Video Game Music

[NotACleverPony]

Post embeds and links of your favorite video game tracks. Make sure to mention your favorite sections!

[sci]

anything from here


everything from here


and...oh wait you mean single songs?

here, CHECK THIS OUT (but skip to like 0:25)

[NightColt]

Embeds ahoy!

First off, the song that introduced me to rock/metal before I could even describe the instrumentation, much less the genre. Seriously, I was maybe 6 or 7 and was all like - "what instrument in an orchestra sounds like that?" and didn't find out for another 4 or 5 years what an electric guitar was.

Also, everything else by Crush 40.



And everything in Guitar Hero 1 and Guitar Hero Encore. But I'm not sure if those count.

And of course the entire orchestral Mario Galaxy soundtrack. The entire game was a work of art.

[Stars In Autumn]

Oh man. I have many favorites.


Russell Shaw is an awesome composer.


Another awesome song that got me excited to play every time I started the game.

Another game with excellent music:

The part at 1:22 is my favorite.

There are tons of other games out there with music I love, but I don't wish to flood this topic with too many songs, hah.

[Whitetail]

All Megaman music is great, but this song really stands out to me:



Anything Sonic is a safe bet:



But my favorite soundtrack to any video game has to be the Metroid Prime Trilogy's soundtrack:

[Interrobang Pie]

Oh shit! OH SHIT. This is so my topic.

Okay, let's just pick a small selection.
MM2 Wood Man
MM3 Spark Man
MM4 Cossack 2
MM5 Dark Man
MM6 Tomahawk Man
MM7 Wily 1
MM9 Wily 1
MM10 Sheep Man
Monty on the Run
Starlight Zone
Nimbasa City
Gradius 2 Stage 7
Showdown at the Tower
Star City
Icecap 3
Egg Rocket Zone

AND SOME OF MY ABSOLUTE ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES:
Mega Turrican Stage 1-1
MM10 Wily 1
Majora's Mask Last Day
Freezeezy Peak
Super Mario World Castle
Dilapidated Way
Street Fighter 2010 Planet 1-3

That'll do for now. I bet there's tons I forgot!!

EDIT: Like Silver Surfer and Aporia!!!!

[Dr_Dissonance]

Dead SPAAAAAAACE! Dissonance everywhere! Love it!




Exquisite Violin writing/playing! Love it!




Brass Band! Love it!!!!

And that's just a small sampling of what I love videogame-wise!

[PHPony]

Solstice on the NES

[Pustulioooooo]

Gets my adrenaline going every time!

@0:55 It's sounds so heroic!

I replayed the intro to Red dead revolver every time just to hear this song

Only Valve could make a healing class epic.

No words...

MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SONG IN BRAWL!

[Sugarholik]

I spent a lot of my childhood with this game.
Nobuo Uematsu is a genius!

[Hardbeat Acolyte]

I'll just leave this here:

Spent a crazy amount of time with this awesome game in a number of playthroughs, mostly just exploring and doing optional quest lines rather than the main storyline. Good memories Will probably start it again sometime, I never actually played far into the two expansions.

EDIT: Hadn't gone through much of page 1 yet, so I didn't notice that Jeffthestrider is a man of such taste as well

[SeanNH94]

God I love Metroid :3

[penguindf12]

Here is the best video game music:

[SeanNH94]

@penguindf12
I love the Donkey Kong Country and Earthbound! Don't really know the other one.

[NotACleverPony]

Self-imposed rules: 3 tracks per console, can't be from the same game or same series. God this was a difficult list to make. So many loves.

-NES-
Beetlejuice - Level 1 [0:17 to 0:30] and [0:54 to 1:06]
Megaman 3 - MagnetMan [0:21 to 0:36]
Batman - Stage 2 [0:00 to 0:26]

-Gameboy / GBC-
Super Mario Land 2 - Star Maze [0:00 to 0:30]
Pokemon Gold and Silver - Lucky Channel [0:00 to 0:25]
Zelda: Link's Awakening - Intro [0:00 to 0:46]

-SNES-
Star Fox - Corneria [0:00 to 0:51]
Megaman X - Armored Armadillo [0:00 to 0:55]
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbrush Symphony [0:41 to 2:07]

