RJ Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) WOW! i am surprised no one has said Super Mario Bros. you get that tune in your head, and you don't stop humming it If that's the case, you dont need to play the game, the music is ALREADY in your head! (/cheekiness ) Edited August 13, 2008 by RJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) Rambo: First Blood Part II on the C-64. The game takes forever to load (unless of course you can fast-load a copy), but that didn't stop me from often popping the disk in, just to listen to the title music. Just about all the Sonic games are worth playing just for the music, at least up through the first Sonic Adventure. Edited August 13, 2008 by skunkworx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The only game I can remember playing a round just for the music was/is Tempest 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace_1 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 The original Sonic the Hedgehog. Ah, yes, forgot about this one. I just leave it on the Stage Select/Sound Test screen to listen to Green Hill and Spring Yard's themes, as well as the final battle theme(the latter being the best tune in the game). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 There are times I wish there were something similar to NSF/SPC/GBS/etc. files for MAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 (edited) I wouldn't say I 'played' it for the music, but way back I did regularly start ballblazer up and let the music play. Since the music quits when a game starts it's kind of pointless to 'play it for the music' generally I kind of see music as a way to flesh out the whole experience of a game--if I ever notice how incredible a soundtrack is, that generally means that I'm fairly sick of the title. One game surprised me once--SF rush 2049 on the dreamcast. It's got a REALLY great soundtrack, but the default volume levels were such that nobody knows it. The sound effects are too loud in comparison. Edited August 14, 2008 by Reaperman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Geez, I just realized I forgot Space Harrier for the Master System. I play with the sound test code on that one more than I play the game. Have a listen (partway down the page). http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/...r/index-sz.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthCalvin Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 While this isn't exactly the same, the CD currently residing in my car stereo is a mix I made of songs from GTA Vice City, so obviously not "game music" but still lumped together as all being from the same game soundtrack. Also in my car is anoter VC disk and a disk filled with Megadriver, a band that covers NES songs in a heavy metal format as well as recordings I made of everything from Yar's Revenge to Mortal Kombat. I don't put in the games to hear the music, I copy it via my stereo and computer and take it with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technosis Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Yep quite a few Amiga games. One I can think of was Quadralien Then of course there were all the cool Psygnosis ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Oh, my... Pitfall II Bump 'n' Jump T2K NiGHTS Into Dreams Gran Turismo 3 BallBlazer Gex quite a few Final Fantasy titles (X-2 notably, but music was the game's mini-focus anyway) And then there are some tunes I learned to play with a keyboard simply by listening to the game's music: Emperor: Battle for Dune (music plays through the install process) Final Fantasy X-2 (The Calm Lands) Sa Ga 3 intro music Oh, yeah, at my wedding last year, we sang the song "Dreams, Dreams". See, I had to have something video game related in my wedding. Ain't I just a junkie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maf Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 SubRoc for Colecovision. I think it was when you paused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryhrstr Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Lords of Thunder for the TG16w/cd. Cool rock tracks on that and I even have a nifty t-shirt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Gyruss does it for me. Very expansive and grandiose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariman Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 (edited) FF7 Kirby's Dreamland NiGHTS and I have always liked the music in the bonus stage in the original Sonic (where you're bouncing around in the rotating environment, trying to get to the chaos emerald) Edited August 15, 2008 by Atariman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I loved the music in a bunch of games. Atari 8-bit: Shamus, Pinhead, Preppie, Journey to the Planets. Sega Genesis: NHL 95 is hard to get out of my head once it's in there. And for cheese, there's NHL 96. Get up and dance. Atari 2600: It has to be Flap Ping (Joust Pong)! Great music. Makes me laugh and wiggle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I still pull out Sonic (the original) once in awhile to hear the music. I particularly like the Springyard Zone music. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
games-video Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 (edited) plenty of good A8 toones: AR:TC/TD The Tail of Beta Lyrae Ballblazer Preppie (Preppie 2? cannot remember) Alley Cat Aerobics The Last V8 Rebound (on Micro-Value compilation only) Agent USA Warhawk Ninja to name a few I used to have a Roland Cube 40 guitar amp connected to my A8, blasting out with Rebound, great fun. Edited August 15, 2008 by games-video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 The fact that nobody has said: KATAMARI DAMACY or PARAPPA THE RAPPA makes me sick to my stomach. It's like I don't even know you people anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opeygon Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 yes. rygar, kid icarus, and metroid i've also used my nestopia's soud recorder to rip various parts of the soundtracks to each of these games and put them on my itunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fellow Atari Man Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Ever play a game just to hear the music? Not exactly, but some of my faves: Sub-Terrania (Genesis) Flashback (Sega CD, they really improved it on the really bad Genesis version. I've played this in my car quite a few times, only skipping one track) Gauntlet 4 (Genesis) title screen of Dark Chambers (7800) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) No,but i think the music in pitfall 2 is the catchiest tune i know of.Cant get it out of my head,once i hear it,really addictive.Does anyony know who wrote it?was it David Crane?,if it was, he's a musical talent also IMO! Edited August 17, 2008 by Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Button Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) Back in the good old 80s I had an Atari 600XL with memory expansion. I also lived way too long with a tape recorder, waiting the usual 15-20 minutes for any decent game to start up. I bought titles on tape from a local electronics shop who did nothing to safeguard the quality of the tapes. One day I bought Warhawk. It had a nice loading screen, but on all my attempts it never quite got to the full 20 minutes load. The 8-bit people here will remember the familiar sound coming over the TV speaker as blocks of 128 bytes were agonisingly slowly loaded - you could hear exactly when the loading faltered but it took your Atari to figure that out only at the end of that block. Most tape loads ended with frustration, tapes flying about the room, wails of despair, table tops being bitten et cetera. Then one day, after coming back from a holiday, I booted up Warhawk in what I feared would result in yet another failed attempt. Probably because I hadn't touched it for so long, it actually finished. Now, when it came to game music, I wasn't exactly used to much on the Atari. Most games had renditions of classical themes, and it usually came across quite bleepy. I was pretty familiar with the standard sound ranges of the Pokey chip, and not many developers at the time actually went all the way with it. Warhawk completely blew me away - not only because of its multi-layered star screen (a simple trick, I know now) but especially because of its overwhelming musical score (Rob Hubbard showing off). All of a sudden there were bass lines, convincing low tom drums, arpeggio chords and a beauty of an electric-keyboard symphony in a fast-paced roller-coaster ride of a song. I was so amazed by it I had to call my parents up to my room, who, obviously, just stood there blinking and wondered what the hell all the ruckus was about. I still fire up my emulator every once in a while to listen to it. The same with most other scores, usually by Rob Hubbard: Jet Set Willy, International Karate and The Extirpator, but also with tunes made by Adam Gilmore - Blinky's Scary School, Ninja Commando, Zybex but above all that masterpiece of his, Draconus - it was storytelling in terms of notes. On a 4-channel Pokey. And then I forget about singing along in Alternate Reality, both City and Dungeon. Especially the City had me surprised once, when I found out that the member taverns were the only ones that sometimes played a song that was never heard at other taverns. AR's music is worthy of a musical. Edited August 17, 2008 by Fire Button Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natinh0 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Yeah, Guitar Hero 3 :rolling: Ok, just kidding, i think Street Fighter 2, Ken´s Theme rulez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Jupp Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 2600: Pitfall II and the Homestar Runner RPG demo Sega CD: Silpheed (believe it or not) Saturn: all the Panzer Dragoons (but espesially Ein, for some reason) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Spy Hunter on ColecoVision. 'Nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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