Elkatas's videogame song contest from hell (look post 27 for correct answers)

[elkatas]

Elkatas productions proudly presents: Videogame song challenge from hell

Feeling bored or that you are not geeky enough? No worries, elkatas's "videogame song challenge from hell" is perfect way to waste few hours, and raise your own personal geek rating.

Sounds great. How do I try it?

I have gathered 150 different MP3 samples from various video- and computer games, and stored them into 17 MB big archive that is currently located in Rapidshare*. Your mission is to try to solve to which game each unlabeled sample belongs to. Some of them are relatively easy to recognise, others can be *very* hard. You have one week to solve samples before I'm going to post complete song list on this same thread. Notice that there is no two samples from same game.

But why you are doing this?

Well, first of all, I'm extremely bored, and I though this could be funny distraction. Secondly, I have always wondered how well you guys actually remember tunes that you have heard in videogames.

Protip 1: None of these songs are random remixes.

Protip 2: If game was released for pre-PSX system, it simply can't have high quality, orchestrated pieces.

* Sorry, I couldn't think any other place to host this...

http://rapidshare.com/files/22314411/Samples.zip.html

I did this same test for Penny-Arcade forums. They were able to identify 108 songs from the list. I personally believe that you guys are able to do far better.

[Oh_Mutants]

Only listened to the first five so far;

2. Strider
3. Devil crash
4. Parappa the rapper

Are the ones i know...

[Flabio]

Bloody hell this is hard... And I'm usually pretty good at game music

[EvilBoris]

Cheers for that, some good gaming moments in there.Righty, me and the girl have listened to them all and this is our poor attempt.
Answers marked with a ? are ones I know I've played but can't work out which game they are from.

04. Parappa the rapper
14. Super Mario world
18. Goldeneye
19. Phoenix Wright
?22. battletoads (half of these sound like battletoads to me :P)
?27. streets of rage
29. Katamari damacy
34. fahrenheit
37. sonic adventure
55. tetris
?59 was sooooo FAMILIAR, I WILL KICK MYSELF
?65. command and conquer
?81. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH i know what it is
86. Final fantasy 8 or 9 (card minigame music)
?91. F-zero GX
97. Jet Set Radio
98. Cannon Fodder
?106.
?109. AfterBurner
111. Superfrog
?115 Final Fantasy 6 or earlier
?117........tip of the tongue
?120
?125
142. Star Fox 64
143. jax and daxter
?145. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

[Oh_Mutants]

Other than the ones Boris got...

145 Aaaargh i know it, but i can't place it!
141 Revenge Of Shinobi
138 Bomberman?
135 Metal Slug
106 Soul calibur?
94 Mortal kombat?
81 aaargh so do I, puzzle game i think...
80 Raiden
79 FFS this is driving me nuts, recognise so many but can't place them! Klonoa perhaps?
59 ToeJam And Earl
57 Streets of rage
50 Ok this is winding me up now! All i know is i was playing this recently. parodius?
34 Max Payne
33 Yay! Sunset riders
30 R Type
24 Grrrrrrrrrrr!
9 Yoshi's Island?

and so many more i know but simply can't put names too!
Great thread

[elkatas]

145 Aaaargh i know it, but i can't place it!

Hint: Look your avatar.

[Flabio]

Right then, my attempt has netted this lot:

2) Strider
4) Parappa The Rapper
9) Loco Roco
12) Pacland
14) Super Mario Kart
19) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney
28) Space Harrier
29) Katamari Damacy
34) Max Payne 2 (was more morose in 2 than 1)
37) Outrun
40) Shadow Of the Colossus
41) Secret of Mana
44) Flashback (what version though? I don't remember it ever sounding that bad on the amiga)
49) Okami
55) Tetris
57) Streets of Rage
58) Haunted Castle (gotta love the bonus cd that came with Symphony of the Night)
59) Toejam and Earl
64) Pinball Dreams (I think, might be fantasies. It's definitely not Illusions)
72) Chrono Cross (and one of my favourite pieces of game music ever)
86) Final Fantasy 8
97) Jet Set Radio
98) Cannon Fodder
100) Monkey Island 2
103) Sonic The Hedgehog
111) Zool (might be the sequel, not sure)
127) Vagrant Story
141) Super Shinobi / Revenge of Shinobi
142) Jet Force Gemini
144) Final Fantasy 5 (and 12, if you're being pedantic about it )
147) Soul Edge
148) Super Castlevani 4 (again with that bonus cd...)


Damn, all those SNES rawk tracks just blur together

[buster_broon]

there is a couple thats doing me head in, especially number 30

33 sunset riders
88 silent hill

some of the numbers that havent been mentioned

but i was hoping for some super metroid, splatterhouse and rygar

somebody put me out my misery with number 30 - its definately a shooter

[Oh_Mutants]

Hint: Look your avatar.

Lol ! Of course! Altered Beast

[Flabio]

Lol ! Of course! Altered Beast

Ahhh, that one was driving me mad as well

[elkatas]

but i was hoping for some super metroid, splatterhouse and rygar

There is one Rygar and Splatterhouse sample, although they are not from the first games of the series...

[Light]

48 - MGS2
83 - Devil May Cry 3
117 - Metroid Prime

[buster_broon]

58 splatterhouse 2

but 96 also sounds splatterhouse stylee

128 is certainly a thunderforce

**edit**
30 is r-type biatches - hurrah

[Abhisara]

74 is PC Genjin/BC Kid.

149 is a remix of the final level music from Mega Man 2, but since you said no remixes, I'm guessing that it was re-used in a later Mega Man game.

[elkatas]

149 is a remix of the final level music from Mega Man 2, but since you said no remixes, I'm guessing that it was re-used in a later Mega Man game.

That's correct. It was used in an arcade game.