*sits all alone in my Gaming Music Thread, twiddling my thumbs*

 

I don't play computer games, so I can't comment on the music, sorry Rawky.

From Medal of Honor: Frontline. A very Saving Private Ryan type of piece of music.

I want the original Super Mario Bros tune played at my funeral...  the happy bip bop de diddle de one.. for the carrying of me coffin.

Then I want the "down the pipe" tune when my coffin starts to go into the hatch.

Then the game over bit when the little curtains close.

I end up knowing lots of obscure tunes....  that I make my own lyrics up to...   from my son playing Fifa...  

I cannot wait til he gets Fifa11 next week, just for a change of tunes!

All the talk of the Cocteau Twins on other threads has been giving me flashbacks, so I hope you forgive me for leaping in here.

Way, way back in the early days of what is now laughingly caused the British computing industry (although it wasn't always laughed-at at the time - some took it very seriously indeed), the company "Automata" revolutionized the whole idea of what was possible regarding computer game music by turning out "Deus Ex Machina" - a sort of computer-game opera. Back in those days (we're talking ZX Spectrum, remember), you had to load a program from an audio tape. With DEM, you then flipped the tape over for an audio recording which you then synced with the game. This allowed them to use the real voices of the likes of Jon Pertwee, Frankie Howerd and Ian Dury.

Anyway, the upshot of all that is this - probably the most obscure and unusual Ian Dury performance ever:

I never really played games much 

From Syberia 1 and 2, the finest adventure game yet created for the pc. And we are still waiting for Syberia 3 to be made.

LadyHawke - My delerium (sp) can't remember what game it was in ( I want to say a racing game). Love that tune.

My husband has this as one of his ringtones...



And a Tribute to Zelda too!

From GTA Vice City, loved that game.

From Civ - been playing it since the first version - THE best strategy game ever!

Hmmm, some good choices. Darlo, I'm thinking more 'original video game music' rather than 'known songs' stuck on a game.

For Moonbeams - It was Dirt 2

I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!

Donkey Kong Country on the SNES......loved that game!

Here's an oldie:


And a new one:

Strictly speaking, this breaks Rawky's ban on "known songs stuck onto games", but I feel duty-bound to post it anyway, not least because it totally revolutionized the computer game industry at the time. What Matthew Smith did (i.e. provide continuous music while the game was running) was previously thought impossible on the ZX Spectrum and similar computers.

Oh, and keep 'em peeled for a cameo appearance by yours-truly near the end...

This was my first introduction to on line games - Runes Of Magic. The music is brilliant.

And way back in 1982, I played this game:

Loved Manic Miner!!!

& Jet Set Willy!

Dear Lord Eugene!! I could only listen to about 10 seconds of that......sorry

I really like this version of the Zelda theme tune:



and this Zone from Sonic 2. I remember making my way through the levels just so i could to this one and listen to the music.

One of the best gaming soundtracks ever.

Do you mean the "Blue Danube" intro, or the "In the hall of the mountain king" background music?

I'd definitely agree that the intro is painful to listen to - it rather encouraged you to get quickly into the game!

I never had any problems with the background music though, but you've got to remember that, as I said earlier, it was a novelty at the time. Allowing for the almost unimaginable advances in technology since then, it's still pretty sophisticated - it even changes key as you lose lives!

For Jet Set Willy", they used "If I were a rich man" (I'll spare you that one...)

And when I moved from the Atari 800 to the Atari ST, there was this from 1989.

This piece of music is quite legendary in the world of games. Its played when one of the main characters is killed off. Kinda heart-wrenching.