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 mellowman
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Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: Favourite retro game music? |
 
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Inspired by Genpoints thread I wondered what game music you guys like from retro gaming platforms. I mean pre-playstation days here. Let's so from the SNES back in time.
I used to have a ZX spectrum and I thought there were some great little themes to those games despite being dreadful sound compared to, well, real instruments.
Anyway here were some of the games I loved the music to: Nether Earth, Colony and Shadow Fire.
On the SNES I loved the opening music to Yoshi's Island!
Any one else fancy a venture into this topic area? Any one else here old enough to remember a ZX Spectrum?
Any chance of some of these old soundtracks making it onto the playlist Jeric  (I am sooooooooooo joking!) |
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SNES Final Fantasy IV and VI (2 and 3 in US). Some of the best game music I've ever heard. The instrumentation was right on and the composition was fantastic and really helped you feel the events in the game.
Megaman 1-3 on the NES had great music with themes that would stick with you. 
Streetfighter 2 (multi-platform) also had unforgettable themes. They tried to emulate the music of the fighter's country of origin but still kept the beat fast to encourage the excitement.
Super Mario Bros. 1-3 and Super Mario World (NES and SNES respectively). Who doesn't remember the themes from these games? Even my kids (now 4, 6, 7) recognize and even sing the melodies from these games!
LunAr: The Silver Star and LunAr: Eternal Blue. (Sega CD then Playstation re-release). This was a game about the power of love and music. There were songs on this game that had singing and the melodies were great.
(btw mellowman, LunAr: Eternal Blue's soundtrack is part of SST  )
Panzer Dragoon (Sega Saturn) had very unique instrumentation that complimented the very alien world it takes place in. Also a great listen.
(oh mellowman, this one is at SST also  but it is around Playstation times)
There are more but I need to think about it.
I guess I should admit that I have most NES games' soundtracks (chiptunes) and all of the ones I've just mentioned.
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Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Just thought of another two!!
The game is "Secret of Evermore" for the SNES. This game was done by Jeremy Soule. The melodies were very mysterious and were a pleasure to listen too.
This soundtrack is a part of SST. Yep... a SNES game in SST.
Chrono Trigger (for the SNES) had an extremely diverse soundtrack with everything from classical themes, to jazz themes, to spanish inspired themes. Huge variety of songs you could literally sit an listen to.
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Jazz the Jackrabbit I - still listening the whole music rip. Maybe not pure retro...
Final Fantasy VI had also nice songs like the opera "Aria di Mezzo Carratere" or "Terra theme".
And Turiccan main tiltle rocks.
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Totally odd topic but I love your sig, Raygi: "Music is what feelings sound like." What a lovely sentiment. Where is it from? |
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I played video games a lot when I was younger - mainly on my amstrad CPC (won't mean a thing for you US guys ) and a bit on arcade machines too!
My favorites would be, in no particular order, Space Harrier, Out Run "Passing Breeze", Barbarian (which music heavily borrows from Poledouris)... And many more
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What the heck is an Amstrad CPC???
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mellowman
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| What the heck is an Amstrad CPC??? |
 Here is an Amstrad CPC, bless it.
And while we are at it here is the delightful ZX Spectrum complete with rubber keys that, if you pulled hard enough, would come right out of their sockets. Weird, weird, weird to type on.
Thanks for posting, alchy, it's good to know there are other people that remember music from these classic games. I had Outrun for the Spectrum - the Spectrum version of the arcade music from Outrun was interesting but the original tape (that's right, games came on TAPES back then!) had all the arcade music on it too. Cool! |
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You know, I've been listening to original NES megaman music lately. Two is probably my fav, followed closely by three.
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