Video Game Music

boo boo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:55 pm

Why here? Because the video game forum is dead as fuck that's why.

Samples of some of my favorite composers.

Tim Follin

Koji Kondo

Yuzo Koshiro

David Wise

Hirokazu Tanaka

Sherick · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:22 pm **Posts:** 10453

Boo, my queen

I'm sure everybody's sick of this one, but I can't deny the best VGM of all time

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzYIEY-CcM[/youtube]

Sherick · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:22 pm **Posts:** 10453

Speaking of

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJi5QSxJbw[/youtube]

boo boo · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:36 pm

Dammit this better not turn into another JRPG wankfest.

To be frank I find the Final Fantasy soundtracks overrated, I can only listen to so many slow moving pseudo-classical pieces made entirely out of digital samples, I prefer the music of more action oriented games which have more actual hooks in their compositions, I like video game music best when it actually sounds like video game music.

boo boo · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:09 pm

The best soundtrack out of the Super Nintendo JRPGs is Earthbound no contest, and it sounds nothing at all like a conventional JRPG soundtrack.

batman · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 12:18 am

holy shit, that "Plok" song is insane. Rustie could release that unaltered and get a billion soundcloud listens.

those Donkey Kong games always had great music too. cool thread, giving the composers some shine. i couldn't name a VGM composer other than Koji Kondo

this is my alltime favorite VGM song. i actually listen to it all the time:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFWC4mqinI[/youtube]

so funky

boo boo · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:32 am

Tim Follin (and his brother Geoff, whom he callaborated with on Plok, Silver Surfer and other soundtracks) has a reputation of pushing sound chips to their limit, Miyamoto himself has been quoted as saying he was impressed with Plok's soundtrack and that it did things with the SNES sound chip he didn't even know were possible.

The whole soundtrack is awesome too, a killer mix of psychedelic pop and prog rock with a touch of electronica here and there, and the game ain't half bad either.

boo boo · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 3:08 pm

Some more composer shout outs.

Tommy Tallarico

Yoko Shimomura

Rob Hubbard

Kinuyo Yamashita

Jun Senoue

Jesper Kyd

Spencer Nilsen

boo boo · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:41 pm

Nothing brings me back to the early-mid 90s quite like a funky Sega Genesis jam.

^ Holy shit this game actually came out in 1989

Paulie · **Joined:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:42 pm **Posts:** 4629

boo boo wrote:

Dammit this better not turn into another JRPG wankfest.

To be frank I find the Final Fantasy soundtracks overrated, I can only listen to so many slow moving pseudo-classical pieces made entirely out of digital samples, I prefer the music of more action oriented games which have more actual hooks in their compositions, I like video game music best when it actually sounds like video game music.

agreed 100 %.

poisson · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2016 5:57 pm

Can I get a mothafuckin facility up in this b?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8AoVAXaDk[/youtube]

Sherick · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:22 pm **Posts:** 10453

boo boo wrote:

Dammit this better not turn into another JRPG wankfest.

To be frank I find the Final Fantasy soundtracks overrated, I can only listen to so many slow moving pseudo-classical pieces made entirely out of digital samples, I prefer the music of more action oriented games which have more actual hooks in their compositions, I like video game music best when it actually sounds like video game music.

Two songs, oh my, I certainly hope this doesn't lead to page-freezing floodposting.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOvWRQ6CbI0[/youtube]

boo boo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:35 am

Sherick wrote:

Two songs, oh my, I certainly hope this doesn't lead to page-freezing floodposting.

Yeah I realized that, but since I changed that Earthbound one it's a little better now, I'll remember not to embed as many videos in a single post.

AbeVV · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:42 am

As far as old video game soundtracks go, the Sonic the Hedgehog series had some of my favorite music that I still listen to on occasion. But shout out to a couple of more obscure games:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex8Asdd4AuE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmE-QvAem_8[/youtube]

JayEzzy · **Joined:** Mon May 16, 2011 7:13 am **Posts:** 793

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XD4EjeXe1A [/youtube]

Clipse's "Virginia" mixed with the Lost Woods theme from Ocarina of Time

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