Old game music - flashbacks and memories

[Mannginger]

Just wandering through some old demoscene stuff and found myself remind of an old game tune so thought I'd start a thread of reminiscing of old game music that makes you remember sitting on your Dad's old computer or your first Amiga / NES / Whatever and loving it!

TFX Was the one that set me off but how about a couple of others:

Cannon Fodder

Sensible Soccer

[url Top Gun (NES)|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb96aw4qfpo[/url] (Also counts as hardest game ever I think!)

Doom 1

Such great memories!

[moustachebandit]

Shuffle Puck Cafe on the Amiga!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9XKtcPiO7U

Rainbow Islands on the Amiga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nxx-lCO9I

And who can forget Monkey Island!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dB0qEcG20

[ode]

Ballblazer on the Commodore 64.....

[T1berious]

Defender. you felt it in your chest as you walked up to it. Off the scale

Gauntlet. "Wizard needs food badly!"

Red Alert sound track. just awesome.

Best still has to be Total Annihilation Soundtrack. Epic

[selym]

Anyone remember the infuriating loop of music on Way of the Exploding Fist?

[Rick_1138]

The original command and conquer PC music. Its available on spotify. So good!

[m1dg3]

Rob Hubbard's Crazy Comets theme on the C64.

[HerrSchnell]

Never really thought about game music before but watched the RBMA films about the music and the guys who put it together. Found it fascinating:

http://www.redbull.com/en/music/stories/1331676000...

[qube_TA]

The music sound on a game was often more important than a game for me, loved the way the musicians were able to get so much sound out of a limited machine. These days where they basically just play a WAV in the background is less interesting for me as there's no limitations on what the sounds can be

This is what started it all off for me, still think it's properly good

Rambo on the C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmC2nsPiMz4

[selym]

qube_TA said:

The music sound on a game was often more important than a game for me, loved the way the musicians were able to get so much sound out of a limited machine. These days where they basically just play a WAV in the background is less interesting for me as there's no limitations on what the sounds can be

This is what started it all off for me, still think it's properly good

Rambo on the C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmC2nsPiMz4

It's like Giorgio Moroder! I remember it... just not very well!

[qube_TA]

slightly pimped version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FApoZDu7EhY

[davepoth]

Outrun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEl7JuAI0nM

[Paul_M3]

Always the first one that pops into my head when I see threads like this:

Xenon 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnY56uq9uA

[HerrSchnell]

davepoth said:

Outrun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEl7JuAI0nM

Space Harrier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CK6n5ixVmw

[DKS]

The C64 was so amazing back in the day. Maniacs of noise were very talented:
Turbo Outrun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG82RMyS07Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNT9Whg4r4

Also Armalyte:

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

And Turrican!

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

I could go on all day.

[NewNameNeeded]

Street Fighter 2 SNES Music opening theme:
http://youtu.be/j-SHxrNXF4o
Up, down, left, right, Y, B, X, A

[VeeDubBigBird]

qube_TA said:

The music sound on a game was often more important than a game for me, loved the way the musicians were able to get so much sound out of a limited machine. These days where they basically just play a WAV in the background is less interesting for me as there's no limitations on what the sounds can be

This is what started it all off for me, still think it's properly good

Rambo on the C64

I had this song ground into my head while it loaded in the background, during my dinner/ homework.

Then it was Super Mario and Metroid.

Now more recently its been FF games, and Destiny (both still awesome).

[Riknos]

Red Alert a close second for me but... Final Fantasy VII without a doubt.

[Schmeeky]

Sanxion on C64!

[Mr Happy]

moustachebandit said:

And who can forget Monkey Island!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dB0qEcG20

This is one of my favourite videos featuring the Monkey Island theme - the progression of PC sound hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y

I remember wanting a GUS like nothing else back in the day, well - until the AWE32 came out!