I know it's gonna be a long day when I start humming
NES tunes out of nowhere. Zelda 2's palace music and most of the stuff from Castlevania 3 are bangers j/s
another fun, fairly obscure, game soundtrack title: Greg LoPiccolo's "Hospital - Alternate" from System Shock.
SS has some great tracks, but the musical qualities really depend upon the quality of MIDI synth you're working with. even with a real Roland SC-55, it's a bit flat sounding.
in a pretty rare move for Origin Systems - they released a Macintosh/PowerPC version of System Shock. there was a bunch of extra space on the CD, and LoPiccolo took advantage of it by rendering and remastering his own redbook audio tracks. they're great - far better than a vanilla SC-55. he took a lot of extra time to customize his instruments and play with the stereo separation.
so here it is, freshly ripped from my macintosh CD.
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I totally forgot we did that on SS Mac! I remember we had them redo all the cinematic videos at higher res for the Mac version, but forgot about the music. Such a great soundtrack. There is a 99% chance I wrote the red book music controlling code for SS Mac 🙂
It's #VGMWednesday and todays theme is #SuperSixteenBit One of my favorite and most played Sega Megadrive (Genesis) games was Streets of Rage 2. The soundtrack is still a banger!
It still blows my mind that composer Yuzo Koshiro was only 22 back then 🤯 He started composing video game soundtracks when still in high school. Check out a photo of his setup in 1989 in this recent feature:
For @miona's VGM Wednesday, I didn't play any games released in 2023. So I'll go with something I played in 2023, but came out in 2022. Only official link I could find was for Astra Tanuki's Bandcamp. So here's a link to the whole album XD
For VGM Wednesday, by @miona the theme is Revive the Dancefloor... This is kind of cheating, but DDR is how I found smile.dk in the first place and the first thing I thought of lol.
For this week's #VGMWednesday theme, "Let's Take a Breather," I picked the Lobby Theme from the now defunct "Revived Witch." Honestly I treated the whole game like a save room, but this tune welcomed me in every time I booted up the game, gave respite between every mission, and walked me out when I was done. Sometimes I'd just hang out in the main menu, letting the song play on loop. I miss its charm.
@PlayAllTheThings Eiko Ishikawa Nichols does lovely soundtrack work and arrangements of familiar stuff. I particularly enjoy her turns at Final Fantasy arrangements: https://ayco.bandcamp.com