For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?
Tetris
Why? Because upon having said that I know its now playing in all of your heads.
Korobeiniki
I liked the ‘B’ music best. ‘A’ is a classic but ‘B’ was my jam.
Check out this remix of it from years ago.
Katamari Damacy. It’s got one of the most infectiously joyous soundtracks of all time – an eccentric, richly-produced, and incredibly catchy melange of funk, salsa, bossa nova, experimental electronica, J-Pop, swing, lounge, bamboo flute, hair metal, buoyant parade music, soaring children’s choirs, Macintalk fanfares, and the single best theme song this side of Super Mario Bros. And beyond being insane earworms, many of the tracks have surprisingly deep and meaningful lyrics.; my favorite is probably the beautiful “Cherry Tree Times”, which I’ve seen described as “[using] the gameplay mechanics as a metaphor both for the twinge of nostalgia we could feel even in childhood toward our younger selves and for the experience of falling in love.”
FFX To Zanarkand is gut wrenching. Powerful and moving. The song captures completely what the story is about.
Shit, just the home screen music gets me man.
Baba Yetu from Civilization IV is the correct answer. First video game composition to win a Grammy (before there was even a video game category).
Command and Conquer Red Alert and the fact that this isn’t top comment, yet alone already mentioned has me seriously doubting the taste of this establishment.
RA2 music better than RA1 music for me.
RA2 is the best RTS of all time, no question.
I don’t care which one it is, all 3 had an excellent Hell March.
And while I loved both RA2 and RA3 for their style, CnC Generals was the better RTS just for being better balanced. Unfortunately no memorable music in Generals.
First instinct was to say Chrono Trigger. My second choice is Tony Hawks Pro skater.
How can anything beat Tetris?
I hadn’t seen that one in years! Thanks for the memory.
Guess what I’m humming right now after reading tetris?
You will all hum it the whole day: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetris_theme.ogg
Donkey Kong Country and Diddy’s Kong Quest set some bars when they dropped.
I bought the DK Country album when it came out
DKC3 also had a killer soundtrack.
For me it’s is:
- Final Fantasy 7 (sheer volume of classics, listen to it regularly)
- Resident Evil 2 (PSX)
- Tekken 3
- Silent Hill 2
- Spyro (come on, it’s Stewart Copeland!)
have you listened to ff7 lofi remixes on YouTube though? 👀
I have not, but am going there right now! Any particular playlist?
apologies for the YouTube links but I really dig [this one] (https://youtu.be/0nBYI0owpeY?si=uf8046PS4jv28y5l) by Rifti Beats. Every track is gold on that.
This one is pretty good and has neat, nostalgic visuals to go with it.
If you like a little bit more trippy synthwave style this one is very cool too. There’s an FF8 one too.
Thankyou! I have a lofi playlist and this is going to be added immediately.
Outer Wilds.
The whole soundtrack is just so atmospheric, I regularly listen to it while working as a kind of focus music, but some tracks are so good I get the chills while listening.
Katamari Damacy!!!
Final fantasy 6! The renditions of the victory fanfare and chocobo theme are terrific and multiple other songs are dramatic, exciting, enthralling. And there are some legit jams on the soundtrack, too. The Veldt, Magitek Factory, and Zozo all are amazing.
Other games music that are great are Tropico, Frostpunk, and RimWorld.
I shouldn’t have had to scroll this far but I guess the average gamer is younger than this masterpiece now.
I think ff7 also was “the” final fantasy game people played and think back to.
But ff6 has a dope soundtrack. Like when you lift off in the falcon for the first time.
Final fantasy 6. Probably did the most with the least. It is an all-time banger for that along with super Mario 3.
The entire soundtrack of Nier Automata, for a more recent contender.
Game: Masterpiece. Soundtrack: Masterpiece.
Had to scroll way too far for this
Chrono Trigger.
Either Halo or the new Doom games.
Very few themes are more iconic than Halos chanting and basically all of those are simple themes without depth. Halos theme makes you feel a flood of emotion when you hear it.
And nothing on this earth nothing is more bad ass than the Doom music. Just hearing it makes you feel like you could go to hell and kill gods.
Also the old Doom games.
Now I’ve got E1M1 in my head