Video Game Music Appreciation Thread
 

Hey guys it's been a while, I haven't been listening to a lot of music lately because I have no MP3s on my new PC, when I do listen to music it's usually off of YouTube. I found these awesome mixes of N64 and PS1 soundtracks which got me thinking, what is some of your favorite video game music?

I'm surprised there wasn't already a thread for this, or at least an active one. Discuss.

This week's Hearts of Space transmission is described as showcasing "awesomely comprehensive music research by guest producers JOHN WEDGEWORTH and HUGUES of the NERD NOISE RADIO video game music podcast — ambient, electronic, orchestral and environmental music from video games."

It was nice to see music featured from Out of This World - the 1994 PC game that blew my mind as a young gamer.

One of my favorite games growing up was the 1996 point-and-click computer game, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time - in which you go back in time to explore the doomed ship, talk to its passengers, solve puzzles, and try to change the course of history (no, not by stopping the sinking, but by preventing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and preventing the rise of Hitler and subsequently, the savagery of World War 2).

It was always really creepy to me - especially as a kid - the ship was not bustling - but mostly vacant - and the few passengers you do interact with all have these strange personalities and are captured with live-action technology - so they look almost real, but not quite - and importantly, the music was always mysterious and foreboding. One of my all time favorite games:

Everyone remembers that God awful song from Sonic X but nobody remembers the straight jam from Sonic CD.

I remember spending summers playing Nintendo 8-bit game music .NSF files in Winamp, and it looks like VLC supports them as well. So many great memories of those tunes.

It's a ****ing crime that Winamp is destined to be even more forgotten than Betamax and 8 tracks.

Me and Boo both remember that song, I guarantee you

One of my favorites from the Sonic Adventure series:

Probably my favorite tune from Mario games - so calm and yet, so mysterious