Do you own any video game soundtracks?

[Rhindle The Red]

Sorting through my CDs, I recently reached my collection of video game soundtracks. There's lots of reasons to own soundtracks, of course: because you like the game and want some additional merchandise, because it reminds you of the fun you had playing the game, and even because you actually enjoy the music. (Yes, it's true!)

 

My favorite is the soundtrack to Super Mario 64 (and not just because it usually costs a lot nowadays). But I really enjoy listening to quite a few of them. For my favorite, I'm torn between Koji Kondo (classic Nintendo composer) and (for more cinematic works) Jeremy Soule, especially when he's working on something to compliment John Williams (Star Wars or Harry Potter video games).

 

Anyway, do you have any video game soundtracks? A lot? What do you enjoy about them? Favorites?

[phaxda]

I have two: a cassette of Pac-Man fever (that counts, right?) and the Katamari Damacy soundtrack, which is awesome.

[Rhindle The Red]

a cassette of Pac-Man fever (that counts, right?)

Well, I certainly sort it with the video game CDs (along with the soundtracks to the Tomb Raider and Resident Evil movies and the like), but I don't think it qualifies as a soundtrack itself.

[ovalbugmann]

I've got some Atari Jaguar Soundtracks;

 

*Tempest 2000 (of course ) -reworked especially for audio cd

*Primal Rage Soundtrack -also reworked for cd

*Braindead 13 Soundtrack

*Black Ice White Noise, the soundtrack for the unreleased game

*Defender 2000 CD soundtrack -an unreleased game format(burned from audio files found online)

*Battle Sphere Soundtrack by Stephanie Wukovitz(burned from audio files found online)

 

And I have made myself 3 compilation audio cds of Atari Jaguar sounds and game soundtracks of everything from Battle Morph to Demolition man, from all the released and unreleased game audio files on the Atari Times 2-CD set from Gregory George & the Atari-HQs CD by Glenn Bruner. There is some cool stuff on these and I sometimes listen to all this Jaguar stuff on these three CDs.

 

[+save2600]

I've still got my Hudson Soft sampler CD that has a barrage of Turbo-Duo cuts on it as well as a Tempest 2000 CD and a Final Fantasy XII CD.

 

I hardly have any, but I gotta say that I love a lot of the music from video games of the last 20 years. Mostly the orchestral stuff that is. I should look into the older Final Fantasy music. Great stuff on the Yamaha chip of the SNES back then!! Actraiser, Contra III, Castlevania IV and Super Ghouls N Ghosts!!

[segasaturn]

I was wondering if sega saturn cd's counted. Even though they are not actually cd's like your talking about, you still can put the game in a cd player to listen to the in-game music.(like Daytona USA)

[roland p]

I have some Shenmue cd's. An orchestral, regular and 'jukebox' version.

[Metal Ghost]

The two that I have (that I can think of offhand) I reallly enjoy: Halo 2 Volume 1 and Kameo soundtracks. Especially the Kameo soundtrack....absolutely amazing music.

[Chris Leach]

I have Chrono Trigger and Castlevania right here on my for sale pile....

[S1500]

I have a Nintendo CD that has all the mid-80s classics(SMB, etc) I bought in Japan.

[Serguei2]

What do you mean by video games soundtracks?

 

Companies put sound effects and musics on the CDs and sell them?

 

People extract sounds from games and burn them on CDs?

[Emehr]

I have the movie soundtrack for Star Wars - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Does that count?

[The Codex]

Got quite a few, from the Darkstalkers arcade soundtrack to the imported Okami CDs to the Amiga Shadow Of The Beast trilogy. Lots of Katamari and Sonic discs too. Love game music, as well as game music remixes. Game music is classical music with visuals.

[gulag picture radio]

I've got the Japanese release of the Dreamcast Jet Set Radio soundtrack that it just excellent - far better than the music they sold here for the Xbox sequel. I used to play cuts off of that CD when I had a radio show here in Chicago. I've also got the soundtrack for Space Channel 5, but it's not all that great without the distraction of the game. I have a mini CD with music on it from some Nintendo game (I think it's the one where you're the little guy with the bug spray fighting off the descending insects) that came as a random pick Japanese thing...

 

I do have a couple of storybook records that tell the story of Pac-Man at Christmas, and something with Donkey Kong. Also have two LP's for Asteroid & Missile Command that are also story telling records, but the best part is that the covers feature the cart art bigger than ever.

[Austin]

I have about a dozen game soundtracks now (Used to be a lot more, but they were impulse buys.. got rid of them). Guilty Gear X: Heavy Rock Tracks (OST for the DC & PS2 versions) stands out as a personal favorite of mine. Also, I can't forget to mention the "Castlevania Gold Collection" I bought on eBay a few years back. Clearly a pirate, but the CDs are real--It comes in two very large cases (Both are sized three or four DVD cases wide), consisting of every Castlevania soundtrack up until Curse of Darkness from the PS2 & XBOX.

[Skaarg]

The only video game soundtracks I own are ones that came with the games such as Lunar 2, Persona, Demon's Souls. I wouldn't mind getting some more though.

[Mirage]

I just have the Silent Hill 3 one. I can't recall ever listening to it though.

[Wickeycolumbus]

Just a few that I got free with magazines.

[rpgfaker]

I had a friend give me a soundtrack to Silent Hill Homecoming (it's still sealed)

[marciolsf]

I got quite a few 8-bit ones... You can easily rip them with foobar2000 and a plugin from their website. It works pretty well, and it reads roms from genesis, sms, NES and SNES.

[Koopa64]

I know for a fact I have Killer Instinct's soundtrack (though ironically I've never played the actual game) and the Ocarina of Time OST. Probably have some more but I can't remember them...

[roland p]

Does anyone have the snatcher>>policenauts black disc? All I know is that track one sound really cool:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDIk2sPXp4

[+Stephen]

Tempest 2000 CD from the Jaguar.

[RGB_Gamer]

Ecco the Dolphin - (SegaCD) - just awesome (even to this day)

Secret of Evermore (SNES) - really sweet

Edited February 10, 2010 by RGB_Gamer

[megamanialife]

final fantasy 5&6. has anybody heard of vgmusic.com?this website is loaded with video game music from atari 2600 all the way up to the latest consoles!!!with quicken music player they are even downloadable!!i've got over 100 from that website on my ipod!!

Edited February 12, 2010 by megamanialife