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Lampton Worm
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Hello all,

Been listening through a load of old tunes, and I thought I'd see what other people have down as their top 3 computer game tunes

My favourites...

1) Turrican (any, in particular, 2)
2) The Killing Game Show
3) Outrun

How about you?
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1) Elite - Frontier
2) Homeworld
3) System Shock 2



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Turrican had awesome music, even the humble ST sound chip tracks by Jochen Hippel were great.

This would be my top 3 though:

1. Speedball2
2. Cannon Fodder
3. Turrican2

All the bitmap bros games had quality music, Speedball sticks out because it had this awesome hook, like a little horn segment in the middle that was so damn catchy. Magic Pockets even had a tune by Betty Boo, but not just a version, the actual tracker modules were made by the woman herself. Same goes for Cannon Fodder, the real Captain Sensible made the tune for that .


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Rayman had the best music by far. Although Grim Fandango's was pretty awesome, too.


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Quote: "2) The Killing Game Show"


Dude! That's pretty old-school right there. I remember getting a single level demo of that on the amiga. I seem to recall that you played a robot of some kind - looked a lot like ED209 from robocop.

I'd have to vote for
1) Xenon 2 - Amiga (ingame music was a bit poop, but the intro music rocked)
2) Speedball 2 - Amiga (Same reasons as VanB - very grungy tune)
3) Syndicate on the PC (not Syndicate Wars - you can't beat the tension music when other agents were in the area.)


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1) descent 3
2) Duo
3) Indiana jones and the emperor's tomb.

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Freedom fighters is one of the best soundtracks made.

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1) Final Fantasy VII (yes it is on the PC, look it up)

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

Not a ripoff of The Twilight Zone
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Hmmmm....

1) Xenon 2
2) Starglider
3) Agent X

Oh, and I always wanted to finish a tank game with DB objects, and then put that big gun song by AC/DC over the top of it. Nice.

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Quote: "1) Final Fantasy VII (yes it is on the PC, look it up)"
Why do we have to look it up? Well known that it's on the PC. Didn't buy it myself (had the PS version), although I remember getting resident evil on the PC and being totally disappointed...

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Quote: "Well known that it's on the PC."

Ive had two people that thought thats its only PS and didnt believe it is on the PC

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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Anything from Silent Hill 2,3 or 4.
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FF7
Any sonic game
Any mario game

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SH2 by far. Mostly because SH2 was the only real playable one on the PC. The others sucked on the PC compared to their console counter-parts.

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Quote: "Mostly because SH2 was the only real playable one on the PC"
SH3 ran fine on my comp, lack of owning a PS2 means I cant compare it to the console version though. SH4 handling was, well.. bad.
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Well when i meant playable, I refer to the controls and such (my PC can play everything good ). I wasn't a fan of he default controls, and just couldn't ever tweak them correctly.

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@adr: funny you should say that, I only ever had that exact demo, not the full game!! But the game and music totally rocks. I should track myself down an orig, my Amiga is still in action. I have the cover disk ... somewhere ...

Here's the music (you need DeliPlayer, well worth a d/l also on this site

http://exotica.fix.no/tunes/unexotica/games/Killing_Game_Show_The.html

That whole site is brilliant. While I'm here, here's my favourite radio link, retro styyyylle, you need to download the player when it prompts (JorbisPlayer), but its about 48-hours of arcade/amiga/spectrum/c64/etc. music, genius.

http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/player/JOrbisPlayer.php?play=http://ren.ondska.com:8000/stream.ogg

Come to think of it, I loved Xenon 2, Magic Pockets, Speedball too. Ahh, so much class to choose from.

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Agreed! I still listen to the soundtrack from the game's second CD

And the Space Quest themes of course.


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Quake
Quake 2
Descent 2


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I love the Halo 2 soundtrack.
I actually bought it
Marty O'Donnell is cool (he knows how to make music, anyway)


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Ooh, didn't realise The Killing Game Show was released on the MD but it was called "Fatal Rewind", just got it running on Gens emulator. Music no where near as good as Amiga (no surprise there!) but still cool

p.s. I should really say also that the GTA soundtracks are amazing. And I actually liked the cheesy metal overtones from games like F355 on DC (and later PS2), none of the reviews liked the tunes, whats wrong with 'em. haha.
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Lampton... care to make a quick mp3 of that killing game show music? All I can remember is that it was metal-y. The archive was a .lha which was an amiga specific format iirc...


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WinRAR can handle lha, then you can rename them to .mod and play them with modplug tracker, or any tracker really, 4 track mod's are fairly standard.


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SimCity 4 for me, or "Magic CIty" fomr SimCity 3000. The TS2 isn't half bad either.

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deus ex
half life
gabriel knight 3

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I never played Xenon 2, but I do have the first version of Xenon.

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GTA: san andreas(sp?)(music i grew up with)

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Doom and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are the forst two games that's music comes to mind.
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My favourite game music has to be:

1) Panzer Dragoon Saga - Credits Track - Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu
2) The rest of the Panzer Dragoon Saga soundtrack
3) Total Annihilation

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And another before I forget:

Impossamole for the Atari ST!


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Avan, any idea where I can get the PGS soundtrack?

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Halo 2, best music for a video game.

Then again... True Crime had a fantastic sound track, but none of it was original(all from rappers and singers etc)



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@ Jeku, yeah me too - and on occassion I play bass along with the second cd - LOL!

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*slaps head*

How could I forget? Anyone ever play Interstate '76? Now that had the best sound track ever.... must find the Audio CD with the game's sound track ...


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@CR - That is cool My favourite song from T7G soundtrack has to be either the main song you were quoting there, or The Staircase. The soundtrack was very ahead of its time.


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Quote: "Avan, any idea where I can get the PGS soundtrack?"

It's obsolete now, I just had a look and they're no longer manufacturing it.

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Don't forget the original Wipeout and Gran Turismo games. Pretty groundbraking when it comes to "proper" music in games.

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Halo

and
FF8, followed closely by FF7 sorry but FF7 still had the tracker feel

and

Metal Gear Solid

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<edit> i think my list is NOW

1) legend of shadow. (you can find it on www.remakes.org)
2) descent 3
3) duo

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Oh my God yes! I can't believe I forgot that! That game had some awesome music. Now I have a sudden urge to reinstall it just to hear the music.
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DUDES!!!! TRY GLADIUS!!! IT BY FAR HAS THE BEST MUSIC EVER!!

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Metal Gear Solid
Abe's Oddysee - just like it...
Spyro the Dragon
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I remember interstate 76, but I only played the demo, for what it was supposed to be though, the music was spot on!

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