Halt Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Chrono Cross bitches. Yasunori Mitsuda FTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinslayer Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 For me, I think generally in the past it was always the music that kept me involved in a game...if a game didn't have good music, it didn't seem to be worth playing...the first game that caught my eye soundtrack wise would be Super Mario Bros. 3, which was also the first game I ever played...later on, it would be the Megaman X series, and the Donkey Kong Country games that would keep me intrigued...followed by Crash Bandicoot for the playstation...to this day I still find my self wowed by how good music was even in the old days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerrax Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, definitely. Hearing the boss theme as a kid renting that game was like going on a sugar high. THIS. My friend bought it for my birthday and we stayed up all night playing that damn game. The music was mind-blowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brycepops Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Nostalgia's great and all, but anything on the SMS can get old quick, especially if it's stuck in your head. Lies. I could listen to Miracle Warriors - Overhead all day ;o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Pokemon Yellow's music, particularly Route 1, actually had me paying attention to it. Before that, I didn't think video game music was 'real' music. Not the most majestic example to break that stereotype but hey, at least I did it early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Shinigami Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Around the same time I started enjoying Music-3 from Tetris. Thank you! Finally! It's like nobody outside my family knew that existed. All five of us played Tetris, and none of us ever listened to anything else – it was either that or complete silence. It took me ages to find it online, like everyone had forgotten about it or something. Wait - actually, the overworld music from Zelda 2 really got my attention. Shucks, I just love that game all-around. I preferred the cave music. It gripped me and wouldn't let go, which was good because I had a hellacious amount of trouble with those cave bats. As for entire soundtracks, probably the earliest one I noticed I liked was Super Mario Brothers 3. The first one I recall that I loved was that of the first Spyro the Dragon game. I think it was with that game that I finally started realizing how important the music was to the enjoyment of a game. ~LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theophany Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Super Metroid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumajoBelmont Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Turrican on the C64... and after that, I was floored by The Revenge of Shinobi ('My Lover') and Batman on the MD (The Axis Chemical Factory track), and at that point, the passion absolutely took flight. I was never the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfire Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 For me, it was the various Sonic the hedgehog games I had on PC. Sonic 3 and Knuckles collection, Sonic CD, and Sonic 3D Blast. CD and 3D Blast had real audio too, so I'd listen to them in my cd player and to fall asleep to. But those soundtracks were slightly different than the genesis ones, so all the real songs sound strange to me, and the PC ones sound better, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelestialSonata Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 The first time I remember appreciating video game music was Megaman 2. It was not until Final Fantasy VII that I truly focused onto the video music genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergonaleash Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 The first one that I can really remember sticking out to me was Secret of Mana. When you turned on the game and hear the wolves, then the amazing theme song - it was just chilling to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lampje4life Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Wow. I had exactly the same as the OP. Rayman 1 for PC, with the game's CD actually being an Audio CD which I tried to play in my diskman. Aah memories.. Band Land! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scufo Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Donkey Kong Country 2 was a big one for me. Absolutely loved "Rattle Battle". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Donkey Kong Country 2 was a big one for me. Absolutely loved "Rattle Battle". So I'm not the only one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Briggs Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 kirby's dreamland for gameboy, specifically king dedede's theme second would be link's awakening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DramaNoMore Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Secret of Mana for the SNES. For years after my mom sold my system and games, I'd still recall playing it and listening to the awesome soundtrack. The Ice Country theme stands out the most in my mind, it was so perfectly fitting for the area. Acctually, that theme was my awakening to the importance of music in videogames. I'm playing at a friend's home, her Mom says something, he mutes the TV to listen and I'm like "What the...". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Hyral Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Reading alot of these it just makes me think back to my love of game music ingeneral. Though Mystic Quest started my love for music games I hadn't played for years beforehand still stick in my mind.. Whether it be Tetris as mentioned, or even Yoshi back on the NES.. the songs never really left my mind and they come back now and then giving an "Oh right I miss that" feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Mage Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 For me I think it was Donkey Kong Country. I remember going to Funky's Flights and just cranking up the TV volume and listening to it over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporknight Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Playing FFV on zsnes, the Clash on the Big Bridge was sheer epic. Even more so when you hear that theme the second time, when the ship/sub fleet gets attacked. They timed it out so that you get knocked awake belowdecks when the music starts, and right when you reach the deck of the ship and see Gilgamesh standing there laughing, the main guitar riff kicks in and the asskicking starts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doulifée Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 secret of mana indeed. A link to the past too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kizyr Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 The first one I was drawn to is a bit of a tough one. There were many games whose soundtracks I really liked from the beginning, going back to NES (Zelda, Mega Man 2, Metal Storm), SNES (Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country), Genesis (all Sonic games), etc. The first time I really started focusing on game soundtracks was probably when I first started focusing on RPGs. Vay was my first major RPG, and once I heard the soundtrack to Lunar: The Silver Star I was hooked. So... probably Lunar deserves the honor there. KF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote-Trickster Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Hard to really pinpoint but the first soundtrack I had to get was FF6 (FF3 US) It cost me nearly 80$ back then to get from Japan(I was a kid at the time so 80 bucks wasn't easy to collect). Then came Chrono Triger and the hardest to find at the time, oddly... Secret of mana. though I recall humming alot of the game songs from Sonic 1, 2 and 3. Now as for first Remixed video game soundtrack.. it be you guys, from when I found OCR in 2002. thanks to all of you that put your hearts into these game remixes so that we can enjoy and love them, all over again. My heart goes out to all game music artists and remixers ~<3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrow Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 I gamed early and often, but (and this sounds like an odd choice compared to everyone else's answers so far) I think it was ToeJam and Earl that really made video game music just click with me. That game is the entire reason I both started playing saxophone in 6th grade and joined my school's jazz band in 10th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Ashamed Of Self Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 NES had a passing musical influence, Gameboy as well since I never owned one. SNES was and is still my favourite since it was my first. Super Mario World, the first game I got was good and had great tracks, but the soundtrack was moderately dismissible for me at the time given it's showy nature. Now that I stop and think about it, there was a definitive track for me which turned the medium into something profound and reflective. From my second game, mario paint, it was the optional bgm track The composers took a risk here; they included a track that was clearly intended to both inspire creativity and pensiveness, and with a genre most kids wouldn't relate to in the slightest. For those of us who actually did listen to the track, you had to stop and actually think about a few things. It wasn't until this moment that certain soundtracks received tape cassette recordings or certain menu-themes/map-screens were intentionally left without input so I could listen indefinitely. The Legend of Zelda (NES). The game had me at the . This was the most unnecessary link ever posted on ocr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifirit Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 This was the most unnecessary link ever posted on ocr. Most people already know the smell of fresh-cut grass, but sometimes it's still nice to whiff it once in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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