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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Leo Showers posted:

I little gem I listened to as a kid and I think it's very unappreciated.

The theme for Centipede, from the Game Boy version of Centipede and Millipede.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrdG5b9nNgY

I think it really captures a great late 80's sound and a fairly complex song to have completely conveyed in 8-bit.

I had this on one of those dodgy compilation cartridges. Never really appreciated how drat complicated it sounded until now, fantastic stuff.

On that note, I have to mention the theme from Commando for the Commodore 64. Discovered it a couple of years ago and drat it sounds fantastic. Didn't expect anything like this on such an early console, and it still sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQuR1LHAVI

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





MaxArtea posted:

To add to this post, a VG soundtrack that I love that I never really hear much about is the Drag-on Dragoon OST. I've never played the game, but I love this music. The tracks are all pretty different and spooky in a way. I used to play other video games to this music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKV15WG5pKs

This was released overseas as Drakengard. It is a terrible game. Just read the LP if you're ever tempted to give it a go.

However, there is one good thing that came out of Drakengard. It was called Nier, and it's one of my favourite games of all time, not least because its soundtrack by Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi and Takafumi Nishimura is beautiful. For example, this is the main theme on the overworld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNZmzLzvJo8

You need to give Nier a try, or at least listen to the soundtrack, because it all works really well.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





The Cleaner posted:

I remember an interesting thing about certain Playstation 1 games is that sometimes you could put the games in a regular CD player and get instant access to the full soundtracks.

The original Twisted Metal and Blast Chamber come to mind.

There were sometimes bonus tracks as well, for example in Symphony of the Night.

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