Best Theme Song in a game.

16bit happiness

Why is it that soundtracks these days don't seem to supercharge me like the old 8-16bit games did?
Here are some from my 4 favorite games ever.

First there was Rocket Knight Adventure

YouTube - Rocket Knight Adventures: Stage 6

YouTube - Rocket Knight Adventures Music - Stage 5-1

YouTube - Rocket Knight Adventures stage 7

And of course Megaman 3

YouTube - Mega Man 3 OST, T10: Top Man Stage (Spinning Greenhouse)

YouTube - Mega Man 3 Complete Works: Dr Wily´s Stages 2

Special props go to Symphony of the night which was the first track i remember listening to that changed when it cycled round the 2nd and third time.

YouTube - Castlevania - The Clock Tower

and last but not least my favorite of all time, which i catch myself humming when bored and always reminds me of epic. Wild Arms 3

YouTube - Wild Arms 3 Crossfire Sequence(Janus Theme)

hope that's not going overboard

Also i'm still not used to posting so when i can figure out how to paste videos directly in here i'll do tht instead... and not as many

 

Dont know about any of you, but back on the old NES before music got to be more then 8-bit, this was in my eyes one of the best soundtracks for a game.

YouTube - ‪Journey to Silius (NES) - Stage 1‬‏

 

‪Delta Theme Remix c64‬‏ - YouTube

‪Martin Galway - Wizball (C64) [Title Music]‬‏ - YouTube

‪Sanxion C64 (Sidstation)‬‏ - YouTube

‪Rob Hubbard - Mega Apocalypse [C64]‬‏ - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGFV_xxR64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcuyUbqX6OU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vsC4vT1_kw

Probably dated a little now but here's some classics from Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Matt Grey.

And from more recent times.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5DvIzdB3s

Enjoy.

 

There is cool music and there are cool remixes. This one is both.

 

Little Big Planet has some pretty funky ones too

 

I have to go with a classic:



For something more recent I'd go with Kingdom Hearts:

 

I liked the Fallout games - music worked in very well with the game for me.

 

The Quake 2 soundtrack was pretty rockin', lots of chunky guitars



Most of the DOOM and DOOM 2 soundtrack, but always loved this one, still find myself singing it:



And this one:



And finally, of course:

 

That initial preview frame for McDonald Land looked a bit dodgy to me. Let me say it didn't look like a tent at first glance lol.

 

The town music (Tristram) for the original Diablo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuTeWLrRvk

 

haha - now that you've said that, I can see 3 rather rude possibilities!

 

My favorite would have to be the theme song from Monkey Island. I actually still get a eargasim when I hear that song. Also the theme songs for the diffrent aliens in Star Control 2 are just fantastic they really give you an impression of each one.

 

The intro theme to Turrican II. Chris Hulsbeck was pumping out an incredible amount of good tunes during the Turrican series. I just bought his latest album on iTunes, though, and was so disappointed by how generic it was.

 

For me, the video game with the best theme song has got to be Spy Hunter (they used the theme from Peter Gunn). There is just something about a Henry Mancini tune.

 

Dragonhammer has posted up some pure spun gold. All of Paul Ruskay's stuff for Homeworld was gold and Frank Klepacki's C&C tunes (someone else posted Hell March) were awesome, too. It's tempting to post up some old Daglish/Hubbard/Galway C64 stuff but instead I'm going to go with an overlooked classic that had amazing music throughout:

 

Thanks

In a couple of days skyrim will hit the stores the daggerfall series had some great music here is a couple to commemorate them.







these have nothing to do with bethesda but are just here to get you into the rpg mood

 

Don't know if it's 'Best Evah' but I found this music terrifically evocative questing around Northrend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJHNq4-r-uo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

I loved this game in the 90's. It did borrow heavily from a group of movies that might be familiar.....

 

I love the theme to Portal.