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[RickMasters]

It’s 199….. something…. I’m playing SOTN on Saturn. It’s all Japanese so that make things a bit tricky but I’m getting through it all the same…… I hit marble gallery…... Had to stop and roll a spliff for this one while looking over my inventory….anybody else used to do that?….. Inventory and upgrading is a good time to roll one while you work out how you gonna kill whatever you gonna kill next.

 

[RickMasters]

This one is for all the technical fighting game players among you. We watch each frame and react with precision and complexity….. and it’s even better when we face eachother. Remember the days when you fight a goid player and your heart beats a lil bit faster? All that practice on the console version then you come arcades and flex your muscle? Remover them days ? This one is for you if you do. Remember the Rush? Seeing VF2 in all its glorious motion…. Looking like something that would be impossible on a console….. but sega always found a way. Gotta love them.

I still need sega rally one and two in a yakuza game or something!

 

[fart town usa]

Shining Wisdom has a really interesting OST. It's very prog and is synth heavy. Loud ass synth's too, lol.

I have it cued up to a cool breakdown then epic synth solo.

 

[fart town usa]

This song too. So effing catchy.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

I've never played the game, but I still hold Chrono Cross's soundtrack in high regard, so much of it stands on it own.

I love that song so much. I used to just sit on the world map outside the first town and let it play. The opening theme and Marco's boss music are also standouts.

This is a personal favorite from the chip tune era

 

[CandyCrushSagat]

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Just remembered this absolute banger of a Boss Track

 

[Danknugz]

 

[Brigandier]

 

[Brigandier]

 

[Brigandier]

Sorry for the spam but 90s game music hits me in the nostalgia nuts so hard it, Music today is SHIT compared to back then.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[Blank Space Invader]

 

[MiguelItUp]

The 90's were full of cool things.

 

[Raven117]

Yuuup. So many of these are just awesome. Some of those tunes have been stuck in my head for 30 years.

 

[yogaflame]

The only intro that I never want to skip. It is so powerful even the scene, it literaly has the heart of a warrior for each character. Soul Edge.



This one is my very first Ps1 game and its in Japanese version and I love it. I hope they make a remake someday but with same intro music and scene with modern graphics.

 

[Oberstein]

This ost screams '90s heroic fantasy. So good.

 

[Brigandier]

 

[sono]

there can only be one

 

[Drell]

IMO, the quintessence of 90s video games music awesomeness could be heard in early CD games on PCE-CD and Mega-CD. Here's one from Sol-Feace:

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

there can only be one

 

[PeteBull]

timeless classic soundtrack
launched 97 on pc, ported in 98 to psx

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

timeless classic soundtrack
launched 97 on pc, ported in 98 to psx

Tristram lives forever in my mind.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

90's music, specially Japanese gaming music, was peak. CAPCOM, KONAMI, NAMCO, SQUARE, NINTENDO, SEGA firing in all cylinders.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

IMO, the quintessence of 90s video games music awesomeness could be heard in early CD games on PCE-CD and Mega-CD. Here's one from Sol-Feace:

This.
‘90s video game composers: “All right, the actual game data is like… 10MB. We got 600+ MB for the music on the CD.”
*proceed to make actual, awesome game music with better quality than you could do with chiptunes and synths, that you couldn’t forget if you tried to*
2010 and beyond video games composers: “All right, we have no data constraints. We can do literally anything.”
*proceed to compose pompous, cheesy, samey movie orchestra music that gamers don’t even listen to while playing*

 

[Hudo]

Came to post this. Brilliant minds think alike.

 

[Danknugz]

Came to post this. Brilliant minds think alike.

you quoted your own post brother

 

[grvg]

Alexander Brandon is amazing and did a lot of the cool 90s pc music (Deus ex,!unreal / unreal tournament / jazz jackrabbit)

Lots of synthwave music is a kind of carry over from the 90s pc game tracker music era.

 

[Drell]

This.
‘90s video game composers: “All right, the actual game data is like… 10MB. We got 600+ MB for the music on the CD.”
*proceed to make actual, awesome game music with better quality than you could do with chiptunes and synths, that you couldn’t forget if you tried to*
2010 and beyond video games composers: “All right, we have no data constraints. We can do literally anything.”
*proceed to compose pompous, cheesy, samey movie orchestra music that gamers don’t even listen to while playing*

Between that and western AAA games absolutely having to feature that new hyped rap song in their trailer, it's no wonder why I don't enjoy western game music anymore.

 

[Hudo]

you quoted your own post brother

Exactly

 

[Dr.Morris79]

80/90's game music was actually the best of any gaming music!

Bow to your Master you Fools.

I remember getting that from the local shop for 50p! I played it to death, I've still got the cassette

Entire Beast 1 soundtrack

Welcome is my ringtone, has been for years

This era of gaming music is my favourite by a mile, there was so much variation and I still remember them all to this day, most C64 and Amiga tunes. Okay they may have sounded a tad similar but they always conveyed the game they were attached to..













Almost forgot two of my favourites

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Damn that first track goes hard

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Damn that first track goes hard

And people say 'Snes' music was the 'Greatest..'

Noobs.

 

[Pedro Motta]

 

[RAIDEN1]

If this track doesn't pump you up for the weekend ahead, I don't what will! Catchy beats all the way!

 

[Zephyranthes]

Gonna drop a few of my all-time favs here:

 

[Chuck Berry]

Some of the most impressive music to come out the Genesis

 

[RAIDEN1]

I'm surprised no-one added these as yet:

This first one you could imagine if the N64 was CD based:





At the time that level of audio (Cammy's theme) was unsurpassed on the home console front when it came to Streetfighter music on any system...

 

[Team Andromeda]

Sensible Soccer/Championship Soccer 94 on the Mega CD/SEGA CD had some of the best title music ever. No shock really since fellow Welsh man Tim Wright did the music

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

At the time that level of audio (Cammy's theme) was unsurpassed on the home console front when it came to Streetfighter music on any system...

Yup, the 3DO version of SSFII has some incredible music.

 

[emivita]

For me, 90s game music peaked at the end of 1999 with Ape Escape. I still remember when I bought Ape Escape and Dino Crisis the same day in summer 1999, I had the best games to end a decade and a century, and I was a happy kid.

 

[Hypereides]

I miss the surreal, ambient, tranced and dreamlike tone of video game music we had in the 90's.





It was ahead of its time. We really don't get much like it these days. It needs a comeback.

 

[dragonyeuw]

 

[Team Andromeda]

Some more 90's tracks that don't get enough credit IMO

 

[Drew1440]

90s arcade music is a definite yes, Sega's Model 2 and Namco System 11/22 arcade boards had amazing sound chips which produced some memorable soundtracks. I still even listen to the Tekken 3 and Ridge Racer soundtrack on occasion. The 2000s does come close, The Sims Build mode music for one:

 

[freemandos]

 

[sono]

Unreal Tournament

Botpack #9

 

[DeVeAn]

Sonic 3D Blast always was a favorite of mine.

This track pumps you up for the final show down love it! Genesis could sound great in the right hands.

 

[RickMasters]

I love that song so much. I used to just sit on the world map outside the first town and let it play. The opening theme and Marco's boss music are also standouts.

This is a personal favorite from the chip tune era

If any game needs a remaster collection right now it’s Turrican.

 

[RickMasters]

A true Slice of the 90s. Still remember booting this game up for the first time off a demo disc. Nothing looked or played like wipeout at the time. I should just buy a PS5 to play it again. Along with RR type 4.