Best music from a 1980s video/arcade game (or best video/arcade related music)

Best music from a 1980s video/arcade game (or best video/arcade related music)???

outrun, "passing breeze"

Tilt - Arcade Funk

Jonzun Crew - Pac Jam

Power Pill - Pacman

Lil Flip - Game Over

Oh I loved 'Marble Madness'.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=G54MllM2Gx8

The song I liked the best from this one is the 4th level one, the 'moon' level. Unfortunately in youtube I can only find this video which goes through the first 2 levels.

cocoa brovaz - super brooklyn

masta ace - hellbound

beanie sigel - mac man

percee p - 2 brothers from the gutter

sick

I can easily picture that 'flashback' and 'castlevania' intros remixed by some sort of electro french artist.

K I recorded the space level from shooting range I mentioned upthread, unfortunately sound got glitchy but you can get an idea of what it sounds like. Sort of a Kraftwerk reminiscence

ah yes, loop changes around the 2 min mark when the boss appears.

MEGA MAN 2 OWNS THIS THREAD

Can't find Reactor anywhere.

is outrun the one where you can see Vegas on the horizon at night... I've been trying to remember what old racing game that was. (and I think it was Vegas)

oh yeah - contraband (or megaman band or whatever other names they call themselves) was great to see them play along as someone just about flawlessly beat megaman 2 while sitting onstage playing an actual NES system. Athens FTW. I like how they played along to the powerup screens and stage selection screen as well. also, seeing dr. wiley beat brings back good memories I suppose.

http://www.8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7909
gameboy music mix

Can't find Reactor anywhere.

― Eazy

That would've been my choice too!

xenon 2, bomb the bass-tastic

shadow of the beast

srsly Marble Madness ftw

Manic Miner, never has Strauss sounded quite like this...

The in-game In the Hall of the Mountain King is actually quite fun.

Xenon 2 and any other Bitmap Bros selections otm (fond memories of John Foxx - yes, that John Foxx - with the theme tune for Gods too, but that's 90s - but if early 90s stuff is allowed then the first Monkey Island game too please).

I hope to come back with some proper oldschool stuff later, but us 48k Spectrum owners were a bit deprived musically, and by the time the 128k Spectrum with improved sound chip came along publishers seemed to be used to not really bothering over the music for the Speccy version.

couple of personal faves:

IK+ (Amiga)

Gemini Wing (Arcade) - each of the 7 levels had it's own theme ala R-Type

Mappy

Moon Patrol

okay it's the theme to peter gunn but did anybody play this for any other reason?

Video game music filtered through rave:

Crazy French guy playing Space Harrier theme with triggered drums with a dash of Lighning Bolt.

xenon 2 theme totally jacks the john carpenter assault on precinct 13 theme not that im complaining

i still swear by the sonic 3 end credits... so wistful

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yea this was great and like many other people mentioned about beating the game to listen to this. It was also one of the only games where I actually enjoyed having a credit screen. lol yea and for some reason hearing this song gives me somewhat of an empty/sad feeling. Probably because the game was just beaten and it brings back some memories

and ice cap zone

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This is actually from 1995 but I have to post because I loved the dkc soundtracks. I was 10 back then, it doesnt seem to me like it was that long ago.

xp I have a ton of MP3s of techno and metal interpretations of Castlevania songs, so there probably is a French electronica mix out there somewhere.

another dkc one:

Sorry chap, didn't see you'd already posted Monkey Island as I can't view embeds at work.

More early 90s Amiga-goes-ravey business, from Team 17's Project-X:

That NES Shooting Range space level is the most IDM thing I've heard this week! Spookily quasi-random arpeggios and disorienting tempo shifts all over the place. Awesome.

Is nobody posting Bubble Bobble because it's taken them 20 years to get the music out of their head and they don't want it back?

(Puzzle Bobble also catchy as hell, but too late for this thread. Here it is anyway.)

xenon 2 theme totally jacks the john carpenter assault on precinct 13 theme not that im complaining

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It was Bomb The Bass that did it - I recall it as basically a cover but it was a longass time ago

Earl and myself are highly funky aliens

from outer space

nice part @ 2:30 or so

sounds best w about 8 of these going

Super Mario Bros 3, as reimagined by Richard D. James?

5:45 - end almost sounds too awesome to be an accident.

Phoenix. Especially the moment (at 5:00 in this clip) when you kill the mothership phoenix and Für Elise plays.

I came to post Mappy, but Pleasant Plains beat me to it.

Isn't Mappy just the Budweiser song though?

And the winner is:

Streets of Rage 2, for something that came out in '92, pretty damn good

and let's not forget

Isn't Mappy just the Budweiser song though?

Haha, otm oh shit.