A great gaming track a day

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Post a great retro gaming track a day (or longer... but not shorter!) Try and stick to just one per post, both to avoid spam and to make you really pick the cream of the crop. Originals preferred. Hopefully we can all pick up a few new favourites.

 

Starting out with a staple classic:

 

 

[Steven]

 

[Alexlotl]

Starting out with a staple classic

 

That's a banger, and I don't really like SID much as a rule.

 

I keep coming back to this one lately - Phantasy Star 1 final boss theme, Sega Mark III FM version:

 

 

[Soulstar]

Relax for an hour

 

 

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Good stuff!

 

Here's mine for the day:

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

 

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Only ever owned the demo of this game, but it was worth it for the song alone!

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

A bit of classic David Whittaker -

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

That Extreme Pinball track is ace.

[gizmo1990]

Dammit I wish Whittaker would release an official album or something of his old tracks. I love his stuff and would kickstart (and I HATE kickstarter) the shit out of it if it ever happened.

[Nathan Wind]

Yeah, he did some belters.  Tomorrow's from me is another fave of his from the humble Amstrad.

[Wiper]

The first PC entry in this list (I only ever played the PC version, so prefer the Adlib Gold soundtrack to the Amiga or Mega CD versions), I've always loved the soundtrack from Cryo's greatest game:

 

Stéphane Picq - Dune - Spice Opera

 

(incidentally, while searching that out I found this lovely piece of work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Q_UO6Hp7U - blending the different soundcard modes of the soundtrack for the game into one. It works really well, but isn't technically game music as you'd never be able to hear the game this way, and doesn't fit the single track requirement, so I'm not submitting it as the video)

 

[Camel]

 

[buizel]

This song really gets me pumped while playing the game, along with violent drumming. EAD Tokyo nailed everyting about this game

 

 

Edit" well i forgot what forum i was in/didnt read OP. but this track is so good yall should listen to it anyway.

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What's wrong with that? Gamecube is retro enough!

[Steven]

Short but ever so sweet.

 

 

[Vimster]

Dropzone on the NES. Really simple idea, but it manages to get some really, really rich chords out of it. It's one of my all-time favourite game tunes, never get tired of putting this on loop. As someone who makes chip tunes it just makes me want to fire up the tracker and get some big chords going. 

[Nick R]

 

[MikeBeaver]

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[Nathan Wind]

And here it is.  More Whittaker and one of my faves (stick with it).  A great game by the twins too -

 

 

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Some really great tunes so far!

 

And now for something completely different:

 

 

Gotta melt that frigid wall of time...

[Wiper]

Some more PC goodness, a couple of years later than the last I posted, from my favourite series of action adventures:

 

Philippe Vachey - Little Big Adventure - LBA's Theme

 

(the next song I pick won't be a French PC game, promise)

[Camel]

 

[Wiper]

So, to complete avoid posting a French PC game, here's a German home computer game instead; the real difficulty here was picking an individual track, as the entire soundtrack is famously incredible. In the end, I'm not even going to claim this as the best track, or even necessarily my favourite - there are so many greats it's impossible to narrow down. But this is one of my favourites, so it'll have to do:

 

Chris Hülsbeck - Turrican - Level 3-2 (Base Invader)

[NEG]

Life is. Simply.

 

 

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Back to the Hubbardship:

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

Good stuff.  A Follin classic from me today.  ST version is my fave -

 

 

[Wiper]

God, LED Storm - a game I used to boot up on my ST just for the music. Brilliant choice!

[Nathan Wind]

The next handful from me are going to be from the same game.  It's got one of my fave soundtracks.  Exciting, huh?

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That LED Storm tune sounds like it could have influenced the Mad Capsule Markets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgOFhF_gL8 (linking so as not to break the flow).

 

And Planescape Torment is definitely retro!