best video game soundtrack

i know, i know - wipeout 2097 BUT is that really better than ghost in the shell's CD of originals? to wit:

CD1

1.01 Takkyu Ishino – Ghost In The Shell 6:44
1.02 Mijk Van Dijk – Firecracker 5:25
1.03 Brother From Another Planet – Ishikawa Surfs The System 3:58
1.04 Hardfloor – Spook & Spell (Fast Version) 5:53
1.05 WestBam – Featherhall 6:42
1.06 Joey Beltram – The Vertical 6:28
1.07 Scan X – Blinding Waves 4:44
1.08 Advent, The – The Searcher Part II 3:27
1.09 BCJ – Spectre 5:46
1.10 Dave Angel – Can U Dig It 7:17
1.11 Derrick May – To Be Or Not To Be (Juan Atkins Off The Cuff Mix) 7:01

CD2
2.01 Mijk Van Dijk – Fuchi Koma 5:09
2.02 Advent, The – Down Loader 6:19
2.03 BCJ – Thanato 3:27
2.04 WestBam – Moonriver 8:09
2.05 Mijk Van Dijk – Brain Drive 4:48
2.06 Hardfloor – Spook & Spell (Slow Version) 6:30
2.07 WestBam – Die Dunkelsequenz 7:33
2.08 Brother From Another Planet – Section 9 Theme 6:01
2.09 Dave Angel – So High 5:35
2.10 Derrick May – To Be Or Not To Be (The Mix Of A Mix Mix) 7:03

GTA (whichever one had all the 80s songs)

Katamari Damacy

The CONELRAD mod for Fallout (I haven't actually played the game, but I know what songs are on it, and they are all awesome).

Katamari Damacy

worst: PES 2010

every PES is the worst

by the way whomever was behind the GITS soundtrack really knew his shit.

i'm not sure which tony hawk's pro skater soundtrack to choose. 2? 3?

katamari damacy's is fantastic.

ditto for GTA: Vice City. that one was incredible. it was agazonizing to me listening to the GTA4 soundtrack in which i had to give my condolences to the composers for finding the epitome of 00s music while still happening to be in that decade. makes me dread what GTA5 will offer.

All of the Katamari soundtracks are amazing. I genuinely love that stuff a lot.

My runners up would be Um Jammer Lammy and Bust a Groove.

oblig donkey kong country mention

really
http://youtu.be/LDvKwSVuUGA

donkey kong country 2 ost >>>>> 1, although aquatic ambience is a classic

I assumed this question was about soundtracks made up of songs cos yeah DKC, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound etc.

^yeah, same. i'd have much more if we were thinking original works.

fallout 1 & 2 soundtracks were 70% of the atmosphere, altho evidence posits that the composer blatantly ripped a lot of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 2

earthbound soundtrack is really on another level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20dF5Ao1mE

Yeah the first Katamari game pretty much owns all in this regard. The other ones are good too but that first soundtrack was just brilliant all the way through.

As far as soundtracks made up of existing tunes, I'll always have a soft spot for Tony Hawk 3 (though I'm guessing I'd hate it now!)

Oh yeah, Rez definitely deserves a mention here

sometimes the OG answer is the right answer: Super Mario Brothers

don't forget this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXTuXJv_MiE

yeah it's amazing that one NES game could have three tunes that are instantly recognizable throughout the entire world after the first few notes

all the Mario games have had great music ("Dire Dire Docks" always put me in such a strange mood), but I really love how Galaxy switches things up depending on what you're doing in the level

yeah people are mostly otm on here

donkey kong country 2
earthbound
final fantasy 3/6
chrono trigger

the SNES sound chip was really just the sweet spot for rewarding creative sound design and good composition while avoiding the pitfalls of having access to recorded audio. those squaresoft RPG soundtrack tunes rarely had more than 4 or so instruments playing at once but they sounded as expansive as a modern orchestral soundtrack regardless

very honorable mention to sonic 3/sonic and knuckles which are just so far above other genesis games in music quality

oh and for actual recent stuff with real recorded soundtrack: Machinarium

Plok! had some of the richest-sounding and probably the longest individual music tracks of any SNES game. Too bad the game itself is so short — probably due to the sheer amount of space required for the BGM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbJSftFr20

also:

Secret of Mana:

(ketjak samples!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHqy0n_VQJc

Super Metroid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96venBS7P8

and don't forget Mother 3 (the "sequel" to Earthbound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DSMOAT6P8

disagree w/r/t SNES -- the music generally had a very MIDI-feel (maybe the music was originally in MIDI before encoding in SNES format?)
best platform was the original gameboy.

i feel like i don't even have to post this but it's still mega man 2

silent hill 2, gabriel knight 1, hero's quest (quest for glory)

The title theme from Robocop always struck me as astonishingly good. I think it may be the only thing anyone remembers from it anymore. Also it was adapted in that video where Dilbert shoots up his office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZBDNQ3gas

maybe it's nostalgia-haze but these youtube gameboy clips don't sound as good as I remember gameboy being. Are they recorded from real gameboys or emulators?

that's pretty great.

was ocean a subsidiary of sunsoft setup so they could release more games a la konami and 'ultra games'? I vaguely remember something like this...

in any case, sunsoft's nes stuff was up there with capcom and konami:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCA_msAEn8k

well, I read the ocean wiki (duh) and I'm wrong

anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6sjYt6EJVw&feature=related

no rules here but that ghost in the shell soundtrack was all commissioned for the game, iirc