The Video Game Music Thread

[KafkaBot]

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm back with more text, because I stumbled upon a discussion of this, which basically proved my point, but explained it much better than I originally could.

Veteran musician Mike Clarke puts it like this:

There wasn’t much of a computer game industry [in Japan] because almost everything was arcades and consoles, so to be able to write game music you had to have a devkit, which cost thousands, and a development license, which was nigh on impossible to get if you weren’t an actual company.

Therefore, to create music, you had to first get a job at a game company [in Japan]. Unlike in Europe, you couldn’t write your own play routine at home. The barrier to entry was way too high. The few actual programmer/musicians like Yuzo Koshiro really stood out.

The Americans have this weird fetish about Japanese game music on the home consoles when in reality it wasn’t really very good. There’s not really anything particularly impressive until the Mega Drive and even then, there are only a few standouts like Streets of Rage and Sonic.

This meant Japanese musicians needed to have established careers and jobs to get a chance. In Europe you could be an experimental (teenage) composer who kicked something together at home, and get your foot in the door that way.

But this time I bring music - another rare case of a NES-tune that sounds like it should be on a Commodore-machine:



(Yes, I know. Give it a listen anyway.)

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

ut this time I bring music - another rare case of a NES-tune that sounds like it should be on a Commodore-machine:

Is this a Codemasters game? Has a similar sound. Some of those third party NES devs were on the cutting edge of chiptune music.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

It's from Infogrames actually - the original French incarnation of the studio.

 

[KafkaBot]

 

[e-mailio estevez]

 

[wololo88]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[MurkrLurkr]

 

[Nathir]

 

[SlamDunk]

Rob Hubbard based his Commodore 64 version on this original composition (from 1981):

 

[Zenithsan]

Wait for da bass solo

 

[Dramart]

 

[Darkozric]

 

[e-mailio estevez]

 

[Shadowfang]

X-Men 2 - Clone Wars - Gambit Theme


The character's themes only play on 3 levels, if i am not mistaken, and are combined with the map's theme and ambience.
They removed the snow effect on this one but the map's theme is still present.

Even though Cyclops was my favorite character, i felt that Gambit's theme was the best and it went with the character perfectly.

 

[Zenithsan]

The game isn't that great, but this piano piece is unreal, beautiful and sad.

 

[The_Mask]

 

[thelegend]

 

[thelegend]

 

[thelegend]

 

[thelegend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3MIJOV2jo&list=PLhPp-QAUKF_gnLTCF4DLycRAa2bf9rued&index=12

 

[Seigneur Locklear]

 

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[Frank Capicoli]