Other game music that I liked were:

 

Rygar on the NES

Thunder Castle on the Intellivision

Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga and Atari Lynx

Blood Money on the Amiga

Leander on the Amiga

Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar

 

And even though it's really a group of different bands into a soundtrack and not "chip" music, Demolition Racer: No Exit on the Dreamcast had a hell of a good music lineup.

[AtariAger]

"Spy Hunter"...Ofcourse!

 

[GrandviewCoin]

EASY!

 

Alternate Reality: City and Alternate Reality: Dungeon

 

Monster Smash..

 

Just about ALL the Gary Gilbertson stuff on the Atari 8Bit.

 

Can't go wrong...

[cimerians]

The Commodore 64 had the best tunes ever. Nothing else compares....until the genesis and super nintendo came around.

 

Rambo and Commando baby.

[sigma]

Super Metroid, yo.

[Feralstorm]

Pitfall 2!! Catchy!

 

It's got the happy music, the sad music, and the balloon music!

[Aaron]

There were a lot of Amiga games with great music. Hired Guns and The Killing Game Show are probably my favorites. Leander, Blood Money, and SotB were mentioned already... The title music in Populous is good also.

[Clint Thompson]

Not sure if they count as in-game music but it is game music

 

Rescue on Fractulus

Ballblazer

Tempest 2000

[the marvellous one]

Bubble Bobble!!!!

[dragonpup]

Final Fantasy (NES), I can still hear the music from that game, especially from the first town/castle (Coneria or Cornelia), and the battle sequence music is unforgettable. Best video game music ever!

Edited June 8, 2005 by dragonpup

[Tempest]

Opera Scene in FF VI (III)

Reactor (2600)

Gitaroo Man (not sure if it counts since it IS a music game)

 

Tempest

[tmont]

I don't know if this music was in the original FFV, but the music from the Big Bridge is, in my opinion, the greatest song ever written. I don't have the original FFV, I have the FF Anthology or whatever for PS, so I'm not sure if that tune is on the original.

[n8littlefield]

I would have to say Katamari Damacy. Great soundtrack. I have to give some credit to the bonus room song in Skullmonkeys as well though...