Vidgy Game Soundtracks

[AwesomeOcelot]

Sounds like when a game crashes and you get a sound loop.

[LadyCrimson]

@Malcador - that Police Quest 2 reminds me Beverly Hills Cop, a little.

 

 

Botanicula was another one that I liked just about every single track, from the short to the longer.

 

 

Liked how they used music and sound effects with occasional vocal exclamations and stuff. Melodic to silly.

 

[Malcador]

I think they were aiming for that with Police Quest - make it Miami Vice like and such. PQ3 had Jan Hammer after all!

 

[CheeseGraterSuicide]

Everyone knows the best soundtrack ever is from Winter Games for the NES. IT SPEAKS TO YOUR SOUL! YOUR SOOOOOUUUL!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJAh0SlTS8

[Gorth]

I think I still have the original box with Winter Games for my Amiga. I doubt the floppy disk would be readable by now though (they seem to lose their "magnetizing" over the decades)

 

Epyx was one of my all time favourite developers/publishers.

[alanschu]

I had Winter Games for the Mac, World Games and California games for the Apple II. Faaaaaar too much time wasted.

 

To echo Gorth: Epyx was pretty awesome. I had to goofy habit of making full rosters and using my friends names as names. So 90% of the world records were set by me, but under the name of my friends. My brother pointed out the silliness of my naming scheme for this reason lol.

 

I think World Games was my favourite. Weightlifting, skiing, cliff diving. So much fun! Although, that was JUST those events, so maybe I didn't like it... as much.

Was pretty dope at surfing, bmx riding, and footbag in California games.

I was STUPIDLY good at the Biathalon in Winter Games lol. I would just go max speed because I had the timing down for the marksmanship spots. This was balanced out by being just putrid at the figure skating.

 

 

Sadly I never did play Summer Games.

[Humanoid]

I had the PC version in glorious 4-colour CGA. I didn't know what it was called or how it played given I'd have been under 5 years old at the time (so gameplay would have consisted of mashing the keyboard until something happened onscreen). By the time I grew up it had disappeared, and it was just a thing in the back of my memory until I recognised what it was years and years later reading an article about 80s DOS games. That, along with Pole Position and Tetris, are my earliest memories of video gaming in any form I think.

 

I also remember that to start the PC, I had to enter the magical input t-enter-t-enter. It was only years later that I realised that it was just set up with a user name of 't' and a password of 't'. Yeah....

Edited December 5, 2012 by Humanoid

[AGX-17]

Edited December 9, 2012 by AGX-17

[Meshugger]

 

Thread over.

[alanschu]

I loved the first game haha. Was freaking hard though (ninja touches water, ninja dies!)

[Starwars]

You can listen to me play, and slightly fumble, the Morrowind main theme here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEywXBa05w

 

I'm not normally a fan of the "epic fantasy" tracks but I gotta say, this theme gets me everytime... And I'm not even that big a fan of Morrowind and TES. Here's the original version which is amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2qDap4hnmk

Edited December 12, 2012 by Starwars

[Meshugger]

^^"I'm sorry boss, but i will not come to work today. I'm heading off for some high adventure!"

 

That's the first impression that i got.

[Starwars]

It's the ultimate in "let's go on an adventure" music.

[Katphood]

I really wub this song...in a very confusing way:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtS1ovgsYAQ

[HoonDing]

Morrowind theme is overrated, here are my favourites (shamelessly copied in SKyrim):

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euYHV4syv8s

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-agukWPOY

[AGX-17]

[Janmanden]

Those combat jingles in Deus Ex was pretty cool. I remember I tried to record the music from the game to make some mixes and extended versions, but the jingles were really too short to avoid sounding monotonous outside of the game. Later I discovered that all the tracks were available in some folder on disc or cd, but I just happened to like my own recordings better because the game itself was adding some noise of its own that made it sound more dynamic and cool.

 

Soundtracks are nice and Vampire Bloodlines have a lot of cool ones, but I am more attracted to the combat jingles.

 

I played a game in the mid nineties I think, called In Pursuit of Greed or just "Greed". It was very light entertainment with very poor graphics, doom-clone'ish like so many other games were called at that time, but the music was really nice and made it endurable and all the tracks was in some midi format that could be played on WinAmp, but apparently it doesn't seem to be working that way or I just forgot what player I really used for it. Think it's called MODPlug or something, yeah that's it. 'Unfortunately' it doesn't loop the samples in the same way as in the game, but just play them all sequentially I think. Some tracks by Necros: Isotoxin, Escape, Research Base and a lot of other untitled tracks I don't recall having heard in the game, but they remind me a lot of the theme music in Deus Ex. Unfortunately the one track that made the biggest impression on me is not in the list. It had some electronic voice saying "Elite Force".. as I was fighting some giant robots who also added some sound to the mix.

 

This version of Isotoxin is clearly taken from the intro, but the game itself doesn't match the graphics here, unfortunately.

 

http://youtu.be/kXtukCYZdis

 

Isotoxin and a lot of other tracks by Necros from In Pursuit of Greed also seems to have been included in other games apparently (Unreal Gold, Crusader No Remorse). I just noticed that, when I was searching for some of the tracks on YouTube.

[AGX-17]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqxveujf0I

 

Edited December 18, 2012 by AGX-17

[Oner]

 

[AGX-17]

Finally someone uploaded it to youtube. And also finally someone else posted in this thread (I ain't no intentional double-poster, buddy.)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDfK9UqIeA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bMwES8U2M

Edited December 30, 2012 by AGX-17

[Gorth]

A certain similarity to your avatar

 

[AGX-17]

A certain similarity to your avatar

 

Indeed. I'd like to tell you what a Magnificent Bastard he is, but this is a game music thread.

[Serrano]

http://youtu.be/RE0Y5VmkILQ Edited December 30, 2012 by Serrano

[Katphood]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPT3Uv4LSs

 

 

and here is a happier tune from the same game:

 

 

 

Edited January 1, 2013 by Astiaks

[Calax]

I cannot BELIEVE I have to do this myself... in a 2 month old thread.

 

 

In sum total... although the fourth track is mah fav