I was playing some classics on Mame and Emulators today and one thing struck me the most, the music before CD based machines appeared was much more exciting and suited to videogames. Some of the tunes are so catchy and humable, unlike most of today?s stuff.
I would hate to play a schmup with a bland Hollywood style soundtrack in the background, it would ruin it for me, schmups have to have midi music.
Platformers need catchy little tunes, without them the games lose a lot of charm. Just look at the old-skool Mario and Sonic tunes, they are much better than today?s offerings.
It seems that midi is all but dead in videogames and Hollywood style pap rules the day. There are exceptions, I agree, but these are becoming rare. Even the music from F-ZeroGX whilst good, doesn?t compete with the original Snes tunes.
I watched an interview with one of the top games musicians and he was spouting a lot of garbage. He actually said " Music in videogames today is much better, in the old days people had to listen to poor quality badly designed tunes and now with CD we can have true Hollywood style ".
He can stuff his Hollywood generic crap. I even get fed-up with the way films all seem to reuse the same music over and over again; I don?t need it in my games.
Music to me is of prime importance. When I hear a tune from yesteryear, it brings back the whole vibe of the game, I can actually hum the whole tune and it makes me smile.
I can barely remember any tunes from the the 32 to 128bit era. The N64 being the exception obviously. Its a sad time for music and I know my moaning won?t change things, but I just had to express my sadness for the way things have gone, graphics are better but imo music has gone to sh*t.
What tunes do you remember vividly and hum from the pre CD era???
I would hate to play a schmup with a bland Hollywood style soundtrack in the background, it would ruin it for me, schmups have to have midi music.
Platformers need catchy little tunes, without them the games lose a lot of charm. Just look at the old-skool Mario and Sonic tunes, they are much better than today?s offerings.
It seems that midi is all but dead in videogames and Hollywood style pap rules the day. There are exceptions, I agree, but these are becoming rare. Even the music from F-ZeroGX whilst good, doesn?t compete with the original Snes tunes.
I watched an interview with one of the top games musicians and he was spouting a lot of garbage. He actually said " Music in videogames today is much better, in the old days people had to listen to poor quality badly designed tunes and now with CD we can have true Hollywood style ".
He can stuff his Hollywood generic crap. I even get fed-up with the way films all seem to reuse the same music over and over again; I don?t need it in my games.
Music to me is of prime importance. When I hear a tune from yesteryear, it brings back the whole vibe of the game, I can actually hum the whole tune and it makes me smile.
I can barely remember any tunes from the the 32 to 128bit era. The N64 being the exception obviously. Its a sad time for music and I know my moaning won?t change things, but I just had to express my sadness for the way things have gone, graphics are better but imo music has gone to sh*t.
What tunes do you remember vividly and hum from the pre CD era???
And if that talented Yuzo Koshiro can make 'The Shamen' sound good then it must be a good console. 
I just lament the passing of true videogame music and the arrival of compositions that go against what videogames are all about, excitement.
Great choices bud, all those Snes games have fantastic music. Plok is a great game in every way, but the music is simply sensational. Actraiser will always be in my head, the start-up music is phenomenal, as is the rest of the music. Castlevania4 is probably my favourite out of your list, I love nearly every tune from it, I even made a C.D for my mates. 
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