-Playstation-
Megaman X5 - Izzy Glow [0:00 to 0:31]
Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation - Intro [0:00 to 0:44]
Silent Hill - Die [0:00 to 0:21] and [0:41 to 0:57]

-N64-
Super Mario 64 - Koopa's Road [0:00 to 0:47]
Jet Force Gemini - Sekhmet [0:00 to 0:24] and [2:10 to 2:33]
Turok 2 - Port of Adia [0:00 to 1:09]

-DreamCast-
Quake 3 Arena - Track 7[0:00 to 0:32]
Dead Or Alive 2 - The Shooted [0:00 to 1:20]
Sonic Adventure 2 - Menu [0:00 - 0:29]

-Gameboy Advance-
Megaman Zero 3 - Break Out [0:43 to 1:07]
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - Menu[0:00 to 0:29]
Guilty Gear X : Advance Edition - Writhe In Pain [0:26 to 0:52]

-Playstation 2-
Final Fantasy X2 - Memory of Lightwaves[0:00 to 1:25]
Shadow of the Collosus - Counterattack [0:06 to 0:31]
Silent Hill 4 - Wounded Warsong [0:32 to 1:14]

-Gamecube-
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - Psycho Mathis [0:00 to 2:11]
Metroid Prime: Menu [0:00 to 0:44]
Viewtiful Joe - Another Joe[0:00 to 1:13]

-DS-
The World Ends with You - Long Dream 1980 Remix [0:00 to 1:00]
Megaman ZX - Wonder Panorama [0:00 to 0:40]
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days - Dirge of the Fourteenth[0:00 to 0:52]

-WII-
No More Heroes2: Desperate Struggle - Mischief. Mayhem. Soap. [0:00 to 1:23]
Okami - Intro[2:07 to 2:27]
Megaman 9 - Maze of Death (Endless Stage) [0:00 to 1:04]

-PS3-
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Laughing Octopus [0:00 to 0:30]
Final Fantasy XIII - Desperate Struggle [1:44 to 2:08]
Vanquish - Act 1 Mission 3[0:13 to 0:40]

[HertzDevil]

And no I am not putting links to whole Touhou soundtracks.

[Evdog]

RUN! THE THREAD IS ALIVE!

But seriously, I should mention a website: OverClocked ReMix. I was hanging around there a year or two ago, but was never able to get a single thing accepted onto their site (they have judges), which was discouraging. I'm glad I found MLR. I still like Video Games, but just don't play them as often now, since ponies take up my time.

Oh yes, a song. It's not the original song from Metroid Prime, but it's so good, it should be:

(TBH, I actually went looking for an old thread that I was interested in)

[Navron]

You can't have a video game soundtrack without the video game that revolutionized video game music for years to come. Seriously, when this game came out, the first thing that amazed me was the music. Up until that point, it was standard MIDI based songs. I remember just plugging the game CD into my walkman and listening to these tracks on the way to school. With that said, here's one of the first games to feature Red Book CD audio:





And here's a similar game that used Red Book as well:



Lastly, here's one of my favorite games as a kid. Sorry I can't find an upload of just the soundtrack, but here's a little history behind it. The original Descent for PC featured a MIDI soundtrack, but the Mac version that came out later featured Red Book audio. The awesome thing about it though, is the new soundtrack actually used many of the compositions for the original game, so they're basically recorded covers of the actual songs in the game. So for example, this track:


is actually a remix of this level from this original:

[PrincessAddictia]

This ignited my burning love for Drum'n'Bass (and Electronic Music in general). The whole soundtrack in that game was just insanely good:


And this is piece in particular is possibly the most beautifull melody in the history of mankind:

[MasterOfRegret]

No one say this doesn't count. It does, and will.


Or pretty much anything from his channel.
He is definitely one of my guitar inspirations, even though I play acoustic.

[@ppleBukker]

I didn't look at all the songs, but I'm pretty sure this one is in here somewhere. If not... I'm kinda surprised.

[SuperGiantRobot]

[SeventhElement]

Silent Hill <3






Not the best game from the series, but it had some good music IMO

[Scooteroot]

Because I don't want to spend a plethora of hours effectively drowning this thread in a digital sea of videos, I'll maintain a system of an assorted 5 videos (in no particular order) at 1 song per series (per post). Expect me to come back very soon and very often.