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Nov 5, 2010 - 4:46 AM
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Thor
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P.S. I WOULD KINDLY ASK THAT YOU DO NOT POST A LOT OF EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS HERE, BUT RATHER JUST THE LINK TO THE VIDEO, AS MY COMPUTER ACTS UP WHENEVER THERE'S A YOUTUBE-HEAVY THREAD. THANK YOU.
I used to play a lot of games in the early and mid 90's, in particular, before I moved away from home in 1996. So my experience with computer games pretty much stops there. My favourites were adventure games from Lucasarts, Sierra etc., and the music within them.
What are your favourites from this era?
It's hard to pick, but of all the brilliant Lucasarts ones, I'd have to go with THE DIG, one of my alltime favourite soundtracks, period.
In the Sierra mold, I'd have to go with GABRIEL KNIGHT 2: THE BEAST WITHIN or the gothic darkness of the PHANTASMAGORIA games.
I also like George Oldziey's MIDI sci fi score for WING COMMANDER III, as well as the moody scores by Robyn Miller for the insanely difficult puzzle games MYST and RIVEN.
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Nov 5, 2010 - 5:28 AM
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Bent Erik
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I was quite active on the European Amiga scene from the late 80's through '95. I have a lot of fond memories from those years. I also composed some music for the demo scene (discmags, intros etc.). My favourite program was ProTracker, but I used midi and sequencers as well; Bars and Pipes in particular.
I frequently play music from some of the classic Amiga games. I literally have 1000s of tracks on my computer. It's difficult to come up with just one favourite, but the first games that come to mind are some of the action/arcade style games made by Psygnosis and other Amiga specialists. The Shadow of the Beast trilogy has incredible music. The first one, with music by David Whittaker and the second, with music by Timothy Brian Wright and Lee Wright, are two favourites. Other highlights from this period include Turrican 1-3 (Chris Hülsbeck), Agony (Various), Unreal (Maniacs of Noise), Pinball Dreams (Olof Gustafsson), Legend of Faerghail (Andreas Starr) and Superfrog (Allister Brimble).
Great topic, Thor.
Shadow of the Beast (David Whittaker):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkEWajBg-y4
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Hmmm
Turrican and Turrican 2 AMIGA/COMODORE
Strider AMIGA/COMODORE
Castlevania NES
Starfox (AKA Starwing) SUPER NES
Actraiser SUPER NES
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All the Rareware scores for Nintendo 64 are brilliant : Banjo-Kazooie, Goldeneye, Diddy Kong Racing !!
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Nov 5, 2010 - 6:15 AM
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Thor
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Ah, thanks for the clarification, Bent.
I remember when Bruce Broughton's HEART OF DARKNESS came out in 1998, one of the first PC games to have a fullbodied, non-sampled orchestral score. Of course, today it's commonplace, but back then it was a big deal. I tried to play the game once, though, and it really sucks. I hate that kind of platform thing in the first place, but this one was just impossibly difficult (plus, it came out really after my interest in PC games had waned).
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Nov 5, 2010 - 6:18 AM
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Thor
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By a film composer it'd have to be Faltermeyer's Jack Orlando.
There are a ton of really good console game scores out there, particularly the rock group Green Jelly's grunge style score to Spiderman Maximum Carnage on the Super Nintendo, and the surprisingly harder Euro dance music for the Batman and Robin game on the Sega Genesis (I forget the composer's name but he's really talented, in my opinion). Both of those I think you'd dig, Thor, just for being so against type and experimental with pop music.
Thanks for the recs. I wasn't really that much into console games (I was all about PC), but I had a friend who was a Nintendo and Super Nintendo nut, so I played (or watched him play) some games for that console that had some fun music, like STREET FIGHTER 2, CASTLEVANIA, F-ZERO, ZELDA etc.
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Nov 7, 2010 - 7:28 AM
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TerraEpon
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Hmmm....obviously not finding the main target audience here at FSM for this topic, a bit to my suprise. I'm guessing it falls between "two chairs", as we say over here, i.e. those who are too old to have played much computer games in the 90's, and those who are too young and only started out in the 2000's.
In any case, I wish they would release more of the classic Lucasarts scores as re-conceptualized soundtracks, like with THE DIG and OUTLAWS. The MONKEY ISLAND scores, for example, are really deserving and currently only exist as fragmented PC rips.
Well I could go on for a while. On the PC side, noone mentioned the King's Quest games -- 5 and 6 have really good music. 6 was probably the first video game to have its own pop song written for it (and it's a good one). Also, Sim City 2000 had some neat music....
As for console, well I could go on forever with the Japanese stuff. Final Fantasys, Dragon Quests, Actraiser, even the Sonics and Marios have a lot of really fun and catchy music. Street Fighter, Castlevanias, Zelda....and lots more. Japanese only stuff like Romancing Saga, Parodius, etc etc etc...
And that doesn't even get started with the Japanese arrange albums...
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