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This should get us started nicely! If you don't have 73 minutes just check out Bomb Jack (GB) title, it'll change your life.

 
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Oh, and The Moon is banned from this thread

 
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A very awesome and saxriffic song.

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I like the first link you posted there. no idea how you found it but great work. also one question remains: why don't you have a shit?



 
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did someone say moar?


Konami's wonderful Kid Dracula. my favourite GB game next to Konami's wonderful Stranded (Survival) Kids.



 
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What kinda bothers me about new games and what makes me kind of sad and what some of you guys don't seem to care about is that they can do anything with video game music nowadays so it isn't video game music anymore but just music IN video games.

That's a shame. Now that the limitations are gone a certain charm is gone as well and you could use those songs in movies as well. You wouldn't notice a difference. There is no "video game label" on those songs. Instead of listening to songs with bleeps EVERYONE knows "ah video games!".

Limitations force people to do some creative thinking.
That's why KNP games have a certain charm. There are a lot of limitations but its how you work with them, use them, work around them and find clever solutions. With everything possible this is gone.

So while Symphony of Night and Shadow, Grim Fandango and Shadow of Colossus are nice songs indeed I think they don't belong in a VIDEO GAME MUSIC thread even tough it is music you find in video games. It's pretty disappointing even the thread starter posts a song that could be from a movie as well.

I hope you understand what I'm saying here.

A certain genre of music has died simply because limitations are gone. Just like pixel art pretty much died for most commercial games because the limitations are gone- this is sad. Limitations don't have to be a bad thing.

MORE BLEEPY SOUNDS PLZ
like the man man song

 
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13th July, 2011 at 14:28:09 -

@MasterM: I guess that's why the Mega Drive's FM music is so much better than the more powerful SNES' PCM music?

Soundtracks have a function, they don't exist in a vacuum. As a film editor you'd do well to know this.



You may be easily fooled, but the above isn't a film soundtrack at all, it's the soundtrack to spending 100+ hours walking around a silly island. The associations are profoundly different.

 
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That said, the following is also used as a soundtrack to walking along a beach killing crabs with a sword, and it's better:



 
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Originally Posted by MasterM
What kinda bothers me about new games and what makes me kind of sad and what some of you guys don't seem to care about is that they can do anything with video game music nowadays so it isn't video game music anymore but just music IN video games.

That's a shame. Now that the limitations are gone a certain charm is gone as well and you could use those songs in movies as well. You wouldn't notice a difference. There is no "video game label" on those songs. Instead of listening to songs with bleeps EVERYONE knows "ah video games!".

Limitations force people to do some creative thinking.
That's why KNP games have a certain charm. There are a lot of limitations but its how you work with them, use them, work around them and find clever solutions. With everything possible this is gone.

So while Symphony of Night and Shadow, Grim Fandango and Shadow of Colossus are nice songs indeed I think they don't belong in a VIDEO GAME MUSIC thread even tough it is music you find in video games. It's pretty disappointing even the thread starter posts a song that could be from a movie as well.

I hope you understand what I'm saying here.

A certain genre of music has died simply because limitations are gone. Just like pixel art pretty much died for most commercial games because the limitations are gone- this is sad. Limitations don't have to be a bad thing.

MORE BLEEPY SOUNDS PLZ
like the man man song



I agree completely. Limitations have a way of bringing out the best in us. While orchestrial and movie-esque soundtracks are still awesome, the 8-bit and 16-bit video game music of old is in a genre all itself, and that genre seems to be slipping away from commercial titles.

When I compose music for my games, at least, I often find myself picking instruments that are cooky or 16-bit despite my collection of higher-quality soundfonts, because they ultimately make the song more memorable and catchy.

 

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Originally Posted by MasterM
Limitations force people to do some creative thinking.



Peter McConnell wasn't that limited when he got to do his music, and I must say Grim Fandango has one of the more creative OST's out there.


Hope that's bleepy enough for you.

 
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13th July, 2011 at 18:17:27 -

If the song was intended for a video-game then it truly belongs in a video-game music thread no matter the limitations the composer had to work under.



 
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13th July, 2011 at 19:32:01 -


Originally Posted by MasterM
What kinda bothers me about new games and what makes me kind of sad and what some of you guys don't seem to care about is that they can do anything with video game music nowadays so it isn't video game music anymore but just music IN video games.

That's a shame. Now that the limitations are gone a certain charm is gone as well and you could use those songs in movies as well. You wouldn't notice a difference. There is no "video game label" on those songs. Instead of listening to songs with bleeps EVERYONE knows "ah video games!".



I disagree.
The bleeps you love so much are just the instrument, and a good tune is still a good tune whatever instrument it's played on - guitar, piano, ancient games console...
You should listen to some of the remastered versions of old videogame themes.

Anyway, this is one of my favourites:

Sounds awesome if you download the midi version and play it back through a good quality soundcard.

 
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14th July, 2011 at 01:39:30 -

Ok time for some I doubt anyone else is likely to post.



Gotta give some love to the Amstrad cpc here
Great title screen music on a very good conversion generally.



OK this one is probably quite well known because the game featured in one of the Angry Video game Nerd's videos. But he fails to talk about the music.
It's amazing how just adding a little pitch shift to the bass in time to the noise channel's drum can make such a huge impact on the music.

 
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All your base are in another castle, take this.

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You're all missing out if you've not heard the soundtracks to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Croc 2.









 
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Awesome song from one of my favorite games of all time



 
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14th July, 2011 at 11:37:24 -

andy is doing it right (like always)

Here is the thing I was trying to point out:

If you play Grim Fandango (which I LOVE! I got the sound track and I tend to listen to it. I tend to listen to a lot of Lucas Sound Tracks, great work. Just interesting to hear "real" versions of songs and then the midi versions) people will ask: What's that song?

While if you play Mega Man to them they will be like: Oh nice what GAME is that?

you can tell this song is a VIDEO GAME SONG. it was used in a game. while modern songs are written for games and they are all wonderful and nice they just have this GREAT SONG FEELING but not "video game" feeling. the "retro" is missing.

I hope you understand that. Also WTF do you want from me and talking about me being a film editor, MR FENN?

And while we are at it LETS JUST DO THIS for the sake of it and proving I'm not a dick about it:



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Ah Sketchy, Zeliard has always been my #1 influence.
But I agree, the music stands removed from the instrument;



 
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14th July, 2011 at 12:27:26 -

The music stands removed from the instrument, that is, until you need some degree of fidelity to arrangement, dynamics, timbre.



The first line of this song is "so come right in, and sit down beside the fire..."

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14th July, 2011 at 12:38:35 -

Easily one of the most memorable songs from my youth.



And an additional favourite track from the game:


The same tune has a reprise as the end-level tune, but changed in fourths:





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http://moi.renard.free.fr/tyrianjukebox/
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(Great music so far. Kudos to Deaval for Monkey Island!)

 
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Originally Posted by Neuro


(Great music so far. Kudos to Deaval for Monkey Island!)



Then I hope you'd like this one too!

I miss the good ol' 90's-LucasArts, before they went strawberries.

 
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I think this rocks so I posted it. The footage is from the Nes version of Robocop 3 but the music is from the C64 version.

 
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It'll probably piss of MasterM but, here we go:

Great song to end the first game, imo!

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Both are fucking hot-remixes of Sonic CD...!

These are just amazing... =

 
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Eversion, for sure... The first music is actually from Cocoron!

 
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