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What's the first game you played where the music stood out to you enough that you wanted to listen to it outside the game?
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TBH this has never happened for me, for some reason I can't get into video game music. The only songs I like really are Dancing Mad and some Sh2 stuff but I don't really seek it out
I really liked the music in Pyre. It was the first game where I stopped playing just to listen to the music for a bit.
Mega Man 1/2/3. I discovered all three around the same time. I remember asking my dad and my sister to find a way to record them to tape sometime after.
Super Nintendo era is when I fell into the deep end and started importing soundtracks.
And I think my own recording of Symphony of the Night might be the last time I recorded anything to tape.
Super Nintendo era is when I fell into the deep end and started importing soundtracks.
And I think my own recording of Symphony of the Night might be the last time I recorded anything to tape.
Chrono Trigger
I used to sit with my boombox and record the TV speakers onto cassette, then force my parents into listening to the game music in the car.
I used to sit with my boombox and record the TV speakers onto cassette, then force my parents into listening to the game music in the car.
Kwik Snax - I would leave it on the title screen for ages and rock out!
Also a lot of earlier Mega Drive games like Arnold Palmer's Golf, Revenge of Shinobi and Elemental Master...
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That end theme, brings back memories of doing school homework with my headphones plugged in to the Mega Drive :)
Also a lot of earlier Mega Drive games like Arnold Palmer's Golf, Revenge of Shinobi and Elemental Master...
Elemental Master - 15 - Terror of the Glacier (Stage 5)
Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.4 ~ Elemental Master (1991)Composed by Toshiharu Yamanishi-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
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Elemental Master - 04 - Dance of Flame (Stage 1)
Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.4 ~ Elemental Master (1991)Composed by Toshiharu Yamanishi-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
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Elemental Master - 24 - Setting Out (Staff Roll)
Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.4 ~ Elemental Master (1991)Composed by Toshiharu Yamanishi-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
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That end theme, brings back memories of doing school homework with my headphones plugged in to the Mega Drive :)
Chronologically, FF7 for sure. Blew my young mind away. Still one of my top 10 video game OSTs.
Shadow of the Beast (and many other Amiga games). I had hundreds of modules ripped from games that I listened to all the time outside of playing games. I still listen to them as they don't make game music like that anymore!
The first time I fell in love with a game's music was Pokemon GSC, but the first time I ever actually bothered to listen to a game's music when I wasn't playing it was WarioWare Inc: Mega Micro Game$. Not a game with a particularly expansive OST, but I remember one time when I was a kid I was on a car ride and had my GBA but didn't actually feel like playing anything, so I just listened to WarioWare's OST in the sound test on loop the whole way.
Same, OP. Lifelong hardcore VGM fan, I listen to a bunch of different music but VGM is still my favorite and it's not even close. Also, your avatar is SO FUCKING COOL WHERE DID YOU GET IT
For me I think Mega Man 3's soundtrack was the first one I really took particular notice of, but I was too young at the time (like 6-7 years old) to really understand what that meant and I certainly didn't have any means at the time to hear Mega Man 3's music outside of playing the game.
It wasn't until I played Final Fantasy VI (which I knew as Final Fantasy III at the time) as a preteen that I was old enough to understand what it meant to have music really speak to me in a way nothing else could. Kefka's Domain -- the limited US release of FFVI's soundtrack -- then became the first CD album I ever spent allowance money on and from there, the rest is history. Suddenly I had been awakened to a whole universe of music I knew I had loved prior to playing FFVI, but could now quantify and really appreciate for the first time on a deeper level.
For me I think Mega Man 3's soundtrack was the first one I really took particular notice of, but I was too young at the time (like 6-7 years old) to really understand what that meant and I certainly didn't have any means at the time to hear Mega Man 3's music outside of playing the game.
It wasn't until I played Final Fantasy VI (which I knew as Final Fantasy III at the time) as a preteen that I was old enough to understand what it meant to have music really speak to me in a way nothing else could. Kefka's Domain -- the limited US release of FFVI's soundtrack -- then became the first CD album I ever spent allowance money on and from there, the rest is history. Suddenly I had been awakened to a whole universe of music I knew I had loved prior to playing FFVI, but could now quantify and really appreciate for the first time on a deeper level.
Not sure exactly which was first, certainly around 1987 or 1988.
On MS-DOS around that time there was a big push from Sierra, with midi music and Roland MT-32 compatibility which came out in 1987, lots of them by William Goldstein. MT-32 sounded great but none of this really counts because you needed a $700 USD professional module in 1987, which I didn't have but I had the demo tape from Sierra which came with Space Quest 2, I think:
On Amiga circa 1987-1988:
Crystal Hammer (Karsten Obarski)
Amegas (Karsten Obarski)
Hybris (Paul van der Valk)
On MS-DOS around that time there was a big push from Sierra, with midi music and Roland MT-32 compatibility which came out in 1987, lots of them by William Goldstein. MT-32 sounded great but none of this really counts because you needed a $700 USD professional module in 1987, which I didn't have but I had the demo tape from Sierra which came with Space Quest 2, I think:
On Amiga circa 1987-1988:
Crystal Hammer (Karsten Obarski)
Amegas (Karsten Obarski)
Hybris (Paul van der Valk)
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I really loved FF-Music, 7 was amazing, but then one day i bought this game, and this intro just blew me away. My Playstation was running the whole day, while the opening was playing over and over again.
To you. Former hardcore DDR tournament player here and its music is like anything else -- variable in quality. Some of it is terrible, some of it is just okay, some of it is good, some of it is awesome. Goes for all mixes from all generations of DDR. Also, why waste time being embarrassed about other people hearing music you like? Just do you. The opinions of others don't mean jack when it comes to completely subjective things like music. If it makes you happy, that's all that matters.
Completely agree with your first point though!
Outrun simply because I had a tape (came with the C64 conversion) with the OST, but tons of arcade games around that era.
At one point I got a Walkman that could record stuff and I tried to grab the music from various coin ops with predictably terrible results.
And tons of C64 games. Hundreds. MSX games even.
At one point I got a Walkman that could record stuff and I tried to grab the music from various coin ops with predictably terrible results.
And tons of C64 games. Hundreds. MSX games even.
A ton of games! Not sure what the first was. I'll have to think on it, probably on NES.
The first things to pop into my mind are Killer Instinct and OoT, haha. But those weren't first.
I'll leave you with this.
No that isn't a joke, the soundtrack is insanely good. Haha
Edit* I've narrowed it down to Battletoads, Ducktales, & SMB (all NES) and Outrun on the C64 as the first.
The first things to pop into my mind are Killer Instinct and OoT, haha. But those weren't first.
I'll leave you with this.
No that isn't a joke, the soundtrack is insanely good. Haha
Edit* I've narrowed it down to Battletoads, Ducktales, & SMB (all NES) and Outrun on the C64 as the first.
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Even as a (very) young kid, I knew Aquatic Ambience hit different. I would just have that shit playing in the background without me playing.
Kingdom Hearts, there's so many iconic tracks from that franchise that we have a dedicated rhythm game to celebrate them.
Fable: The Lost Chapters, in particular this piece:
After that it was Oblivion and then basically every game that had a great soundtrack would get a listen from me outside of just playing the game :D
After that it was Oblivion and then basically every game that had a great soundtrack would get a listen from me outside of just playing the game :D
Not necessarily outside of the game, but the first game I remember the music really standing out was Superfrog I think.