Your all-time favourite gaming tunes

[eastyy]

Oh rats forgot about the final boss tune in gitaroo man

Thats great possibly one of my fav last levels ever


Is there a soundtrack available for gitaroo man?

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I couldn't narrow the list. My faves would probably be able to fill an ipod!

[J0e Musashi]

Final Fight opening theme.
SF2 chara select.
Rambo 3 bow and arrow bonus stage.

[danholo]

I really love game music for some reason. Just yesterday the arranged album for Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana arrived in the mail. Great battle tunes. There's a lot of music I enjoy in games. Recently I've been marathoning Ikaruga music which is great. I'd really like it played live by an orchestra. Man, that would be something. Anyway, there's some much to mention so I'll just say that my favorite is, even though there are better tunes, is Mega Man 2 Castle Wily Theme 1. It's really something that you never forget just because it was the first game I got for the NES (after Mario Bros., naturally). I could go on and on with this subject... But I will add that Castlevania music is really insipiring as well but it wouldn't be fair to other game music composers (a field that doesn't earn enough respect). Think of how much love Yuukichan's Papa and Bunbun have garnered over the years from gamers.

I couldn't narrow the list. My faves would probably be able to fill an ipod!

Ditto.

[Largo]

Hmm probably C&C back in the day, who didnt like act on instinct,
couple of sonic treasures like Hydrocity act 2 and Flying Battery hehe,
Everything really, Zone of the Enders 1/2, Shinobi on the PS2 has some great music too, Soulcalibur series, FF7 etc SotC too like some have mentioned

[sj33]

4 pages in and is there no love for the 'Safe' room music in Resident Evil 1 (PS1)?

Nah I love the Resi stuff, that one included. Too many people dismiss the Resi stuff as simple ambience, but there's some great stuff in the games.
I think perhaps my only disappointment with newer titles such as REmake and RE4 is the downplaying of any kind of 'tune' in the game (though RE4 did have a few nice ones... 'Serenity', 'Infiltration' and the game loading theme.
Was disappointed the recent-ish Sound Chronicle didn't include the little Options Menu track from RE3, as dispite only being used in the options menu, is one of the more memorable tracks in the game!

[Wools]

Command & Conquor - Mechanical Man
Jet set radio future - The concept of love
Metroid Prime - Phendrana drifts
Ridge racer type 4 - Your vibe
Shenmue - Theme
Sonic 2 - Hill top zone
Mario 64 - Dire, Dire, Docks
Vib Ribbon - Laugh & Beats
Wipeout Pure - Onyx
Tomb Raider - Theme
Daytonna USA - Let's go away
Silent Hill 3 - Opening

They are some of my favourites but there's a lot of gret retro music I can't even rember!

[Vince]

I like loads of stuff and i can't remember the names of specific tracks but some of the ones i'm listening to alot at the moment are:

Gradius III (although every Gradius game has good music)
Under Defeat
Mushihimesama
Thunder Force (all of them)
Katamari
FFV - clash on the big bridge

Also not strictly a game soundtrack as its arranged but i love the Rogue Galaxy arranged cd.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Like everybody else, I have far, far too many favourites to just pick five from, so I'm going to give another vote to any music from the original SFII coin-ops (World Warrior/Champion Edition/Turbo Hyper Fighting). For me, those tracks define an era in gaming which none of us will ever see again imho.